The mission of St. Michael Outreach Center/Centro Asistencial de San Miguel is to help Spanish-speaking immigrants and their families in the Baltimore metropolitan area meet basic needs and improve their quality of life by providing culturally competent crisis intervention and support services with a focus on domestic violence. The Center is committed to creating a welcoming, friendly environment to serve those with immediate needs, while providing the educational and personal development resources to help persons become self-sufficient and achieve their life goals.

For more information, visit http://www.vincentbaltimore.org/st_Michael.html

Amazing Grace Lutheran Church
Contact Person: Rev. Karen Brau
Address: 2424 McElderry St., Baltimore, 21205
Phone: (410) 276-5674      
Fax: (410)276-6446   
Email: agelc7@hotmail.com

Amazing Grace Lutheran Church is interested in housing issues in Baltimore and currently looking at strategies around inclusionary housing zoning through participation in BRIDGE. The Amazing Grace congregation-based organizing group would be interested in looking at a city-wide inclusionary zoning bill.

CARE community
Contact Person:  Jessie Scott, President,  Jean Henry, VP
Address: Scotty’s (Fayette and Chester St.)
Phone:  (410)276-3808

CARE is concerned with the health and safety of the community. It was created to form a cohesive community group to look at community issues, such as clearing the trash and graffiti in streets and alleys. CARE is taking an active role in working with local enforcement to rid the streets of drug dealers.

Centro de la Comunidad, Inc.
Address: 3021 Eastern Ave. Baltimore, 21224
Phone: 410-675-8906 x105  
Fax: 410-675-0188
Email: cnieves_centro@verizon.net

Centro de la Comunidad works to promote the continued successful participation of the Hispanic community in the social, economic, and political life of the greater Baltimore metropolitan region. Centro de la Comunidad provides information and services in health care, housing, employment, education, and the law. Centro de la Comunidad has served as an accessible, bilingual gateway into mainstream programs and activities, delivered culturally sensitive services targeted to meet the needs of the Hispanic community, and been a referral service that assists established entities, agencies, and programs in serving the Hispanic community.

For more information, visit http://www.centrodelacomunidad.org/

Charm City Land Trust
Contact Person:  Steve Soifer/Jim Kelly
Address: 2500 Maryland Ave, Baltimore, MD 21218
Email: Jkelly@ubalt.edu, ssoifer@ssw.umaryland.edu

Institute for Community Economics developed the Community Land Trust concept to encourage affordable resident ownership of housing and local control of land and other resources. A community land trust is a private non-profit corporation created to acquire and hold land for the benefit of a community and provide secure affordable access to land and housing for community residents.

Citizens for Washington Hill
Contact Person:  Maureen Sweeney Smith, 
Executive Director
Address: 1634 E. Baltimore St., Baltimore, MD 21231
Phone: 410-563-2333 
Fax:(410)5631229

Citizens for Washington Hill focuses on community issues, including vacant housing, preservation, code enforcement, beautification, monitoring new development, and community events. The organization is currently working on renovating City Springs Park and maintaining the Broadway median.

For more information, visit http://www.washingtonhill.us/

Civic Works
Contact Person:  Jon Ciekot, Projects Director
Address: Clifton Mansion, Clifton Park, 2701 St. Lo Drive, Baltimore, MD  21213
Phone: 410-366-8533    
Fax: 410-366-8533    
Email: jciekot@civicworks.com

Civic Works is an independent non-profit and AmeriCorps program. While providing services that revitalize communities, Civic Works engages the energy and idealism of young adults and others, enhances their work skills, knowledge, and sense of citizen responsibility. Civic Works develops programs and projects in education, environment/urban revitalization, housing rehabilitation, human services, and homeland security. In East Baltimore, Civic Works has carried out a number of after school and summer education programs for school students of all ages.

For more information, visit http://www.civicworks.com/

Community Conferencing Center
Contact Person: Lauren Abramson, Executive Director
Address: 2300 North Charles Street, 2^nd floor, Baltimore, MD  21218
Phone: (410) 889-7400           
Fax: (410) 889-0944
Email:  info@communityconferencing.org

The mission of the Community Conferencing Center is to provide a highly participatory, community-based process for people to transform their conflicts into cooperation, take collective and personal responsibility for action, and improve their quality of life. Through partnerships with people, neighborhoods, governments and institutions, the Community Conferencing Center helps Maryland communities resolve serious community and behavioral conflicts as well as unlawful acts that result in harm to citizens and their communities.

