Johns Hopkins in a partnership with Baltimore City and Baltimore Public Markets revitalized the Northeast Market located just east of the Johns Hopkins Broadway Medical Campus. The historic market is an institution of the East Baltimore community. Johns Hopkins departments offer a variety of services and screenings at the Northeast Market including: Days at the Market cervical cancer information sessions, Wednesdays at the Market sponsored by JHM Oncology, and stroke screenings.

The Oakenshawe Improvement Association (OIA) serves the interests of all resi­dents in the historic neighborhood of Oakenshawe in Baltimore, Maryland. OIA is a 2011 recipient of the Johns Hopkins Neighborhood Fund to help transform a vacant lot in a troubled block into a garden and green space for the community.

The facility includes a soup kitchen/dining room that serves an average of 700 meals a day, seven days a week, 365 days each year, to people in Baltimore who are hungry. In 2007, Catholic Charities opened the Our Daily Bread Employment Center (ODBEC), which seeks to improve the lives of people in need by providing resources to help them achieve self-sufficiency through employment and housing. Guests include men, women, and children of all ages. Volunteer opportunities vary.

Since 1984, Parks & People Foundation has worked to improve the quality of life in Baltimore’s neighborhoods. Staff, volunteers and partners in the community have developed innovative solutions to issues facing Baltimore City including the restoration of City neighborhoods and their natural resources as well as the aca­demic enrichment and motivation of community children. In order to realize the vision of a healthy environment where people live, work, learn and play, Parks and People have formed a strategy targeting two major fields of endeavor: Great Parks, Clean Streams & Green Communities—Helping to improve the physical, social and environmental quality of neighborhoods through greening activities and form­ing networks among communities to sustain natural resources. Motivating Youth— Programs nurturing children and supporting communities by working together to provide enriching activities for youth. Parks and People Foundation is a 2009 Johns Hopkins Neighborhood Fund recipient.

Parkview at Ashland Terrace is an 80-unit senior living center located within the East Baltimore Development, Inc. (EBDI) footprint. Recent Johns Hopkins inter­action includes donation of Thanksgiving turkeys and trimmings.

Professor Phyllis Sharps, PhD, RN, FAAN, has been installed as the Elsie M. Lawler Endowed Chair at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, and she feels right at home with the chair’s mission to address community health in Baltimore, calling it a great opportunity to continue to make an impact.

Hopkins volunteers turn plastic bags into plarn to make sleeping mats for the homeless as part of America Recycles Day

Power Inside serves women impacted by incarceration, street life and abuse. Power Inside offers direct client services, leadership development and public education to help women build self-sufficiency, heal from violence, and avoid future criminal justice contact. The program seeks safety, dignity and justice for women and their families in Baltimore. Social change that ends gender-based violence and all forms of oppression is necessary to make Power Inside’s vision a reality.

One of the most difficult parts about being homeless is getting around to access different services that are needed to move forward. At our annual Project Homeless Connect event, participants can receive medical exams and screenings, haircuts, legal advice, identification, healthy food, and more – all in one place at one time.

Project PLASE Inc. (People Lacking Ample Shelter and Employment) addresses homelessness in Baltimore by providing transitional housing, permanent housing, and supportive services to homeless adults. Project PLASE serves the most vulnerable and underserved, including people with mental illness, HIV/AIDS, addiction, developmental disabilities, and ex-offenders, etc. Project PLASE treats, restores and rehabilitates the whole person. The group empowers each individual to function at the highest level possible.

The Public Justice Center is a nonprofit legal organization that works to elimi­nate the causes of poverty and discrimination. PJC has a prisoner rights project that monitors health and medical conditions at Baltimore City Department of Corrections and conducts advocacy for sick inmates. Volunteer opportunities include advocacy for detainees with serious medical issues, client interviews, case management and advocacy/awareness building.

Real Food Hopkins is a student-run chapter of the national Real Food Challenge movement committed to bringing local, sustainable, humane, and fair food to the Johns Hopkins campus and the surrounding Baltimore area through organizing food advocacy and awareness events, cooperating with the larger food movement, maintaining a sustainable campus garden, promoting community-based learning about food and where it comes from, and donating fresh produce acquired to orga­nizations that feed the local hungry.

JHU President Ronald J. Daniels says the Trump administration would best serve workers by improving job training programs

the premier experience and best resource for information and inspiration about the lives of African American Marylanders. The museum seeks to realize its mission by collecting, preserving, interpreting, documenting and exhibiting the rich contributions of African American Marylanders from the state’s earliest history to the present and the future.

The members of our group go to a local church in Remington to help children with their homework and to play with them afterwards. But we are more than just tutors. We are also their role models, the people they may feel comfortable with. Other than having a strong desire to serve the community and others, our members also share a great love for interacting with kids, which is why we have joined Remington Outreach.

The newly opened Remington Row mixed-use development is bringing new energy to the neighborhood

RHIC unites, empowers, and mobilizes residents and organizations as a vehicle by which to define and take action on issues common to the Reservoir Hill Community.

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Roberta’s House is a safe place where children, teens and adults discover that they are not alone in their grief and engage in mutual help. Children with their families share their feelings, memories and experiences in an atmosphere of acceptance, with the love and support of trained volunteers.

