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- EIN 52-2306483
- (410) 282-0261
- 11 Center Place Dundalk MD 21222-4377 USA
- www.dundalkusa.org
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Causes: Community & Neighborhood Development, Economic Development
Mission: Our mission is to mobilize stakeholders to invest in greater dundalk's neighborhoods, economy, and quality of life. We do energy-efficient house renovations to promote homeownership; offer grants to homeowners for improvements; serve as the watershed organization for the bear creek-old road bay subwatershed and engage volunteers to implement tree plantings, clean-ups, downspout disconnection and other strategies; we engage a wide range of partners including businesses, schools, and other volunteers in community building events and we work with neighborhood organizations to increase their effectiveness and improve community quality of life and seek physical improvements in our main street and throughout greater dundalk; we work to market greater dundalk's neighborhoods to prospective homebuyers and improve dundalk's image in the baltimore region through housing fairs and other activities in partnership with realtors, lenders, homeownership counseling agencies, developers and residents.
Programs: Housing initiativethe drc spurs investments by current homeowners through a renovation loan program, curb appeal facade grants, and an energy retrofit grant program. The drc renovates houses for sale to new homeowners and partners with small developers to incentivize them to renovate more homes for homeownership, boosting the supply of renovations buyers want, boosting appraised values by enabling renovations to serve as comparable for each other, and boosting home vales.
community building and engagementthe drc engages local leaders to work together to improve their streets and neighborhoods and to identify needs for new programs. Drc's main street improvement activities include a commerical improvement grant program, business incubation activities including pop-up shops and mentoring, and hosting and/or promoting community building events including family fall festival, holiday hoopla, and the makers market that bring people to the main street to shop and reconnect with one another.
watershed improvementgreening dundalk's community through tree planting, clean-ups, storm drain stenciling, and rain barrel distribution has both environmental and community development benefits in beautifying the neighborhoods, reducing polluted runoff, raising environmental awareness, and boosting home values.
marketing dundalkthe drc works to attract dundalk's next generation through a series of events that show off the community's 24 unique neighborhoods and their variety of housing types and price points. Home purchase incentive grants attract buyer's attention, and our wide range of partners including lenders, real estate professionals and housing counseling agencies assist an economically, racially, and ethnically diverse group of home buyers in choosing dundalk.