2015-2016 ANNUAL REPORT The Chesapeake Bay Trust is a nonprofit, grant-making Letter from the Executive Director organization dedicated to improving the streams, rivers, and other natural resources of the Chesapeake region through e are proud to bring you our Annual Report that captures the environmental education, community outreach, and local watershed restoration. Since Chesapeake Bay Trust’s 2016 grant-making efforts. Preparing our 1985, the Trust has awarded more than $80 million in grants and projects that engage WAnnual Report is a fun and rewarding time for the Trust allowing us to reflect back on our body of work from the past year. What have we hundreds of thousands of dedicated individuals in efforts who are making a difference accomplished as a grant-making organization, how does it match up to for all of our local systems — Chesapeake, Coastal Bays, and Youghiogheny. previous years’ accomplishments, and how have we advanced our vision of clean and safe natural resources that all of the residents in our region can use and in which they can all be engaged?

Our grantees and Chesapeake Conservation Corps members have accomplished so much this year, and we are grateful to have helped them do so. With $9.5 million dispersed to schools, non-profit organizations, local governments, and others through close to 450 grants Accountability and Transparency; and projects, we have reached more students and volunteers, engaged more individuals as Our attendees of our grantees’ various programs, restored almost twice as many acres of stream Grantee Focus; Inclusiveness; buffer and wetland habitat, and doubled the amount of impervious surface treated through Collaboration; Innovation Core rain gardens and bioretention projects than we did in the previous year. Values For the Trust team, gratefulness is truly a term that pervades our thoughts this time of year. We have the best jobs: we get to provide funds to teachers, community leaders, restoration managers, and others to do amazing projects that will educate our residents and improve our Chesapeake Bay Trust Staff streams, our parks, our urban trees, our forests, and ultimately the Bay. Jana Davis, Ph.D. WE ARE GRATEFUL THAT we are in a position to help people realize their dreams of creating Executive Director amenities in their communities: a new green space, an urban garden, a nature play space, a Heather Adams living shoreline, a “flower factory” on a vacant lot that will create green jobs. Operations Manager Tara Baker WE ARE GRATEFUL THAT we are able to come to work every day and help restore and protect Program Specialist our natural resources: stream buffers, filtered water, wildflower habitat and pollinator gardens. –Youth Programs Bre’Anna Brooks WE ARE GRATEFUL THAT so many people believe in this effort and in what our grantees do: Program Associate by donating, by volunteering, by showing Bay pride as one of the 400,000 Bay plate owners. Fiscal Year 2016 Chesapeake Bay Trust Board of Trustees Sadie Drescher CHAIR OF THE BOARD Dr. Tom Miller Joseph Farren Director of Restoration WE ARE GRATEFUL TO the legislature for seeing the need for a foundation like the Trust that Terence Smith Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Powell Tate Programs can distribute money to the most distant reaches of our watersheds. PBS NewsHour University of Maryland Center Gary Jobson Millicent Goodger for Environmental Science VICE CHAIR Jobson Sailing, Inc. Accounting Consultant WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR the 25 partners who see this value too, and as a result invest their Stuart A. Clarke The Honorable Adam Ortiz resources in combination with the Bay Plate and Tax Checkoff funds to support the boots The Honorable Todd Morgan Marthe Harris Town Creek Foundation Prince George’s County Dept. St. Mary’s County Board on-the-ground work of our grantees. of Environment Director of Accounting TREASURER of Commissioners and Finance Benjamin S. Wechsler Tara Potter Bryan Offutt I am personally incredibly grateful for the Trust team. We have an incredible, dedicated, talented Linowes and Blocher LLP AnchoringPoint LLC Abbi Huntzinger Under Armour Senior Program Officer staff whom I hope you all can take the time to get to know, and an absolutely fantastic and SECRETARY John Quinn Daniel Stroup supportive board. Virginia Kearney BGE Zack Kelleher Cartridge Plus Administrative Assistant Maryland Department of The Honorable Shane Robinson Most importantly, we are grateful to our grantees for doing the hard work you see highlighted the Environment Maryland House of Delegates Trustees Council Jennifer Kley in the following pages. We really believe here at the Trust that we are turning a corner The Honorable John Astle The Honorable Harry R. Hughes Communications and in watershed restoration, and the improvements we have started to see will The Rev. Canon Angela Shepherd Development Coordinator Maryland State Senate The Episcopal Diocese of Maryland The Honorable Virginia Clagett persist and become part of a new upward trend. Hannah Martin Matt Fleming Scot T. Spencer The Honorable Russ Brinsfield Maryland Department Program Coordinator Thank you for being a part of the Trust’s work and helping to make this happen. The Annie E. Casey Foundation Paul Allen of Natural Resources Jeffrey Popp Warren Hamel, Esq. Trustees Emeritus Peter Byrnes Senior Program Officer Venable, LLP The Honorable Harry R. Hughes Fran Flanigan Emily Stransky F. Carter Heim Martin Poretsky John Griffin Program Officer HeimLantz, P.C. Bob Hoyt Kelly Swartout Jana Davis, Ph.D. Louise Lawrence Incoming Trustees Midgett Parker Director of Development Executive Director Maryland Department John Anna Martin Poretsky and Marketing of Agriculture Adirondack Tree Services, Inc. Melanie Teems Kacey Wetzel Steve Linhard Dr. Erica Anthony Director of Outreach and Chesapeake Medical Imaging Morgan State University Education Programs Plants 2016 Chesapeake Bay Trust Grantee Accomplishments Workshops

