Since then, he established a scholarship program in 1994 that offers 1,400 scholarships to faith-based schools across the country and an afterschool program in 2000 that operates at 40 county schools and has helped fund hundreds of nonprofit organizations, including the Montgomery County Housing Partnership and IMPACT Silver Spring. Perhaps Commonweal’s finest achievement began in 1988, when the organization sponsored 67 sixth-graders at Kramer Junior High School in Washington, D.C., one of the poorest in the city. The assistance enabled 80 percent of them to graduate from high school and 38 to attend college.
“The kids would have the TV on studying in one room and their mothers, some of whom were prostitutes, were working in the other room,” Bainum said. “That kind of situation is what we were fighting.”

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