EastBaltimore

Committed to

the Community:

Johns Hopkins in

The Johns hopkins campus in east Baltimore is many things—a vibrant economic hub with more than 25,000 employees; a world-renowned medical center; and the home of groundbreaking research and education in medicine, public health and nursing. The premier institutions housed on this 52-acre campus have made

life better in Baltimore and for countless millions of people around the region, nation and world.

Today, the Johns hopkins medical institutions in east Baltimore and the people who work there are also more determined than ever to be good community partners. in dozens of ways large and small, Johns hopkins is working with its neighbors to reach a shared goal: building a stronger community with bright opportunities for all.

some projects are highly visible, such as the new east side project, which Johns hopkins has joined as a partner with federal, state and local government; area founda-tions; and other institutions. overseen by east Baltimore Development inc. (eBDi), this enormous project will transform much of the area north of the Johns hopkins east Baltimore campus, create new housing for people of all incomes and provide new economic opportunities for people who live and work in the community.

other recent initiatives are profoundly benefiting the health and well-being of the area. For example, the Johns hopkins urban health institute is bringing new community-based approaches to health care, with a focus on the critical issues confronting disadvantaged city residents.

Johns hopkins is also playing a role in dozens of community projects— tutoring youngsters in the evening, reaching out to provide better health services to the area’s growing hispanic population and mentoring students struggling to get through high school.

altogether, the Johns hopkins institutions invest well over $100 million annually in initiatives and care designed to help the community meet its critical needs; in many cases, Johns hopkins partners with others—government agencies, community groups, local schools, businesses and residents.

This report provides an overview of some of these efforts, focused not on insti-tutions but rather on the people who are committed to making a difference in their community.

Johns Hopkins is proud to partner with residents, community leaders and elected officials to bring new opportunities to East Baltimore.

THe JoHns Hopkins

easT BalTimore Campus:

• Hasmorethan25,000employees

• Hasmorethan1.7millionpatient

visitsayear

• Generatesmorethan$6.5billion

ineconomicactivityforthe

neighborhood,cityandregion

• Offersmorethan130community

programstoservetheresidentsof

EastBaltimore

• Spendswellover$100million

annuallytosupportcommunity-

benefitprograms

THe JoHns Hopkins easT

BalTimore Campus inCludes:

• TheJohnsHopkinsHospital,

consistentlyrankedthebest

hospitalinthecountryby

U.S. News & World Report

• TheSchoolofNursing,atop-ranked

schoolwithmorethan600students

• TheSchoolofMedicine,oneofthe

bestinthenation

• TheBloombergSchoolofPublic

Health,thelargestpublichealth

schoolintheworldandconsistently

rankedbestinthenation

A Strong Commitment toEastBaltimore

“We’retryingtodoalotofthingstoimprovelives,andit’smakingadifference.HEBCACallowsustohaveourownvoice

asacommunity.Itgivesusthestrengthtocarryoutprogramsanddothingsthatareneeded.” — elroy Christopher, boardmember,HistoricEastBaltimoreCommunityActionCoalition

Making Communities StrongerandSafer

Elroy chrisTopher—“Big chris” to his neighbors—has lived in the same block of luzerne avenue for two decades. he has witnessed its struggles with crime and drugs, and now he is seeing its resurgence.

in recent years, homeowners have begun to take great pride in their blocks, with planters out front and shiny brass light fixtures newly attached to many of the red brick row homes.

christopher and his neighbors, including many young people, are at the center of it all. “We’re trying to do a lot of things to improve lives, and it’s making a difference,” he says.

an abandoned lot behind his house has steadily been turned into a large fenced garden, complete with picnic pavilions, barbecue grills and plantings galore. This community-created space, known as the Garden of eden, provides a site for such activities as a day camp in the summer and an annual christmas party for hundreds of kids.

some of the community progress has been fueled by the work of the historic east Baltimore community action coalition, which christopher serves as a board member. heBcac was founded in 1994, following a careful planning process that brought together neighborhood associations, business owners, Johns hopkins medical institutions representatives and government officials.

