WBAL-TV 11 Featured HUM Graduate Anthony Blue for the Baltimore Running Festival

Anthony Blue is training for his first half-marathon on the streets he used to call home.

“I played all kinds of sports, but I never thought that running would make a person feel so good,” he said.

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The Baltimore Sun Featured HUM Graduate Anthony Blue for the Baltimore Running Festival

He sees them, on occasion, while jogging city streets — the vagrants, addicts and pushers who were part of Anthony Blue’s past.

From the shadows, they watch him, all cleaned up and going somewhere, with suspicion.

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Baltimore Ophthalmologist Begins Special Program to Encourage Charitable Donation

Starting today, Kameen Eye Associates, a premier eye care provider in the greater Baltimore area, launched the “Donate & Save Campaign.” Through the end of August, any person donating at least $50 to Helping Up Mission, in Baltimore City, will be eligible for $500 off of their bilateral LASIK procedure.

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Helping Up Mission awarded a grant from Johns Hopkins University Neighborhood Fund

Twenty-one local nonprofit organizations have received financial support from the Johns Hopkins Neighborhood Fund in the form of grants totaling nearly $263,000. Sixty-six agencies applied in February for funding, with requests totaling nearly $800,000 for projects that address the needs of communities around Johns Hopkins campuses in the areas of public safety, health, employment, education and community revitalization.

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Photos from our Graduation Banquet in the Examiner

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Helping Up Mission’s Graduation Banquet featured in the Examiner

On Sunday, April 22nd at 12:30 pm, Helping Up Mission (“HUM”) sponsored its annual graduation at Martin’s West, a premier banquet center, located in Baltimore. The 2012 “Legacy of Hope” themed-banquet celebrates the men who completed the 12-month spiritual recovery from substance abuse. Kris Sharrar, Development Director and 2007 graduate, along with Robert “Bob” Gehman, Executive Director emceed the program of over 1300 attendees. “Pastor Gary” Byers, also a senior manager and graduate of the community treatment classes, participated on yesterday with several of the graduates to re-tell stories of hope from despair.

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