TRUST 2013 GRANT AWARDS

In 2013, the Chesapeake Bay Trust awarded $5.3 million throughout the region through its

organizations, civic and community groups, schools and municipalities as well as direct management ofcompetitive certain initiatives grant programs including and the special Chesapeake initiatives. Conservation These efforts Corps included program. 322 In grants 2013, tothe nonprofit Trust’s efforts created 4,500 feet of living shoreline; engaged 25,000 community volunteers who donated 26,000 hours to clean up local neighborhoods; educated 60,000 students using the outdoors as a classroom; planted 90,000 native trees and plants; removed 25 tons of trash from area waterways; and restored 87 acres of forest buffer, wetlands, and other habitats.

The Chesapeake Bay Trust (www.cbtrust.org) The Chesapeake Bay Trust is supported by sales of the Treasure the is a nonprofit, grant-making organization Chesapeake license plate, donations to the Chesapeake Bay and Endangered Species dedicated to improving the Chesapeake Fund on the Maryland state income tax form, donations from individuals and Bay and its rivers through environmental corporations, and partnerships with private foundations and federal and state agencies. Ninety percent of the Trust’s expenditures are directed to its Chesapeake Bay restora- education, community 29 years. tion and education programs and for the 11th consecutive year, the Trust has received outreach, and local a “Four Star Rating” from Charity Navigator, placing the organization in the top 1% of watershed restoration. charities nationwide. $55 million

Allegany County West Side School Created by the in Grants. $3,373 Maryland General $39,163 For support of an outdoor field experience for Assembly in 1985, the Trust has awarded more students at the Swan Creek wetlands. than $55 million in grants and engaged Allegany County Public Schools hundreds of thousands of individuals in $877 For support of an outdoor field experience and projects and programs student led action project that planted 30 Anne Arundel County that are having a native species. $482,950 measurable impact on the Chesapeake Mountain Ridge High School Annapolis Maritime Museum Bay and its $4,923 $5,000 For costs associated with the water quality tributaries. For costs to provide an outdoor educational testing of Frostburg’s water sources by high school experience for second and third grade students from students. Georgetown East Elementary School. Learn more about University of Maryland Center for the Trust and its Annapolis Maritime Museum Environmental Science $28,000 programs at $29,990 For support of the sixth grade oyster education program www.cbtrust.org. For support for a schoolyard restoration program in partnership with Anne Arundel County Public Schools’ for first grade teachers and students in Allegany and Environmental Literacy Initiative. Garrett counties.

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Anne Arundel County Linstead Community Association Severn House Condominium Association (continued) $1,000 $500 For costs associated with an invasive species removal For costs associated with a native planting project and native planting in Severna Park along the Severn conducted by local community volunteers. Ben Oaks Civic Association River. $1,744 Severn Improvement Association For costs associated with the design and Linstead Community Association $1,000 installation of a living shoreline project in the Ben $1,000 For support of a planting project with 20 volunteers Oaks community. For costs associated with planting 1,600 native plants installing native plants and trees. and trees for a streamside buffer along the Severn Captain Avery Museum, Inc. River in Severna Park. Severna Park Baptist Church $1,000 $1,000 For costs associated with a community engagement London Town Foundation, Inc. For costs associated with planting 25 trees and 900 project that planted 250 native plants at the Captain $24,731 native plants to address a stormwater runoff Avery Museum. For costs associated with the installation of a green problem. roof at the London Town and Gardens. Chesapeake Bay Foundation Sherwood Forest Boys and Girls Club $21,570 London Town Property Owners’ Association $908 For support of environmental professional $50,000 For costs associated with 263 students constructing development in Anne Arundel County middle schools. For costs associated with removing 330 linear feet and installing oyster cages in the . of bulkhead and installing a living shoreline in the Emmanuel Lutheran School London Town community. Federation $348 $47,500 For costs associated with sending middle school Olde Severna Park Improvement Association, For costs to build and sustain organizational students to attend an outdoor field experience. Inc. capacity to support restoration missions throughout $312 the watershed. Empowering Believers Church For costs associated with an invasive species removal $500 project in Severna Park. South River Federation For costs for the congregation to plant native trees $57,425 and shrubs on church grounds. Riva Trace Council For costs associated with installing a 430 linear foot $1,000 living shoreline project at Camp Woodlands. Fairwinds of Annapolis Condominium Council of For support of a reforestation project that resulted in Unit Owners 50 native plants and trees planted in the community. South River Federation $25,000 $14,298 For costs associated with installing rain Saunders Point Community Association For the creation of a 282 linear foot living shoreline gardens and a bioswale at the Fairwinds of $11,820 on the South River. Annapolis condos to reduce runoff. For costs associated with planting native plants in a bio-retention cell in the median of the Saunders Point South River Federation High Point Improvement Association Community Association. $2,313 $869 For support of an erosion and stormwater control For costs associated with planting native trees and project at Camp Woodlands and the planting of 150 removing 10 pounds of trash at High Point Park. native plants.