With ongoing financial support from Johns hopkins and other partners, heBcac serves the community in many ways, for example, distributing grants to homeowners to improve the appearance of their homes, planting hundreds of trees and contributing to projects such as the Garden of eden.

heBcac also provides critically needed training to local residents in such areas as computer repair and GeD preparation. renovations to a heBcac-owned former factory building on north milton avenue will provide new community meeting space and offices for several nonprofit groups.

“heBcac allows us to have our own voice as a community,” christopher says. “it gives us the strength to carry out programs and do things that are needed.”

spaCe To Grow

HEBCACrecentlyrenovatedan

abandonedfactorybuildingon

NorthMiltonAvenue,providingnew

officesfornonprofitgroupsand

spacefortrainingprogramsand

communityactivities.

Elroy Christopher (right)

is a member of the board

of the Historic East

Baltimore Community

Action Coalition and an

active leader in building

a stronger community.

“Ireallyenjoyworkingwiththestudents.Ijustencouragethemtobegoodnurses.

Iremindthemthatcaringispartofthecure.”— Carrie kearney,volunteer,IsaiahWellnessCenter

Reaching OuttoSeniorCitizens

Carrie kearney, a resident of apostolic Towers apartments for the past two years, is putting to work the skills she mastered during a 30-year nursing career at The Johns hopkins hospital. she volunteers for the isaiah Wellness center, a community outreach pro-

gram, sponsored by the Johns hopkins university school of nursing, for the seniors at her high-rise apartment building. kearney, who is 80, encourages her fellow residents to take part in the wellness programs, which include exercise and diet management as well as painting and poetry classes.

“she knows the community, and she knows how to be a peer teacher,” says carm Dorsey, an instructor at the school of nursing who manages the center two days a week.

kearney also reaches out to another critical target group: student nurses from Johns hopkins. part of her role is to teach them about the realities of living in poverty, equipping them to better serve the community as nurses. “students really benefit from understanding how people struggle every day in a community of poverty,” kearney says.

she is a regular speaker at nursing classes, and student nurses working at the center frequently come up to her apartment to chat. “i really enjoy working with the students,” she says, beaming as she shows off their letters thanking her for her insights. “i just encourage them to be good nurses. i remind them that caring is part of the cure.”

along with the wellness center, Johns hopkins supports several initiatives to help the elderly, including experience corps, a volunteer program in which older adults tutor and mentor in Baltimore city schools; amazing Grandmothers, which assists caregivers who are raising their grandchildren; and a program in which public health nursing students offer health-promotion lessons in four senior apart-ment buildings. in all, more than 1,500 seniors are involved in these programs each year.

Carrie Kearney brings a lifetime

of experience to Johns Hopkins

University School of Nursing

students. Her community health

nursing experience, together with

her understanding of the East

Baltimore community, provides a

unique perspective to students.

CreaTive ouTleTs

“Beforewestartedtheartists’

group,Ididn’tknowifIcould

drawabox,”saysCatherine

Williams(topleft),whonow

exhibits(andsometimessells)

herpaintingsaroundBaltimore.

AresidentofApostolicTowers

Apartments,shesignedupfor

artlessonsandpoetrywriting

classesthroughtheIsaiah

WellnessCenter,sponsoredby

theJohnsHopkinsUniversity

SchoolofNursing.Bothskills

haveblossomedovertime.

“Ilookateverythingwith

differenteyesnow,”shesays.

“WhereverIgo,Istudytheart

onthewalls,toseehowthey

diditandwhatIcancapture.”

“Ithinkit’sawonderfulthingtorebuildthisareaandtogivetheformerresidentsanopportunitytocomeback.

