Community Funding

We offer a variety of funding opportunities for community-based organizations and city agencies working to advance health, health equity, and justice in neighborhoods across Baltimore in partnership with Johns Hopkins faculty, students, or staff. Many partnerships are formed through UHI events and/or programs that facilitate collaboration. Below are the organizations we've provided with funding. To learn more about our funding opportunities or read the project abstracts below, please visit our funding page.

Henrietta Lacks Memorial Award

• HeartSmiles
• MERIT Health Leadership Academy
• Older Women Embracing Life, Inc. (OWEL)
• Turnaround Tuesday
• SquashWise Youth Development Program
• The Pythias A. and Virginia I. Jones African American Community Forum on Memory Loss
• Men and Families Center, Inc.
• Safe Streets East
• Moveable Feast
• Intersection of Change

Baltimore Health Equity Impact Grants

• The Hero Lab (fiscally sponsored by Fusion Partnership)
• Social Justice and Nutrition Inspiration Factory, LLC
• Reservoir Hill Improvement Council/Whitelock Community Farm
• Behavioral Health Leadership Institute
• Community Conferencing Center
• BQ Inc.
• Change4Real Coalition
• Humanim
• Bureau of Maternal and Child Health
• Baltimore City Health Department-Vision for Baltimore
• Baltimore Dance Crews Project
• Maryland Food Bank
• Karma Farm​​
• The Choice Program
• Target Investment Zone, Living Classrooms Foundation, UA House at Fayette
• Cool Green Schools
• Central Baltimore Partnership
• House of Ruth Maryland
• Encounters/Baltimore BLOC
• Not Without Black Women
• Social Health Concepts and Practice
• Mayor’s Office of Immigrant and Multicultural Affairs
• Green and Healthy Homes Initiative
• Elite Driving School
• Baltimore Curriculum Project
• DMG Foods
• Strong City Baltimore
• Margaret Brent Elementary and Middle School Program
• Commodore John Rodgers School
• Housing Authority of Baltimore City
• Baltimore Community Mediation Center
• Baltimore City Public Schools Early Learning Programs
• Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Baltimore (GLCCB)
• Zion Baptist Church
• Baltimore City Public Schools
• Corner Team, Inc.
• Baltimore City Department of Planning, Office of Sustainability
• Baltimore Ceasefire
• Farm Alliance of Baltimore
• Project PLASE
• Native American Lifelines, Inc.
• B'More for Healthy Babies
• Transgender Response Team
• A Trauma-Informed Program for City Schools Parents
• Building Our Nation’s Daughters (BOND)
• Baltimore People’s Climate Movement
• Dent Education
• Women's Housing Coalition

COVID-19 Response Grants

• Greenmount West Community Association
• Healing City Baltimore
• League of Baltimore
• Married Mates Ministry, Incorporated
• Sisters Together and Reaching, Inc.
• Helping Up Mission

Strategic Consultation Grants with Baltimore City Government

• Office of Sustainability, Baltimore City Department of Planning
• Equity and Environmental Justice, Department of Public Works
• Mayor's Office of Children and Family Success, Baltimore City Office of the Mayor
• Baltimore City Department of Housing and Community Development
• Baltimore City Health Department Sexual Health Clinic
• Baltimore City Department of Planning
• Baltimore City Department of Transportation
• Baltimore City Mayor's Office of Children and Family Success
• Office of Sustainability, Baltimore City Department of Planning