Katheryn Anderson, in partnership with the Maryland Disability Law Center, will engage individuals with disabilities to advocate for equal access to public and regulated transportation. Read More »

Bernice Bishop will expand her food-and-necessities pantry to become the Women Empowering Women Education and Outreach Center to provide education, support and training opportunities to vulnerable women. Read More »

Ulysses Cofield, in partnership with Fort Worthington Elementary School and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum, will engage kids in afterschool opportunities that provide a safe haven from violence, gangs and street life. Read More »

Lanaea Featherstone will partner with Patterson Park Public Charter School to provide computer literacy workshops and mentoring to Latino immigrant parents so they can get and keep better jobs and help their children do well in school. Read More »

Matthew Hanna will establish Next One Up, a college-prep and mentoring program that uses athletics to engage middle and high school students. Read More »

Megan Leschak, in partnership with the Maryland Office of the Public Defender, will establish Bmore Free, a pre-trial program that will divert low-income defendants who have experienced trauma into clinical treatment. Read More »

Jessica Lewis, in partnership with the Right to Housing Alliance, will work with low- and moderate-income renters to build a grassroots movement around the human right to housing. Read More »

Melissa Moore will establish the Youth Learning Lab for Education and Applied Design (Y-LLEAD), an afterschool program that will teach students how to design and develop socially conscious community projects. Read More »

Emily Schappi will work with the Maryland Foster Youth Resource Center to help young women in foster care transition back into the community after getting out of detention centers, therapeutic group homes and residential centers. Read More »

Bill Tiefenwerth, in partnership with James McHenry Middle School, will establish Veterans in Partnership which will employ recently returned veterans as mentors to middle-school students. Read More »

Andre Turner will partner with the Johns Hopkins University Pediatric & Adolescent HIV/AIDS Intensive Primary Care Clinic to establish Boys Coming of Age, a program that will provide development and manhood training for boys, 13-17 years old, who are HIV-positive. Read More »

Denene Yates will build on her work with the Safe House of Hope to assist sex trafficking victims and those engaged in prostitution in their efforts to become vital, healthy members of the community. Read More »