It’satremendousidea.”— Frances nicholas,newresident,ParkViewatAshlandTerraceseniorhousing

A remarkaBle TransFormaTion is taking place north of the Johns hopkins campus in east Baltimore. eBDi’s new east side project is rebuilding and renewing structures and communities and giving new hope to an area that has struggled economically for years. The final result will be as many as 2,150

new and rebuilt homes for people of all incomes, the creation of thousands of jobs for people at all skill levels, new commercial and retail space, and state-of-the-art facilities for the rapidly expanding life sciences field.

While many cities have undergone such redevelopment, no large-scale project in the country has provided more support and assistance to affected members of the community. expansive relocation services have helped many residents find suitable housing. and the Baltimore-based annie e. casey Foundation has overseen a major effort to provide comprehensive services for east Baltimore residents, ranging from job training and financial counseling to health care and youth employment help.

The first occupants of the project’s new housing moved in during the fall of 2007. among them is Frances nicholas, 70, who now lives in the new senior-only park View at ashland Terrace, at the corner of Broadway and eager streets.

nicholas had lived in east Baltimore for three decades but moved to catonsville in 2001. her heart, though, remained in east Baltimore because of her strong ties to united Baptist church, her spiritual home. now back in the neighborhood, she can walk to church, less than a block away, as well as to Johns hopkins medical facilities, northeast market and other destinations.

“it’s good for me. i can walk places and i don’t have to bother the children to take me,” nicholas says.

her new apartment already feels like home, filled with photos of her children and grandchildren. Former neighbors from east Baltimore live across the hall and upstairs, providing an immediate sense of community.

“i think it’s a wonderful thing to rebuild this area and to give the former residents an opportunity to come back,” she says. “it’s a tremendous idea.”

Creating New Opportunities intheCommunity

a Brand-new Home

DorothyPowell,65,ispleased

tobelivinginanew,safeand

affordableapartmentinthePark

ViewatAshlandTerraceapart-

ments,partofthefirstphase

oftheNewEastSideproject.

Sheleftbehindarowhouse

apartmentinaneglectedblock

ofCollingtonAvenue,nowbeing

redeveloped.

“Themovewashardbut

worthit,”shesays.“I’mina

brand-newplace.I’mglad.”

Devoted to her church and her

neighborhood, Frances Nicholas

shares a moment with Pastor

Carl J. Solomon of the United

Baptist Church on Eager Street.

“Whenapersoncomesherewetrytomakethemfeelrightathomeandprovidethemthe

supportandservicestheyneed.”— annie Coples,communityhealthworker,JohnsHopkinsUrbanHealthInstitute

Annie coples knows east Baltimore and its people as well as anybody. as a Johns hopkins community health worker, she uses her knowledge to help residents cope with a range of issues. The 48-year-old acts at times as social

worker or nurse, advocate or adviser. “When a person comes here we try to make them feel right at home and provide them the support and services they need,” coples says. “We try to get them plugged in to where they need to be.”

The community health worker program, part of the Johns hopkins urban health institute, works out of a narrow office on east monument street. But its workers spend much of their time in the community—taking blood pressure measurements at nearby northeast market, visiting clients at their homes or going door-to-door to ask residents if they need assistance.

among coples’ clients are about 60 young pregnant women. she visits them regularly to make sure they’re getting checkups and taking care of their health.

some clients require advice about getting health insurance or treatment. others need to be reminded to take their medication. many are in crisis and desperately need guidance in finding housing or transportation. coples can usually assist with all of it, and no matter the issue, she remains calm and patient.

“i get personal with all of my clients,” she says. “everybody’s my child.”

Nurturing HealthierFamilies

urBan HealTH insTiTuTe

JohnsHopkinsestablishedthe

UrbanHealthInstitutein2000to

betterunderstandandmeetthe

needsofthelocalcommunity.

TheinstitutedrawstogetherJohns

Hopkinsfacultyandstaff,commu-

nityleaders,politicians,ministers

andcommunityresidentstodiscuss

healthissuesandpriorities.