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Anne Arundel County West/Rhode Riverkeeper, Inc. Baltimore Chesapeake Bay Outward Bound (continued) $27,500 Program For costs to build and sustain organizational $5,000 capacity to support restoration missions throughout For support of efforts to engage students in their South River Federation the watershed. environment through an outdoor field experience. $35,000 For costs associated with installing a stormwater West/Rhode Riverkeeper, Inc. Baltimore Community Foundation pond retrofit and restoration project to restore a $4,890 $5,000 tributary of Broad Creek. For the creation of an 80 linear foot living shoreline For support of the Clean Water Schools and Healthy project. Communities project to establish a program to clean South River Federation up local streams and neighborhoods. $4,973 West/Rhode Riverkeeper, Inc. For costs associated with installing a 300 square foot $35,000 Baltimore Community ToolBank demonstration rain garden. To support the creation of a stream restoration and $500 meadow project. For costs associated with installing recycled rain South River Federation barrels on the Baltimore Community ToolBank’s $932 West/Rhode Riverkeeper, Inc. grounds. For support of a water quality assessment project in $5,000 tidal and nontidal streams in the South River For support of the West/Rhode 2013 Report Card. Baltimore Curriculum Project Watershed. $3,370 West/Rhode Riverkeeper, Inc. For costs associated with sending students from the St. Andrews United Methodist Day School $11,476 Wolfe Street Academy on outdoor environmental $2,740 For costs associated with implementing a 125 linear experiences. For costs associated with sending students to foot living shoreline project on Bear Neck Creek. participate in an outdoor field experience. Baltimore Lab School $2,500 St. Anne’s School of Annapolis For costs associated with sending students to $307 Baltimore City participate in a series of outdoor field experiences. For costs to send fourth graders on an outdoor field $523,941 experience and to grow oysters in the classroom. Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts Archbishop Borders $15,000 The Summit School For materials needed for community volunteers to $374 $100 For costs associated with engaging students and install three rain gardens and plant 360 native plants For support of fourth and fifth grade students to at a local school. attend an outdoor field experience to release oysters community members in a native tree planting. and horseshoe crabs. Armistead Gardens Middle School #243 Baltimore Tree Trust $5,000 Watershed Stewards Academy $5,000 For costs associated with sending sixth grade For costs associated with students and volunteers to $25,920 plant 30 trees in the McElderry Park neighborhood. For costs associated to develop and pilot a program students to attend a NorthBay field experience as to foster leaf and trash removal from storm drains, well as complete a student-led stormdrain stenciling curbs and sidewalks. project.

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Baltimore City Civic Works, Inc. Irvine Nature Center (continued) $45,000 $5,000 For costs associated with the construction of a For support of a professional development course for bioswale at Real Food Farm to reduce runoff, teachers at the Irvine Nature Center. Blue Water Baltimore involving the planting of more than 1,000 native $50,000 plants. Johns Hopkins University For costs to build and sustain organizational $10,000 capacity to support restoration missions throughout Community of Curtis Bay Association For costs associated with a rain garden installation the watershed. $4,110 on the campus of Johns Hopkins University with 220 For costs associated with the installation of a rain native plants. Blue Water Baltimore garden by students from Curtis Bay Elementary and $35,000 Middle School. Living Classrooms Foundation For costs associated with supporting students and $5,000 volunteers to plant 80 trees in Baltimore City Comprehensive Housing Assistance, Inc. For support of a wetland planting of 780 native neighborhoods. $5,000 plants at the 7th Annual Masonville Cove For support of the installation of 50 storm drain Environmental Education Festival. Blue Water Baltimore plaques and the removal of 12,000 pounds of trash by $15,000 500 community volunteers. Muslim Social Services Agency For support of a community engagement program to $500 target and prevent pollution discharge in Baltimore Association For support of a community engagement project that City. $25,000 that planted native plants. For costs associated with installing a rain garden Blue Water Baltimore and planting over 200 native plants at the Cylburn National Aquarium in Baltimore $29,411 Arboretum. $991 For costs associated with implementing restoration For costs of supplies and native plants to restore a projects to reduce trash and stormwater pollution. Friendship Academy of Science and Technology rain and butterfly garden at Fort McHenry. $5,000 Blue Water Baltimore For support for students to participate in an outdoor National Aquarium in Baltimore $33,100 field experience. $8,357 For design support for the implementation of a green For costs associated with the development of a small stormwater infrastructure to reduce trash and runoff Historic East Baltimore Community Action watershed action plan focused on Masonville Cove. in the Library Square redevelopment. Coalition, Inc. $14,819 Neighborhood Design Center Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of For costs associated with students and volunteers $4,536 Embryology creating a small urban forest by planting 145 trees in For costs associated with a native planting and $22,104 the Ashland neighborhood of Baltimore City. community engagement project in Baltimore City. For support of the Your Watershed, Your Backyard Project with Baltimore City schools to engage sixth Independence School Local 1 Parks & People Foundation and seventh graders in outdoor field experiences. $8,110 $25,000 For the creation of a rain garden to be installed in For support of students and volunteers to plant 1,700 front of the Independence School. trees in eight Baltimore City neighborhoods.

