This teacher loves the book bank. I teach 5th grade in the city and unfortunately my kids are not in love with reading. If they were, I would be there every week to get books for them.

Thanks will check those out if Home Depot, etc don’t have any

Oh how did I not think of this, thanks

They have a bunch of them at Ikea. $19.99 and they are pretty big. White Bird of Paradise to be more specific.

Home Depot?

Just bought a couple bags of river stones there. About 16 dollars a bag.

The charities are the veil they hide their evil behind.

edit: Apologists for the catholic church are the worst. Y'all going to burn.

The Ruth M. Kirk Recreation and Learning Center. Direct, dollar-in-dollar out assistance: food, clothing, education, training, summer camps for kids, meals for older folks, Christmas toy give aways. All of it.
The boots-on-the-ground work Squeaky Kirk, his wife and Carlos and their volunteers do there do for the people of Baltimore is truly humbling and uplifting.
This city needs a hundred more of this organization's model.

Thank you.

I got a lot of flack from coworkers who are lifelong city residents that warned me all the time what I was doing was dangerous.

They’re right, of course. But if you have to do something - like find the safest route to walk at night because you can’t afford a car - it’s better to be informed.

It’s risky, OP. I don’t know if I’d still be doing it if I had to. That walk is the entire reason I learned to drive and bought a car, paid for insurance, and a parking spot in my building. It’s not a trek to plan lightly!

It's not the best - I would personally bike it to cut down on the time and vulnerability.

I’m not surprised by this, I hope the new report shows enough evidence to fix or stop the program. From my experience I believe it does more harm than good.

House of Ruth

Best and cheapest Peking duck I’ve had in forever!!

I’d take Baltimore to Park then go up on Park

Edit: Charles is the best N/S route here if you don’t mind overshooting then cutting back

Did you also note that they have provided no financial history...because there is none.

>Liquidity

>The Company was organized under the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act on August 2, 2022. As of now, we have not yet begun operations other than those associated with general start-up and organizational matters. We have no revenues and very minimal liquid resources (cash). We intend to use the proceeds of this Offering to buy and operate the Project, as described in our business plan, as soon as the Offering closes. We will also use debt (borrow money) to finance a portion of the costs.

>If we cannot raise money in this Offering, or cannot borrow money on the terms we expect, then the Company will probably dissolve.

A Delaware based LLC with no financials and very little skin in the game.

WCGW?

there's also r/geology...

student support network!

CollegeBound Foundation. For all of the (often justly) negative attention that BCPSS schools receive, the fact that they distribute more than $4 million in college scholarships to City Schools grads is pretty remarkable

Definitely not a McMansion.

Yeah, one of their employees got popped by the feds for using it to run a heroin distribution ring ~2 years ago

https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/former-member-baltimore-s-safe-streets-program-sentenced-over-11-years-federal-prison

> Baltimore, Maryland – U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III sentenced Ronald Alexander, age 50, of Baltimore, Maryland to 135 months in federal prison, followed by eight years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, heroin, and powder and crack cocaine. While he was participating in the narcotics conspiracy, Alexander was employed by “Safe Streets,” an organization whose purpose is to reduce violence and crime in Baltimore through intervention. While he was engaged in the distribution of fentanyl and other dangerous narcotics, Alexander used his affiliation with Safe Streets to evade law enforcement in Baltimore, including on one occasion to avoid arrest when police seized from him a large quantity of fentanyl.

The internal review they ran recently found the program lacks oversight, and many of the employees are untrained subjected to some pretty bad shit, too:

> An internal review of Baltimore’s Safe Streets anti-violence initiative found the program lacked oversight, and half of the workers described their training as inadequate. City officials announced the findings Wednesday, along with a $10 million investment to improve program operations and establish a “community violence intervention ecosystem.”

> Meanwhile, 63% of employees said they had been traumatized by their work mediating conflicts, 60% reported having been direct victims of gun violence themselves, and 67% said they frequently worried about losing their jobs over funding shortage

Sounds like a more comprehensive review is coming out shortly, though, and that might finally shed some light on efficacy.

I was disappointed when I learned that row home has nothing to do with rowing or boats or water.

Town house sounds too fancy-shmancy though.

Pro Bono Counseling and the Baltimore Abortion Fund!

It’s fine Or shoot down cathedral and west on Baltimore.

Depending on where you’re coming from/ tolerance for city life this walk could Be a bit jarring. Charles st corridor is usually fine though all the way from fed hill to my Vernon.

Please don’t get yourself doxxed, especially if you share other personal information on other subs.

That would be hard to choose. But you’d have to also exclude all the corrupt charities as well, sadly they’re too common everywhere