Community Partnerships
Johns Hopkins is embedded in civic life across Baltimore. From City Hall to city schools, Johns Hopkins relies on neighborhood leaders to lead the way in identifying solutions for strengthening the social fabric across all of Baltimore’s communities in public health, public education, and public policy.
Innovation Fund for Community Safety
Johns Hopkins works in partnership with grassroots organizations to create a safer city, focusing projects in three priority areas: improvements to community spaces, workforce development and wraparound social services, and violence prevention and interruption.
Innovation Fund for Community-Academic Partnerships
This five-year initiative will pair Johns Hopkins academics with community leaders to work together to tackle complex social issues to improve Baltimore neighborhoods.
P-TECH
Johns Hopkins sponsors the Pathways in Technology Early College High School, or P-TECH, program that helps students at the Paul Laurence Dunbar High School earn a no-cost associate’s degree in tandem with their high school diploma. At Dunbar, P-TECH focuses on health sciences and pairs students with an industry mentor, introduces them to leading professionals, connects them with summer internships and helps them acquire industry certifications.
Henderson-Hopkins School
Johns Hopkins has invested more than $20 million into the Henderson-Hopkins School in East Baltimore, which was the first new school built in East Baltimore in more than 20 years, as of its opening in 2014. It has been recognized as one of Baltimore’s best schools by U.S. News & World Report.
Health Education and Training Corps
The Johns Hopkins HEAT Corps engages K-12 students attending schools in Baltimore in a crucial dialogue about public health with the intention to connect them with evidence-based information about public health and spur interest in STEM fields by connecting them with healthcare and public health professionals.
Cummings Scholars Program
Thanks to generous financial aid funded by our endowment, the Cummings Scholars program allows Baltimore City students to attend Hopkins for free (room and board included) if their families earn $80,000 or less, or close to free if they earn up to $150,000.
Expungement Clinics
Johns Hopkins hosts biannual expungement clinics on its campus, providing community members access to free legal advice, as well as other job and career resources. Since 2020, Johns Hopkins and its partners have hosted 11 expungement clinics, where 1,462 clients have had their cases expunged and 3,875 petitions have been filed, resulting in a total savings of $60,220 in legal fees for clients.
Volunteerism
Johns Hopkins employees and students engaged in more than 51,000 hours of community service estimated to have a $1.65 million economic impact in 2024. Several different programs help to coordinate those efforts, including Center for Social Concern, SOURCE, and the Urban Health Institute.