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Baltimore City St. Mark School General John Stricker Middle School (continued) $2,497 $5,000 For costs associated with sending 100 students For support of a North Bay outdoor field experience to attend an outdoor field experience. for 100 sixth grade students. Parks & People Foundation $12,373 Stevenson University Gunpowder Valley Conservancy For support of an environmental education $10,000 $35,000 program engaging students in urban reforestation For support of a student-led trash reduction project For costs associated with implementing a behavior service learning projects. in the Watershed. change campaign targeting local citizens with green lawn care practices. Patterson Park Audubon Center $22,828 Halstead Academy For support of the Audubon Watershed Experience Baltimore County $3,275 with Baltimore City schools. $131,144 For costs for 67 fourth grade students to participate in an outdoor field experience. REACH! Partnership School Catonsville Elementary School $5,000 $833 Halstead Academy For costs associated with sending sixth grade For costs associated with a Living Classrooms $3,535 students to participate in an outdoor field Foundation outdoor field experience for 60 middle For costs for 118 third and fifth grade students to experience and to conduct student-led action projects. school students. participate in outdoor field experiences. Reservoir Hill Improvement Council Chesapeake Covenant Community Halstead Academy $24,420 $19,465 $4,737 For support to engage students and volunteers in a For costs to support community programs to engage For costs for almost 200 kindergarten, first grade, community tree stewardship program. the religious community in green practices for their and second grade students to participate in outdoor congregations. field experiences. Reservoir Hill Improvement Council $26,290 Cromwell Valley Elementary School Hereford High School For support of a tree planting and maintenance $500 $2,735 project to increase tree stewardship and tree canopy For costs associated with materials needed to remove For costs associated with planting project materials in Reservoir Hill. 50 pounds of trash from Cromwell Valley Elementary for high school students to participate in a wetland School. restoration project. St. Casimir Catholic School $2,575 Cromwell Valley Elementary School Hereford Middle School For costs for 250 students to participate in $5,000 $4,600 environmental education programs as well as For support to send 76 fifth grade students to attend For costs to send 340 eighth grade students on construct reef balls. an outdoor field experience and plant native plants. outdoor field experiences that removed 120 pounds of trash. St. Ignatius Loyola Academy Dundalk Renaissance Corporation $1,600 $4,456 Holabird Middle School For costs associated with sending seventh grade For costs associated with planting more than 150 $2,040 students to participate in an outdoor field native plants and trees throughout the Dundalk area. For costs associated with sending 60 middle school experience. students to attend an outdoor field experience. Chesapeake Bay Trust 5 2013 Grant Awards CHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST 2013 GRANT AWARDS

