[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”14880″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center” onclick=”img_link_large”][vc_column_text]Get the kids ready for fitness, fun, and friendships as 10:12 Sports hosts their FREE Sports Summer Camps available for youth ages 6 – 13! These camps are a great way for youth to learn about different sports and team play, under the leadership of great coaches. The summer isn’t over …
Congratulations to the projects awarded a Southwest Partnership Small Neighborhood Grant during our spring 2018 round! More than $32,000 was awarded to neighborhood organizations and groups for projects that increase the vibrancy of public spaces, reduce blight, and improve quality of life for area residents. Awarded projects included landscaping and vacant lot improvements, public art, …
Congratulations to Our Neighborhood Grant Awardees! Read More »
This month, we’re not just going to Point-and-Shoot, but discover the authentic process of capturing the moment at our Film in Baltimore Photography Showcase! Brought to you by the SoWeBo Arts, Inc., hosted at Zella’s Pizzeria .. Free Admission. Family Friendly. Free Refreshments. Starting, Wednesday July 12, 2017 and run-thru the end of the month! …
This summer the George Washington Elementary School Library will be open for SummerREADS All area children are invited to drop in anytime between 9am and 1pm Monday-Thursday for fun activities and learning between July 10 and August 17th. Free breakfast is served at 8:30am and free lunch at 12pm. George Washington is located at 800 …
The Friends of Carroll Park, Chesapeake Center for Youth Development, the Southwest Partnership and community members in the Spring of 2017 want to bring youth baseball back to Carroll Park. Outreach to neighboring schools has already begun and during the month of September, 90 minute baseball clinics were held across the community to gauge the …
The First Day of School is only three weeks away and the schools in the Southwest Partnership community are getting ready! School staff are cleaning, painting, and decorating to get the buildings back to a tip-top shiny shape–ready for area children who are eager and ready to learn! While getting the school ready for the new …
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The Southwest Partnership will soon be home to bike boulevards: neighborhood streets made safer for bicyclists through improvements such as roundabouts, speed humps with cutouts for bikes, and improved signage making drivers aware that bicyclists will be using the street. The boulevard network, along Hollins St. and connecting streets will not only make bicycling in …
Schlonté McGee is an Americorps VISTA working with Strong City Baltimore and on assignment with the Southwest Partnership (SWP). Schlonté will help us establish self-sustaining, effective, trained, and coordinated communication network made up of 10 area residents in each neighborhood and 5 in Barre Circle. This network will have access to a library of resources …
Organizations evolve. Communities evolve. And the willingness to embrace that evolution can represent either the death or life of a community or organization. For those communities and organizations that chose to embrace evolution, they must also embrace the process. The first step is formation – coming together to create a vision and mission. This is …
Thoughts from our Executive Director, Michael Seipp Read More »
In many ways houses, and the people who live in them, are the heart of a community. Making sure that everyone who lives, or wants to live, in the Southwest Partnership community has access to safe, healthy, and affordable housing is the role of the Southwest Partnership Housing Committee. The Housing Committee develops vacant housing, attracts …
