Come Out and Play

The Greater Homewood Community Corporation is hosting its second annual Day to Play at Wyman Park.

Looking for a place to play? The Greater Homewood Community Corporation will be hosting its second annual Day to Play at 2 p.m., Saturday at Wyman Park where residents can participate in field games, take a bike tour of Remington and enjoy an after party, according to the nonprofit’s website. The event costs $15, or $10 for Remington residents and $5 for children under 16, and can be paid at the door or residents may register online. Events include: Race through Remington with prizes from the Baltimore Museum of Art and Charm City Cakes.

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North Baltimore Education Advocates Rally for School Funds

Parents, teachers and advocates throughout the area headed to Annapolis to lobby for school construction funds.

Several groups helped organized a rally on Lawyers' Mall outside of the Maryland State House Monday night to lobby support for legislation creating block grants to build and repair Baltimore schools. Groups, such as the ACLU of Maryland, Baltimore Education Coalition and Greater Homewood Community Corporation, organized buses to the rally from throughout the city, many of them from North Baltimore including The Barclay School, Waverly Elementary/Middle School, Margaret Brent Elementary/Middle School and at the Poly/Western campus. Organizers said they expected as many as 3,000 parents, teachers and advocates to gather on the mall to show support for the ambitious plan backed by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. Essentially, the city wants …

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Rodney C Burris

6:22 pm on Friday, March 1, 2013

This was magical. Chilly night, packed with Parents, Children, Teachers,& Advocates from all over Baltimore City. My 8yrol sat on my shoulders, holding up a sign stating "Save Our Schools!" -- Highlight: seeing another dad doing the same exact same thing with his 2nd grader Lol. Great bonding time; great exposure for her to community advocacy. Any one have any other photos from the night?   more ›

Former Rec Center Cleanup Set for Presidents Day

Volunteers and Greater Homewood Community Corporation employees will be working toward revamping the former Barclay Recreation Center.

Greater Homewood Community Corporation employees and neighborhood volunteers will be gathering to continue the process of transforming the former Barclay Recreation Center into a new community center. Volunteers will gather on Presidents Day at 11 a.m. at the center, 300 W. 29th St., to begin cleaning and prepping the center for painting. "The building itself is in kind of rough shape, sort of on the surface. It hasn’t seen some maintenance in a long time," said John Bernet, assistant director of neighborhood programs. More than a year ago, Greater Homewood Community Corporation began working with Barclay School; the Abell; Charles Village; and Harwood communities to turn the closed center into a community hub that would provide activities…

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Nonprofit Offers First Second Saturday Open Houses

Check out these open houses for homes in Greater Homewood Community Corporation's North Baltimore neighborhoods.

Check out this interactive map of homes that Greater Homewood Community Corporation will be hosting open houses from noon to 2 p.m. on Saturday. Run the cursor over a marker and click on it to see its location, details and price.

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Hopkins Announces $7.4 M Public School STEM Grant

Three North Baltimore schools will be involved in a program aimed at bolstering science, technology, engineering and math.

Johns Hopkins University has received a $7.4 million National Science Foundation grant that will be used to boost science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in Baltimore City Public Schools. The grant was announced during an event at Arlington Elementary/Middle School on Tuesday morning. Three schools in the Greater Homewood Community Corporation area will be participating in the STEM Achievement in Baltimore Education Program, which is designed to boost STEM education in grades three through five in a total of nine city schools, according to a news release. The program—in addition to engaging 40 STEM teachers—will also involve experts from the Maryland Science Center, The National Aquarium and Johns Hopkins. North Baltimore Schools:

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Kathleen C. Ambrose

2:14 pm on Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Well spent on the East Side, again. Us of on the West get to look at a JHU auto shop and facilities management. Hello, JHU, remember Remington?   more ›

City Demolishes 9 Harwood Homes

The area is being targeted for reinvestment through the Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's Vacants to Value program.

As part of the Vacants to Value program, which has targeted Harwood in an attempt to draw reinvestment to the neighborhood, city officials gathered to celebrate the demolition on nine homes in the 2600 block of Greenmount Ave. Visit the Greater Homewood Community Corporation's website for more information.

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Scrabble Raises Cash for Adult Literacy Program

The Greater Homewood Community Corporation hopes to raise $10,000 from the event.

To Todd Elliott, deputy director of the Greater Homewood Community Corporation, using the word game Scrabble as a fundraiser for the nonprofit’s adult literacy program seemed like a perfect idea. Greater Homewood started holding its Scrabble Fundraiser more than a decade ago after Elliott, who at the time was in charge of the adult literacy program, saw that no other organization was using the game for a fundraiser, and decided it would be a great way to benefit the program. "What could be more perfect?" Elliott asked. Greater Homewood will host its 11th Annual Scrabble Fundraiser starting at 5:30 p.m. at the Calvert School Atrium.  Tickets can be purchased at the door for $50 or $40 for anyone 62 years old or older and students. The event…

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Patch Editor Particpating in Neighborhood Institute

North Baltimore Patch local editor Adam Bednar will be participating on a panel and teaching a course at Greater Homewood's Neighborhood Institute.

Meet Greater Homewood Volunteer Lisa Ellis

Greater Homewood's blog profiles one of the organizations volunteers.

York Road Shapes VISTA's View of Baltimore

Maggie Porter is credited with strengthening a volunteer umbrella group that advocates for communities along York Road.

Maggie Porter explained that becoming a community organizer was something that she fell into more than she set out to become. But now that her year working to help strengthen neighborhoods in the York Road corridor is coimg to an end on Feb. 1, she said the experience has made an impression.  “I’m definitely very inspired by Baltimore City after this year," the 26-year-old Porter said. "And since I grew up here, I sort of always thought that I would want to get out and move elsewhere, and experience another city. "And I didn’t know if I would ever come back here. I’m realizing I was pretty ignorant about all the work that is going on in Baltimore right now," she said.   The Glyndon native graduated from Colgate University with a degree in …

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