Baltimore County Prettyboy Watershed Alliance, Inc. Caroline County (continued) $3,600 For costs associated with a restoration project to $53,634 plant 400 trees in the Prettyboy watershed. Lutherville Laboratory for Science, Mathematics Caroline County Board of Education and Communications Prettyboy Watershed Alliance, Inc. $5,000 $1,427 $2,066 For an outdoor field experience for students and a For support of an outdoor field experience for 90 For support of a tree buffer planting on the Tracey student-led action project to plant 400 trees. third grade students and the construction and property in the Prettyboy watershed. installation of rain barrels on school grounds. Friends of Martinak State Park Rosedale Center for Alternative Studies $1,934 Lutherville Laboratory for Science, Mathematics $2,500 For supporting outdoor field experiences and student and Communications For support of a stream cleanup and forest buffer service learning projects with Caroline County $1,940 planting project done by 125 students. students at Tuckahoe and Martinak State Parks. For support of an outdoor field experience and rain garden student action project engaging 100 fifth Rosedale Center for Alternative Studies Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy, Inc. grade students. $5,000 $25,000 For costs associated with a tree planting project and For costs to build and sustain organizational Neighborhood Design Center waterway cleaning with 250 students. capacity to support restoration missions throughout $375 the watershed. For costs associated with planting native trees and Sudbrook Magnet Middle School plants to restore the Peace Garden in Forest Park. $8,373 Town of Greensboro For costs associated with impervious surface removal $21,700 Notre Dame Preparatory School and the planting of a native garden. For the creation of design plans for a streambank $1,250 restoration project in Greensboro, Md. For the planting of 30 trees on the campus of Notre Dame Preparatory School. Calvert County Carroll County Pleasant Plains Elementary School $22,580 $4,737 $53,985 For costs for 238 kindergarten, first grade, and Calvert County Public Schools second grade students to participate in outdoor field $4,700 Boy Scouts of America Venturing Crew 202 experiences. For support of outdoor field experiences for third $24,935 graders to learn about the impact of water quality on For costs associated with planting and Pleasant Plains Elementary School terrapins. maintaining 1,000 trees at Freedom Park. $4,120 For costs associated with sending 87 fourth grade Calverton School Chesapeake Bay Foundation students to participate in an outdoor field experience. $17,880 $25,000 For costs associated with creating an outdoor For costs associated with a stream restoration project Pleasant Plains Elementary School schoolyard habitat and to install permeable pavers at that planted 1,400 native plants and 600 trees. $4,580 Calverton Middle School. For costs for 153 third and fifth grade students to participate in outdoor field experiences. Chesapeake Bay Trust 6 2013 Grant Awards CHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST 2013 GRANT AWARDS

Freedom District Elementary School Town of Cecilton City of Cambridge $2,450 $19,392 $75,000 For costs associated with sending 100 students on an For costs associated with implementing rain gardens For costs associated with building a green environmental field experience. and rain barrels in the town of Cecilton. infrastructure demonstration site with native plants and trees. St. James Episcopal Church $1,600 Charles County Emmanuel Lutheran School For supply costs associated with installing 105 native $2,150 plants in a rain garden. $24,278 For costs associated with sending the sixth grade class on an outdoor field experience. Charles County Board of Education Cecil County $2,509 Nanticoke Watershed Alliance For support of an environmental action project $3,551 $262,344 involving high school students teaching fourth For costs to conduct water quality monitoring by the graders about their environment. Nanticoke Creekwatchers Citizen Water Monitoring Cecil County Program. $38,040 Conservancy For the creation of engineered designs of bioretention $10,000 Nanticoke Watershed Alliance cells at three schools across Cecil County. For costs to build and sustain organizational $25,000 capacity to support restoration missions throughout For costs to build and sustain organizational Loch Raven Technical Academy the watershed. capacity to support restoration missions throughout $5,000 the watershed. For support of an outdoor field experience for sixth Port Tobacco River Conservancy grade students, as well as a student-led native $11,769 Pickering Creek Audubon Center planting and trash removal project. For costs associated with installing a bioretention $5,000 cell to reduce runoff from a parking facility in Port For costs associated with a restoration planting North East Isles Community & Homeowners Tobacco. project at Blackwater Wildlife Nature Refuge with Association community volunteers. $98,912 For the planting of 3,050 native plants as part of a Dorchester County living shoreline. $146,523 Frederick County North East Isles Community & Homeowners $42,145 Association Chesapeake Bay Commission $100,000 $840 Friends of Baker Park, Inc. For the creation of a 4,800 linear foot living shoreline For costs associated with distributing educational $30,000 at North East Isles. materials on the Nanticoke watershed. For design costs associated with a stormwater management installation to improve the water Association City of Cambridge quality of Culler Lake. $1,000 $34,982 For costs for students to implement a rain garden at For the development and implementation of a Cecilton Elementary School. community greening project, resulting in the planting of new trees. Chesapeake Bay Trust 7 2013 Grant Awards CHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST 2013 GRANT AWARDS

