MATTHEW HENSON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Selected by Mayor for kick-off community for 2016 Mayor’s Fall Cleanup
• Assisted with the acquisition of Handicap Parking Sign for Senior resident
• Recommended Award for Ernestine Shepherd by the Baltimore City Health Commissioner
• Hosted Breakfast Celebration of the 150th Birthday of Matthew Alexander Henson with the hanging of a 50th Great Facts about Matthew A. Henson along with a new poster.
• Received an award for AFRO Clean-Green Block Campaign
• Purchased, through an ARCO Grant, a sit-down Lawn Mower to cut the Adopt-A-Lot
• Acquired our 2nd Adopt A Lot – 1527-1557 N. McKean Avenue
• Supported Traffic Lights @ W. North Avenue @ Pulaski Street
• 2nd Annual Easterwood Cook-Out & Health Festival
• $30,000 for 5 neighboring schools from U.S. Department of Education
• Acquisition of 2nd Adopt A Lot – 1527-1557 N. McKean Avenue
• 1900 block of Baker Street included in Weekly mechanical street cleaning
• Supported traffic light at Pulaski Street & West North Avenue
• Acquisition of $3,000.00 Grant for After School & Community Uplifting Projects
• 2016 Cherry Blossom Bake Sale tremendous success
• MAHNA successful in postponing costly alley repairs to 1500 Bentalou Street Residents;
• Contributed close to $1,000.00 for MAH Elementary School Cheerleader Uniforms
• MAHNA convinces AFRO American Newspaper to bring AFRO CLEAN/GREEN BLOCK back;
• Mayor’s Commission to remove Lee/Jackson Statue through the leadership MAHNA;
• 2 Kwanzaa Celebratory Free Luncheon;
• Breakfast Salute to Senior Residents;
• 4 Free Visits to Orioles Baseball Games;
• 2 Free Billie Holiday Salutes;
• 2 Free ‘1963’ Historic Presentations;
• Acquisition of 501©(3) designation;
• 3 Days of Free Food during April 2015 Riot;
• 1st Annual Free Easterwood 2015 Cookout;
• Graduations Gifts to School Scholars;
• ALL WAY STOP SIGNS AROUND SCHOOL;
• MAHNA Information Pamphlet;
• Adopt-A-Lot @ Payson and Presstman;
• MAHNA Post Office Box;
• MAHNA Website www.mahna.co;
• 1 ½ hour National C-SPAN Program;
• Largest Number of Financial Businesses;
• Increase Fines for Liquor Sales to Children;
• Spoke-out and Testified on Heroin Epidemic;
• Opposed tax on plastic market bags;
• Opposed discriminatory curfew;
• Worked on double parking problem;
• Support for city issued trash cans;
• 22 How to Be A Good Neighbor Commandments;
• 2 Large Welcome to Community signs;
• Quarterly Roll-offs for trash and debris;
• Celebration of Cherry Blossom and Pre-Holiday Bake Sales;
• Supported historic designation of 1232 Druid Hill Avenue.
• Built Easterwood/Sandtown Park & Playground 1515-1557 N. Fulton
• Awarded 2 Grants from Care-A-Lot / BMORE BEAUTIFUL for both lots
• Obtained 3 Yellow School Lights on for Monroe Street & 2 on Baker Street
• 3rd Annual Kwanzaa Program
• 1st Anniversary of Park & Playground
• Hosted ‘Saving OUR Sons Symposium
• Received 3 financial grants from Governor Hogan for C.O.R.E.
• Co-sponsored naming of Harriett Tubman parked we led the move for the confederate statue removal

Dr. Marvin L. ‘Doc’ Cheatham, Sr. – President

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