Change is coming to west Baltimore, thanks to federal money announced Friday, by Maryland's U.S. senators. The funds will go toward improving conditions for kids.

The announcement was heard along Division Street, and it had to do with money, much-needed money, to help support programs geared toward the city's youths.

"We have long advocated for faith-based institutions because what we are doing has been successful, we just need more resources to duplicate and multiply the work that we are doing," Clergy United for the Transformation of Sandtown Winchester Rev. Derrick DeWitt said.

The largest check for $1 million went to the Beloved Community Services Corp, which is helping to restore the old public school 103, where the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall was once a student.

"Thurgood Marshall was a youth when he came to this school and if we want to demonstrate to the young people in the community throughout our city that now you start now preparing yourself for careers," Beloved Community Services Corp Rev. Alvin Hathaway said.

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