The Society for Science and the Public has awarded STEM Action Grants to a pair of organizations in Baltimore. The Black Girls Dive Foundation received $5,000, while SAFE Alternative Foundation for Education received $2,500 through the program.

In all, the D.C.-based Society for Science and the Public awarded $75,000 through its STEM Action Grant Program. Including the $2,500 that went to Rockville-based inteGIRLS, Inc., $10,000 went to nonprofits in Maryland.

“What we’re trying to do is build a larger ecosystem of these social entrepreneurs and their organizations and be able to learn from one another,” said Maya Ajmera, President and CEO of the Society of Science and the Public.

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