Baltimore Police Foundation, Under Armour & Baltimore Community Foundation Announce $300,000 to Benefit BPD
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(Baltimore, MD, 09/08/11) Today, the Baltimore Police Foundation, in conjunction with Under Armour and the Baltimore Community Foundation, announced a funding initiative to benefit the men and women of the Baltimore Police Department’s Southern District. The initiative was seeded by $300,000 in gifts from Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank and Police Foundation Chairmen A.B. “Buzzy” Krongard and Jack Luetkemeyer.
The donations, made to the Baltimore Police Foundation Fund of the Baltimore Community Foundation, will be used to purchase state-of-the-art equipment to assist in the fight against violent crime, including:
- 30 desktop computers to replace outdated equipment in the District.
- PocketCop service for the Southern District for one year. The PocketCop device enables wireless warrant, criminal history and motor vehicle database checks, allowing officers greater ability to walk foot posts.
- 9 Motorola Zoom Pads to allow supervisors to monitor the deployment of officers utilizing the GPS capability of the PocketCop Blackberry device.
- 4 FAST Machines that allow for mobile scanning of fingerprints to provide positive ID of those wanted on a warrant.
- 8 Police bicycles that will be used as an efficient, environmentally friendly conveyance for officers deployed in community patrols.
- District Gym Improvements UnderArmour will assist with state of the art gym improvements
- 20 tasers.
Krongard and Luetkemeyer expressed their hope that other business leaders would follow Kevin Plank’s example in supporting the Police Foundation. The Police Foundation Fund was created to accept private donations to support the Baltimore Police Department's efforts to make Baltimore a safer place to live, work and visit.
About the Baltimore Community Foundation
The Baltimore Police Foundation Fund is one of more than 600 philanthropic funds that comprise the Baltimore Community Foundation (BCF), which invites donors to Invest in Baltimore® by supporting BCF’s work to build a Baltimore region with opportunity and prosperity for all. BCF offers donors a complete toolkit for charitable giving, expert assistance in learning more about the causes they care about, and the opportunity to join others with similar interests to learn and give together.
The Baltimore Community Foundation distributed $22 million in 2010 to hundreds of nonprofit organizations in the Baltimore region and beyond. With assets of $158 million, BCF comprises more than 600 different charitable funds created by a diverse group of individuals, families and corporations.
In addition, two independent foundations, the William G. Baker Jr. Memorial Fund and the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Charitable Foundation, contract with BCF to provide grantmaking oversight.
More information about Invest in Baltimore, support for individual donors’ philanthropy and more can be found at www.bcf.org.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Hillary Reser
(410) 332-4172 ext 182
hreser@bcf.org
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