Baltimore Children & Youth Fund (BCYF) announced it is investing $9.55 million in Summer 2025 to create a variety of creative, fun, and empowering opportunities for Baltimore City’s young people.
Describing its vision for Summer 2025 as “a season of joy, leadership, creativity, and opportunity” for Baltimore youth, BCYF sees the investment as a reflection of their belief that summer should be a time of growth, discovery, and belonging. Highlights of the Summer 2025 investments include:
- $4.9M Emergency Investment in YouthWorks:
Fueling 8,500 youth jobs across Baltimore, fueling career readiness, confidence, and staffing for grassroots summer programs. - $2.9M to 47 Community-Based Grantee Partners:
Scaling transformative arts, STEM, mentorship, health, and academic programs, led by trusted neighborhood organizations. - $1.5M to Strengthen City Partnerships:
Supporting strategic collaborations with the Mayor’s Office to expand youth access to public spaces and city services. - Launching Baltimore’s First Youth Master Plan:
This summer, BCYF will convene young people, families, and community leaders for brainstorming sessions to co-create a citywide vision for youth success beyond 2025.
BCYF was created through a public referendum to invest in the potential, power, and leadership of Baltimore’s youth. The full breadth of investments for Summer 2025 will reflect that by contributing to employment, arts, education, and wellness experiences for city young people across every neighborhood.
“These investments are rooted in equity and designed in partnership with community wisdom to ensure that young people, no matter their background, can thrive,” reads the press release announcing the investments.
Other Summer 2025 investments include administrative support for Baltimore’s Promise, which supports a shared infrastructure for supporting youth programs, and supporting arts programming by funding arts facilities, supplies, and experiences for city youth.