Frederick County Western Maryland Resource Conservation & People Acting Together in Howard (continued) Development Council, Inc $15,000 $2,500 For support of a training program for young adults For costs associated with sending 48 students to to address stormwater runoff in congregations and Global Wildlife Trust at Catoctin attend a meaningful watershed experience. schools. Preserve & Zoo $3,826 Talbott Springs Elementary School For costs to plant 825 native plants and construct $1,036 three rain gardens at the Catoctin Wildlife Preserve Harford County For costs associated with sending 100 fourth grade & Zoo. $1,389 students to attend an outdoor field experience. New Midway/Woodsboro Elementary School North Harford High School Tanglewood Homeowners Association $4,500 $1,389 $12,425 For costs for 15 teachers to attend an environmental For costs associated with high school students to For the design of a future green stormwater education professional development experience. participate in a comparative water quality infrastructure in the Tanglewood community. monitoring investigation. Parkway Elementary School West Friendship Elementary $1,985 $570 For costs associated with 242 elementary school For supplies needed for 65 elementary school students planting more than 100 native plants and 30 Howard County students to conduct a trout raise and release project. trees in a schoolyard habitat. $72,791 Tuscarora High School Boy Scouts of America Troop 602 $1,814 $360 Kent County For costs associated with planting more than 700 For costs associated with planting more than 1,100 native plants and trees for the creation of an outdoor $101,875 native trees and plants along the . classroom. Association Bryant Woods Elementary School $47,500 $400 For costs to build and sustain organizational Garrett County For supplies to complete a stormdrain stenciling capacity to support restoration missions throughout project with the students, teachers and community of the watershed. $64,473 Bryant Woods Elementary. National Aquarium in Baltimore Canaan Valley Institute Dunloggin Middle School $600 $49,473 $3,000 For support of a reforestation project in Eastern Neck For costs associated with a stream restoration For costs associated with seventh graders planting National Wildlife Refuge that planted 3,600 trees. project on the . native trees and engaging in an outdoor education experience. Sassafras River Association Savage River Watershed Association, Inc. $3,775 $12,500 Harper’s Glen Townhouse Association To support a residential outreach and engagement For costs to build and sustain organizational $40,000 project targeting rain barrel installation and soil capacity to support restoration missions throughout For designs to stabilize and restore a local stream. testing. the watershed. Chesapeake Bay Trust 8 2013 Grant Awards CHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST 2013 GRANT AWARDS

Washington College Center for Environment & Grace Episcopal Day School Montgomery Parks Foundation Society $4,299 $10,000 $50,000 For costs associated with installing a 600 square foot For costs associated with a work program for youths For costs associated with the creation of a living rain garden on school grounds. work to reduce runoff from trail erosion. shoreline project at Washington College. Holy Cross School High School $900 $1,965 For costs for fourth grade students to attend an For costs associated with students to attend an Montgomery County outdoor field experience. outdoor field experience on Fox Island. $201,554 The Izaak Walton League of America Potomac Conservancy Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central $34,643 $50,000 Atlantic States, Inc. For costs to support a citizen behavior change For costs to build and sustain organizational $4,800 program to encourage green lawn care practices. capacity to support restoration missions throughout For support of the Green Kids Program that engages the watershed. 400 Title 1 students in Montgomery County. John Poole Middle School $3,884 Sherwood High School Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central For costs associated with sending middle school $1,905 Atlantic States, Inc. students to participate in two outdoor field For costs associated with students to participate in $28,465 experiences and build a rain garden. an outdoor field experience and wetland restoration For costs associated with support of the Green Kids project. Program in Montgomery County. Little Bennett Elementary School $1,670 St. Martin’s School Brown Station Elementary School For costs associated with sending fourth grade $549 $2,054 students on an outdoor field experience. For costs associated with sending fifth grade students For support of the Flag Ponds student field to attend an outdoor field experience. experience and restoration project for fourth grade Montgomery County Public Schools Outdoor students. Environmental Education Program Summit Hall Elementary School $4,320 $2,800 City of Gaithersburg For support of the Environmental Literacy For costs associated with a water quality monitoring $35,000 Development Plan in Montgomery County. project for fourth grade students. For costs associated with the development of the sub-watershed plan. Montgomery County Public Schools Outdoor Westbrook Elementary School Environmental Education Program $5,000 Conservation Montgomery $974 For costs associated with sending fourth grade $5,000 For costs associated with professional development students to attend multiple outdoor field experiences. For costs associated with a community tree planting training for teachers in Montgomery County. project in the Piney Branch watershed of Westbrook Elementary School Montgomery County. Montgomery Parks Foundation $2,835 $491 For costs associated with sending 425 students to For costs associated with the Fall Sweep the Creek attend multiple field experiences as well as conduct cleanup that engaged 270 volunteers. multiple student action projects.

