The Ravens Foundation, Inc. recently awarded $100,000 in grants to 22 nonprofit organizations in the Greater Baltimore area. The Ravens' PLAY 60 Grant continues to provide financial support of up to $10,000 for both new and expanding programs or endeavors that promote physical fitness and/or nutrition education among youth. Over the past 18 years, the Ravens Foundation, Inc. has provided over $1.6 million in funding to support these deserving programs.
The 2023 PLAY 60 Grant helped fund a variety of projects, such as interscholastic athletic programs for students with disabilities, cooking and nutrition education and after-school mentorship programs. Each of these programs work to increase physical activity and nutrition awareness among local youth. A few examples of projects that received grants for 2023 include:
Baltimore SquashWise, who offers a sports-based youth development program that works year-round with Baltimore City youth to advance equity in squash through physical, educational and personal development opportunities; Girls on the Run of the Greater Chesapeake provides a physical, activity-based youth development program designed to develop young women's physical skills and core values to live a physically active and healthy lifestyle; Black Girls Cook works with inner-city adolescent black girls through food security, culinary arts, and urban farming, while emphasizing Black Diaspora cultural histories and food practices.
The Ravens Foundation, Inc. is committed to improving, encouraging and enabling the healthy development of youth in Baltimore and throughout the state of Maryland. Annually, the Ravens Foundation, Inc. provides more than $500,000 in grant funding to local nonprofits. In addition to the PLAY 60 Grant program, other foundation projects include the Ravens Scholarship Program, the Ravens Youth Football Equipment and Apparel Grant Program, renovations of Samuel Coleridge -Taylor Elementary School (2024), Morrell Park Elementary/Middle School and Recreation Center (2023), Franklin Square Elementary/Middle School (2022), Edgecombe Circle and Curtis Bay Elementary Schools (2021) and Webster Kendrick Boys and Girls Club (2019), Kaboom! Playground builds at Edgecombe Circle Elementary (2020), Douglass Homes (2018), German Park (2011) and the Good Samaritan Hospital Child Development Center (2009); the school transformation project with Heart of America at Mary Ann Winterling Elementary School (2017), the completion of a library renovation at Charles Carroll Barrister Elementary School #34 (2015), the build partnership with Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake in the Pigtown neighborhood (2014), and stadium renovations at Mergenthaler Vocational Technical High School (2008) and Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (2006).
2024 Ravens PLAY 60 Grant Recipients:
10:12 Sports, Inc
Baltimore Lab School
Black Girls Cook
Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation
Civic Works, Inc.
Cool Kids Campaign
Forever Champion
Friends of Great Kids Farm
Friends of Patterson Park
Girls on the Run of Mid & Western Maryland
Horizon Day Camp
Kennedy Krieger Institute
Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital
PeacePlayers Baltimore
Sisters Academy of Baltimore
Soccer for the Future
Soccer Without Borders Maryland
Special Olympics Maryland
The Complete Player Charity
The Maryland School for the Blind
Unmatched Athlete
USTA Mid-Atlantic Foundation
For more information on the Ravens Foundation, Inc. or the Ravens' PLAY 60 Grant Program, visit www.baltimoreravens.com/community.
