What is the Baltimore Integration Partnership?

The Baltimore Integration Partnership (BIP) is a collaborative effort to expand opportunities for low-income residents and communities in Baltimore by unifying job opportunities with revitalization investment. Partner communities include the neighborhoods represented by the East Baltimore Development Initiative; the Central Baltimore Partnership; and West Baltimore communities adjacent to the proposed Red Line. The BIP is supported by Living Cities and includes a range of stakeholders aligning resources and activities while working to strengthen the linkage between physical and human capital development. learn more>>


Leveraging Investment to Catalyze Communities

Through The Reinvestment Fund (TRF), BIP offers a range of loan products for predevelopment, acquisition/ construction, small businesses, as well as semi-permanent and New Market Tax Credit financing. The BIP is seeking to:

  • Increase affordable housing and commercial and retail options while generating jobs
  • Stimulate investment and restore households in depopulated areas to
    de-concentrate poverty; and
  • Create essential amenities and services. learn more>>

    Facilitating Job Opportunities for Area Residents

    The BIP works with developers and employers to identify specific job opportunities and then with its partners to connect low-income area residents to those jobs. The BIP and its partners can:

    • Refer job ready area residents to employers and developers
    • Screen job candidates that may have already been referred
    • Co-invest in training that leads to career track employment and
    • Meets the needs of employers for a skilled workforce. learn more>>

       

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      Capital Investment

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      Workforce Development

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      Anchor Institution

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      resources

      View a map highlighting BIP's target areas in Baltimore City

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      The Workforce Training Fund supports training and advancement opportunities for residents living in BIP targeted areas

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      Capital Lending Goals and Policies forthcoming>>

       

      latest news & press

      6/30/2011

      Mayor Rawlings-Blake Issues Executive Order to Encourage Local Hiring by City Contractors
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