The Abell Foundation

Achieving Long-term Objectives

The Abell Foundation makes multi-year commitments to develop initiatives based on in-depth research. The following programs, designed to satisfy unmet needs in problem areas facing Baltimore City's educational community, serve as pilots. Long-term funding for implementation and evaluation works to ensure that the initiatives' impact on programs are meaningfully positive, so that the programs can be confidently replicated and/or institutionalized.

Ingenuity Project

An ambitious effort to provide an accelerated math and science curriculum to eligible Baltimore City middle and high school students, with a symbolic goal of enabling students to compete in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search competition, now known as the Intel.

National Academic League

An academic competition designed to increase middle school achievement. The program seeks to improve students' perception of academic effort, preparation and achievement, and serves as an aid in improving student academic performance across the curriculum.

Baltimore City College Speech & Debate Program

An historic and long dormant Speech and Debate program revised by The Abell Foundation in 1997 to enable City College to build its reputation as the region's leading high school for forensic studies.