Community Partner: Central Baltimore Partnership
Intern: Dorothy Chen
Site Supervisor: Ashley Wallace
What is Central Baltimore Partnership?.
Central Baltimore Partnership's mission is to galvanize the renaissance of Central Baltimore by partnering with
neighborhood organizations, nonprofits, educational institutions,business and government agencies
My summer internship at Central Baltimore Partnership has blessed me with the unique opportunity to gain
exposure to the administrative, back end process to community organizing and nonprofit management.
Through working with CBP representatives to implement the first phase of the Equitable Development
initiative, I have had the extraordinary privilege of being able to interact with representatives from anchor
institutions, developers, and community associations alike. Coming into this internship, I was unaware of the
sheer amount of diplomacy and compromise that this type of work requires, and am grateful to have had
exposure to one of the essential aspects of operating a nonprofit organization. During my time here, I was
responsible for working with the Projects and Program Services Coordinator on designing and coordinating a
Resident Satisfaction Survey, in which we aimed to gauge the quality of life in 6 residential neighborhoods:
Harwood, Old Goucher, Barclay, Charles North, Remington, and Greenmount West. Not only has this
experience expanded my personal map of Baltimore, but it has also given me a newfound appreciation for
the neighborhoods directly bordering the Homewood campus. I am excited to be a part of the dialogue
surrounding equitable development and affordable housing, and am eager to see how the neighborhoods
will change during the rest of my time at Johns Hopkins University.
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Tasks:
Clean neighborhood parcel data from the Baltimore City Department of Planning and organize into sub‐neighborhoods to create walk
routes for surveyors
Work with the Projects and Program Services Coordinator to design the structure of a resident satisfaction survey, to be administered
to 718 households in the neighborhoods of Harwood, Greenmount West, Barclay, Old Goucher, Charles North, and Remington
Develop unique language to describe the resident survey process (to be used in all communications and in future publications) and
develop unique training process for participants
Create original promotional material and work with the Marketing Coordinator to publicize the CBP’s July Partner Meeting
Solicit local businesses on Waverly Main Street, Old Goucher, Charles North, and Barclay for raffle prizes to provide incentives to
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residents who complete the residential survey