With more than 100 community partnerships, no Baltimore nonprofit offers a more diverse or comprehensive set of service-learning opportunities than we do.
The focus of our service and advocacy efforts is on issues related to social justice -- equity in socioeconomic and educational opportunities, providing for the immediate needs of the homeless and impoverished, and a health care system which ensures that every citizen has access to quality services, regardless of their individual circumstance. We seek to engage students on these crucial issues, so that they might pursue and enact in their adult lives measures which will breech the divide between the
American promise and the American reality.
To afford students meaningful
service-learning opportunities, which
will enrich their personal development while addressing an urgent need in the community.
To encourage students and other community members to break down barriers, particularly across race and class lines, and work together to solve common problems.
To instill in students a sense that they have the power and talent to affect positive systemic change in their community.
A 12-week civic engagement initiative for seventh graders in Baltimore City Public Schools, OA is integrated into regular academic studies. Through interactive lessons and service in the community, the program teaches youth basic concepts related to social justice and public advocacy, challenging them to raise their expectations for themselves and their community.
OA's direct successor, Justice Circles is an after-school program, largely facilitated to students who have participated in the previous program. It explores social justice issues with greater openness and specificity, giving youth a space to discuss and plan service projects to address the community issues most relevant to their own lives.
Students Sharing's high school presence is predicated on the Student Executive Council (SEC) and our Students Sharing Clubs, offered at more than a dozen schools throughout Baltimore County. Led by SEC students, youth participate each weekend in Community Action Projects, direct service initiatives through one of our partner sites (soup kitchens, nursing homes, etc.).
The Weinberg Foundation
The Zanvyl & Isabelle Krieger Fund
The Charles T. Bauer Foundation
The Paint & Powder Club of Baltimore
The Catholic Campaign for Human Development (Baltimore Chapter)
The T. Rowe Price Associates Foundation
The Hirschhorn Foundation
The Leo Buscaglia Foundation
The Meyerhoff Fund
The Ronald McDonald House Charities
The Thomas Wilson Sanitarium
The Fund for Change
The Lester Poretsky Foundation
M & T Bank
The Governor's Office
US Dept. of Health & Human Services
The Baltimore Community Foundation
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
The Macht Foundation
The Bearman Foundation
The France-Merrick Foundation
The McCormick & Co. Foundation
The Baltimore Rotary
Johns Hopkins University
Towson University
Stevenson University
The College of Notre Dame of MD
Constellation Energy
Towson Town Center
Target
Safeway
ezStorage Corporation
Local college students volunteer and are hired through the Federal Work Study program to facilitate weekly and special service projects.
Participating schools include Johns Hopkins, Towson, UMBC, Stevenson, and the University of Baltimore. Opportunities are available throughout the calendar year.
Timothy J. Regan (President) Sharon Kroupa (Vice President) Joan Smith (Secretary) Karin Bluhm (Treasurer)
Executive Vice President Partner Upper School Head Accountant
Whiting-Turner Contracting Co. Venable,
LLP
Roland Park Country School Lichter Group, LLC
Renee Boyd, Vice President Jennifer Huffman, Manager Georgia Korologos Kristin Miller, Student
T. Rowe Price Associates
Reznick Group
Student, Catonsville HS
Garrison Forest School
Shelton Rhodes, Dean Jeffrey J. Plum, Esq. Michael Walton Matthew T. Vocci, Esq
Brown School of Business Law Offices of Jeffrey J. Plum Managing Principal Associate
and Leadership, Atlantic Investment Ober Kaler
Stevenson University Advisory, LLC
Charles Geiger Linda Federico Kohler
Senior Vice-President & District Manager Executive Director/Founder
Wachovia/Wells Fargo
