Request for Grant Proposals (RFP) BCAAN Community Grants to benefit the Greater Penn North Community Apply to receive $15,000-$25,000 to impact Greater Penn North. 501c3 Organizations encouraged to apply.
Program Overview / Background Baltimore Communities Assisting and Advancing Neighbors (BCAAN)1 is committed to building a healthier and stronger Greater Penn North Community focusing on the following neighborhoods: Penn North, Reservoir Hill, Auchentoroly Terrace, Whittier-Monroe, Greater Mondawmin, Druid Heights and Woodbrook/Parkview. BCAAN is passionate that ideas / programs to build a thriving Greater Penn North must come from the community and be for the community. An Advisory Council of residents and 20 community organizations designed what they would like to see: a resurrection of hope; steppingstones for economic growth; lifting up leaders from within the community; carrying out programs and investments in ways that respect community members; better access to resources and opportunities; access to healthy and nutritious food; and a reduction in violence to make Greater Penn North a safer place for all community members. The solutions are in the community. The BCAAN project seeks to respond to these community-identified needs by: 1) providing better bridges to resources, 2) training community leaders through the Leadership Training Institute, and 3) providing community grants to fund projects and ideas. BCAAN seeks to enhance mobility in the Greater Penn North neighborhoods by incorporating the following mobility constructs: 1) economic success, 2) power and autonomy, and 3) being valued in the community. By supporting residents to access economic and social pathways and gain leadership and advocacy skills, then residents will be able to co-create new solutions to sustainably lift themselves and their neighbors out of poverty and create a pipeline of nextgeneration leaders of local community-based organizations.
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BCAAN is made possible with generous support from the Robin Hood Foundation, the Baltimore Community Foundation (BCF), and the Center for Urban Families (CFUF).
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