Theinstituteisfocusedona

rangeofissues,includingyouth

violence,chronicdiseasespar-

ticularlyprevalentinurbanareas

andnewtechnologiestoprovide

bettercareinurbansettings.

Throughongoingconversationwith

arearesidents,theinstitutewill

continuetoprovidetheservicesmost

criticallyneededinthecommunity.

“Wearealwaysworkingto

bridgethegapwiththecommunity

andthepeopleweserve,”saysDr.

MichaelC.Gibbons,anassociate

directorattheinstitute(above).

“Tounderstandwhypeoplemight

notbehavethewaythe‘experts’say

theyshouldyou’vegottounderstand

thelocalculture,norms,attitudes

andbeliefs.We’redoingabetterjob

ofthatinEastBaltimore.”

Each day brings unexpected

appointments and developments

to Annie Coples. On this day she

was checking up on Patricia

Smith (left) and Joyce Gough

(right), who is expecting a baby.

reaCHinG THe HispaniC CommuniTy

TheEsperanzaCenter(formerlytheHispanic

Apostolate)servesEastBaltimore’sHispanic

population,offeringEnglishasaSecond

Languageprograms,employmentplace-

ment,healthcareandotherservices.In

ProVision,theJohnsHopkinsBloomberg

SchoolofPublicHealthandTheJohns

HopkinsHospitalworkwiththeEsperanza

Centertodevelopcreative,culturally

appropriateandimmigrant-friendlytactics

toreachapopulationthattypicallyis

uninsuredanduncomfortableseekingout

healthcareservices.Suchoutreachwill

expandtomeettheneedsofthis

fast-growingpopulation.

A worker from the Esperanza Center

passes out Spanish-language fliers

about diabetes in a heavily Hispanic

area of Baltimore.

CommiTTed sTudenT volunTeers

TheStudentOutreachResourceCenter,

knownasSOURCE,providescommunity

serviceandservice-learningopportunities

forhundredsofstudentsattheschools

ofMedicine,NursingandPublicHealth.

SOURCEpartnerswithmorethan100

community-basedorganizationstoprovide

awiderangeofservicestoEastBaltimore

residents.

a welCominG CommuniTy CliniC

LindaWhitnergrewupinpublic

housinginEastBaltimore,andshe

knowsfirsthandaboutthehealth

concernsofthepeoplesheservesat

theWaldCommunityNursingCenter,

whichwasfoundedin1994bythe

JohnsHopkinsUniversitySchoolof

Nursing.Manyparentsbringtheir

childrenforphysicalexams,vacci-

nationsortestsforleadpoisoning.

Astheclinicalcoordinatoratthe

outreachcenter,Whitnerhelpsset

afriendlytoneforclientsand

connectsthemwithotherhealth

programs,suchaschildren’shealth

insurance,forwhichtheymayqualify.

“There’saninvisiblewelcome

mathere,”Whitnersays.“Wedon’t

startoutaskingabunchofquestions;

weintroduceourselves,communi-

cateandmakethemfeelcomfort-

liFe-savinG sCreeninG

“IfIhadn’thadthatscreening,thecancerwould

havespreadthroughoutmybody,”saysMaurice

Johnson,whoatage48wasnotathighriskfor

prostatecancer.Butabloodtestatacommunity-

screeningeventsponsoredbytheSidneyKimmel

ComprehensiveCancerCenteratJohnsHopkins,

followedbyfurthertestsatTheJohnsHopkins

Hospital,confirmedthathehadamalignancy.

“Hopkinsjumpedrightonit,”hesays,“andsix

weekslater,Iendeduphavingthesurgery.”

Throughapublichealthgrant,Johns

Hopkinsofferstheprostatescreening,diagnosis

andtreatmentatnocosttolow-incomepatients.

