FUSION PARTNERS
Below are a list of our Partners. Search by focus area or for a specific Partner by name.
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SEE ALL PARTNERS2640 Space
2640 is a non-commercial, cooperatively-managed space for radical politics and grassroots culture. Focus Area: Arts, Workforce Development, Criminal Justice 39
A Mother's Love Will Never Die
A Mother's Love provides women struggling to cope with loss a voice and venue to heal, grow and nuture themselves and their families Focus Area: Direct Services, Health/Wellness, Mentorship 104
A Workshop of Our Own
WOO is a professionally equipped, educational woodshop created by and for women and nonbinary craftspeople, striving for excellence in craft and redefining workshop culture. Focus Area: Arts, Education, Workforce Development 108
B-360 STEM Program
B-360 utilizes dirt bike culture to end the cycle of poverty, disrupt the prison pipeline, and build bridges in communities. Our STEM education program equips disconnected youth and adults with the skills to secure educational and career opportunities in STEM fields, while changing perceptions dirt bike riders and engineers. Focus Area: Education, Youth 117
BMore Awesome Inc
BMore Awesome is a socially conscious, youth-driven organization and record label working to mobilize youth throughout the city to express their perspectives on issues that impact their communities. Focus Area: Youth, Advocacy, Arts 45
BYKE Collective
The BYKE Collective develops personal and professional skills in young people through learning bicycle mechanics, safe ridership, community values, and respect in the city's marginalized neighborhoods. Focus Area: Youth 34
Baltimore Action Legal Team
BALT seeks to build the capacity of the local Movement for Black Lives by providing legal observation, jail support services, bail fund, and human and civil rights training. Focus Area: Advocacy, Criminal Justice, Housing 92
Baltimore Area Faces of Homelessness Speakers' Bureau
The Faces of Homelessness Speakers' Bureau is a collection of individuals who have experienced homelessness and who share their experiences with schools, houses of worship, and other groups in the community. Focus Area: Advocacy, Housing 75
Baltimore Dance Crews Project
Through Hip-Hop dance, Baltimore Dance Crews Project strengthens the relationships between youth and adults to raise academic achievement, promote healthy lifestyles, and unlock youth leadership. Focus Area: Youth, Health/Wellness, Arts 49
Baltimore Doula Project
Baltimore Doula Project provides emotional, physical, and informational support to individuals throughout the full spectrum of pregnancy, including miscarriage, abortion, loss, birth and postpartum. Focus Area: Direct Services, Health/Wellness 114
Baltimore Foodparks
"Baltimore Foodparks will convert vacant lands in south east Baltimore into high quality green spaces using native edible plants. In these parks, as well as in existing parks and school we will deliver scientific and educational conservation related programming. These programs will act as a springboard for getting interested community members involved in conservation research and employment." Focus Area: Education, Environment/Sustainability 112
Baltimore Free Farm
Baltimore Free Farm is an egalitarian collective of gardeners and activists who aim to provide access to healthy food for all. We value collaborative organizing for social and environmental justice. Focus Area: Health/Wellness, Environment/Sustainability, Education 32
Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition
The Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition is a group of students, health professionals, and community members who promote harm reduction principles through education, advocacy, and training. Focus Area: Advocacy, Health/Wellness, Education 28
Baltimore Racial Justice Action
BRJA offers training, assessment, consultation, coaching, and support to individuals and organizations who want to dismantle racism. Focus Area: Education, Advocacy 3
Baltimore United Viewfinders
Baltimore United Viewfinders is a youth-driven organization enabling young people to use art to explore their own definition of self and place. Focus Area: Youth, Mentorship, Arts, Media, Education 40
Baltimore Youth Arts
Baltimore Youth Arts is an arts and entrepreneurship program serving youth ages 14-22 with a focus on those in the care and custody of the state. Focus Area: Arts, Criminal Justice, Youth 60
Begin Anew Career Technology and Education Training Center
A fast track to the completion of career training and certification! Focus Area: Youth, Workforce Development, Education 29
CEASE Baltimore
CEASE is a community-campus partnership between Morgan State University and Baltimore neighborhoods working to improve the health and well-being of all persons by fighting against tobacco. Focus Area: Youth, Advocacy, Health/Wellness 44
CLLCTIVLY
CREATING AN ECOSYSTEM TO FOSTER COLLABORATION, BUILD CAPACITY AND AMPLIFY THE VOICES OF BLACK-LED ORGANIZATIONS IN GREATER BALTIMORE. Focus Area: Advocacy, Media 101
Center for Mindful Awareness
