Johns Hopkins Investing $10M in North Baltimore Neighborhoods
The Homewood Community Partners Initiative will steer the investments.
Johns Hopkins University announced Thursday it is committing $10 million during the next five years to make improvements in the North Baltimore communities surrounding its Homewood Campus. The funds will be invested through a group of nonprofits, community associations and businesses called the Homewood Community Partners Initiative. "One thing that I think is worth underscoring, and what I think really denotes what is very special about this particular initiative is its comprehensiveness,” university President Ronald J. Daniels said during a news conference. “That is to say that what we’re thinking about is everything from thinking about incentives for improvement of housing, more lively retail and commercial corridor to improvement of …
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IamGayle
2:19 pm on Thursday, December 6, 2012
"He also said the initiative would be transparent and open, and said because of the involvement of community groups that it will be an "exemplar," and would be open and accountable to the surrounding communities." Uhmm.... yeah right. L-I-E... more ›