Better Waverly’s 901 Arts is a volunteer-driven program which serves local youth within a roughly 10 by 10-block neighborhood catchment zone (approximately 1,000 homes). Eighty total youth participants range in age from 6 to 17 years old. Opportunities for youth include urban gardening (five local sites run in partnership with Baltimore Green Space), music (on-site music lessons in instruments ranging from guitar, bass, piano, violin and glockenspiel), and art (on site instruction in writing and fine arts). The program runs as an afterschool component during the school year and a 6-week summer program in the summer. To engage high school students, there is a teen discussion group, job assistance, and SAT/homework help. The mission of the group states a goal of “improving the life quality of youth through greening and education support.”

The Architecture Construction and Engineering (ACE) mentor program works with high school students and inspires them to pursue careers in design and contruction. It's now the construction industry's fastest-growing high school mentoring program, reaching over 8,000 students annually. The ACE Mentor Program of America, Inc. not only engages sponsors and volunteer mentors to expose students to real-world opportunities, but also financially supports each student's continued success through scholarships and grants. Since 1994, ACE has awarded over $12 million in scholarships to promising participants.

America Works lifts people out of poverty using its unique brand of intensive, personalized employment services. This private workforce development firm has found jobs for about 175,000 hard-to-place workers, including military veterans, long-term welfare and food stamp recipients, former criminal offenders, people who are homeless and living in shelters, youths aging out of foster care, non-cus­todial parents, people living with HIV/AIDS, and people receiving Social Security Disability Insurance/Supplemental Security Income.

Art with a Heart is a private, non-profit organization that helps people in need enhance their lives through visual arts. By participating in interactive, hands-on art activities, program recipients at group housing facilities, shelters, schools and community centers are able to better understand their world, express themselves, and experience meaningful moments of possibility. Art with a Heart provides the inspiration and motivation that leads to creativity, self-satisfaction, personal growth and success.

The Baltimore Arts Realty Corp (BARCO) was established to create affordable and quality working spaces for Baltimore’s growing community of artists and creative innovators. BARCO provides real estate advisory services to the arts community and also develops, owns and manages spaces tailored to the needs of artists and creatives.

The Mayor’s Office of Employment Development (MOED) coordinates and directs workforce development initiatives responsive to the needs of Baltimore City employers and job seekers in order to enhance and promote the local economy.

The JHU School of Education prepares Baltimore City Teaching Residency candidates to teach in Baltimore City Public Schools’ most challenged schools. Baltimore City Teaching Residents are professionals from all fields who bring their experience, knowledge, and records of achievement to the classroom to positively impact the lives of the students who need them the most.

The Baltimore Education Research Consortium (BERC) is a partnership of the Baltimore City Public Schools, Johns Hopkins University, Morgan State University, and other civic and community partners. BERC’s mission is to conduct and dis­seminate long- and short-term strategic data analysis and research that informs decisions about policy and practice to improve the educational and life outcomes of children in Baltimore. BERC assembles a diverse coalition of partners to formulate questions worth asking, contribute to conversations worth having, and highlight policy implications worthy of action.

The BSO's OrchKids Program provides year-round during- and after-school music education and mentoring to pre-K and kindergarten students in Baltimore City. The BSO's OrchKids Program is a 2012 Johns Hopkins Neighborhood Fund recipient.

Christopher’s Place Employment Academy is for men who are making positive life changes. The men are all homeless when entering the program and many are recov­ering from substance abuse. The program is funded by the Catholic Relief services's. It provides training in job readiness, inter­personal skills, and independent living. Christopher’s Place provides weekly, hour-long creative writing classes. The men at Christopher’s Place use poetry, narratives and other writing tools to seek new methods of self-expression.

AIRS (AIDS Interfaith Residential Services) has developed a range of programming under the City Steps banner that addresses the specific problems of transition-aged homeless youth ages 14-24. Interventions at such a critical time in life have the capacity to be transforming, and in doing so, prevent future episodes of homeless­ness or exposure to trauma. The JHU Consultant group put together a comprehen­sive list of funding sources to support City Steps’ programming for non-residential, community revitalization services (particularly life skills) for homeless and unsta­bly-housed youth. Volunteer opportunities include tutoring and mentorship.

Founded in 1993, Civic Works provides critical community services throughout Baltimore. Civic Works fosters individual growth and development in its corps members through team-based service projects and weekly academic enrichment. Civic Works is an opportunity for young adults to affect positive change in the community and in their own lives. Volunteers are tutors, project leaders, serve on gardening and accounting teams.

The Creative Alliance has created spectacular and engaging cultural experiences by working closely with artists, educators, activists and the communities that call Baltimore home. They host and organize hundreds of events each year that connect artists and audiences with one another and with new ideas. Annually, the Creative Alliance hosts the artwork created by East Baltimore school students for the Johns Hopkins Black History Month art competition and holds a reception during the judging for prize awards.