Bringing mindfulness to underserved people in order to deepen self-awareness, build resilience, promote self-regulation, strengthen family attachments, and reduce stress. Focus Area: Direct Services, Health/Wellness 37
Challenge 2 Change
Challenge 2 Change is a Baltimore based non-profit mentoring program. It is designed to positively impact at risk youth ages 7-17 years old using positive and negative role models. Our after school program and summer camp operates with a 3 rites of passage curriculum that deals with Identity, Purpose, and Potential. This curriculum has proven extremely effective, simplistic, and comprehensive. The curriculum is accompanied with workshops on conflict resolution, leadership development, athletics, and restoring the village ideology. These effective strategies has been proven to work to reduce juvenile delinquency, address trauma, and prevent youth violence amongst our program participants. Many graduates and parents of participants come back to testify how impactful the program has been in their lives. Focus Area: Education, Mentorship, Youth 120
Citizens Policing Project
CPP assists in organizing collaboration with the BPD, DOJ and the other parties to Baltimore's Consent Decree, to help community organizations and members recognize their own power to actively be involved in the process. By utilizing it’s established relationships with the DOJ, the Independent Monitor, the Consent Decree Implementation Unit, the Office of the Inspector General as well as City Hall, assuming a position of ‘conduit’ for information between BPD, the parties and the community. By also sharing their own experiences and initiatives, the CPP will demonstrate ideas on how to organize events, forums, workshops, listening campaigns and community meetings that allow BPD and other agencies to set up both formal and informal interactions with residents and hear the concerns of the commUNITY members. Focus Area: Advocacy, Arts, Criminal Justice 119
FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture
"FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture is a creative activist collaboration to upset the culture of rape and promote a culture of consent. FORCE designs communications campaigns to generate media attention and get millions of people talking, and hosts events to help survivors build relationships with each other. Nationally known for producing large-scale public art projects like the Monument Quilt, FORCE believes that a more difficult and honest conversation needs to happen in America to face the realities of sexual violence, and envision a world where sex is empowering and pleasurable rather than coercive and violent. FORCE’s expertise on survivor-led advocacy is nationally recognized. FORCE’s staff has presented at the National Sexual Assault Conference, Maryland Coalition Against Sexual Assault Women of Color Network, Tennessee Coalition Against Sexual Assault Annual Prevention Conference, Louisiana Conference on Sexual Assault and Family Violence, and North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault Prevention Training, in addition to local and national anti-violence, communications, art and media conferences. Leadership team members have presented about the intersection of the Monument Quilt with a range of issues at conferences that include the 2016 Civil Liberties and Public Policy Conference, the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders, Take Root, and Strong Women Strong Nation at the National Museum of the American Indian. FORCE has also hosted trainings and webinars for more than 30 colleges and organizations, including the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, Johns Hopkins University, University of Illinois, the Army SHARP program, and Native Alliance Against Violence." Focus Area: Advocacy, Arts, Health/Wellness 121
Families Matter
The Families Matter program serves struggling Baltimore City families by offering temporary support that will lead to lasting independence. Focus Area: Direct Services 70
Friends of the Homeless National Resource Center
Friends of the Homeless National Resource Center cultivates resilience and resourcefulness in marginalized, at-risk men and women on the streets and in shelters and centers through an original evidence-based curriculum and the sharing of community resources. Focus Area: Advocacy, Education, Health/Wellness 82
Gardenville Baseball League
We are a community-based baseball league serving children for ages 4-18. Focus Area: Health/Wellness, Mentorship, Youth 23
Girls Excelling in Math and Science of Prince George's County
GEMS is an after-school enrichment program in mathematics and science for girls in three Prince George’s County public middle schools: Buck Lodge MS, Nicholas Orem MS, and William Wirt MS. Focus Area: Education, Mentorship, Youth 71
Goaldiggers The Sankofa Project
Our goal is for each girl to become a college educated young woman with a positive self-concept and an assured ethnic identity; poised to serve her family, peers and community. Focus Area: Advocacy, Arts, Health/Wellness, Mentorship, Youth 106
