Baltimore awards $7.3M in federal pandemic stimulus grants to nonprofits

A small cut of Baltimore’s hundreds of millions of dollars in federal pandemic stimulus will go toward initiatives by nine nonprofits, Mayor Brandon Scott said Wednesday, in the first of multiple funding rounds expected for the city’s nonprofit sector. The grants include programs for workforce development, educational opportunities for refugee youth and violence prevention in Baltimore’s LGBTQ community. The $7.3 million in funding comes out of Baltimore’s total $641 million allocation from the American Rescue Plan Act, President Joe Biden’s massive pandemic recovery package.