JohnsHopkinsalsooffersscreeningsin

EastBaltimoreforcolorectalcancer,andrisk

assessmentsforcancerandcontracting

HIV—atotalof700to800screeningseachyear.

able.”Theclientsappreciatethediffer-

ence,sheadds.“We’vehadthemaskifwe

canbetheirprimarycareproviders.Ihad

toexplainthatiftheywereacar,wewould

bethejump-starttogetthemgoing,and

we’llevenfollowthemtobesuretheyget

tothenextstop.”

Whitnerhasexperiencedsomeofthe

strugglesherclientsface.In1995,she

washomelessandhadmovedfroma

sheltertotheTransitionalHousing

Program,locatedinthesamebuildingas

theWaldClinic.MarionIsaacsD’Lugoff,

thefoundingdirectoroftheWaldClinic,

hiredWhitnerforapart-timeclerical

position,eventuallypromotingherto

communityhealthoutreachworker.

“IenjoywhatIdoandIloveworking

withpeople,”shesays.“Thisistheonlyjob

I’veeverhadthatIcanhonestlysayIlook

forwardtocomingtoworkeveryday.”

Linda Whitner is dedicated to

making the Wald Community

Nursing Center accessible to

families in East Baltimore.

“Theyfindawaytomotivateyou.Evenwhenyousayno,they’llfindsomewaytomakeyousayyes.

Theydidn’tletmequitonmyself.”— Judeith James, collegestudentandformerparticipantintheIncentiveMentoringProgram

DurinG her FirsT year at Dunbar high school, Judeith James was failing classes. Things began to change when she met sarah hemminger, a Johns hopkins university school of medicine phD student in biomedical engineering. hemminger is the founder of the incentive mentoring program, a 501(c)(3)

organization that works with at-risk students. For four years, James and 14 other Dunbar students, all of whom were in danger of failing out of high school, stayed after school every monday and Thursday afternoon for one-on-one tutoring with hemminger and her corps of volunteers, most of whom are students from the Johns hopkins school of medicine or the Bloomberg school of public health.

“at first i came for the pizza,” available only after students did their homework, James admits. But as she saw her grades improve, she found that “it was actually fun challenging myself. it made school exciting. if i scored 80 on a test one week, i wanted to score 85 the next week. once i got to 85, i wanted to score 90.”

in exchange for their mentoring, the Dunbar students were expected to volunteer time each month to help others. They helped out at the maryland Food Bank and a shelter for domestic violence victims. some became tutors themselves for younger students at collington square elementary school. “it was funny to see little kids doing back to us what we had done to our tutors,” James says. The experience was positive on all counts. “it feels really good helping somebody,” she says. “We got to see how blessed we were.”

By the end of her junior year, James had made the honor roll, and her mentors were talking to her about college, an idea James resisted. But her mentors kept working on her. “They find a way to motivate you. even when you say no, they’ll find some way to make you say yes. They didn’t let me quit on myself.”

in september 2007, James began her college career at Wesley college in Dover, Delaware, with plans to become a nurse.

hers is not an isolated case. of the 15 ninth-graders who started the program, all 15 graduated, and all 15 enrolled in college.

The incentive mentoring program at Dunbar is just one of several ways that Johns hopkins employees and students are involved in schools in east Baltimore. in all, these programs help more than 1,000 students each year.

Students HelpingStudents

art.“Ithinkit’simportantthat

studentsatJohnsHopkins

graduateschoolsinteractwiththe

community,”saysAllisonKaeding,

afirst-yearmedicalstudentfrom

Fargo,NorthDakota,whohelps

runtheprogramwiththeRose

StreetCenter.

sTudenT To sTudenT TuTorinGFormer Dunbar High School

student Judeith James (center)

chats with volunteer mentors

Sarah Hemminger (left) and

Amber Ballard, both Johns

Hopkins University graduate

students.

Everyweek,agroupofEast

Baltimoreelementaryand

middleschoolstudents

gathersinaclassroomatthe

JohnsHopkinsBloomberg

SchoolofPublicHealth.