Engaged 393,115 people

Shorelines in 1773 workshops Planted 200,714 native trees and plants Created 3,802 linear feet of living shoreline

Created 7 acres of rain gardens, removed 1.7 acres of impervious surface, distributed 388 rain barrels, and stenciled 550 storm drains Teachers

Helped 4,379 teachers educate students about their watersheds Students

Engaged 88,403 students in outdoor learning experiences Habitat Trash Volunteers

Restored 155 acres of streamside Stormwater buffers and precious wetlands Engaged volunteers who donated Removed tons of trash and debris 27,669 380,122 211 hours in planting, clean-up, and other efforts and 24 acres of invasive species from area streams and communities

cbtrust.org 2 ANNUAL REPORT 2015 – 2016 cbtrust.org 3 ANNUAL REPORT 2015 – 2016 Grants and Projects Funded through the Trust in Fiscal Year 2016 2016 GRANT PROGRAMS Friends of Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary, South River Federation, $5,000 for costs Christian Temple, $25,000 for rain $2,500 for a project to fight the invasive to test a new stormwater treatment gardens, tree planting, and conservation emerald ash borer and protect Jug Bay’s technique: "micro-BMP" landscaping ash trees South River Federation, $4,000 to engage Cromwell Valley Elementary School, Friends of Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary, communities and businesses of color in a $5,000 for 70 5th grade students to $4,815 for 20 students to learn how to watershed monitoring event attend Camp Wo-Me-To and build a conduct wildlife research rain garden South River Federation, $42,800 for The Chesapeake Bay Trust works ALLEGANY Arlington Echo Outdoor Education Gingerville Community Association, design of a comprehensive stormwater Gunpowder Valley Conservancy, $75,000 Center, $900 to further develop an $2,500 for an invasives removal and treatment of five residential and for bioretention systems, Bayscapes, tree with many funding partners to Maryland State Department of Education reforestation project commercial properties, including the planting, and rain barrels at a townhouse for overnight environmental education Juvenile Services Education, $4,950 Killarney House Restaurant community collaboratively support projects students to attend a learning program for program Gravely Property Owners Association, throughout Maryland and adjudicated youth Arlington Echo Outdoor Education $2,500 for a community tree planting South River Federation, $25,000 for Halstead Academy, $3,765 for 150 Center, $1,250 for students to participate project watershed restoration and engagement students to take a field trip to Cromwell Maryland State Department of Education work in 2 underserved neighborhoods Valley Park and Arthur Sherwood Study the Chesapeake region. for in a water quality monitoring program Juvenile Services Education, $4,950 Gravely Property Owners Association, Center and stencil community storm drains 20 adjudicated students to spend a week Arlington Echo Outdoor Education $2,500 for an invasives removal and South River Federation, $198,950 for at the Evergreen Heritage Center and Center, $897 for the construction of a reforestation project construction of forested wetlands, buffers, Halstead Academy, $4,160 for 80 4th build a schoolyard habitat project retention basin at Camp Woodlands and bioretention on several properties, grade students to participate in a Living Gray’s Luck Condominium Association, including the Killarney House Classrooms field experience and stencil $5,000 for a tree and shrub planting EDUCATION ANNE ARUNDEL Back Creek Conservancy, Inc., $72,091 storm drains We advance environmental education for a watershed action plan project South River Federation, $164,010 for AKRF, Inc., $50,000 for research to bioswales, grass swales, and a stormwater $3,740 for 80 3rd through experiential learning, outdoor Halstead Academy, determine whether stream invertebrates Bay Ridge Civic Association, $2,500 for Heritage Harbour Community wetland in South County graders to take a field trip to Masonville $4,500 for the "hiring" experiences, and curriculum development and fishes will rebound after stream an invasive species removal project Association, Inc., Cove and stencil storm drains to educate students about their natural restoration of goats to remove invasive plants South River Federation, $100,000 for a Bay Ridge Civic Association, $1,779 for a stream restoration project at Broad Creek $3,680 for a resources. $949 Halstead Academy, Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, Inc., native tree planting project High Point Improvement Association, Smithsonian Environmental Research for 3 demonstration native plant gardens $46,617 for rain $20,000 for a wetland project at St. South River Federation, Center field trip for 168 students Berrywood Community Association, Inc., gardens and bioretention cells at The RESTORATION Luke’s on Back Creek $4,337 for a $2,500 for a reforestation project Magothy River Association, Fairfield Nursing and Rehabilitation Center $5,000 Restoring the Chesapeake Bay and its local Kayak Watertrails project Immaculate Conception School, Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, Inc., for 147 students to visit a wastewater Boy Scouts of America Troop 412, $2,300 $15,000 for a rain rivers and