Bridges Baltimore

Bridges is a rapidly expanding youth-development program that is committed to the long-term success of Baltimore City youth and to providing life-changing opportunities to independent school students. Our program currently serves 798 young people – 440 Baltimore City youth ages 9-23 and 358 independent school students – through our program sites at independent schools in the Baltimore region.

Bridges Baltimore is an independent 501c3 committed to sustaining and growing Bridges’ impact in Baltimore. It supports existing program locations, identifies and helps to launch new program locations, enhances the program model, raises funds for all of Bridges programs and activities, identifies candidates for staff openings, provides technical assistance to program locations, recruits students for program locations, and manages marketing and communications functions.

Bridges at The St. Paul’s Schools (est. 1993), Bridges at Gilman School (est. 2014), Bridges at The Bryn Mawr School (est. 2022), and Bridges At McDonogh (est. 2024) operate as programs of their respective school communities. The St. Paul’s Schools, Gilman School, The Bryn Mawr School, and McDonogh School are responsible for operations pertaining to their program locations, including facilities, technology, volunteer recruitment, and more. Bridges Baltimore runs searches to staff these program locations.