Hollaback! Baltimore
Hollaback is a movement to end street harassment powered by local activists around the world. We ignite public conversations and develop innovative strategies to ensure equal access to public spaces. Focus Area: Advocacy, Mentorship, Environment/Sustainability 19
I'm Worth It
I’m Worth It is an outreach program designed to assist at-risk youth and young adults, people with disabilities, and homeless veterans in realizing their self-worth. Focus Area: Mentorship, Workforce Development, Youth 62
Ingoma Foundation
Ingoma Foundation is a germinator of social and economic solutions for historically oppressed communities and a vehicle for implementation of community economic and youth development initiatives. Focus Area: Advocacy, Workforce Development, Youth 78
JPride Baltimore
(Formerly JQ Baltimore) JPride Baltimore helps to create safe spaces and equality for LGBTQ individuals and their families within the Jewish community through support, education and advocacy. Focus Area: Advocacy, Education, Mentorship 109
Kevin L. Cooper Foundation
The Kevin L. Cooper Foundation is a program dedicated in saving the lives of our youth through various programs such as mentoring, tutoring, the Summer Connect Program, and the Youth Day Celebration Festival. Focus Area: Advocacy, Mentorship, Youth 65
Maryland Restorative Justice Initiative
MRJI is a four-phase initiative to change parole polices to inform policy makers of the need for sensible criminal justice policies. Focus Area: Advocacy 61
Mera Kitchen Collective
Mera Kitchen is a worker-owned cooperative focused on empowerment of refugee and immigrant women through food entrepreneurship. We use our passion for cooking to create an inclusive community. Focus Area: Advocacy, Mentorship 105
Morgan State University ASCEND Center for Biomedical Research
The Morgan State ASCEND program trains undergraduate to be outstanding biomedical researchers and enhances the faculty members’ and institution’s capacity to conduct and train in health research. Focus Area: Education, Health/Wellness 98
New Lens
New Lens is a youth-driven social justice organization that makes art and media about issues where a youth perspective can inspire change. We produce, teach, and advocate. Focus Area: Youth, Advocacy, Media, Arts 52
Open Justice Baltimore
"Open Justice Baltimore (OJB) develops open source data projects to increase transparency of the Baltimore Police Department and Baltimore City officials. OJB aims to work with community organizations, lawyers, journalists, educators, and researchers to create tools for the benefit of an educated and empowered public. Our projects include Case Harvester, a tool that mines the Maryland Judiciary Case Search (MJCS) and builds a near complete database of Maryland court cases that can be queried and analyzed without the limitations of the MJCS interface." Focus Area: Advocacy, Criminal Justice 111
Orita's Cross Freedom School
Anchored by African spirituality & Black history, Orita's Cross Freedom School ignites the genius of Black youth toward social justice activism, civic engagement, and community service. Focus Area: Youth, Advocacy, Mentorship 22
Out For Justice
Through targeted reform campaigns, members work to eradicate existing and prevent future counter-productive policies that create unnecessary barriers to success for those with a criminal record. Focus Area: Advocacy, Criminal Justice 16
Power Inside
Power Inside is a human rights and harm reduction organization that serves and advocates for women and girls who are survivors of gender-based violence and oppression. Focus Area: Advocacy, Direct Services 2
Project I Can / CUPS Coffehouse
CUPs Coffeehouse is a nonprofit dedicated to employing and empowering disconnected youth so that they may become financially independent leaders within their families and communities. Focus Area: Workforce Development, Youth 77
Reconstruct and Rebuild
We are a program of life coaches who assist clients to find resources and provide support. Focus Area: Mentorship, Youth 73
Right to Housing Alliance
We are residents building a movement for the right to housing and community control of land. Focus Area: Housing 64
SPACEs In Action
SPACEs In Action is a membership organization, that is multi racial and people of color led. We are regional in scope with our anchors in DC and Montgomery County MD. We work to engage community residents in the pursuit of social and economic justice. We believe that We All Can when We ACT. Focus Area: 110
Second Chance for Women
Second Chance for Women connects women serving long-term prison sentences with legal assistance and support in obtaining a second chance through post-conviction and parole. Focus Area: Advocacy, Criminal Justice 88
South Baltimore Partnership
South Baltimore Partnership champions environmental stewardship in Sharp Leandenhall Community by encouraging our youth ages 14-21 to participate in our existing Green Team initiatives. Focus Area: Advocacy, Arts, Direct Services, Education, Environment/Sustainability, Health/Wellness, Workforce Development, Youth 118
Spring and Fall Productions
