FUSION PARTNERS

Below are a list of Partners sponsored by Fusion Partnerships. Explore the partners by focus area or search for a specific partner by name.

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2640 Space

2640 is a non-commercial, cooperatively-managed space for radical politics and grassroots culture. Focus Area: Arts, Workforce Development, Criminal Justice 39

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 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, Advocacy, 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

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

Center for the Mixed Voice

The Center for the Mixed Voice helps to support multi-heritage/mixed race people by creating community through workshops, meet-ups, dialogue, and online resources. Focus Area: Advocacy, Direct Services, Youth 79

Clean Slate America

Preserving the right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness for citizens suffering the 'Perpetual Punishment' caused by the collateral consequences of a criminal record. Focus Area: Advocacy, Criminal Justice, Direct Services, Workforce Development 90

Cool Green Schools

Cool Green Schools engages students in STEM and environmental learning through helping students understand and improve their health and the health of their school and local environment. Focus Area: Education, Environment/Sustainability, Health/Wellness 89

EMBODY, A Festival & Series of The Vocal Arts

We at EMBODY look to create a unique & universal opportunity to serve as an oasis of learning, sharing & alignment through the musical voice as the underlying platform of community. Focus Area: Advocacy, Arts, Youth 93

East Baltimore Historical Library

The EBHL is a community space that preserves and shares the rich history of East Baltimore through exhibitions, multimedia projects, and educational programs. Focus Area: Youth, Arts, Media 24

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

Genuine Rediscovery

Genuine Rediscovery seeks to bring together African Americans and African immigrants throughout Baltimore City in order to diminish stereotypes through cultural workshops. Focus Area: Advocacy, Education, Youth 74

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

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

Human Resources Power House

Human Resources Power Hour raises awareness among the community of new African Immigrants in Baltimore and beyond on the signs, indicators, and characteristics of poverty and adult malaise. Focus Area: Advocacy, Environment/Sustainability, Mentorship 81

I can Bmore

Will submit later Focus Area: Mentorship, Workforce Development, Criminal Justice 9

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

Inspiration Factory

The Inspiration Factory provides youth development programming focused on training youth in technology, public health, and nutrition. Focus Area: Youth, Environment/Sustainability, Workforce Development 6

Jumpstart Opportunity Builders-Guides, Inc.

Helping long term ex-offenders with adjustment problems associated with long term incarceration and teach them coping skills. Focus Area: Advocacy, Direct Services, Health/Wellness, Criminal Justice 96

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

Liberty Rec and Tech Center

The Liberty Rec And Tech Center provides community engagement activities and wraparound services to families in the Forest Park community. Focus Area: Education, Health/Wellness, Youth 76

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

Mother Goose on the Loose

Mother Goose on the Loose (MGOL) is a method that plans and presents early childhood programs that focuses on the whole child by incorporating research-based theories of learning, music, play, and language. Focus Area: Education, Workforce Development 68

Native American After School Art Program (NAASAP)

The Native American After School Art Program (NAASAP) is a community art-for-social-justice program run for and by Baltimore's Native youth. Focus Area: Youth, Advocacy, Mentorship, Arts 25

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

Offender To Returning Citizen - Transition Program

OTRC-TP provides non-traditional therapeutic support, including art and music, to individuals who are incarcerated and individuals returning home from prison. Focus Area: Advocacy, Arts, Criminal Justice 10

Open Minds, Inc.

Open Minds teaches mindfulness education through meditation, yoga, mentoring, the arts, and nature-based activities to underserved communities in Western Maryland and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. Focus Area: Education, Health/Wellness, Mentorship 72

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

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 Network

South Baltimore Network is a collection of nonprofits and local businesses in the Baltimore area that team up to help improve the quality of life for their neighborhoods and Baltimore as a whole. Focus Area: Advocacy 8

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 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 Inner Resources Project

The Inner Resources Project uses mindfulness-based approaches to cultivate individual and community resiliency. Focus Area: Education, Health/Wellness, Youth 91

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