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Spring 2008:
  • Casa de Maryland for its English for Speakers of Other Languages through Theater Project. This grant funds a class for 10-15 students in an innovative program that teaches English through the creation and performance of an original play written by the students and based on their own experiences.
  • Somali American Community Association for its Mobile Family Learning Center. This grant buys four laptop computers that allow additional students to participate in a creatively-designed program that teaches job skills to unemployed and underemployed African immigrant adults, with a special focus on women.
  • Silver Spring International Middle School for its ReACT Shakespeare Residency Program. This grant pays for the participation of low-income students in a program that allows 7th and 8th graders to work with professional actors to study and act in plays by Shakespeare. The grant effectively extends to every student a program that is now limited to students only in the Gifted and Talented program.
  • Pyramid Atlantic for its Takoma Youth Learn to Make Recycled Paper Project. This project teaches fifth-grade students at Piney Branch Elementary to make paper using recycled materials such as plants, dried flowers, and leaves. The paper will be used to make six giant Sligo Creek collages to be displayed in the windows of Old Town businesses.
  • Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless for their Takoma Park Safe Havens Program. This grant buys household items, such as door alarms, window coverings, and DVD player for a transitional home for formerly homeless women with mental illness and substance abuse issues, located in Takoma Park.
  • Takoma Park Elementary School PTA for a sound system replacement. This grant pays for approximately half of the cost of a new sound system for Takoma Park Elementary School. The current system is broken and nearly unusable. The new system will be owned by the PTA and used for evening programs, as well as for school events.
  • Art for the People, Inc. for Building Community Through Art Exhibitions. This grant has two parts: the first part funds an art exhibit in the Community Center for one of the diverse cultures in Takoma Park. This includes expenses for an opening reception. The second part funds art classes for seniors at Franklin Apartments (which houses some of our poorest seniors and people with disabilities). The resulting art work will be displayed in the Community Center Senior Room.
  • Camp Fire USA at Takoma Park Middle School for its Discovery Teens in Action Program. This grant provides funds to operate and expand a program for youths that began last year with Takoma Foundation funding. The program is expected to add 15 new participants in the coming year.
Fall 2007:
  • The Takoma Theater Conservancy, a new local organization exploring the possibility of acquiring, renovating, and revitalizing the Takoma Theater on Fourth Street, NW as a community-based cultural arts center, received funding towards a feasibility study to determine best uses of the Takoma Theater and the ultimate economic viability of the project.
  • Dance Exchange, Inc. received funding in support of a Teen Dance Program Shut Eyes, Open Mind:Where Our Dreams May Lead Us, which involves 15 to 20 youths exploring dreams culminating in celebration of Martin Luther King's Dream.
  • The Silver Chips, Montgomery Blair High School’s Student Newspaper, received a grant to expand the distribution of this award winning community newspaper into the Takoma Park community including a special distribution to local senior citizens.
Fall 2006:
  • Art for the People (for an interactive art project and wall mural to be done by the Piney Branch Elementary School after-school homework club)
  • Boy Scout Troop 33 (general support and camp repair funding)
  • Manna Food Center (to continue the Franklin Apartments Food Program)
  • Rolling Terrace Elementary School (for a rolling book and tape cart and supplies to enable ESOL students to read and listen to books on tape while they wait for school to start in the morning)
  • Silver Spring International Middle School (for a tile mural project to incorporate art, poetry and the 7th Grade "African Kingdoms" curriculum)
  • Sligo Creek Elementary PTA (for a teacher to expand the after-school homework club for at-risk students)
  • The Takoma Park Community Action Group (to support a needs survey of residents in the high-density Maple Avenue rental corridor and to start a new neighborhood magazine)
Spring 2006:
  • Liz Lerman Dance Exchange
  • Lumina Studio Theatre
  • Maryland Community Baseball
  • Montgomery Blair Band & Orchestra Patrons
  • Piney Branch Elementary PTA
  • Piney Branch Elementary School
  • Rolling Terrace Elementary PTA
  • Takoma Park Folk Festival
  • Takoma Park JazzFest
Fall 2005:
  • Takoma Children's School (to provide funding for training of Staff, Board and Parents by the Early Childhood Equity Initiative)
  • Friends of the TP Library (support for Takom Park Film Festival)
  • Takoma Park Intergenerational Strategy Games Club (program Expansion)
  • Career Transition Center, Inc.(to contribute to Program for at risk youths on Georgia Ave. pedestrian underpass Art project)
  • Manna Food Center (to contribute to Food distribution program at Franklin Apartments, a subsidized housing complex for population vulnerable to hunger)
Spring 2005:
  • Art for the People - For art classes for elderly and disabled at the Franklin Apartments
  • Montgomery Blair High School PTSA (contribution towards an outdoor drinking fountain at the sports fields)
  • Conflict Resolution Center for Montgomery County, Inc. (for a Spanish and English speaking alternative dispute resolution coordinator)
  • Historic Takoma (for a history wall at the Community Center that will portray key events and individuals in Takoma Park's history)
  • Passion for Learning, Inc. (to fund an afterschool homework club for children with academic needs at Piney Branch Elementary School)
  • Rolling Terrace Elementary School (for a writer/artist in residence)
  • Silver Spring International Middle School (for materials for parents and volunteers to transform a classroom into a dance studio)
  • Takoma Park Folk Festival, Inc (to fund a wheelchair accessible shuttle bus to get people to and from the Folk Festival)
  • Takoma Park Middle School PTA (for expanding the PTA translation efforts)
  • Takoma Park Boys and Girls Club, Inc. (to subsidize equipment costs for youth sports as part of an effort to revitalize the Boys and Girls Club Programs)
  • Takoma Park Jazz Fest (to support the cultural diversity embodied in the Jazz Fest)
  • Takoma Park Elementary School PTA (to provide translators for PTA meetings)
Fall 2004:
  • The Holy Cross Hospital Health Center (to purchase health education materials in English, Spanish, and French. The patient population is extremely vulnerable due to their lack of insurance, lack of medical knowledge, language and cultural barriers, and susceptibility to medical problems. The center expects to have 5,000 patient visits in the coming year)
  • The East Silver Spring PTA (to to partially fund construction of a schoolyard habitat designed to connect children with the environment and engage them in hands-on learning experiences. East Silver Spring Elementary serves a disproportionately high number of low income families. The Takoma Foundation will also provide a match for additional funds raised by the PTA for this project)
  • The Long Branch Senior Center (in cooperation with the Long Branch Strategy Games Club, for the creation of an Intergenerational Strategy Games Club to promote socialization between youth and seniors and to develop youth leadership skills)