Christ Church Link Ministries, Columbia - $6,000 for more direct emergency services to the "hidden poor of affluent Howard County."

Living Water Treatment Systems for rural Honduras - $14,900 for a diesel generator, an engineer and project manager for water service for 3,000 people.

Samaritan Community Crisis Intervention, Baltimore - $10,000 for small grants to individuals and families in crisis and for counseling for them.

Baltimore International Seafarers' Center - $4,622 to make this ministry to merchant seafarers more visible, and for services like phone cards to give to seafarers.

St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Leonardtown, - $14,000 for restoration of an 11-foot door into 1766 church.

Magdalene Hospitality House, Cumberland - $4,650 for expanding and bringing up to code a safe place for visiting families of federal prison inmates.

Interfaith Service Coalition, Hancock - $10,000 for financial assistance to families in crisis.

St. Gabriel's Church, Nerima, Tokyo, Japan - $1,000 toward a $19,230 organ for St. Margaret's companion parish on its 70th anniversary.

Mission of Peace Distribution Center, West Virginia - $17,000 to an Annapolis group for a steel building to distribute food and clothing in Appalachia.

Washington Japanese Christian Church, Japanese Bible Project - $2,700 for the purchase and shipping of 50 newly translated Bibles to the Washington area.

Clay Street Learning Center, Annapolis - $10,000 for staff assistance and food for children at the storefront computer lab and after-school center.

Pimlico Arts & Community Center, Baltimore - $5,000 toward the building of a 16,800-square-foot complex in a troubled Park Heights, Baltimore, neighborhood.

Domestic Violence Interfaith Coalition of Maryland - $5,500 to help Anne Arundel County churches and the state to help victims of domestic violence.

Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), Anne Arundel County - $7,628 to help train 20 to 28 more advocates to serve neglected or abused children.

Osu Children's Library Fund, New Nima Community Learning Center, Ghana - $5,000 for books and educational aids for a learning center in Africa.

Food Link Inc. Emergency Baby Pantry Care sites, Anne Arundel County - $5,000 to help coordinate six sites and three planned sites.

Arundel Habitat for Humanity - $17,000 for framing packages for two more houses on Clay Street.

St. Thomas' Episcopal Parish, Hancock - $5,000 to improve accessibility.

- No Jumps-

Published June 26, 2005, The Capital, Annapolis, Md.
Copyright © 2005 The Capital, Annapolis, Md.