Catalyst Directory

Baltimore Crisis Response, Inc. is a nonprofit comprehensive crisis care center helping individuals overcome mental health and substance use disorders in Baltimore, Maryland. BCRI is committed to individualized treatment that serves the needs of Baltimoreans while fostering community and inspiring hope and compassion for all. By pairing licensed social workers with police officers in a co-responder's model, BCRI is improving safety outcomes for both officers and civilians.

Be A Mentor partners closely with local schools to match children from low-income neighborhoods with an adult mentor who can help them achieve their full potential. Be A Mentor provides mentors with a variety of ways to engage and build true relationship with young people, helping the children increase their knowledge, abilities, and confidence. By rejecting the “high-risk” label so often placed on these young people, Be A Mentor firmly believes that these same children are in fact  “on the brink of success” and possess great potential.

BeGreat Together funds public school initiatives to support changemakers who are closest to the problems they are trying to solve. Recognizing that traditional capital sources often ignore Black and Latino leaders, BeGreat Together seeks them out and provides capital so they can continue transforming their communities.

Birch Community Services is a membership-based program that provides individualized financial education, weekly groceries, and nurturing accountability. They help families break the cycles of debt by addressing food insecurity and equipping them with financial education for long-term stability, all while building a community of support and encouragement.

Black Men Heal provides complimentary therapy sessions to Black and Brown men seeking mental health care. Minority men are especially susceptible to mental health conditions yet face a variety of barriers that prevent them from receiving needed care. Black Men Heal helps these individuals overcome these barriers, matches them with Black and Brown mental health clinicians, and encourages the men to openly share their mental health experiences with their peers. This serves to destigmatize the topic of mental health, paving the way for more men in the community to seek care and find their own healing.