AARP - Howard County Tax Aides - $5,000Funding to provide additional laptops, printers and other peripherals for AARP Tax Aide volunteers to provide tax services to the low income families involved in the Community Action Council'ss financial counseling classes. They will provide two volunteer counselors one day a week at the County's Gateway Building to work with 8-10 families each day.
Alianza de la Comunidad - $25,000Grant supports the continuation of parenting classes and workshops to Hispanic
parents living in Howard County, in order to strengthen their parenting skills and empower them to become advocates
for themselves and their children. They use a program called Active Parenting, which has created materials specific
to Spanish speakers.
Better Bedrest - $4,969Better Bedrest will conduct an outreach project to increase their visibility and calls from
Howard County residents by reaching out to the OB/GYN practices in the community as well as increasing community
awareness resulting in increased fund development.
Boy Scouts of America - $13,500Project supports the Baltimore Area Council, Boy Scouts of America expansion of their two Howard County high school pilot
project, Cope on the Road to an additional four high schools in Fall 2009 for a total of 900 students in the six high
schools. Cope on the Road involves a series of initiative games and rope elements that instill the following seven key
skills: teamwork, leadership, decision making, problem solving, communication, trust and self-esteem.
Community Action Council - $15,000Support for the Step Up Preschool Screening Initiative to provide multi-disciplinary screening services
(hearing, vision, developmental, social and emotional, speech and language and oral health) to 100 eligible children
who are not currently enrolled in one of the three early intervention programs available in Howard County for children
from low income families. Children in need of remedial services will be referred to appropriate service providers for
intervention. CAC will provide follow-up and identify needed resources for those children needing interventions.
Courtesy on the Road, Inc. - $5,000Grant supports the continuation of Campaign for Courtesy on the Road,
an incentive-based program to encourage teenage drivers to consider and monitor their actions on the road,
avoiding road rage and adopting behaviors that will improve their safety and the safety of everyone on the roads.
FIRN, Inc. - $20,000Funding will support emergency preparedness activities for the foreign-born residents of Howard
County.
HC DrugFree - $29,880Funding to assist HC DrugFree maintain a reduced infrastructure necessary to provide mission-related services
and maintain their capacity to respond to the needs of the community.
Howard County General Hospital - $19,950Grant provides for the expansion the hospital’s perinatal bereavement program to include perinatal
hospice services to support families as they transition from delivery to a possible short life of their baby. Funds will
provide for the development of hospital policies that support palliative care in planning for an infant’s death, materials,
staff education and increased hours for the HCGH Perinatal Bereavement Coordinator to provide emotional, spiritual
and practical support to families as they make and carry out this difficult decision.
Lazarus Foundation - $5,000Lazarus Foundation will develop a mentor’s handbook for high school students to use as part of the
"PC’s 4 Kid’s" initiative. Technology savvy high school students are mentors who teach the kids who receive
computers as part of the initiative how to properly use them.
Leadership Howard County - $17,500With support from the Foundation a newly designed Leadership Premier program began with the 2008-2009 class
which incorporated changes in the way participants experience community issues, interact with decision makers and
expand their perspectives for future community volunteer and leadership commitments. Based on the experiences of
the first year LHC will be maintaining the consultant’s services for and additional year to address issues around
design and to complete the facilitation and evaluation components.
Maryland Foundation of Dentistry for the Handicapped - $9,000The Maryland Foundation for Dentistry for the Handicapped is a non-profit that provides pro bono dental
services for Howard County residents who are disabled and low income. The Howard County chapter, Donated
Dental Services (DDS) will determine applicants eligible for service from the 32 individuals on the waiting list who
have been waiting the waiting longest for services and provide needed services.
STEM Resource Center - $20,000The HCPSS STEM Resource Center will conduct an educational and hands on pilot event and eight
subsequent events to demonstrate the fun side of science, technology, engineering and math for children from age
four to eleven and their parents in communities that typically have low levels of participation in STEM activities as
a means to encourage careers in these fields.
The Red Devils - $4,000The Red Devils provide quality of life services such as transportation, meals and groceries, house cleaning,
complimentary therapies, and prescription drug co-pays for patients with breast cancer and their families.
Funding will support their Howard County activities with their partners in the county, Howard County General
Hospital, the Howard County Health Department and the Claudia Mayer Cancer Resource Center.
The Serenity Center, Inc. - $20,000Funding will support the expansion of wellness programs, such as acupuncture treatment, holistic therapy and
wellness workshops and seminars, available to the 400 plus participants of the 12-step programs offered at the
Serenity Center. The Serenity Center will work with the nationally recognized Tai Sophia Institute.
We Promote Health - $5,000In collaboration with the original partners of the 10-week program Get Active
Howard County, the Columbia Association and the American Cancer Society,
We Promote Health plans will take the lead in expanding the program to a year round initiative entitled
Stay Active Howard County.
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