JohnsHopkinsstudents

workone-on-onewiththe

pupils—onreading,mathor

“Youngmeninthiscommunityneedstrongmalerolemodels.”— Hugh Howard, materialsmanagementspecialistatTheJohnsHopkinsHospital

HaVinG GroWn up in east Baltimore and attended Dunbar high school, hugh howard, a materials management specialist at The Johns hopkins hospital,

knows the issues facing young people in the commu-nity. For seven years, he has mentored students at Dunbar and other city high schools through the Bond to Bond program. “young men in this community need strong male role models,” he says. “also, i have a mentor myself who has helped me reach my goals.”

Johns hopkins employees introduce students to career opportunities and open doors to help them explore their options. howard often leads groups of students through the Department of Gynecology and obstetrics, where he works.

“i bring them through the whole process of what happens when a woman gets pregnant,” he says. as he goes from labs to operating room to well babies and postpartum rooms, he encourages nurses, physicians and technicians to talk about their careers and how to pursue them.

once he knows a student’s personal interests and goals, he uses his network of contacts at the hospital to connect the student to someone following a similar career path. “most of the kids have been focused,” he says. “They knew what they wanted, they pursued it and they were successful at it. my role was to help them connect the dots.”

Hospital employee Hugh Howard

talks about career possibilities

with Dunbar High School senior

Darian Ford at the Northeast

Market on Monument Street.

nurTurinG BuddinG sCienTisTs

Asoneofthepremierresearch

institutionsintheworld,Johns

Hopkinsisworkingtocultivate

enthusiasmaboutthesciences

amongyoungstersinEastBaltimore.

AttheannualJohnsHopkins

Medicinesciencefair,studentsin

fourthandfifthgradesdisplay

experimentresults.Asummer

sciencecampisbeingestablished

togivetwodozenstudentsthe

opportunitytolearnandexplore

varioussciencefields.Everyyear,

studentsfromEastBaltimore

elementaryschoolstakepartina

two-daysciencecelebrationatJohns

Hopkins.Todate,alleightelementary

schoolsinthelocalcommunityhave

participated.

“We’redefinitelyplanningto

keepbuildingthisinitiativetoget

youngpeopleexcitedaboutscience,”

saysMichaelJenkins,aJohns

Hopkinsadministratorwhocoordi-

natescommunityprograms.

Connecting Students toCareerOptions

“Therewasastrongneedfortheprogram,butithadtobesoldtothecommunity.PeopleinBaltimore

liketohavesomeownership.”— phil Harrison,communityvolunteer,BaltimoreChildDevelopment-CommunityPolicing

When essex WeaVer GeTs a call on the special pager he carries 24 hours a day, it means that a child has been involved in a violent incident in Baltimore—usually as a victim. When one of those painful calls comes,

Weaver, a retired Baltimore city police officer, assembles a trauma response team: a police officer, a mental health clinician and a trained member of the community. often the team first meets the child and his or her family in the hospital. The first goal is to help the family deal with the trauma. But moving forward, these teams also want to tamp down the impulse to retaliate in kind and continue a cycle of violence.

The trauma response teams are the core activity of Baltimore child Development-community policing, a program operated by the center for the prevention of youth Violence in the Bloomberg school of public health. The program is a partnership of the Baltimore police Department, the Johns hopkins university and hospital, the office of the mayor of Baltimore, the maryland Department of social services and the communities of Baltimore. center Director philip J. leaf initiated the program in 1996.

unlike the new haven, connecticut, program on which it is modeled, cD-cp incorporated a major community component. “There was a strong need for the program, but it had to be sold to the community,” says phil harrison, a volunteer with the program since it began. “people in Baltimore like to have some ownership.”

community volunteers who serve on the trauma response teams, alongside volunteer police representatives and mental health clinicians, receive extensive training. “in the beginning, it took a lot of time,” says harrison, who grew up in east Baltimore. “But i have a passion for young people, my neighborhood and my community.”

