Operational Support Grant
Funds that are intended to help an organization function more effectively on the whole rather than supporting any single program or effort.
Crossroads Community Food Network
Crossroads Community Food Network is building a healthier, more inclusive food system in Maryland’s Takoma/Langley Crossroads.
Takoma Education Campus
Village of Takoma Park
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Project Grant
Funds that are intended to support a specific program, initiative, or other effort an organization runs or sponsors.
Carpe Diem Arts
Project Name Healthy Parents, Health Famlies, Healthy Communties
Carpe Diem will work with the Essex House community to run Parent Support Groups, Quilting Conversations, a Parent Engagement Workshop, and Healthy Cooking Workshops. These workshops are designed to help parents learn and practice tools to improve school involvement, community engagement including family dynamics.
Community Bridges, Inc.
Project Name Girls Program
A school-based program at Takoma Park Middle School and Montgomery Blair High School encouraging girls in grades 6–12 to explore their identity, increase their self-esteem, and build their character in a safe and nurturing space. The program supports girls’ growth over a 9-year continuum by helping them understand their potential and life choices, learn creative strategies to become leaders, and break their family’s cycle of poverty using education as a vehicle.
East Silver Spring Elementary School PTA
Project Name STEM Fair Support
After school sessions offering targeted students support in designing and implementing high-quality STEM projects. Third, fourth and fifth grade science teachers will target outreach to students likely to have insufficient support at home for completing and/or purchasing materials for their Science Fair project. School counselors may assist in identifying potential students. Volunteer time and resources will also be sought from parents, community members, and local college students to further support these after school sessions.
Hampshire Towers Tenant Association
Project Name Holiday Party/Movie Night
In hopes of strengthening community ties, the Hampshire Towers Tenant Association will sponsor two events aimed at bringing seniors and youth together—a holiday party and a movie night during winter break.
Hillwood Manor Community Garden
Project Name Garden Renovation and Youth Engagement
Support in funding the purchase of two water tanks to help with the Garden’s renovation.
Impact Silver Spring
Project Name Worker Cooperative Jumpstart
A workshop providing education and technical assistance for those interested in starting and operating worker-owner businesses (cooperatives). IMPACT seeks to build an ecosystem to help grow the promising co-op model—one that’s been shown to be an effective means of building wealth and reducing dependency on safety-net services by low-income individuals—in our community.
Long Branch Sligo Citizens Association
Project Name LBS Conservation Garden
Support for outside maintenance and special activities, including a workshop by landscape designer Alison Jones, of this primarily volunteer-maintained community garden—a venue bringing together neighbors and sparking botanical conversation.
Silver Chips
Project Name Silver Chips Print Edition
Silver Chips is the award-winning newspaper published by students from Montgomery Blair High School. It is published both in print and online.
Takoma Park Elementary School PTA
Project Name Homework Club
Takoma/Langley Crossroads Development Authority
Project Name Small Business Technical Assistance Program
Just minutes from Washington, D.C., the Takoma/Langley Crossroads is a busy shopping district with over 200 shops and restaurants offering a unique shopping experience with an international flair.