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Prince George’s County The Low Impact Development Center, Inc. Kennard Elementary $35,000 $3,025 $245,900 For design plans to transform Arapahoe Street in For program costs associated with third grade Forest Heights into a Green Street. students to attend a field trip on the Schooner Alice Ferguson Foundation Sultana. $26,280 The Low Impact Development Center, Inc. For support of a litter prevention project in Forest $35,000 Stevensville Middle School Heights that engaged 150 community volunteers. For the development of a plan for the Bladensburg $5,000 Town Library to be turned into a green infrastructure For support for students to attend an outdoor field Alice Ferguson Foundation demonstration site. experience and participate in a wetlands planting. $29,500 For support of the expansion of the Bridging the New Hope Educational Institute Watershed Program to three new schools in $18,000 Maryland. For design support for a future stormwater reduction St. Mary’s County project conducted by the University of Maryland’s $50,000 Anacostia Watershed Society landscape architecture program. $6,120 St. Mary’s River Watershed Association For support of a stream restoration project along Prince George’s County $25,000 the Northwest Branch of the that $35,000 For costs associated with implementing a engaged 100 volunteers in planting 500 trees. For costs associated with researching and creating three-dimensional oyster reef habitat in the St. Mary’s information on implementing stormwater reduction. river. Anacostia Watershed Society St. Mary’s River Watershed Association $4,500 William S. Schmidt Center $25,000 For costs associated with sending 200 students to $1,500 For costs to build and sustain organizational participate in an outdoor environmental education For costs associated with a streambank stabilization capacity to support restoration missions throughout field experience. project that planted 60 native plants and trees. the watershed. Anacostia Watershed Society $5,000 For support of the Stream Stewards program Queen Anne’s County Talbot County engaging students in Prince George’s County elementary schools about their environment. $83,018 $152,296

Anacostia Watershed Society Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy, Inc. Chesapeake Wildlife Heritage $15,000 $34,993 $24,700 For support of the development and implementation For the creation of a watershed assessment of the For costs associated with the construction of a of the Anacostia River Subsistence Angling awareness to identify opportunities to reduce wetland and buffer, resulting in almost 1,000 native project. pollution. plants and trees planted at Pickering Creek.

City of Bowie Town of Centreville Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy, Inc. $35,000 $40,000 $4,524 For support of a citizen engagement project that For costs associated with the removal of a dam on the For costs associated with conducting a groundwater resulted in the planting of over 1,200 trees. Corsica River. monitoring study to observe effects from conservation practices. Chesapeake Bay Trust 10 2013 Grant Awards CHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST 2013 GRANT AWARDS

Talbot County Talbot County Department of Public Works Wicomico County (continued) $54,000 For costs associated with the installation of a 219 $66,857 linear foot living shoreline at Kingston Public Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy, Inc. Landing. Nanticoke Watershed Alliance $5,000 $27,119 For costs associated with the production of the For support of an environmental education program Midshore Riverkeeper State of the River Report Card. working with Wicomico and Dorchester County Washington County schools. Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy, Inc. $95,806 $3,000 Salisbury University For costs associated with sending 275 local students Watershed Alliance $4,738 to the Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy’s Wild and For support of lab analysis for water samples as part Scenic Film Festival. $4,826 For costs associated with the stabilization of a stream of the Wicomico Creek Watchers Program.

Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy, Inc. on a tributary of Antietam Creek using 115 native plants. Wicomico Environmental Trust $25,000 $35,000 For costs associated with the design for a living City of Hagerstown - Department of Parks & For costs associated with the design and creation of shoreline to help stabilize and reduce erosion at Hog the North Prong sub-watershed plan. Island. Engineering $30,000 Phillips Wharf Environmental Center For the planning and coordination of planting 200 $2,930 trees with students and volunteers in Hagerstown’s Worcester County For costs associated with planting 600 native plants urban core. in a buffer garden. $62,700 Highland View Academy Phillips Wharf Environmental Center $2,960 The Nature Conservancy $2,147 For support of four field experiences and a schoolyard $25,000 For supplies needed to install a rain garden at Phillips gardening project for 120 students to plant native For costs associated with planting 700 trees to help Wharf Environmental Center. plants and trees. restore an Atlantic White Cedar habitat within the Watershed. Phillips Wharf Environmental Center Potomac Valley Audubon Society $1,000 $26,759 Pocomoke Middle School For costs associated with implementing a rain garden For support of an elementary school watershed $1,403 at Phillips Wharf Environmental Center. education program engaging students in Washington For support of an outdoor field experience for middle County. school students. Pickering Creek Audubon Center $29,995 Trout Unlimited Worcester County Public Schools For support of meaningful watershed experiences for $31,261 $36,297 high school teachers and students in Talbot County. For support of a restoration project along For support to develop an Environmental Literacy 1,900 linear feet of Beaver Creek. Program in Worcester County elementary schools.