streams in ways that engage $21,000 for a public opinion project South River Federation, treatment facility and plant a garden for removal of invasive species and Maryland State Parks – Sandy Point State garden at St. Anne’s School communities and individual residents to target outreach on residential $4,998 for support of a native beach installation of a native riparian buffer in Park, $1,250 for a worm remains one of the Trust’s greatest funding stormwater projects grass planting project $35,600 for Irvine Nature Center, Fort Smallwood Park South River Federation, composting system and educational an oak-pine reforestation project at priorities. Top priorities include reducing Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, materials Burley Creek Community Association, Olde Severna Park Improvement Homepark Farm Park pollution, restoring habitat, and improving Inc., $43,080 for stormwater best $4,750 for the installation of a rain garden Association, Inc., $2,485 for "hiring" water quality. management practices on the grounds of goats to remove invasive plants on $4,396 Maryland Agricultural Resource Council, and vegetated bioswale Spa Creek Conservancy (SCC), $4,540 for an edible gardening teacher of the house of worship, Empowering community property for a rain garden improvement project in professional development training Believers Cape Conservation Corps, $4,750 for a Amos Garrett Park COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT bioswale and habitat meadow at Little Olde Severna Park Improvement program We aim to engage individuals and Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, Inc., Association, Inc., $2,500 for an invasive Spa Creek Conservancy (SCC), $73,070 Magothy Beach Park Prettyboy Watershed Alliance, Inc., $3,150 organizations to improve the health of $104,774 for invasive species control in species removal project for a stream restoration project Corcoran Woods at Sandy Point State Park Cape St. Claire Improvement Association, for a tree planting project on 1.5 acres in communities and local waterways. $874 for the construction of a rain garden Paradise Orchard Community, $2,500 for Spark Matsunaga Elementary School, the Prettyboy Reservoir Annapolis Roads Property Owners a community planting project $3,224 for a Smithsonian Environmental Association, Inc., $26,504 for an invasives Chesapeake Rivers Association, Research Center field trip for 170 4th Prettyboy Watershed Alliance, Inc., $47,272 for a riparian forest buffer SCIENCE & INNOVATION control and reforestation project $299,953 for a project to stabilize an Pine Ridge Crossing Homeowners graders We work to advance science in many eroding gully Association Inc, $747 for a conservation outreach program to landowners arenas in which we fund, such as best Anne Arundel County, $25,000 for a planting project in the Pine Ridge Crossing The Ocean Foundation, $2,800 for living shoreline project at Thomas Point Chesapeake Rivers Association, community "environmental art" — sculptures to Rosedale Center for Alternative Studies, practices in environmental education, social $5,000 for 250 students to participate $102,390 for enhancement of a stream educate about trash cleanups science to change behaviors, and efficacy Anne Arundel County Public Schools, restoration project Round Bay Community Association, in water quality field experiences and of restoration practices. $74,551 for a living shoreline project $55,000 for infiltration basins, raingardens, West/Rhode Riverkeeper, Inc., $1,057 wetlands restoration projects Chestnut Point East Condominium, Inc., native vegetation, and impervious surface for an interpretive trail at Franklin Point Anne Arundel County Public Schools, $3,550 for field trips to $2,490 for a reforestation project removal State Park St. Mark School, $5,000 for 20 teachers to attend a Ft. McHenry’s wetlands, Black Walnut professional development training Downs Property Owners Association, Severn Heights Improvement Association Creek, Sandy Point, and Patapsco State Inc., $3,000 for the Hidden Pond living for the installation of a BALTIMORE Park for 145 students Anne Arundel County Public Schools (SHIA), $5,000 shoreline project 1,200 square foot bioswale project Arbutus Middle School, $2,500 for a (Arlington Echo Outdoor Education NorthBay field trip for 200 sixth graders St. Paul’s School, $1,223 for a Living Center), $1,250 for the 1st grade Freetown Elementary School, $1,736 Severn School, Inc., $34,592 for a Classrooms field trip for 55 4th graders monarch butterfly program's milkweed for 506 students to build a schoolyard reforestation project Boy Scout Troop 124, $1,500 for a Tangier and a native tree planting project meadow at Camp Woodlands stormwater management project Island field trip for 25 Boy Scouts South River Federation, $2,291 for a TALMAR Gardens & Horticultural Therapy Anne Arundel Watershed Stewards Freetown Elementary School, $2,729 for community planting at Preserve at Catonsville Elementary School, $930 for a Center, $15,000 for an initiative to provide Academy, $989 for the installation of 10 24 students to participate in an Annapolis Broad Creek Living Classrooms boat experience for 70 veterans with skills for employment in rain barrels and conservation landscaping Maritime Museum program 4th graders agriculture

