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Recent News & Upcoming Events

Fresh Start student-built furniture is now available for purchase online! Visit www.freshstartfurniture.com

Maritime Magic 2010 Presented by Merritt Properties and Under Armour (click here)

Maritime Magic 2010 Rising Stars Presented by Baltimore Business Journal (click here)

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Living Classrooms Foundation Celebrates 25th Anniversary in 2010 (and at these special events!):

  • March 4th Friends of Fort McHenry Bull & Oyster Roast at Ryleigh's Oyster www.friendsoffortmchenry.org
  • March/April- shipboard season begins in DC and Baltimore
  • April 15th BeDazzle 2010 A Bright Night for GEM! Ladies night fundraiser at the American Visionary Arts Museum, Thursday April 15th! Visit www.gemmaryland.org for more information and to purchase tickets!
  • April 17-25th National Parks Week- Building Common Ground educational programming, shipboard education trip, marsh clean-up at Fort McHenry www.friendsoffortmchenry.org
  • April 17th Earth Day Celebration Weekend at Masonville Cove Environmental Education Center; April 26th-29th is the Environmental Festival! www.masonvillecove.org
  • April 22-24th National Casting Call- shad activities with students www.livingclassroomsdc.org
  • April 24th 10am-5pm "Ship's Company on Board" - living history programs on USS Constellation www.historicships.org
  • May 1st is the annual BUGS Program Farmer's Market on our East Harbor Campus www.bugsprogram.org
  • May 25-26th Nation's River Bass Tournament in the National Capital Region www.livingclassroomsdc.org
  • May 26th Dine for Dollars Night at the Mt. Washington Tavern! Living Classrooms receives 10% of proceeds.
  • May 27th Annual USS Constellation turn-around cruise
  • June 12th "Get Outdoors Day" and Kingman Island Bluegrass Concert www.livingclassroomsdc.org
  • July 4th 7-10pm Independence Day Deck Party & Picnic! Celebrate the 4th with fireworks, friends, food, and beverage on board the USS Constellation. Proceeds benefit education programs. www.historicships.org
  • July 8th Living Classrooms fundraiser with Wynton Marsalis at the Meyerhoff (details to come...)
  • July 31st 6-8:30pm- public program: Military Tattoo Ceremony with U.S. Navy Band- supporting the Friends of Fort McHenry www.friendsoffortmchenry.org
  • August 21 (tentative date) Victory Night: Former Historic Ships crew members and descendants are welcome onboard for Museum's annual Crew and Descendant Reunion. Free to all members, volunteers, former crew and their descendants. Food and drink are provided. www.historicships.org
  • September 10-12th Star Spangled Banner Weekend at Fort McHenry- education programming, Young Defenders Day, & Star Spangled Spectacular fundraiser www.friendsoffortmchenry.org
  • September 15-19th Ninth annual Maritime Heritage Conference at Hyatt Regency and on historic ships www.historicships.org
  • September 25th The 150th Anniversary of USS Constellation's Capture of Slave Ship Cora commemoration www.historicships.org
  • October 1st Maritime Magic! Baltimore's best annual waterfront party
  • October 15th A Night at The Yards- our version of Maritime Magic in Washington, DC www.livingclassroomsdc.org
  • October 16th USS Constellation Cup Regatta and Historic Ships Blast! www.historicships.org
  • December 7th Pearl Harbor Day Commemoration www.historicships.org
  • December 31st Ninth annual New Year's Eve Deck Party www.historicships.org
  • Ribbon-cutting for East Baltimore Powerhouse (TBD)
  • New field in East Baltimore Target Investment Zone (TBD)
  • Patterson Park new track and field (TBD)

 

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Living Classrooms' Safe Streets East and Leon Faruq were recently awarded the 2009 Community Hero Award by the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health!

Congratulations to the BUGS Program for being awarded the national William T. White Program of Distinction Award 2009 by the U.S. Department of Labor and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.

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EASTSIDE TARGET INVESTMENT ZONE INITIATIVE

Living Classrooms Foundation is embarking on a ten-year effort to improve the education, career prospects, and self-sufficiency of Baltimore’s Eastside children and adults in order to help break a cycle of poverty and revitalize the communities served. Many of Living Classrooms’ most successful programs already serve the targeted community and we will increase their capacities in order to serve many more residents. 

Just blocks north and east of the Foundation’s East Harbor Campus are some of the city’s most economically and socially disadvantaged neighborhoods including the Perkins Homes and Fayette Street Corridor neighborhoods and McElderry Park. We have identified these areas as part of a “Targeted Investment Zone (TIZ).”

Living Classrooms engaged in an 18-month planning process funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation to identify this zone within East Baltimore and the desired results, as well as successful models, community resources, and key partners. The Foundation’s efforts are inspired by Geoffrey Canada and the Harlem Children’s Zone.  In partnership with the City, the initiative will target the resources and talents of Living Classrooms and our partners inimproving performance in school and at work among residents in these neighborhoods. By helping people develop the academic, social, and vocational tools that lead to success in school and work, we will also realize positive changes in the health of the entire neighborhood. Important indicators of neighborhood health that the Foundation will seek to improve include juvenile crime, adult crime, recidivism, and student/school performance. 

The program design focuses on education and workforce development. Living Classrooms will partner with six local elementary and middle schools and the Baltimore Curriculum Project. Living Classrooms’ Carmelo Anthony Youth Development Center and Safe Streets office are community resource hubs within the Target Investment Zone. The Crossroads School serves youth residing in the targeted zone, and Living Classrooms’ Project SERVE program is focusing on the physical improvement of the targeted area. Project SERVE is already responsible for the City’s Bureau of Solid Waste’s work in the McElderry Park area of the TIZ.

For more information, contact Talib Horne at 410-685-0295.

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