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James River Association Potomac Riverkeeper $45,000 $5,000 For costs to build and sustain organizational For support of the Potomac Riverwatcher Volunteer capacity to support restoration missions throughout Program to educate and train Maryland residents the watershed. about their local watersheds.

Maryland Association for Environmental and Rock Creek Conservancy Outdoor Education $25,000 Statewide $5,000 For costs to build and sustain organizational $290,228 For costs associated with conducting professional capacity to support restoration missions throughout development workshops for environmental educators the watershed. Alice Ferguson Foundation working with students throughout Maryland. $3,039 University of Maryland For support of efforts to engage teachers focused on Maryland Association for Environmental and $15,000 reducing energy use in schools. Outdoor Education For support of an awareness project to educate horse $5,000 farm operators in Maryland about best management Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, Inc. For support of the Expanding the Green Leaders practices. $4,950 Network project to recruit, train and support green For support of the 2012 Chesapeake Watershed leaders throughout Maryland. University of Maryland Center for Forum. Environmental Science Maryland Association for Environmental and $29,725 Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, Inc. Outdoor Education For support of the development of an adaptive survey $490 $4,916 tool to measure behavior change within specific For costs associated with a community engagement For costs associated with conducting environmental target audiences. project to plant 30 trees. educator workshops. University of Maryland Center for Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, Inc. Maryland Water Monitoring Council Environmental Science $5,000 $1,500 $14,993 For costs associated with removing trash and For support of the Maryland Water Monitoring For support of a program to engage citizens in the engaging 5,000 volunteers during Maryland’s Project Council Conference. restoration of the American chestnut. Stream Clean Program. Maryland Department of Natural Resources - West/Rhode Riverkeeper, Inc. Chesapeake Bay Foundation Wildlife and Heritage Service $4,500 $100,000 $5,000 For the development of a best practices report card For support of the creation of the Maryland For support of professional development workshops and technical assistance for watershed organizations. Environmental Literacy Partnership to train and the development of educational toolkits targeting teachers on how to meet the new Maryland Maryland Head Start and Title I school educators. environmental literacy requirement. Nature Abounds EarthReports, Inc. $15,000 $1,115 For costs associated with supporting the Maryland For costs associated with the Annual Patuxent River Senior Environment Corps. Clean Up to remove 350 pounds of trash. Chesapeake Bay Trust 12 2013 Grant Awards CHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST 2013 GRANT AWARDS

Delaware National Audubon Society, Inc. Susquehanna Greenway Partnership $5,000 $20,000 $20,000 For 150 teachers to participate in a series of teacher For costs to build and sustain organizational professional development workshops. capacity to support restoration missions throughout Delaware Nature Society the watershed. $20,000 Pennsylvania Association of Environmental For costs to build and sustain organizational Educators Trout Unlimited capacity to support restoration missions throughout $5,000 $20,000 the watershed. For support of the launch of an environmental For costs to build and sustain organizational educator certification program in Pennsylvania. capacity to support restoration missions throughout the watershed. Pennsylvania Association of Environmental Pennsylvania Educators $130,100 $5,000 For support of a workshop for school Virginia Borough of Northumberland administrators in Pennsylvania demonstrating the $572,352 $30,000 opportunity to integrate environmental education For the creation and design of future green with science, reading, and math initiatives. Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, Inc. infrastructure plans to address stormwater issues in $95,000 Northumberland. Pittsburgh Regional Center for Science For costs associated with the design and construction Teachers of the greening of Richmond through the “Greening Chester Upland School District $4,900 Virginia’s Capitol” project. $2,800 For costs associated with conducting a professional For support of a schoolyard habitat project and development program for administrators and Chesapeake Experience wetland field experience for 200 students. educators in Beaver County. $4,984 Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education For costs associated with providing environmental Keystone College $2,700 professional development courses for teachers. $5,000 For a professional development training on green For support of the Keystone College Environmental schools that engaged 200 teachers. City of Hampton, Department of Public Works Education Institute K-12 professional development $57,175 courses. Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center For costs associated with the installation of a 250 $4,700 linear foot living shoreline along Water Street in Lincoln Intermediate Unit No. 12 For support of a professional development training Hampton. $5,000 for 24 school administrators focused on using the For support of a program to provide ESL and migrant school and the environment as a context for learning. City of Norfolk students with environmental education experiences $74,591 centered around college and career readiness on Stewards of the Lower Susquehanna For costs associated with the installation of 415 Messiah College campus. $20,000 linear foot living shoreline, resulting in almost 8,000 For costs to build and sustain organizational native plants planted. capacity to support restoration missions throughout the watershed.