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Towson University, $199,992 for research Carnegie Institution for Science, Dept Maree Garnett Farring Elementary School, Southeast Community Development CAROLINE Charles County Public Schools, $34,411 to study effectiveness of legacy sediment $17,500 for field trips $5,000 for a NorthBay field experience for $75,000 for tree planting for environmental education professional of Embryology, Corporation, Caroline Soil Conservation District, removal and floodplain reconnection for middle school students to investigate 58 students and impervious surface removal in the $69,450 for research on a gypsum soil development training for high school projects streams and release trout Highlandtown neighborhood teachers Morgan State University, $1,250 for amendment to reduce phosphorus loads $1,130 for an outreach a clean-up and planting event at four $52,933 for $37,123 University of Maryland Baltimore County, Civic Works, Inc., St. John Lutheran Church, County Commissioners of Caroline Port Tobacco River Conservancy, $73,287 for research on soil decompaction project to educate the public about schools and Chinquapin Run Park support of stormwater practices to treat for the Christ Church Port Tobacco Parish County, $1,598 for the planting of three and amendment practices benefits of fruit trees runoff from the church, playground, and biorention areas in Denton meditation garden and stormwater Mount Royal Community Development parking management project $20,000 for training for $24,726 for urban tree BALTIMORE CITY Civic Works, Inc., Corporation, North Caroline High School Green Club, orchard stewards to increase awareness of plantings and resident maintenance Strength to Love II (Newborn Community $2,500 for field trips and service projects, Baltimore City Department of Recreation DORCHESTER urban orchards, nutrition, and local food training of Faith), $20,000 for development of a including a pollinator garden, for 200 and Parks, $19,596 for an outdoor green master plan for a vacant lot in the Ecotone Inc, $369,825 for a 15 acre $5,000 for a bird and students recreation program that increases use of Druid Heights Community Development National Aquarium, Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood wetland restoration project Gwynns Falls Park Corporation, $3,993 for a stormwater pollinator habitat garden at Oriole Park at planting project in a community playground Camden Yards The Episcopal Church of the Holy CARROLL Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy, Inc., Baltimore City Public Schools, $105,001 $18,680 for support of Holy $1,250 for a rain garden at Waugh Chapel $1,250 for a native Covenant, Boy Scouts of America Venturing Crew for development of a systemic watershed Druid Heights Community Development National Aquarium, Rain Garden design project United Methodist Church Corporation, $58,780 for a Green plant pollinator garden on community 202, $24,980 for reforestation and education curriculum involving 150 maintenance of 2.5 acres of native teachers and 16,000 students over Community Master Action Plan and vacant property in an underserved neighborhood Thomas Johnson Elementary School, NorthBay Environmental Learning Center, lot retrofit $5,000 for a NorthBay field trip for 50 forest at DNR’s Morgan Run Center $28,666 for environmental education three years $769 for Neighborhood Design Center, 6th graders and supplies to create a professional development for middle Elmer A. Henderson: A Johns Hopkins an edible rain garden on the University Carroll County Government, $175,730 for Baltimore Festival of the Arts, Inc., $4,100 Chesapeake book for younger students research to evaluate the effectiveness of school teachers for showing plankton through microscopes Partnership School, $5,000 for a NorthBay of Baltimore Campus field trip for 63 6th graders $2,000 for an BMPs on reducing stream channel erosion University of Maryland Center for to children at Artscape and create related $5,000 for Trash Free Maryland, Parks & People Foundation, outreach project to motivate residents to Environmental Science (UMCES), artwork $4,200 for a field trip and native plant project for Federal Hill Preparatory PTO, reduce litter and clean up neighborhoods CECIL $177,329 for research to determine the Baltimore Green Space, $1,000 for 5th graders to transform a dilapidated 40 7th grade students impact on nutrient and sediment loads of space into a bird sanctuary garden Cecil County, Maryland, $74,720 for a program to encourage