Ravens provide $100K in Play 60 grants to local Baltimore communities
The Ravens organization has been focused on giving back to local communities, and the organization just revealed a new mission. The Ravens Foundation, Inc., recently awarded $100,000 in grants to 21 nonprofit organizations in the Greater Baltimore area. The Ravens' PLAY 60 Grant will continue 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.
Since 2006, 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
This initiative 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
This initiative uses soccer as a vehicle for positive change, providing underserved 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.
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.
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