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Directory of SOURCE Partnering Community-Based Organizations

SOURCE partners with more than 100 Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) in Baltimore City. CBOs provide meaningful community engagement activities for our students, faculty and staff, including one-time service projects, long-term projects, scholarly projects, internships, FWS positions, short-term consultant projects and more.

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The contact information for our partnering CBOs is subject to change. If you need assistance in contacting an organization, please let us know. We are also available if you need some guidance in choosing a site. 410-955-3880, SOURCE@jhu.edu.

Asylee Women Enterprise

To support forced migrants as they begin to heal from past and contemporary traumas and rebuild their lives in Maryland. 

B'More for Healthy Babies

BHB strives for all Baltimore babies to be born at a healthy weight, full term, and ready to thrive in healthy families. Its mission is to reduce infant mortality and child deaths through education, advocacy, policy development and research in order to effect systemic change. The work of the initiative includes community mobilization, working with service providers, supporting substance abuse counseling centers, smoking cessation programs, community-based education, provider education, contraception distribution and education, family planning and maternal/early child home outreach, and policy and systems components.

Baltimore CONNECT

The mission of Baltimore CONNECT is to create and strengthen a collaborative network of community, faith-based and neighborhood organizations that advocate for the needs of people in Baltimore, and CONNECT them to comprehensive and coordinated health and human services. Baltimore CONNECT envisions a future in which health care entities, social service organizations and people in the community work together seamlessly to achieve optimum health and well-being for all.

Bea Gaddy's Family Centers

Provides housing for homeless women and children and offers self-development and job training. Distributes food and blankets to homeless on a daily basis. Offers tutoring programs in English, Computers, and Math.

CASA de Maryland

To work with Latino and other low-income immigrant communities to improve the quality of life and fight for equal treatment and full access to resources and opportunities; to advocate for social, political and economic justice for all low-income communities. CASA de Maryland also sponsors the Mi Espacio Program, an after school youth leadership program.

Clay Pots

Clay Pots..."A Place to Grow" is a safe space for people in the neighborhoods of Southwest Baltimore and beyond to explore their inner selves in a holistic manner. Clay Pots provides a range of education, wellness and creative programs that help to enrich the personal and communal health of the neighborhood.  Through programs and a free coffee house, Clay Pots has created space for mutual sharing: a place for everyone to have a chance to heal, develop and grow.

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Cornerstone Community Housing

Cornerstone Community Housing has a twofold mission. CCH is dedicated to helping men experiencing homelessness rebuild their lives and to changing attitudes toward homelessness through outreach and education.

Dayspring Programs

Dayspring Programs, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded to change the lives of homeless children and their families. Dayspring grew out of the Coalition for Homeless Children and Families, a collaboration of 30 groups interested in the welfare of homeless children in Baltimore City.

Dee's Place Wellness and Recovery Center

Dee’s Place, located in East Baltimore, offers a full menu of early morning and afternoon 12-step mutual aid meetings, peer facilitated groups, as well as offering extensive one -on -one peer recovery support services.

Franciscan Center, Inc.

Serves as a "one-stop shop" for families and individuals in crisis, providing a broad range of programs and services designed to help them achieve stability and build self-sufficient lives.

From Prison Cells to PhD

The goal of the Prison-to-Professionals (P2P) program is to help people with criminal convictions obtain higher education.

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Gallagher Services

Gallagher Services provides residential and meaningful day support to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The organization a Council on Quality and Leadership (CQL) accredited agency that utilizes a person-centered approach to deliver services that support people in living the life of their choice.

Good Harvest

Good Harvest, a social enterprise of St. Vincent de Paul of Baltimore, produces about 7,500 healthy and delicious meals a day for low income children, families and seniors each day.  Good Harvest has long-term partnerships with Head Start programs, summer and after-school programs, homeless shelters, adult day care programs and child care centers, which serve our meals to their customers.

Greater Baybrook Alliance

Our mission is to act as a catalyst and conduit for equitable development and reinvestment in the Brooklyn, Brooklyn Park, and Curtis Bay neighborhoods and empower our residents to strengthen the Baybrook community. In 2016,  stakeholders from the Brooklyn, Brooklyn Park, and Curtis Bay neighborhoods convened to create the Greater Baybrook Vision and Action Plan, a long-term revitalization roadmap addressing housing, economic development, transportation, quality of life, and other opportunities in our communities.

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Hopkins Community Connection

Hopkins Community Connection works to screen patients for essential resource needs during their routine medical appointments and uses student volunteers and Community Health Workers to navigate them to community resources and in doing so they become trained as future leaders poised to enhance the effectiveness of the health system by routinely addressing these needs as a standard part of quality care.

House of Ruth Maryland

To eliminate domestic violence through intervention and prevention, by providing: shelter, counseling for adults, teens, and children, legal advocacy, abusers intervention, professional training, and community outreach.

International Rescue Committee

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Baltimore helps refugees and other humanitarian immigrants become self sufficient and integrated in communities across central Maryland and strengthens the social and economic health of Baltimore City.

Maryland Food Bank

The Food Bank provides nearly 50 million pounds of food annually to more than 1,250 nonprofit community food providers - including food pantries, soup kitchens, emergency shelters, low-income day care centers, after-school programs, senior centers, rehabilitation centers, and other feeding programs.

Maryland New Directions

Maryland New Directions’ mission is to provide comprehensive career counseling, employment assistance, and post-employment support to people who are in life and career transitions. Clients often face multiple barriers to job success, such as little or no work experience, low levels of education, computer illiteracy, substance abuse history, criminal backgrounds, and/or mental health barriers.

Moveable Feast

Moveable Feast serves over 900 individuals who are affected by HIV/AIDS, cancer, and other life-threatening illnesses.

Our Daily Bread

In 2007, Catholic Charities opened the Our Daily Bread Employment Center (ODBEC), which seeks to improve the lives of people in need by providing resources to help them achieve self-sufficiency through employment and housing.  The facility includes a soup kitchen/ dining room that serves an average of 700 meals seven days a week, 365 days each year, to people in Baltimore who are hungry.  Guests include men, women, and children of all ages.

Paul's Place

The mission of Paul's Place is to help be a catalyst and leader for change, improving the quality of life in the Southwest Baltimore communities of Pigtown, Poppleton, Southwest Baltimore, Morrell Park, and Westport.

Power Inside

A direct service and advocacy program for women impacted by incarceration, addiction and commercial sex work. Health outreach, case management, workshops and peer support groups.

Project PLASE (People Lacking Ample Shelter & Employment)

Project PLASE, Inc. addresses homelessness by providing transitional housing, permanent housing and supportive services to homeless adults. They serve the most vulnerable and underserved, including persons with mental illness, HIV/AIDS, addiction, developmental disabilities, and ex-offenders, etc. They treat, restore and rehabilitate the whole person.  The organization empowers each individual to function at the highest level possible.

The Family Tree

Prevention of child abuse and neglect.  Through education and support, we provide families with the tools they need to help their children grow up to become healthy, productive and competent adults.

Weinberg Housing and Resource Center

Catholic Charities shares Baltimore City's vision of making homelessness in Baltimore rare and brief through the Weinberg Housing and Resource Center (WHRC). This low-barrier shelter houses 275 residents, providing each resident with case management, workshops and resource referrals, breakfast and dinner (lunch is served at Our Daily Bread, across the street), and a caring staff committed to the Catholic Charities mission of "Love in Action."