Baltimore City Youth
Opportunities Landscape 2023
Cataloging and Analyzing Programming Opportunities
Introduction
The Baltimore City Youth Opportunities Landscape is a public and collaborative effort facilitated by Baltimore’s Promise to compile, map, and analyze the opportunities available to young people ages 0-24.
To help program providers, policymakers, philanthropic funders, parents, youth, and the greater Baltimore City community learn more about the opportunities available to young people, we created an interactive dashboard below that allows anyone to create a personalized view of the city’s programming opportunities.
Youth opportunities are defined as programming for individuals in this age range that is distinct from—or designed to support or supplement—in-school instruction.
In addition to our dashboard, explore the above tabs to read the full Opportunities Landscape 2023 Findings, our Spotlight on Older Youth, and our Recommendations and Next Steps. Download a PDF version of this report here.
Baltimore City Youth Opportunities Landscape 2023 Dashboard
To help program providers, policymakers, philanthropic funders, parents, youth, and the greater Baltimore City community learn more about the opportunities available to young people, we created an interactive dashboard that allows anyone to create a personalized view of the city’s programming opportunities.
To learn more information about a particular program, visit the Interactive Dashboard button and click on any of the dots to learn the following information about a program site:
(Unavailable information is left blank.)
Contact Information (Website, Email, Phone Number)
Data Source
Organization Name
Program Name
Location
Ages Served
Primary Focus Area
All Focus Areas
Number of Opportunities
Program Capacity
More Information (Provided by the Data Source)
CSA Neighborhood (Program location)
If more than one program is held in a single location, click on the menu in the top right of the pop-up window to scroll through each program.
To filter results, click on the arrow on the left side of the dashboard. Filter selections will update both the map and the summary totals in the sidebar, which breaks down information into helpful categories, including number of programs, number of opportunities, and a breakdown of primary focus areas.
Key Findings
The 2,725 programs captured in Opportunities Landscape 2023 offered 124,115 youth opportunities and an early childcare capacity of 19,445 seats.
The report
identified 32% more programs than in the 2021 dataset, in part to more comprehensive data collection, including more information about programs and how they served young people.
There are 2.3 times the number of opportunities for elementary school-aged children than for older youth (ages 19-24). The gap in programming for older youth decreased from our last analysis, but still exists.
Programming for older youth is largely limited to the summer months. Specifically, 94% of program sites and 70% of opportunities identified for older youth occurred during the summer.
Academic Enrichment remained the primary focus with the greatest number of programs (19.9%) and opportunities available (53.9%) for young people, consistent with 2021 data.
Health and Wellness programs played a larger role than in the pre-pandemic dataset. Nearly five times the number of programs (270) and nearly eight times the number of opportunities (23,133) had this primary focus.
Neighborhoods with higher needs tend to have relatively more programs than neighborhoods with lower needs. However, there is no direct connection between the amount of need in a neighborhood and the number of programming opportunities.
Data & Methodology
For the Opportunities Landscape 2021 report, Baltimore's Promise collected program data from over a dozen sources, mostly from philanthropic and public institutions. Our final dataset contained 2,086 programs that served Baltimore City youth ages 0-24 from September 2018 to September 2019.
For Opportunities Landscape 2023, we sought information about programming opportunities that served Baltimore City youth ages 0-24 during 2022. We first reached back out to organizations that provided data from Opportunities Landscape 2021 and received updated data. Baltimore’s Promise then reached out to CLLCTIVLY and the National Center for Charitable Statistics from the Urban Institute, among others, to source additional program information.
After aggregating the collected data, Baltimore’s Promise hired two Community Outreach Representatives to contact programs to confirm programmatic information. Our team then spent several weeks cleaning and formatting data from different sources, including a robust check for duplicated programs.
Compared to 2021, Opportunities Landscape 2023 identified 32% more programs, with higher quality information about the programs captured. This makes this year’s report the largest and most comprehensive dataset of youth opportunities in Baltimore City.
Baltimore's Promise is grateful for receiving or sourcing data from the following institutions,
as well as hundreds of programs that directly provided data:
