The Ravens Foundation, Inc. recently awarded $100,000 in grants to 21 nonprofit organizations in the Greater Baltimore area. The Ravens' PLAY 60 Grant continues to provide financial support of up to $10,000 for both new and expanding programs or endeavors that promote physical fitness and/or nutrition education among youth. Over the past 19 years, the Ravens Foundation, Inc. has provided over $1.7 million in funding to support these deserving programs.
The 2024 PLAY 60 Grant helped fund a variety of projects, such as interscholastic athletic programs for students with disabilities, cooking and nutrition education and after-school mentorship programs. Each of these programs work to increase physical activity and nutrition awareness among local youth. A few examples of projects that received grants for 2024 include:
Friends of Great Kids Farms supports, promotes and enhances the programming at Baltimore City Public Schools' Great Kids Farm and the district's Farm to School programming. Friends works with city schools to bring students to the Farm, a 33-acre urban farm with a stream, woods, fields and greenhouses, providing students hands-on opportunities to connect farm and plate, reinforce curricular concepts, strengthen environmental literacy and promote healthy habits; Girls on the Run of the Greater Chesapeake provides a physical, activity-based youth development program designed to develop young women's physical skills and core values to live a physically active and healthy lifestyle; Soccer Without Borders uses soccer as a vehicle for positive change, providing under-served youth with a toolkit to overcome obstacles toward growth, inclusion and personal success. By proactively working to eliminate financial, social, logistical and cultural barriers for participants to get to the field, Soccer without Borders practices a "do what it takes" mentality when it comes to supporting their youth to access opportunities.
The Ravens Foundation, Inc. is committed to improving, encouraging and enabling the healthy development of youth in Baltimore and throughout the state of Maryland. Annually, the Ravens Foundation, Inc. provides more than $500,000 in grant funding to local nonprofits. In addition to the PLAY 60 Grant program, other foundation projects include the Ravens Scholarship Program, the Ravens Sports Grant Program, renovations of Green Street Academy (2025), Samuel Coleridge -Taylor Elementary School (2024), Morrell Park Elementary/Middle School and Recreation Center (2023), Franklin Square Elementary/Middle School (2022), Edgecombe Circle and Curtis Bay Elementary Schools (2021) and Webster Kendrick Boys and Girls Club (2019). The Foundation has also supported Kaboom! Playground builds at Edgecombe Circle Elementary (2020), Douglass Homes (2018), German Park (2011) and the Good Samaritan Hospital Child Development Center (2009); the school transformation project with Heart of America at Mary Ann Winterling Elementary School (2017), the completion of a library renovation at Charles Carroll Barrister Elementary School #34 (2015), the build partnership with Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake in the Pigtown neighborhood (2014), and stadium renovations at Mergenthaler Vocational Technical High School (2008) and Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (2006).
2025 Ravens PLAY 60 Grant Recipients:
Horizon Day Camp
Soccer Without Borders
Everstand
McKim Center
Kennedy Krieger Institute
Girls on the Run of Mid & Western Maryland
TasteWise Kids Inc.
The Complete Player Charity
Kids Enjoy Exercise Now Greater DC
Soccer for the Future
Girls on the Run of the Greater Chesapeake
Heroes Helping Heroes
The Agoge Project Inc.
Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital
Special Olympics Maryland
Boys & Girls Clubs of Frederick County
Friends of Great Kids Farm
Baltimore Urban Baseball Association (BUBA)
Child First Authority
Sisters Academy of Baltimore
Girls on the Run of Central Maryland
For more information on the Ravens Foundation, Inc. or the Ravens' PLAY 60 Grant Program, please visit www.baltimoreravens.com/community
