With a row of vacant homes as a backdrop, Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels joined Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh and corporate sponsors in unveiling the Central Baltimore Future Fund, a $10 million loan initiative to help finance neighborhood revitalization projects in a group of Baltimore City neighborhoods where traditional funding may be hard to come by.

"This fund speaks about the future, and it is this idea of the future we are building together that is so important to us at Hopkins," Daniels said. "It is a privilege, it is an opportunity for Hopkins to be a part of the collectivity here. We feel deeply committed to this community and to its possibilities, and the fact that we're all together rowing in the same direction—making things like this happen—is really spectacular."

The multi-million dollar lending effort is an extension of the Homewood Community Partners Initiative, a community-driven strategy launched in 2012 by Johns Hopkins University to enhance and strengthen 10 neighborhoods in the center of the city: Abell, Barclay, Charles North, Charles Village, Greenmount West, Harwood, Oakenshawe, Remington, and Wyman Park.

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