“if there has been an impact,” says Weaver, “it has been on discouraging victims from becoming perpetrators. We try to convince them that taking the law into their own hands, or joining a gang, is not an answer.”

officials,governmentagencies,

nonprofitinstitutions,businesses,

areacommunitygroupsand,most

importantly,residentswhosharethe

visionofabrighterfutureforallthose

wholiveandworkinEastBaltimore.

Response team members

(from left) Philip J. Leaf,

Essex Weaver and

Phil Harrison.

“Therewasastrongneedfortheprogram,butithadtobesoldtothecommunity.PeopleinBaltimore

liketohavesomeownership.”— phil Harrison,communityvolunteer,BaltimoreChildDevelopment-CommunityPolicing

lookinG aHead

TheJohnsHopkinsMedicalInstitutions

inEastBaltimoreareatatransforma-

tionaljuncture.Newfacilitiesinthe

pipelinewillleadtoimprovedpatient

careandlife-changingbreakthroughs

inresearch.AndtheNewEastSide

projectwillbringopportunities,homes

andjobstoanareathathasstruggled

economically.

ButJohnsHopkinsalsowill

strengthenandexpanditsworkinthe

surroundingcommunity.Toaccomplish

that,JohnsHopkinswillcontinueto

workcloselywithitspartners—elected

Breaking theCycle

Above: Optimism through optometry.

This mural on East Monument Street

was created in 2005, but Woolf and

Woolf Optometrists have been in that

block for over 50 years, through

many years of change and progress

in East Baltimore.

The new east side projectisinjectingnewvitalityintoalargeareaborderingtheJohnsHopkinscampus(atbottomleft,below).TheJohnsHopkinsInstitutionsareproudtobepartnersinthiseffort,whichwillcreatenewjobsandhomes,providenewservicestoresidentsandbuildastrongercommunity.

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The neW easT siDe project, one of the nation’s largest revitalization initiatives, is already transform-ing the east Baltimore community. The project is bringing new homes, new jobs and new hope to an area that is rich in history but has declined

economically over the years. This transformation has been made possible through the sup-

port of a remarkable group of partners determined to revitalize the east Baltimore community. The project is being overseen by east Baltimore Development inc., a nonprofit organization governed by a board of elected officials, civic leaders, foundation representatives, business leaders and area residents, as well as representatives of the Johns hopkins institutions. The voices of all these representatives will continue to be crucial in shaping this project in the years to come.

among the project’s key partners are:

• City of Baltimore• State of Maryland• Federal government• Johns Hopkins Institutions• Annie E. Casey Foundation• Enterprise Community Partners• Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation• Goldseker Foundation

Timetable

ThefirstphaseoftheEastBaltimoreprojectiswellunderway.Thenextphasewilladdmorehousing,anewcommunityschoolandpossiblyanewcommuterrailstation.Theprojectisonscheduletomeetthefollowingtimetableforthisphase:

Acquisitionofpropertiesandrelocationofresidents—2007–2009

Demolitionofselectedproperties—2009–2011

Newcommunityschool—Phased-inlaunchin2009

Newschoolcampus—Fall2011

Newhousingdevelopment—2007–2012

ProposedMARClinecommuterrailstation—2010–2016

The new east side projectisinjectingnewvitalityintoalargeareaborderingtheJohnsHopkinscampus(atbottomleft,below).TheJohnsHopkinsInstitutionsareproudtobepartnersinthiseffort,whichwillcreatenewjobsandhomes,providenewservicestoresidentsandbuildastrongercommunity.

a new east side

TheNewEastSideprojectwill

transformandlifttheareaproviding

8,000newjobopportunitiesfor

peoplewithvariouslevelsof

education,withafocusonjobs

inhealthcareandresearch.

