Community Partners

Asylee Women Enterprise (AWE) helps asylum seekers and survivors of torture and/or human trafficking to rebuild their lives and their spirits. AWE provides transitional housing, companionship, and community by offering a safe and nurturing home, as well as opportunities to connect with the larger community and to each other.

AWE provides transitional housing to asylum seekers and offers a range of services through the day program, including ESL, job readiness courses, wellness classes, case management, and a food pantry and clothing closet.

Potential ways to engage include:

• Community lunch preparation
• Evening programming support
• Food deliveries 
• Community mentoring

*While being bilingual is not required, it is highly desirable for volunteers at this placement.

Contact

• Jane@asyleewomen.org
• Website

Govans Elementary is a neighborhood charter school, one of five in Baltimore that falls under the Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) umbrella.

Govans has over 30 community partners, including NDMU. When transitioning from elementary to middle school, students at Govans have an over 80% success rate of acceptance into their middle school of choice.

• Govans has been designated as a Title I School, receiving financial assistance to support the academic achievement of students at or below the federal poverty line.

Potential ways to engage include:

• assisting classroom teachers by helping students with reading, writing, and math in small groups
• providing one-on-one math tutoring
• assisting with the afterschool STEM program
• assisting with Miss Murphy’s Diamond Girls, an all-girls mentoring program (M-TH 4-5, 2 days per week)

Contact

Reach out to Lindsay Chudzik (lchudzik@ndm.edu) or Kristina Pickering (kpickering@ndm.edu) for more information about volunteering.

Website

JA BizTown is a simulated city where 4th-6th graders from (mostly) Baltimore City Public Schools experience hands-on workplace, business, and personal finance challenges.  After a few weeks of in-classroom curriculum, students are selected for a job and spend a day at the Junior Achievement facility taking on the role of a real-world professional. The immersive atmosphere inspires teamwork, critical thinking, and decision-making skills for each student. JA Finance Park gives middle school students the opportunity to experience their personal financial futures firsthand. 

Volunteer shifts are M-F from 8:30-2. Volunteers can sign up for just one shift or multiple shifts.

Contact

 Liz Stroll: lstroll@jamaryland.org

Tomorrows are more important than ever | Junior Achievement of Central Maryland (ja.org)

An umbrella organization of Catholic Charities, My Sister’s Place Women’s Center is Baltimore City’s longest-serving day shelter and resource center serving women and children experiencing homelessness and poverty. They empower those they serve through robust services, including extensive workshops centered on the eight realms of wellness: emotional, spiritual, intellectual, physical, environmental, financial, occupational, and social wellness.

Potential ways to engage include:

• volunteering to serve meals

• creating advocacy materials
• volunteering at special events in October, December, and February

Contact

• Allie Capone: ACapone@cc-md.org
• Website

An umbrella organization of Catholic Charities, Our Daily Bread is Maryland’s largest hot meal program. They serve more than a quarter of a million meals to those experiencing hunger in Baltimore City each year. The Classic Casserole Program at Our Daily Bread is the backbone of this program.

Potential ways to engage include:

• earning service hours by making casseroles for meal services
• volunteering to serve meals 
• volunteering at special events in October, December, and February

Contact

• volunteerodbec@cc-md.org
• Website

Tunbridge Public Charter School, an elementary and middle school located on York Road in the Govans neighborhood, was founded in 2010, and is operated by Afya Baltimore Inc. (ABI). They serve approximately 475 students between Pre-k and 8th grade.

Focused on educating the whole child, the Tunbridge mission is to teach Baltimore’s children to live healthy and balanced lives intellectually, socially/emotionally, and physically.

Potential ways to engage include:

• serving as a teacher’s aide in the classroom

• providing one-on-one tutoring
• assisting with afterschool programs like dance, theatre, and creative writing

• helping organize special events such as the middle school students visit to NDMU’s campus for a matinee of a theatrical production

Contact

Reach out to service@ndm.edu

Website

Our mission is to support and encourage foster and adoptive families, mobilize and equip the community and church for foster care and adoption, and advocate for vulnerable children. The organization provides immediate, practical support and ongoing, holistic care to families welcoming vulnerable children through foster, adoption, and kinship care. 

