Meaningful and lasting change happens when people team up to improve their schools and communities. Through the School + Community Projects grant program, BCF will fund projects in which schools (students, parents, teachers, etc.) collaborate with the surrounding community (residents, neighborhood associations, and institutions in the area surrounding a school). We will accept proposals from school-community partnerships in Baltimore City and Baltimore County.

Proposals must demonstrate a partnership between school and community that builds and/or strengthens relationships. Projects we will support include, but are not limited to:

volunteer projects and/or programs that bring community into school buildings to participate and engage with the school’s students;
efforts outside of the school building that connect students to the residents in the neighborhoods that surround their school. Activities might include: organizing/mobilizing students, school personnel and neighbors around important issues, community cleanups, peer mentoring amongst youth and intergenerational activities with senior citizens in/from the community; and
joint trips, learning events or social activities that foster connection outside of the physical school community.