For more information, visit http://www.communityconferencing.org/index.asp

Community Law Center, Inc.
Contact Person:  Danielle Deckard
Address: 2500 Maryland Ave. Baltimore, MD 21218
Phone: 410-366-0922  
Fax: 410-366-7763
Email: danielled@communitylaw.org

The Community Law Center, Inc. is a nonprofit law firm that provides legal services and technical assistance to improve the quality of life and economic viability of communities. CLC counsels community based organizations and other nonprofits in and around the City of Baltimore on many matters including incorporating, acquiring property, and policymaking.

For more information, visit www.communitylaw.org

East Harbor CDC
Contact Person: Robin McKinney
Address: 819 E. Baltimore St, Baltimore, MD 21202
Phone: (410)753-4152  
Email: robin@ehcdc.org

East Harbor Community Development Corporation is a community-based development organization formed in 1998 by the East Harbor Village Center to rebuild the economic, social and physical prosperity of the East Harbor community in Baltimore. The overall goal of the CDC is to be the primary economic development entity in East Baltimore. 

For more information, visit http://www.ehcdc.org/index.htm

Historic East Baltimore Community Action Coalition
Contact Person:  Jeffery W. Thompson
Address: 1212 N. Wolfe St., Baltimore, MD 21213
Phone: 443/524-2800    
Fax: 443/524-2806
Email: jthompson@hebcac.org                                            

The Historic East Baltimore Community Action Coalition is a non-profit partnership established to enhance the quality of life for all who live, work, and visit East Baltimore. In 2004, HEBCAC completed an updated work plan to direct the organization’s redevelopment efforts over the near term with objectives in three areas: community development, education, and employment.

Board meetings are open to the public and are held the second  Wednesday of each month at 5:30 p.m. at 720 Rutland Ave, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Ross Building, Room G-007, Baltimore, MD 21205

For more information, visit http://www.hebcac.org/

International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Contact Person: Suzy Copp
Address: 3516 Eastern Ave., Baltimore, MD 21224
Phone: 410-327-1885   
Email: suzyc@theirc.org

The overall goal of the International Rescue Committee's Baltimore resettlement services is to assist refugees in achieving self-sufficiency through coordinated case management, employment and resource development services. International Rescue Committee’s team works to help refugees participate in American culture while maintaining their cultural heritage.

For more information, visit http://www.theirc.org/baltimore

McElderry Park Community Association
Contact Person: Ernest Smith, President
Address: 447 N. Milton St. Baltimore, MD 21224
Phone: (410) 563-4156        
Fax: (410)563-4002
Email: ek.smith.md@netzero.net

The McElderry Park Community Association is a non-profit community association established to promote the interests of residents, businesses, and other organizations within the association’s boundaries. The association acts as a collective representative of its constituency in matters related to public policy, economic development, community awareness, and program development.

For more information, visit http://www.mcelderrypark.org/

Neighborhood Housing Services, Inc. (NHS)
Contact Person: Susan Tifft
Address: 244 N. Patterson Park Ave., Baltimore, MD
Phone: 410-522-696
Email: stifft@nhsbaltimore.com

Neighborhood Housing Services is a private, non-profit organization dedicated to the revitalization of Baltimore area communities through innovative home ownership strategies, creative loan products, and quality education and counseling to new and potential home owners. Neighborhood Housing Services works to promote home ownership, improve the physical appearance of neighborhoods, develop community leadership, and stabilize the local real estate market.

Neighborhood Rental Services (NRS)
Contact Person: Wardell Porter, Executive Director
Address: 244 N. Patterson Park Ave. Baltimore, MD
Phone: (410) 327-4250  
Email:wporter@nhsbaltimore.com

Neighborhood Rental Services is a nonprofit developer of affordable housing. They focus on the rehabilitation of severely deteriorated vacant buildings for both rental and home ownership for low and moderate income residents.

Patterson Park CDC
Contact Person:  Ed Rutkowski, Executive Director                                                         
Address: 2900 E. Baltimore St., Baltimore, 21224
Phone: (410) 732-1609   
Fax: (410) 563-9386 
Email: ed@ppcdc.org

Patterson Park CDC’s mission is to develop and implement strategies that attract, retain, and support good neighbors in the Patterson Park community. Their focus is on local control in a community.

For more information, visit http://www.ppcdc.org/

Patterson Park Neighborhood Association
Contact Person: Mike Mitchell, President
Address: PO Box 12293, Baltimore, MD 21281
Phone: (410) 276-5215  
Email: michellhg@aol.com    

For more information, visit http://www.livebaltimore.com/nb/list/pattpk/

Resident of Butchers Hill Neighborhood
Contact Person: Carolyn Boitnott
Phone:410-522-4991          
Email: cboitnott@verizon.net

The object of the Butchers Hill Association is to promote the general welfare of the Butchers Hill community, promote cooperation among the property owners, residents, businesses and institutions and to raise the standards and conditions of the neighborhood and surrounding environment.