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Virginia Friends of the Rappahannock Rivanna Conservation Society (continued) $45,000 $5,000 For costs to build and sustain organizational For training and technical assistance for teachers and capacity to support restoration missions throughout students to develop a network of schools monitoring City of Suffolk, Department of Parks & the watershed. water quality in the upper James River watershed. Recreation $39,975 Jacob’s Ladder, Inc Rivanna Conservation Society For the installation of a 300 linear foot living $3,465 $10,000 shoreline at Sleepy Hole Park. For costs associated with sending eighth grade For costs to build and sustain organizational students to study the watershed and conduct water capacity to support restoration missions throughout County of York Virginia quality testing on the upper James River. the watershed. $2,005 For materials and implementation costs to install a Longwood University (Clean Virginia wetland project at Dare Elementary School. Waterways) Washington, D.C. $3,720 Eastern Shore Resource Conservation & For the development and implementation of a Development Council $161,294 curriculum to enhance student participation in $88,259 Virginia waterway cleanups. Anacostia Watershed Society For costs associated with installing 905 linear feet of $4,000 living shoreline at Camp Occohannock. Mathews County Public Schools For costs associated with sending 205 fourth grade $5,000 students on an outdoor field experience on the The Elizabeth River Project For costs associated with students conducting an Anacostia River. $45,000 issue investigation of rooftop stormwater runoff and For costs to build and sustain organizational to attend an environmental education conference. Capital City Public Charter School capacity to support restoration missions throughout $2,000 the watershed. Mecklenburg County Public Schools For costs associated with sending seventh graders on $2,589 an outdoor environmental field experience. Friends of the North Fork Shenandoah River For support of a water quality testing program for $4,960 middle school students. Capital City Public Charter School For costs associated with a teacher professional $4,400 development workshop supporting environmental NatureBridge For support of student outdoor field experiences and education teaching skills. $5,000 restoration projects involving 154 students. For support of teacher professional development Friends of the North Fork Shenandoah River workshops for middle-school science teachers in Capitol Hill Cluster School Parent Teacher $28,000 Virginia. Association For costs to build organizational capacity to support $3,770 restoration missions throughout the watershed. Potomac Riverkeeper For support of an outdoor student field experience $50,000 and a green roof tile action project with students Friends of the Rappahannock For costs to build and sustain organizational planting 400 native plants. $2,629 capacity to support restoration missions throughout For funds to administer professional development the watershed. workshops for teachers focused on incorporating environmental education into Richmond classrooms. Chesapeake Bay Trust 14 2013 Grant Awards CHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST 2013 GRANT AWARDS

Washington, D.C. United Planning Organization West Virginia Department of Education (continued) $2,658 $5,000 For students to participate in an outdoor field For support of teacher training and technical experience and conduct a water quality monitoring assistance to develop programs for the West Virginia Community Academy Public Charter School, study. Sustainable Schools and U.S. Green Ribbon Schools Butler Global School Program. $2,350 Wilderness Leadership & Learning, Inc. For costs associated with sending first grade students $5,000 West Virginia Rivers Coalition on outdoor field experiences with the Anacostia For costs associated with sending 32 ninth to eleventh $23,000 Watershed Society. grade students to attend an outdoor field experience. For costs to build and sustain organizational capacity to support restoration missions throughout District Department of the Environment the watershed. $95,000 For costs associated with building green West Virginia infrastructure on the newly reopened O Street. $47,989 District of Columbia Environmental Education Consortium Cacapon Institute $4,500 $5,000 For support of a environmental education program For the development of West Virginia’s for students, teachers, and environmental education environmental literacy standards in partnership providers. with the West Virginia Department of Education.

Earth Force, Inc. Friends of Deckers Creek $4,400 $5,000 For support of the Anacostia Youth Environmental For support of the enhancement of an outdoor Summit. learning park and professional development workshops for educators. Ephraim Kimball Elementary School $3,780 Potomac Valley Audubon Society Chesapeake Bay Trust $4,989 For costs associated with sending students on 60 West Street, Suite 405 environmental education field experiences. For costs associated with a watershed professional development training for 45 teachers. Annapolis, MD 21403 Groundwork Anacostia PH: 410-974-2941 $4,999 Tucker County Schools For support of four community-based environmental $5,000 education workshops. For support to develop a sustainability team based on the West Virginia Sustainable Schools and U.S. Green Janney Elementary School Ribbon Schools programs. $5,000 For support of 80 students to participate in an outdoor field experience at the Echo Hill Outdoor School. Chesapeake Bay Trust 15 2013 Grant Awards