Please select one of the counties below to learn more about the 2007 FACES Grant recipients:

• Anne Arundel County
• Montgomery County
• Sussex County
• Talbot County

• Annapolis Area Ministries
  To supplement the existing Annapolis Area Ministries Utility Emergency Assistance Fund, which helps those unable to pay utility bills in full.
• Annapolis Chamber Players
  To put on Community Lunch Concerts at the Anne Arundel Medical Center.
• Anne Arundel Conflict Resolution Center
  To fund interactive workshops on defining conflict, what makes people angry, bullying and how to deal with conflict, anger and bullying.
• Boys & Girls Clubs of Annapolis/Anne Arundel County
  To purchase approximately 200 books and reference materials to help expand our existing small library collection at the new Club at Bates.
• Junior League of Annapolis
  To fund the reprinting of our Teen Empowerment and Mentoring - Teen Resource Guide, designed to support teens at risk.
• Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation
  To expand the resources in the Heritage Resource Center that help African-Americans trace their personal histories and genealogies.
• Special Olympics Maryland, Anne Arundel County
  To purchase materials to replace our current bocce courts, while expanding our facilities from 2 permanent courts to 4 courts, which would include 1 or 2 temporary courts that can be used for practices or for competitions at different locations.
• Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation Mid-Atlantic
  To fund a Great Escape event in Anne Arundel County Maryland for 50 children 4-18 who suffer a critical, chronic or life-threatening illnesses and that reside in or around Anne Arundel County. The event will be a cruise leaving from Annapolis, MD: Captain Billy Baye's Pirates of the Chesapeake.

• Brookhaven Cuatro Haches 4-H Club
  To provide tuition to low-income students for the 4-H Camp in Western Maryland at the Maryland 4-H Campgrounds.
• Crossway Community
  To pay for the costs of providing nutritious meals for the children during the first six months of the Vocabulary Enhancement Program.
• Olney Community Band
  To prepare and present a series of 6 or more public performances of the concert band literature from around the world.
• Parent Teacher Association of East Silver Spring Elementary School
  To help fund a two-part physical fitness strategy co-sponsored by ESS and the PTA that’s goals are to encourage greater physical activity during recess, promote collaboration and team work among students, and help students develop responsible behaviors.
• Potomac Community Resources
  To provide the professional fees for the clinical social workers who facilitate the programs and the program materials used in the Men’s and Women’s Discussion Groups.
• Silver Spring Drop-In Center
  To expand the educational materials and programs designed to help improve consumers’ knowledge of good workplace practices, and expand consumers emotional and practical support related to their concerns either at work or with obtaining a job.
• Stepping Stones Shelter
  To purchase an automated external defibrillator (AED) for the shelter and to provide training for all staff members.
• Takoma Park Film Festival
  To fund the rental of a projection screen, 50 % of the printing of the festival schedule and a percentage of the advertisement costs for the film festival.
• Task Force on Mentoring of Montgomery County
  To cover a portion of the cost of a Director of Programs & Training whose role is to help organize and run all of the Task Force on Mentoring’s Youth Mentoring Program sites.
• The Metropolitan Washington Ear
  To purchase 4 new LCD monitors for the Radio Reading recording studios so that the readers, who provide reading and information services to blind, visually impaired, and physically disabled people who cannot effectively read print, see plays, watch television programs and films, can see if their voice is staying in the appropriate range/decibel level for airing on the radio.
• The Shepherd’s Table
  To help provide vulnerable populations in the Silver Spring community with access to vital medicines.
• The Wellness Community Greater Washington DC
  To provide children in Montgomery County and the District who have a family member with cancer a place where they can share their feelings, facilitated by a licensed professional, with other children who have a family member with cancer.
• Upper Montgomery Assistance Network
  To prevent evictions for 10 families in the Germantown, Gaithersburg and Derwood areas of Montgomery county.

• Community Services of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Wilmington
  To help underserved residents of Sussex county prevent utility shut-off, hunger, and homelessness.
• Delaware Humane Society
  To provide residents from low-income areas of Sussex County with a free opportunity to spay or neuter their cats.
• First State Community Action Agency
  To provide homework and tutorial assistance to the children of non-English speaking parents.
• Ministry of Caring
  To provide dental treatment for poor and uninsured residents of Sussex County.
• Public Allies Delaware
  To support the training and learning program for the Allies in Sussex County.
• Read Aloud Delaware
  To provide books and awards to children who participate with their parents in the Reading Pledge Program.
• Southern Delaware Choral Society
  To fund four soloists in the "Messiah" concert.
• Sussex County Habitat for Humanity
  To purchase needed computer equipment and a cash register for the start-up of a Restore Habitat retail facility.
• The Wellness Community—Delaware
  To fund monthly support meetings for men with prostate cancer facilitated by trained, licensed and experienced professionals.
• Variety—The Children’s Charity
  To provide children with disabilities with needed medical equipment.

• Character Counts
  To purchase Character Counts agenda books for Easton Elementary Schools – Moton, Dobson and Tilghman. These books help students learn and practice the responsibility of being organized by recording their daily assignments.
• Easton ROCKS After School
  To fund cooking programs at Easton Middle School (EMS). The cooking program is the most popular program at Easton Elementary School and the most sought after according to surveys of EMS 6^th and 7^th graders.
• Habitat for Humanity
  For the first time, Habitat For Humanity Talbot County will build a two-story project in Easton, thus creating different safety concerns. This grant will provide additional scaffolding and safety harnesses for these two-story homes. They will ensure the safety and productivity of the volunteers as they work with the new, more complex home design. 
• Talbot Hospice Foundation
  The Community Assistance Program provides financial assistance to vulnerable individuals in Talbot County who do not have insurance or private funds to cover medical and/or non-medical costs. This grant will be used specifically for medical costs such as prescription drug costs, nursing home costs, and ambulance service.
• Talbot Mentors
  This grant will provide support for many of Talbot Mentors’ services, including mentor training, volunteer recruitment and screening, and support and supervision of the mentoring matches.