Days of Taste, a community outreach program of The American Institute of Wine & Food, encourages elementary school children to appreciate the taste and benefits of fresh food. The program uses hands-on (and “tastebuds-on”) activities to teach children about the elements of taste and about food’s journey from the farm to the table.

Earl's Place is a transitional housing program providing long-term (up to two years) housing and supportive services to seventeen men at a time. Residents are provided with a permanent address and a place to receive mail and phone calls. Most importantly, they have a place to call home, where concerns such as having a clean, safe place to sleep, shower, and keep their belongings is alleviated. For some this is the first time they have had a key to a place of their own. Ultimately, the residents are assisted in obtaining affordable, permanent housing and one year of formal aftercare is provided to help ensure success.

East Baltimore Technology Resource Center (EBTRC) provides access to comput­ers and computer training to people of all ages who are educationally, economi­cally, or physically disadvantaged, to improve their quality of life. EBTRC offers: low-cost computers and software, hardware and software training, and computer repair services. Residents can earn free computers through volunteer time at the East Baltimore Technology Resource Center.

Johns Hopkins is formalizing an institutionwide economic inclusion program that features online tools and a dedicated staff position. Goals of the program include boosting purchasing and contracting from local and women and minority-owned businesses and increasing opportunities for local and underrepresented job seekers.

In 2014, Henderson-Hopkins, a new state-of-the-art 100,000 square foot early childhood center and school opened. Then new Henderson-Hopkins K-8 Elementary/Middle and the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Early Childhood Center provide the backdrop for personalizing the educational experience of each child while meeting the needs of the broader East Baltimore community. From the flexible learning spaces to the art and music studios, to the health suite and family support space, the facility is designed to maximize personalized learning and is accessible to the community for evening, weekends, and summers. Innovative technology further drives the Next Generation Learning (NGL) approach that defines Henderson-Hopkins. NGL has been defined as the blended learning personalization that is possible when face-to-face instruction is combined with computer assisted instruction to maximize learning outcomes. Students, teachers, and parents regularly review data dashboards to adjust learning opportunities to maximize student growth.

This Johns Hopkins Medicine program promotes the hiring of qualified unemployed or under-employed residents of East Baltimore and encourages construction contractors and subcontractors to give first consideration to qualified residents of East Baltimore.

The Johns Hopkins University chapter of Girl Scouts of Central Maryland attempts to spread the goals and positive message of the organization in an area of demonstrated need, namely inner-city Baltimore. The group is composed of former Girl Scouts who demonstrate leadership and are enthusiastic about spreading the fundamental aspects of Girl Scouting. The presence of Girl Scouting in the lives of Baltimore girls promotes a sense of promise in the future as they grow into young women. Volunteers mentor at Barclay or Margaret Brent Elementary schools.

The Housing Authority of Baltimore City Youth Summit serves as an annual event to bring youth leaders from Baltimore City Public Housing developments together to discuss topics of importance to their communities. Students rotate through workshops on topics such as bullying, mentoring, communication, and empowerment.

Impact Hub is part innovation lab, part coworking space, part civic forum. Our members are a vibrant, diverse and growing community of innovators and entrepreneurs dedicated to driving positive change in Baltimore and beyond. We provide an inclusive, inspiring, and functional space that connects our members to the ideas, resources, and people they need to make tangible social impact. We also serve as a gathering place for the global movement towards stronger cities and a new economy.

Intersection of Change is a community based nonprofit in Baltimore that was founded in 1996 to serve Baltimore's Sandtown-Winchester and Upton communities. The organization is dedicated to providing programs that enrich the economic social and spiritual lives of those dealing with poverty related issues.

Johns Hopkins is a major Maryland employer, purchaser of goods and services, a sponsor of major construction projects and a magnet for students and visitors.

The Johns Hopkins Jail Tutorial Project provides tutoring to inmates at the Baltimore City Prison, typically at the Women’s Detention Center. Students at Johns Hopkins are given the opportunity to put their education to use in a con­structive and meaningful setting by tutoring female inmates in G.E.D. work once or twice a week. The program has added a reading/discussion group.

Johns Hopkins University’s Professional Development School (PDS) Partnerships have been established to implement the Maryland Redesign for Teacher Education. The School Immersion Master of Arts in Teaching and Flexible Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) programs place interns in these partner schools. Both programs require strong academic preparation, completion and defense of a performance-based portfolio, and a synthesis of the theory and practice of teaching. In Baltimore City, MAT interns are placed at George Washington Elementary School and Paul Laurence Dunbar High School.

Learning Is For Tomorrow is a nonprofit adult literacy organization dedi­cated to providing quality literacy instruction and life-skills training to adult learn­ers and assisting these individuals in becoming self-reliant life-long learners. LIFT provides a learning environment which is supportive and incorporates best instruc­tional practices. LIFT is a 2010 recipient of the Johns Hopkins Neighborhood fund to create a permanent space for the adult literacy school.