The Saint Vincent de Paul Roman Catholic Church’s Resource Exchange program addresses homelessness in Baltimore. The mission is to turn that empty rental unit into a home by providing basic furniture and household items. The program optimizes the chance of success for those newly housed, and it affirms for each of them that there are people who care and believe in them. Most importantly, it frees up Health Care for the Homeless grant money to place more clients in places of their own.

Salud is the Homewood campus’s initiative for Hispanic/Latino health. Salud seeks to alleviate the cultural and linguistic barriers that many Hispanics/Latinos in Baltimore encounter when seeking medical care. To accomplish this goal, Salud targets two populations. First, they target the Hispanic/Latino community itself through health fairs, health education presentations, and community outreach. Second, they target their health care providers and institutions through cultural competency training and interpretation services.

September 2016: A section of scenic campus drive will reopen, with two new sections to be closed or restricted

the SOURCE (Student Outreach Resource Center) provides an opportunity for community-based organizations to set up display booths to highlight the services they provide and to acquaint faculty and students with potential research collaborators. The Community Involvement Fair is held in September of each year.

In conjunction with National Volunteer Week, SOURCE (Student Outreach Resource Center) annually presents awards to one individual and one student group from each of the three schools: Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health. SOURCE also presents awards to one faculty member and one mentor from a SOURCE partnering community-based organization (CBO). These awards are given for outstanding service and exemplary partnership with CBOs and are presented at the Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon during National Volunteer Week.

SECDC operates one of the premier housing counseling services in the Baltimore metropolitan area offering full service financial and housing counseling services with one-on-one counseling, evening and weekend hours, and a bilingual staff. SECDC is the only community development corporation to combine private and public programs to focus on the revitalization of the Southeast Baltimore communities. SECDC operates Highlandtown Main Street program, a Healthy Neighborhoods Inc. program in several neighborhoods, including Greektown and Bayview, and the Highlandtown Arts and Entertainment District in the Highlandtown and Patterson Park neighborhoods to stimulate investment, homeownership, and the quality of life in SECDC communities.

This program provides emergency food and emergency funds for prescriptions to patients of the JH Bayview Medical Center, and the community at large. Each requestor is screened by social work staff to determine eligibility and make referrals for ongoing problems. Through a holiday food drive, Johns Hopkins Bayview staff contributes food and cash as the main support for the program. Community groups often assist during the holidays and some fundraising is undertaken to fill the gap.

St. Francis Neighborhood Center is committed to ending generational poverty through education, inspiring self-esteem, self-improvement, and strengthening connections to the community.

Station North operates Ynot Lot, an outdoor event venue located at the corner of North Avenue and Charles Street. Through community gatherings and public events, the Ynot Lot encourages daily encounters with art, performance, and design events that are created by a range of local and national cultural organizers.

SNTL is a grassroots non­profit tool­ lending library in the heart of Station North. By providing affordable access to tools, skills, and work space, we have created a diverse and welcoming environment where anyone may learn to work with their hands.

A new walking trail along the Stony Run, a stream that is the western border of Homewood in Wyman Park is in the early design stage. With input from JHU, this trail will become an asset to the Homewood community, enhance the park and nearby neighborhoods, and strengthen JHU's local relations. JHU has con­tributed financially towards the preliminary planning of the trail and is a formal member of the trail planning committee.

JHU helped establish Strong City Baltimore, formerly the Greater Homewood Community Corporation (GHCC) in 1969, and has made significant annual financial contributions since. Additionally, JHU employees serve on its board of directors, and provide techni­cal assistance to the organization. Strong City Baltimore helps neighborhoods in north central Baltimore City become safer, more attractive places to live by strengthening neigh­borhoods through the improvement of educational opportunities, constructively engaging youth, building a new sense of community, and promoting positive eco­nomic development.

Provides academic, professional, and personal development opportunities through community outreach and service-learning partnerships with community-based organizations, and serves as a channel for student, faculty and staff involvement at the Bloomberg School, the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing at Johns Hopkins University.

Puts unwanted books into the hands of those who want them

An academic and mentoring high school, based in the Remington community, for young people who want to advance their education, improve their lives, and better their community.

Creative Access/Be Orchestra gives Peabody students a convenient channel to perform for people who don’t have regular access to the performances that are available at the Peabody Prep. Performances are held at sixteen venues each month, including hospices, can­cer and psychiatric wards of hospitals, senior housing facilities and the Maryland School for the Blind.

The Baltimore Urban Leadership Foundation, Inc., also known as The Door, has been serving as an “Umbrella of Hope” in historic East Baltimore for over 30 years. As a faith-based community development organization, The Door works to achieve its mission to facilitate transformation and holistic growth of youth, families, and communities through collaborative partnerships, direct service, capacity-building, and resource development.

The Family Tree is Maryland’s leading nonprofit dedicated to improving the community by providing families with proven solutions to prevent child abuse and neglect. The Family Tree strives to give every family the tools to raise children to become healthy, productive and responsible adults. Volunteer opportunities vary.

The Journey Home is Baltimore City’s 10-year plan to end homelessness in Baltimore City by 2018. The plan brings together businesses, nonprofit and faith-based organizations and concerned citizens to address this complex social and pub­lic health crisis.

The Light of Truth Center is dedicated to providing safe and supportive housing in an environment conducive to recovery, transition, and restoration for women recovering from addictions. It facilitates education, empowerment, enlightenment, and healing for the women it serves.

Aspiring visual artists in Baltimore will have access to top filmmakers and executives through the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund in Film and Media Studies, a new program launching at Johns Hopkins University