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Our Priorities in Maryland

  • Investing in communities through a range of debt, equity and grant resources to help develop and rehab healthy and sustainable green housing and community facilities.  
  • Supporting the integration of green development practices in comprehensive planning initiatives and state and local development policies.    
       
  • Advancing work that strengthens the educational environment and academic support for schools and families to enhance children’s opportunities for success. 

Our Impact in Maryland

  • Invested more than $800 million 
     
  • Created or preserved more than 14,500 homes
     
  • Invested more than $43 million to build nearly 800 Enterprise Green Communities homes
     
  • Provided more than $40 million in capacity-building grants, technical assistance and training to our community development partners
     
  • Built more than 2 million s.f. of commercial and community space
     
  • Introduced a cutting-edge education initiative that resulted in significant gains in standardized tests, a summer learning institute, community resource centers, a girls’ mentoring program and a school-readiness program for pre-K children and their parents
     
  • Led the Maryland Re-Entry Partnership (REP) initiative for formerly incarcerated individuals returning to Baltimore’s neighborhoods from 2001-2006 program for pre-K children and their parents resource centers, a girls’ mentoring program and a school-readiness program for pre-K children and their parents

Key Engagements

Sustainable Communities

Working as a member of the Baltimore Metropolitan Council planning consortium, Enterprise will participate in the team guiding and preparing a regional plan for sustainable development to link the region’s housing, transportation and workforce development plans and investments with a specific focus on reducing regional disparities. The planning effort is being funded by a $3.5 million Sustainable Communities grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). 

Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY)

Supporting parents as their child’s first teacher, this family literacy program helps parents prepare their three, four and five year old children to arrive at school ready to learn. As a HIPPY program sponsor, Enterprise provides leadership support and other resources to community-based organizations to implement this school readiness program with families. HIPPY provides parents with developmentally appropriate curriculum, books and materials to support early literacy skills, cognitive skills, and social and emotional development, and connects families to support services to make it easier for them to focus on their children’s learning.  

Green Rowhome Challenge

Based on Enterprise Green Communities, the first national green building program developed for affordable housing, the Green Rowhome Challenge focuses on the most cost-effective ways to incorporate environmentally sustainable materials in the rehab of homes to safeguard the health of low-income residents and increase energy efficiency. It is designed exclusively for Baltimore’s smaller, affordable housing developers and contractors that have limited resources and are relatively new to the application of green building practices.

Choice Neighborhoods

Working as a key partner to support Jubilee Baltimore’s HUD Choice Neighborhoods planning initiative, Enterprise’s work will include incorporating Green Communities criteria in the redevelopment planning for Pedestal Gardens apartments and developing an educational intervention plan to support students at Eutaw-Marshburn Elementary and Booker T. Washington Middle Schools.   

Green Schools

In a new partnership with the Baltimore City Office of Sustainability, the Maryland Association of Environmental and Outdoor Education, The Parks and People Foundation and the United States Green Building Council - Maryland Chapter, Enterprise is helping coordinate efforts to green Baltimore City schools. Our work will help the school system learn about and connect to best conservation practices, resources and ideas to inform a system-wide green schools strategy.  

 
Current Funding Opportunities
Enterprise is accepting grant funding requests from Maryland community development corporations (CDCs) and community housing development organizations (CHDOs) to further the supply or preservation of housing by 250 units for low- and moderate-income people over the next two years.

Funding for grants comes from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Section 4 Capacity Building program. Section 4 Capacity Building resources are designed to enhance the technical and operating capacity of CDCs and CHDOs to engage in community development and affordable housing efforts.
Application Deadline: May 15, 2012

Funding Applications
  
Housing Production
Large-scale Redevelopment, Planning and Neighborhood Stabilization
Portfolio Management
For more information, please send requests to marylandgrants@enterprisecommunity.org.       
HIPPY


The Home Instruction for Parents with Preschool Youngsters program, known as HIPPY, helps parents in Maryland prepare their children for kindergarten.
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We are Enterprise. Our family includes Enterprise Community Partners, Inc, a national Section 501(c)(3) charitable organization that provides expertise for affordable housing and sustainable communities. Financing for affordable housing is offered through our tax-exempt subsidiary, Enterprise Community Loan Fund, Inc., and our for-profit subsidiary, Enterprise Community Investment, Inc. Housing development is offered through Enterprise Community Investment's subsidiary, Enterprise Homes, Inc. The content on this website reflects information about all of these entities.