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T. Rowe Price Foundation Grants $2.7 Million To Promote Social Good In Baltimore
BALTIMORE, June 27, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- NEWS The T. Rowe Price Foundation announced today it will be granting $2.7 million over four years to address some of
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[{"type":"text","content":"BALTIMORE, June 27, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --\nNEWS\nThe T. Rowe Price Foundation announced today it will be granting $2.7 million over four years to address some of Baltimore's most critical needs. The Foundation, which has made more than $121 million in grants since its inception in 1981, including $1.3 million in 2016 to support West Baltimore, is focusing this four-year commitment on eight initiatives within arts and culture, education, and human services. \nPROGRAM DETAILS \nTo inform the grant-making strategy and determine where it could have the most impact, the Foundation hosted and participated in hundreds of meetings as part of a listening tour with T. Rowe Price associates, community leaders and members, and national and global thought leaders to determine the Foundation's future impact strategy. In addition, learning from its work in West Baltimore following the 2016 grant of $1.3 million, the Foundation began to pilot a series of funding relationships with the goal of informing which areas would have significant impact. \nThe Foundation will be allocating the $2.7 million toward three issues:\nStrengthening Baltimore's creative economy through art and cultural experiences. A total of $975,000 in grants will fund four initiatives over the four-year period, including: An effort led by Arts Every Day to provide two hours of high-quality, sequential arts instruction each week to students in Baltimore City schools. The development, implementation, and management of an online portal overseen by Arts Education in Maryland Schools Alliance that will rate every school in Baltimore City on its commitment and ability to provide arts opportunities for its students. The creation of an artist navigator program managed by Baltimore Corps—based on the patient navigator model used by the health care industry—that will connect area artists with trained individuals who can guide them through challenges and direct them to resources that could help them build, maintain, and advance their practices. Ensuring Baltimore City schools have the organizational capacity to leverage community resources and partner with families to help students succeed. A total of $875,000 in grants will fund three initiatives, including: An effort by Baltimore's Promise that aims to help schools identify and utilize partnerships with area community organizations to ...