For more information, visit http://www.butchershill.org

Southeast CDCContact Person: Marco Cocito-Monoc, Executive DirectorAddress: 3700 Eastern Ave., Baltimore, MD 21224Phone: 410-342-3234    Fax: (410)342-3534   

Southeast CDC provides services in residential marketing and home buyer incentives, façade improvements, housing counseling and homebuyer education, commercial marketing and developer incentives, and real estate tracking.

For more information, visit http://www.southeastcdc.org

Southeast Community Organization
Contact Person:  Stan Markowitz, Acting Chair
Mark Pettis, Acting Executive Director
Address: 10 S. Wolfe St.., Baltimore, 21231
Phone: (410) 327-0134    
Email: smarkbalto@whoever.com
mpettis@towson.edu

The mission of Southeast Community Organization is to provide services to southeast residents and bring additional services to members of the southeast community. Southeast Community Organization is also working with Southeast Stakeholders Coalition.

Southeast Stakeholders
Contact Person:  Glenn Ross
Address: 509 N Milton Ave
Phone:  (410) 522-2574            
Email:glross@cavtel.net

The SE Stakeholders Coalition, in partnership with McElderry Park Neighborhood Association and others will work t bring diverse communities in SE Baltimore together to share information; facilitate better communication; recognize that we have a common problems and issues that can unite or divide us; work to develop alliances and partnerships that will give residents of SE a stronger voice in our efforts to have a strong citizen voice in determining the future of SE Baltimore; build relationships between SE Baltimore and the rest of East Baltimore. 

Community Health Advocacy Team (CHAT)
Contact Person: Dan Schulze, Associate Professor, Faculty Advisor to BCMO
Address: UMB School of Medicine, 10 S. Pine St., Baltimore, MD 21201
Phone: (410)706-5180
Fax: (410)706-2129
Email: dschulze@umaryland.edu

CHAT, formally known as Baltimore Community Medical Outreach (BCMO), is a group of University of Maryland Baltimore medical and graduate students that provides community education through neighboring empowerment communities and faith based organizations.  The educational content includes talks on addiction, cardiovascular disease, hepatitis, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, and sexually transmitted diseases. Members of CHAT also participate in community health fairs conducting screenings for blood pressure and diabetes and nutrition education.  

Community Law In Action
Contact Person:  Terry Hickey, Executive Director
Address:  UM School of Law, MD Bar Center, 520 W. Fayette St., 4^th Flr, Baltimore, 21201
Phone: (410) 706-3875  
Fax: 410-706-5856  
Email: thickey@law.umaryland.edu

Community Law In Action has worked extensively with schools and neighborhoods in East Baltimore for several years to empower urban youth and young adults to become civically-engaged, problem-solving leaders, and advocates for change in their schools and communities.

For more information, visit http://www.law.umaryland.edu/specialty/clia/index.asp

Environmental Health Education Center
Contact Person: Barbara Sattler,  Director
Address: University of MD, School of Nursing
Phone: 410-706-1849   
Fax:(410)-706-0295               
Email: bsattler@son.umaryland.edu

The Environmental Health Education Center, a multi-disciplinary center in Baltimore, is engaged in training, education, and research related to environmental health.

For more information, visit http://www.jhu.edu/hsrc/region3.htm

University of MD, School of Social Work
Contact Person:   Dick Cook, Megan Meyer, Randa Deacon
Address: 525 W. Redwood St., Baltimore, MD 21201
Phone:  (410) 706-1882
Fax: (410) 706-4455 
Email: dcook@ssw.umaryland.edu,  rdeacon@ssw.umaryland.edu, mmeyer@umaryland.edu

University of Maryland School of Social Work Community Outreach Service

The mission of the University of Maryland School of Social Work Community Outreach Service (SWCOS) is to create innovative models of social work education and services that strengthen under-served individuals, families, and communities in Baltimore and Maryland. Students, faculty, agency, and community representatives join forces in the design, implementation, and evaluation of those models.

For more information, visit http://www.ssw.umaryland.edu/community_outreach/swcos/

UMB President’s Office
Contact Person: Mary Leach, Senior Advisor to the President
Address: 520 W. Lombard St., Baltimore, MD 21201
Phone: (410)706-7002  
Fax: (410)706-5483
Email: mlwach@umaryland.edu

University of Maryland, Baltimore President’s Office

University of Maryland, Baltimore is Maryland’s public academic health, human services, and law campus devoted to excellence in professional and graduate education, research, public service, and patient care.  Throughout its nearly 200 year history, UMB focuses on providing programs and services t enhance the health and economic and social development of residents of Baltimore City and the metropolitan region as a major part of its mission.

For more information, visit http://www.umaryland.edu