Local schools chosen for inaugural ENOUGH grant from Maryland Governor’s Office for Children

The City of Gaithersburg Community Services Division is one of nine local community partners that together were awarded a $300,000 Engaging Neighborhoods, Organizations, Unions, Governments, and Households (ENOUGH) grant from the Maryland Governor’s Office for Children. The innovative initiative funds a community-based strategy to address child poverty in Maryland.

Six high-need census tracts in central Gaithersburg and Montgomery Village will benefit from the ENOUGH grant, which supports a community-driven, cross-sector partnership to plan and advance place-based strategies that reduce child poverty and increase economic mobility. These tracts are served by five Montgomery County public schools, including Gaithersburg High School, South Lake Elementary School, Harriet R. Tubman Elementary School, Gaithersburg Elementary School, Summit Hall Elementary School and Gaithersburg Middle School.

In addition to the City of Gaithersburg Community Services Division, the other eight partners are

• Black and Brown Coalition for Educational Equity and Excellence
• 480 Club
• Gaithersburg Beloved Community Initiative
• Housing Initiative Partnership
• Identity, Inc.
• Montgomery County Public Schools
• Montgomery Coalition for Adult English Learning (technical support)
• University of Maryland School of Public Health (technical support)

The initiative is the first-of-its-kind to create poverty-fighting opportunities driven by communities' lived experience. ENOUGH will surge resources into neighborhoods that have been disproportionately impacted by systems and policies that limit wealth creation and economic mobility.

Training and technical support will also be provided to grant recipients, including an online learning hub with resources, a data dashboard to aid in identifying inequities, prioritizing local needs and making decisions from data, and hands-on coaching and technical assistance from local and national experts.

For more information about the project, visit: https://governor.maryland.gov/news/press/pages/governor-moore-announces-inaugural-enough-grant-awardees.aspx