This is a documentary film about incarcerated fathers who are participating in the Turning Pages, family reunification and literacy program. Focus Area: Advocacy, Criminal Justice, Media 99
Station North Tool Library
The Station North Tool Library is a tool lending library providing affordable access to tools, skills, and work space. Focus Area: Youth, Direct Services, Workforce Development 17
Teacher Democracy Project
Teachers’ Democracy Project supports BCPSS teachers and school communities in building sustainable and just neighborhood schools. We work on school-based projects and public advocacy work. Focus Area: Advocacy, Education 95
The Baltimore Transgender Alliance
Unify the many transgender and gender expansive communities of Baltimore. Reclaim our narratives and define what empowerment looks like for ourselves. Focus Area: Advocacy, Health/Wellness, Mentorship 94
The Farm to Prison Project
The Farm to Prison Project is an initiative to provide local, nutritious, and wholesome foods to correctional facilities and detention centers in Baltimore and Maryland. Our overarching goals are twofold: 1. To address and improve food conditions in prisons. 2. To mitigate the effects of mass incarceration by humanizing those within the carceral system. The food we eat affects every part of our life. Eating well influences our physical and mental health, reduces the risk of conditions such as heart disease and diabetes, strengthens the immune system, and more. Currently, there are only a handful of food service providers servicing correctional facilities in Baltimore and Maryland. Our project aims to connect urban and larger-scale farms to these facilities, and thus improve the quality and quantity of food by adding fresh fruits, vegetables, grains, and more to prison menus. Ultimately, we hope to change the total supply chain of food by having all ingredients within a facility sourced from local and nutritious places. Focus Area: 116
The Feminist Art Project - Baltimore
The Feminist Art Project - Baltimore provides mentorship, support and opportunity for self-identified women artists in the Baltimore area. Focus Area: Advocacy, Mentorship, Arts 30
The Golden Door: Storytelling for Social Justice
The Golden Door’s mission is to teach participants how to tell personal and communal stories of social justice for the purpose of educating youth, building community, and initiating change. Focus Area: Youth, Arts, Education 36
The Intercultural Counseling Connection
The Intercultural Counseling Connection is a network of mental health professionals committed to providing culturally responsive therapeutic services for refugees and asylum-seekers in Maryland. Focus Area: Direct Services, Advocacy, Health/Wellness 7
The Undercroft
The Undercroft is a volunteer-run community arts space located in Remington. We are focused on all-ages art and music events, and providing space to grassroots artists. Focus Area: Arts, Education, Youth 115
The Village Bully Project
The Village Bully Project stimulates compassion and forgiveness in children so they can help to heal the person who is hurting others. Focus Area: Youth, Arts 20
The Youth Resiliency Institute
Through a creative, arts-based, rites-of-passage process, the Youth Resiliency Institute offers culturally relevant programming to children, youth, and adults. Focus Area: Advocacy, Arts, Youth 66
Unique Fabrics Sewing Program
Unique Fabrics is a Community Sewing Program for Girls & Women to help them first learn how to sew and to also think like and entrepreneur. Focus Area: Arts, Education, Mentorship, Workforce Development, Youth 107
What's Your Grief
What's Your Grief is a grief support community that reaches beyond traditional grief counseling and support groups. Our mission is to increase access to grief education, exploration, and expression in practical and creative ways. Through online tools, like articles, podcasts, webinars, ecourses, and social media communities, WYG strives to create an online space for those who don't have the time, means, or interest in in-person support (or who simply want to supplement in-persion support. By partnering with location community organzations to offer grief support within their programs, we strive to reach people who need grief support without creating extra access barriers. By providing grief education and training to social wokers and counselors in Baltimore, we are working to close the long-time educational gap in grief training for mental health practitioners and social workers. By offering flexible, creative, realistic, and non-traditional outlets for grief coping we are acknowleging the diversity in grief experiences and coping preferences. We strive to increase access and interest in grief support means by adapting to the unique needs of individuals and communities. Focus Area: Direct Services, Health/Wellness, Youth 113
Whitelock Community Farm
Whitelock Community Farm is a vibrant open space that grows food and activates community to promote social equity in the Reservoir Hill neighborhood. Focus Area: Environment/Sustainability, Health/Wellness, Education 100