Just in time for this weekend’s B-360 Day festivities, tangible support arrived in the form of congressionally directed spending for B-360’s founder Brittany Young — and, more importantly, youth in Baltimore City.
The Baltimore-based organization announced Friday that it secured $3 million of federal funds to expand its career training and related programming at what will be the nation’s first dirt bike campus. The funding came with the backing of Maryland’s U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin, who submitted a joint $2 million request to fund the campus alongside Sen. Van Hollen’s separate $1 million proposal to support B-360’s programming; both requests were part of a larger $80 million federal appropriation for the Baltimore area that Sen. Van Hollen, a member of the Senate’s Committee on Appropriations, announced in December.
Founded in 2017 by Young, a native of Baltimore’s Park Heights neighborhood, B-360 aims to provide a secure and permanent location for Baltimore’s youth to ride dirt bikes while also receiving STEAM-related education. In 2021, to support B-360’s efforts, Baltimore’s Mayor Brandon Scott designated March 25 as B-360 Day. Young and the organization’s participants and supporters will commemorate this new $3 million of congressionally directed funds with special events at the B&O Railroad Museum on Saturday and Sunday. (more on that below).
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