It boasts a dynamic waterfront with one of the busiest ports on the eastern seaboard and is recognized for leadership in higher education and life sciences. Since 1999, home values have doubled and a steady decline in violent crime has helped make the city feel safer. However, while parts of the city are showing signs of transformation, many neighborhoods and their residents remain isolated and underserved.
We are grateful to the many partners that support our work in Baltimore.
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In Baltimore, an Enterprise-led education program is helping families reach their fullest potential. HIPPY (Home Instruction for Parents with Preschool Youngsters) helps parents prepare their preschoolers to enter kindergarten at the same skill levels as kids throughout the state. The program, which works with parents in their homes, teaches the parents to be their children’s first teachers. Photo: Mike Elliott |
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Over the past 21 years, Enterprise has invested $600 million in Baltimore to help:
- Produce 13,000 affordable homes, including Heritage Crossing, an award-winning redevelopment of a former public housing project.
- Provide $40 million in grants as well as technical assistance and training to local organizations, so that they can improve their ability to revitalize communities.
- Introduce reform to two schools where students have made significant gains in standardized tests.
- Lead the Maryland Re-Entry Partnership (PDF, 210KB) initiative for ex-offenders returning to Baltimore’s neighborhood.
- Develop and manage affordable rental housing for low income families in Baltimore City through City Homes, a nonprofit that managers almost 500 units in Baltimore City.
Sandra Smith has lived in the West Baltimore neighborhood of Sandtown-Winchester all her life. In 1991, due to numerous family problems, she adopted her sister’s four children. Through the Enterprise Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters program (HIPPY), Sandra was able to give the children a head start in school. HIPPY instructors work with parents in their homes, helping them to be their kids’ first teachers. All four children are reading above grade level and take great pride in their academic accomplishments. Motivated by her children’s progress, Sandra now works for the HIPPY program, which has touched the lives of more than 600 Baltimore families.
“Enterprise’s pre-school program helped my children enter kindergarten ready to learn. It taught them discipline and gave them an early sense of pride in their academic accomplishments.”
Sandra Smith
The Enterprise Women’s Network of Baltimore was formed in 2000 by a group of active business, civic and community leaders to help a generation of low-income women lift themselves and their families out of poverty.
Archived versions of ABCD Network events are available. ABCD is is a state-wide trade and advocacy organization that helps improve the policy environment by sponsoring forums, webinars, distributing newsletters and action alerts to mobilize its base and communicate priorities to policy makers.
The Baltimore Leadership Council gives their time and expertise to help us help others.
Baltimore Profile (PDF, 957K, March, 2008)
Enterprise Community Partners
312 North Martin Luther King Jr., Blvd,
3rd floor
Baltimore, MD 21201
Phone 410.332.7400
Fax 410.230.2290
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Kelly Cartales
Senior Vice President, Mid-Atlantic Director
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