Potential ways to engage include:

• Child Care for Support Groups 
• Respite Mornings/Evenings and Special Events 
• Baking Cookies to Include with Care Packages 
• Writing Notes of Encouragement to Our Foster Parents 
• Filling Mason Cookie Jars

Contact
Mel Everett:
443-547-0052
melanie.everett@fosterthefamily.org

Art with a Heart’s mission is to enhance the lives of people in need through visual art. They provide hands-on, interactive, and educational visual arts classes in schools, community centers, group homes, shelters, permanent housing facilities, veteran’s facilities, hospitals, senior facilities, and more. 

Potential ways to engage include:

• Prepare materials for Art with a Heart’s ongoing classes 
• Work on a public art/community project 
• Help create and finish pieces of art for heARTwares (organization’s enterprise/retail store)

Weekly volunteer hours:

Monday - Wednesday: 10 am - 6 pm and Fridays: 10 am - 2 pm 

Contact
Omar Harris: Omar@artwithaheart.net
https://www.artwithaheart.net/getinvolved/volunteer/

Habitat for Humanity is a global nonprofit housing organization working in local communities across all 50 states in the U.S. and more than 70 countries around the world. Habitat’s vision is of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. Habitat works toward this vision by building strength, stability and self-reliance in partnership with people and families in need of a decent affordable home.

Potential ways to engage include:

• Construction
• Working at a ReStore location that re-sells gently used home supplies
  • Customer Service
  • Merchandising 
  • Warehouse Assistance

Weekly Volunteer Hours:

Wednesdays - Saturdays: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm 

Contact
Volunteer@habitatchesapeake.org
www.hfhcvolunteer.org

Sharp Dressed Man Empowers Men to Improve Their Lives.

This organization prepares adult men for program graduations, job interviews, office work dress code requirements and other personal events by providing them, at no charge, with handpicked suits and other professional attire donated by community businesses and individuals. 

Potential ways to engage include:

• Donate
• Organize clothes

Contact
connect@sharpdressedman.org
https://www.sharpdressedman.org/

The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises, including the conflict in Ukraine and the crisis in Afghanistan. They help to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. They advocate for a world where women and girls have an equal chance to succeed. 

Potential ways to engage include:

• Youth Mentorship Program
• Welcome Home Project
• Seasonal Internships

Volunteers should begin service by attending an Information Sessions which they can register for on the IRC website. 

Contact
Sara Perrotti: Sara.Perrotti@rescue.org
https://www.rescue.org/

Lori’s Hands builds mutually beneficial partnerships between community members with chronic illness and college students, fostering empathy, connection, and resilience. Students provide practical assistance to support community members’ independence at home, and community members share their health and life experiences to support students’ learning. 

Potential ways to engage include:

• General Volunteering: Make weekly visits to a community member aging in place and living with a chronic health condition
• Internships: Gain hands-on experience working in a community-based organization while also engaging with a diverse group of student volunteers, community members, and other organizations in Baltimore
• Community Service Events; Join the organization for fall service events organized on NDMU’s campus and connect with other Lori’s Hands volunteers and clients 
• Practicum/Course Placements: Perfect for students looking to fulfill academic requirements while contributing to the mission of the organization. If interested, please contact maddie@lorishands.org

Contact
contact@lorishands.org
410-844-0185
https://lorishands.org/

NDMU is a member organization of the York Road Partnership.  York Road Partnership is a membership coalition of 30+ neighborhoods, nonprofits, churches, schools and institutions along Baltimore City’s York Road, and seeks to bring people together across the City’s starkest racial divides. Join us! Free & open to all! 

Our Focus Area:  From the City Line, south on North Charles Street to 39th Street, from 39th Street to Argonne Drive, along Argonne Drive to The Alameda, north on The Alameda to Northwood Drive and along Northwood Drive to the northern City Line.

NDMU works with area non-profits associated with this network to help improve the York Road Corridor.  The partnership has organized health fairs, school tailgating parties, music festivals and home improvement fairs.    Non-profits involved in this partnership include: 

GEDCO
Healthy Neighborhoods
York Road Improvement District

Contact: 

Kristina Pickering at yorkroadpartnership@gmail.com or 443-593-4240  if interested in volunteering and getting involved with this community.   

https://yorkroadpartnership.org/