In response to the City Council's historic override of a mayoral veto and unanimous Council approval of a $12 million Youth Fund, 34 city stakeholders have come together to lay the foundation of the future Youth Fund. Slated to begin granting funds in FY 2019, the fund is a new entity within the city hoping to quell youth and citizen unrest following the Freddie Gray tragedy through targeted investments into the city's youth population. Currently the Task Force is developing the general infrastructure of the fund, establishing its values, grant-making criterion and method of carrying out the to-be-developed mission of the fund over the course of six biweekly meetings, all open to the public. |