Clean Community Challenge
 The Clean Corps team with three winners of the Summer 2025 Clean Corps Clean Community Challenge!!
Clean Corps provided financial and logistical support to community leaders across Baltimore City to carry out 27 block-level cleaning and beautification projects during the summer of 2025.
Drawing inspiration from the AFRO Clean Block competitions of the past, this program supported resident efforts to make their neighborhoods more healthy, vibrant and beautiful. Three winners were chosen for transforming their blocks. From cleaning the block and supplying free food, to turning vacant lots into inviting places for leisure, these winners demonstrated deep commitment to improving their community.
Check out the AFRO’s article on the Clean Community Challenge, read it here!
Clean Corps and Workforce Development
Community Skills and Equipment Training
 The fall resource fair in action!
Clean Corps’ Pathways to Success program provides each team member with wraparound career support—including CDL and equipment training, GED preparation, soft skills, and financial literacy.
Each fall, the Department of Planning and the Mayor’s Office of Employment Development (MOED) host career re-engagement sessions to connect workers with services such as legal aid, healthcare, child support assistance, and job readiness coaching.
In 2024, 22 Clean Corps members gained employment or returned to school. The Fall 2025 Resource Fair hosted 91 participants and registered 76 workers on the Maryland Workforce Exchange. Partners included Civic Works, Bon Secours, and Frontline Management, with vendors like Cash Campaign, MOED Trades and Apprenticeships, Total Healthcare, ROCA, and the Baltimore FEC.
Up next: Expungement Workshop on December 22, 2025, followed by a Career Fair in January 2026.
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Culture of Clean Challenge!!
Enter for your chance to win $500!!
 Follow the steps below to enter for a chance to win $500!!!
1) Follow us on Instagram @cleancorpsbaltimore
2) Create a reel (60 seconds or less) in your Baltimore neighborhood encouraging Baltimore residents to keep their neighborhoods clean
3) State "Our Streets, Our Neighborhoods, Our Baltimore" in your reel
4) Tag us and use the hashtag #cleancorpsworks, along with your neighborhood name (Example: #mountclare #darleypark)
5) Enter by December 31st
Winner will be announced January 2026! Join Mayor Scott's Culture of Clean!!
Clean Corps’ Service Dashboard Gets an Update!
 Clean Corps new public service dashboard.
The Clean Corps Service Dashboard provides transparency and accountability for services provided across Clean Corps’ 42 neighborhoods. The dashboard allows all of Baltimore City’s residents to follow the progress of the Clean Corps crews over time, including before and after photos of work completed by the Clean Corps crews as they clean and mow vacant lots, clean alleys, and empty public trashcans on a daily basis to create a cleaner Baltimore.
Visit the dashboard here: Clean Corps Dashboard
 Before and after photos of a lot mowed by Clean Corps teams.
Proactive Vacant Lot Maintenance
 Clean Corps vacant lot maintenance tool.
Baltimore City manages thousands of publicly owned vacant lots. In addition to resident 311 calls, a proactive, geographically targeted cleaning and mowing strategy can ensure regular care, reduce 311 calls, and improve safety and appearance. Clean Corps delivers nearly 7,000 proactive vacant lot services (cleaning and mowing) each year plus alley, street, and tree pit maintenance, as part of a ‘whole block’ strategy. Since launching in March 2023, Clean Corps has completed nearly 13,000 proactive vacant lot services.
To support the Charm City Cleanup Initiative and Clean Corps’ vacant lot maintenance delivery, Clean Corps partnered with Verbosity to develop the Vacant Lot Maintenance Dashboard, a unified data-driven internal platform to target proactive vacant lot priorities efficiently.
Keeping Communities Clean!
 Clean Corps teams mowing a vacant lot.
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Preventative Strategy (2025): Clean Corps launched a new approach to reduce chronic litter and dumping from four main sources — household trash, evictions, construction sites, and small haulers.
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Neighborhood Pilot: In six target areas, crews shared flyers and educational material to help residents with trash bins, disposal tips, and coordinated cleanups.
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Pitch-In Days: Clean Corps provided dumpsters and pickups for neighborhood cleanups, removing over 40 tons of waste from Baltimore’s streets and alleys.
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Block Captain Boost: $2,000 mini-grants support resident leaders who maintain shared spaces and lead community cleaning projects.
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Equipment Training: A new program will train residents to safely use mowers, trimmers, and blowers—building skills to keep lots and parks clean year-round.
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Community Impact: Together, these efforts invest in people, prevention, and pride—keeping Baltimore’s neighborhoods clean and cared for.
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