Martha's Place is a recovery program for women overcoming drug addiction and homelessness. Martha's Place is designed to address the lack of recovery programs for women overcoming addiction in the communtiy and provides a structured 6-month transitional recovery program as well as a second long-term phase of independent housing. In order to address overwhelming drug addiction in the Sandtown-Winchester and Upton communities, Newborn Holistic Ministries, Inc. created and opened Martha's Place in 2000. Newborn Holistic Ministries was awarded Johns Hopkins' inaugural Henrietta Lacks Memorial Award in 2011.

Founded in 1992, the Maryland Business Roundtable for Education (MBRT) is a coalition of more than 100 leading employers that have made a long-term commit­ment to support education reform and improve student achievement in Maryland. MBRT works to achieve meaningful, measurable and systemic improvement in schools and student achievement.

Maryland New Directions, Inc. is a private non-profit career counseling and job placement agency dedicated to helping individuals become contributing members of their community. Founded in 1973 as Baltimore New Directions for Women, the agency has helped more than 130,000 clients make positive, employment related life changes. Maryland New Directions is a 2012 recipient of the Johns Hopkins Neighborhood Fund.

The Maryland Out of School Time Network (MOST) is a statewide youth development organization, dedicated to more and better opportunities in the out of school hours for all of Maryland's young people. MOST is one of 50 statewide afterschool networks made possible by the generous support of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and public and private matching funding. The mission of the Maryland Out of School Time Network (MOST) is to build a coalition of youth, families, community members, program providers, educators, funders, and policy makers to expand funding , implement more effective policies, and support increased program quality for youth opportunities in the out of school hours.

This consortium was established in 2002 to assist selected ex-prisoners who are returning from prison to Baltimore City and are unlikely to obtain employment in the labor market on their own. Through public/private partnerships, the program will provide eligible ex-prisoners returning to Baltimore City with transitional employment, support services, and placement in the labor market, followed by 12 months of post-placement retention services.

The Medical Education Resources Initiative for Teens (MERIT) transforms Baltimore City high school students into Baltimore’s health care leaders by preparing them for success in college and beyond. To accomplish these goals, MERIT provides a holistic support system for three years including weekly Saturday sessions focused on academic enrichment and college admissions guidance, paid summer internships in hospitals and laboratories, and longitudinal mentoring. Scholars are selected during their sophomore year of high school and participate in intensive MERIT programming until graduation, at which point they become MERIT alumni and receive continued guidance throughout college.

Annually Opera Outreach produces a 50-minute opera for performance in schools and communities. The plot thread of the original is maintained, the main cuts coming in the choruses, the ballet sequences, and the music for the parents. The production is fully costumed, and presented on a unique revolving set which changes quickly from a domestic interior to a deep forest, and on to the gingerbread house of the witch. The presentation is framed by a brief introduction beforehand and a question-and-answer session afterwards, in which the audience gets to interact directly with the performers.

The Pen Lucy Action Network was incorporated as a nonprofit community development organization the following year, 1999. Since that time, PLAN has provided oversight to the sports league and tutoring program and implemented several other community development ministries, including a substance abuse and addiction recovery program, adult GED classes, and referral services to family counseling and other assistance programs.

Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports has been established by the Office of Special Education Programs, US Department of Education to give schools capacity-building information and technical assistance for identifying, adapting, and sustaining effective school-wide disciplinary practices. Faculty from School of Public Health par­ticipates on this PBIA team, which focuses on training approximately 30 schools as well as returning schools. They also provide consultation to the Office of Student Supports and the Office of Strategic Partnerships, Communications and Community Engagement.

The Saint Frances Academy hosts an annual job fair for East Baltimore community members on the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. The fair allows community members to visit with hiring organizations and even interview for open positions. The job fair also offers educational sessions to help community members gain job-readiness skills needed to pursue various careers.

Soccer Without Borders Baltimore City began in the fall of 2009 in response to various state, local, and non-profit agencies that serve the city’s burgeoning refugee population identifying a need for positive recreational programming for area refugee youth. In response, Soccer Without Borders Baltimore emerged to provide opportunities in the form of soccer, simultaneously encouraging healthy living while developing English-language abilities, teamwork, academic success, and cross-cultural skills.

The mission of the program is to support the development of novice Baltimore City teachers in the Teach For America program as they work to increase student learning in their classrooms through strategic and comprehensive coursework, pro­fessional development, and reflection. The goal of the partnership program is to develop classroom skills as teacher leaders, in order to: make significant academic gains with their students, meet the needs of the whole child, and have a long term impact in the Baltimore City Public Schools.

Strong City Baltimore, in partnership with the Barclay Elementary/Middle, and Johns Hopkins University have taken a lead role in reviving the former Barclay Recreation Center after budget cuts forced its closure in 2012. The Center has since reopened and students at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School have developed a master plan for effectively running the center.