The Distinguished Young Women (DYW) Maryland At-Large is a FREE scholarship program located in Frederick, MD, and open to all high school girls in their junior year who reside in Maryland. The DYW MD At-Large is a local preliminary to the DYW of Maryland state program and the Distinguished Young Women of America National Programs.

Our mission is to inspire young women to develop their full, individual potential through a fun, transformative experience that culminates in a celebratory showcase of their accomplishments. Through free life skills workshops and in-kind tuition and cash scholarship awards, the Distinguished Young Women program strives to give every young woman the opportunity to further her education and prepare for a successful future. Your donation is supporting the cash scholarship awards for high school girls who participate in our program. Thank you for your generosity and support.

The purpose of this Fund is to honor the life of Douglas E. Metz. In memory of an amazing and generous man who cared deeply about education, the Douglas E. Metz Camp Thrive Foundation seeks to ensure that Carroll County, school-age children who have been potentially impacted by substance addiction have the opportunity to come together in a healthy, non-threatening environment to interact with counselors, law enforcement personnel, and similarly situated students in a fun, but structured environment that allows for healing–helping to provide a path for these students to move forward on a positive basis.

The purpose of the Drug Treatment Court Development Fund is to provide funding for the Drug Treatment Court for the Circuit Court for Carroll County (DTC); and more specifically, funding for goods and services that enhance the DTC and/or its ability to perform its mission, provided, that such requests shall only be for items which are not provided in the State budget for the DTC. Examples of items which enhance the DTC’s ability to perform its mission may include, but are not limited to: (a) requests which assist the DTC to reduce substance abuse dependency in the community and among the DTC participants and DTC graduates; and (b) requests which assist the DTC to provide social and support services in the community for participants that improve treatment outcomes and quality of life for DTC participants and DTC graduates, including but not limited to such programs that provides services for housing, vocational training, medical/dental services, education, family support services…; and (c) requests that assist the DTC to provide more effective court supervision/monitoring of participants’ behavior and recovery while in the DTC program.