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Initiatives
Baltimore’s Promise co-develops and identifies strategies, practices, and efforts that can help improve outcomes for Baltimore City youth and young adults at a population level.
Visit our initiative-specific pages to learn more about our current work and partners.
The Baltimore City Youth Opportunities Landscape (Opportunities Landscape) is a public and collaborative effort, facilitated by Baltimore’s Promise to centralize, aggregate, map, and analyze the youth opportunities available to young people ages 0-24. This type of landscape and analysis can help us understand the universe of programs and services that exist in Baltimore City. It will help community members understand disparities in access to youth opportunities by race, gender, age, neighborhood, and other factors.
Click here to visit the Opportunities Landscape landing page, which includes a full report, infographic, dashboard, and stakeholder-specific resources for program providers and youth, parents, and caregivers.
The Baltimore Summer Funding Collaborative (SFC or the Collaborative) is a partnership between public, private and nonprofit organizations that supports high-quality summer programs serving children and youth from low-income backgrounds in Baltimore City. While each member of the SFC has particular priorities, they all share the same goal: to fund different types of summer programs to keep students engaged and reduce summer learning loss so that more youth can reach their full potential.
Baltimore’s Promise is the Administrative Backbone of the Collaborative.
For more information, visit the Collaborative’s website: https://www.bmoresfc.org.
Practitioners’ and policymakers’ efforts to tackle challenges in education, health, public safety, and economic opportunity are often limited by data silos which create a fragmented picture of services and risks shaping the lives of children and families. This lack of information-sharing prevents Baltimore from strategically, effectively, and equitably meeting the needs of the City’s children, youth, and families. To address this issue, Baltimore’s Promise, in partnership with Baltimore City Public Schools, the Baltimore City Health Department, the Mayor’s Office for Children and Family Success, the Mayor’s Office of Employment Development, and the Family League of Baltimore is working to develop the Baltimore City Youth Data Hub.
The Hub will provide a permanent and secure system of inquiry enabling agencies and policymakers to make decisions on the complex needs facing our youth and families as they interact with multiple systems. We are committed to embedding an equity lens to this work, allowing us to better understand and address the barriers and challenges faced by young people as they strive to become thriving adults with choices in careers that lead to economic stability.
Visit the Baltimore City Youth Data Hub landing page to learn more.
B’More Invested, pioneered by Baltimore’s Promise and Open Society Institute-Baltimore, has mobilized more than 30 community and philanthropic leaders to distribute more than $2M in pooled, private capital in Baltimore City. This effort is identifying and investing in promising local interventions, or “community-based alternative solutions,” to issues related to community safety. B’More Invested also addresses funding disparities for initiatives and organizations led by people of color through the organization and pooling of public and private capital and an explicit application of a racial equity lens.
For more information, visit https://www.bmoreinvested.org.
Grads2Careers is a partnership of Baltimore City Public Schools, the Mayor’s Office of Employment Development , and Baltimore’s Promise. As the first step towards a universal promise of post-secondary education and/or training for graduates of City Schools, Grads2Careers creates immediate opportunities for Baltimore City high school graduates by funding 400 - 500 training slots over three implementation cycles in programs with demonstrated success in offering occupational skills training.
Click here to learn more about the goals and purpose of Grads2Careers.
For more information about Grads2Careers’ recruitment and offered occupational skills training, please visit the Grads2Careers website: www.bmoreg2c.com.
Baltimore’s Promise has committed to a long-term focus on literacy for young people from birth to age 24, with a priority on older youth literacy and a goal of population-level change for Baltimore City’s young people. Specifically, Baltimore’s Promise will dedicate over $30 million of funding in the next ten years to support three literacy strategies. These initiatives were developed through years of data-driven research, analysis, and strategic planning.
Learn more about our plans to improve youth literacy outcomes here.
The Youth Grantmakers (YG) Initiative endeavors to establish a permanent, youth-led grantmaking body through which public and private youth-serving resources can flow. This grantmaking structure has been developed by older youth from Baltimore City ages 16 - 24 serving as the inaugural cohort of YGs. In this first cycle of grantmaking, YGs allocated $500,000 in resources to support Baltimore City older youth ages 16 - 24.