map key:

n 2,150newandrehabilitated

homesformixedincomelevels,

includingseniorsandworking

families

n 2millionsquarefeetofnew

researchlab,commercial,office

andretailspace,generating

significanteconomicactivityin

anareathathasstruggled

n Churches,schoolsandother

communityinstitutions

n Openspacestoprovidenew

recreationalactivitiestoresidents

n Proposedtransitstation,tolink

anewlyvibrantcommunitytothe

restoftheBaltimoreregion

n ExisitingJohnsHopkins

EastBaltimorecampus

Partners inRevitalization

When Baltimore businessman Johns hopkins died in 1873, he bequeathed more than $7 million—an enormous sum at that time—to create The Johns hopkins university and The Johns hopkins hospital. he also left explicit

instructions that the funds be used to serve the community and people without financial means in Baltimore and maryland.

over many decades, the Johns hopkins institutions have expanded their reach, and new schools and institutions have been created. The Johns hopkins children’s center, for example, is one of the premier children’s hospitals in the country, and it is committed to its mission to treat sick children from the community, regardless of their family’s finances. Through the harriet lane clinic, the center has provided primary health care services to the underserved community since 1912, and now cares for approximately 7,500 children and adolescents from east Baltimore every year.

This long-standing commitment to community service lives on across the east Baltimore campus.

Aerial photograph, ca. 1924, of East Baltimore and The Johns Hopkins Hospital. New construction for one of

the first buildings for the School of Public Health on Wolfe Street is in the upper right quadrant of the photo.

Left, a physician helps a child at the Harriet Lane Clinic, ca. 1970.

A Legacy of CommunityService

Contact information for organizations included in this brochure is below. For a more complete listing of programmatic activities, the Johns Hopkins Community Services Directory is available online at www.hopkinsmedicine.org/communityservices.

Johns Hopkins urban Health institute2013E.MonumentStreetBaltimore,MD21205410-502-6155www.jhsph.edu/urbanhealth

isaiah wellness Center and wald Community nursing ClinicCommunity nursing outreach program, school of nursingLoriEdwards,Directorledwards@son.jhmi.edu410-614-2418

student outreach resource Center(sourCe)Johns Hopkins schools of medicine, nursing and public HealthMindiLevin,Directormlevin@jhsph.edu410-955-3880www.jhsph.edu/source

east Baltimore development inc. (eBdi)1731EastChaseStreetBaltimore,MD21213410-234-0660www.ebdi.org

list of contacts and resources

Historic east Baltimore Community action Coalition inc. (HeBCaC)AdministrativeOffices1212N.WolfeStreetBaltimore,MD21213443-524-2800www.hebcac.org

Bond to BondJohns Hopkins medical institutionsYarielaKerr-Donovan,ProjectDirectorykerrdo1@jhmi.edu410-955-1488

incentive mentoring program SarahHemmingersarah.hemminger@gmail.com410-493-2363

Colorectal and prostate Cancer screening programsCharleneNdi,ProgramManagerTheSidneyKimmelComprehensiveCancerCenteratJohnsHopkinsendi1@jhmi.edu410-955-1348

Johns Hopkins institutions–east Baltimore Community affairsDeidraBishop901S.BondStreet,Suite540Baltimore,MD21231443-287-9900http://web.jhu.edu/gcpa

Johns Hopkins Health system Community servicesMichaelJenkins550NorthBroadway,Suite510Baltimore,MD21205410-614-2430www.hopkinsmedicine.org/communityservices

Johns Hopkins medicinemarketing and Communications 901S.BondStreet,Suite550Baltimore,MD21231410-955-6680or410-955-6681www.hopkinsmedicine.org

Johns Hopkins school of nursingoffice of marketing and Communications525N.WolfeStreetBaltimore,MD21205410-614-4695www.son.jhmi.edu

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg school of public Healthoffice of Communications & public affairs615N.WolfeStreetBaltimore,MD21205410-955-7619www.jhsph.edu

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Cover: Graphic representation of the new East Baltimore neighborhood

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