community $4,436 for a Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore, Inc., different stream restoration approaches Parks & People Foundation, $1,250 for educational signage as part of design of stormwater projects at North members to care for neighborhood forest $25,000 for a field trip to Gwynns Falls and an action Fusion Partnerships, the Alley Makeover Program in the Harris East High School and Perryville High School patches bioretention cell at Southwest Baltimore project for 40 students from Green Street Creek Watershed FREDERICK Charter School Academy Cecil County, Maryland, $3,763 for rain Baltimore Lab School, $5,000 for field garden planter boxes, rain barrels, and City of Frederick Dept of Planning, experiences for 131 students with learning $25,600 $3,435 Woodhome Elementary/Middle School, $43,468 for a program to increase the Govans Presbyterian Church, Parks & People Foundation, $3,000 for 55 5th grade students to a native plant trellis at Calvert Elementary disabilities for development of a stormwater for a field trip to Gwynns Falls/Leakin number of dog owners who clean up after participate in field experience at Sandy School management for church property Park for 40 Windsor Hills Elementary their pets Baltimore Urban Debate League, $5,000 Point State Park School students Deep Roots Inc., $19,250 for for 50 Baltimore Urban Debate League Greater Homewood Community environmental education workshops for Frederick County Office of Sustainability students to participate in The Great Green Corporation, Inc., $1,050 for support for Parks & People Foundation, $18,199 for a CALVERT children experiencing homelessness and Environmental Resources (OSER), Public Debate the trash removal project Green Street Plan for Reisterstown Road $110 for outreach materials to educate American Chestnut Land Trust, Inc., Elk and North East Rivers Watershed citizens about greenhouse gases Banner Neighborhoods Community Green School of Baltimore, The, $1,073 for Patterson Park Audubon Center, $1,250 $1,085 for a pollinator meadow Association, $4,559 for a bioretention Corporation, $1,201 for support of educational signage at the school garden for an environmental leadership program retrofit at the Town of North East Town Hall Frederick County Office of Sustainability the Banner Neighborhood community Board of Commissioners of Calvert and Environmental Resources (OSER), for middle school students $74,997 for design of 2 compost project Humanim Inc., $5,000 for a vacant County, MD, Fair Hill Environmental Foundation, Inc., $1,240 for a riparian buffer at Pinecliff Park lot greening and stormwater resource Pigtown Main Street, $56,600 for design stormwater retrofit projects in the Hall $4,997 for a field experience for 65 Gilpin Benjamin Franklin High School at center (tools and education materials) at of the Washington Boulevard Green Creek watershed Manor Elementary 5th graders Frederick County Office of Sustainability $4,985 for a field trip to and Environmental Resources (OSER), Masonville Cove, Baltimore Community Toolbank Infrastructure project $3,450 for Fort McHenry and a wastewater treatment Calvert County Public Schools, Fair Hill Environmental Foundation, Inc., $1,250 for a riparian forest buffer along 1,200 3rd graders to learn about terrapin plant and a campus rain garden Jane’s House of Inspiration, $29,000 for Pigtown Main Street, $3,919 for the $34,985 for field experiences for all 1200 Glade Creek the A-MAZE-N Recovery Garden on an Bloom the Boulevard 2016 community in the field County 1st graders and action projects at Benjamin Franklin High School at abandoned lot greening and clean up event all 16 elementary schools Hood College: Center for Coastal and $1,250 for a 660 square Elms Environmental Education Center, Watershed Studies, $1,250 for a study Masonville Cove, $572 for interpretive watershed signage foot rain garden on campus Koolhof Earth, Inc., $5,000 to develop Ridge to Reefs, $62,021 for a volunteer Friends of the Bohemia, Inc., $2,218 for on wetland plants’ ability to inhibit the green building sustainability curricula illicit discharge screening program along the Center’s hiking trails a bioretention cell at Chesapeake City growth of algae Blue Water Baltimore, $4,872 for tree for teachers at the new LEED Lyndhurst , $49,933 for outreach to Patuxent Palisades Civic Association, Elementary School planting on park and school grounds Elementary School Ridge to Reefs Hood College: Center for Coastal encourage proper disposal of household $3,045 for invasives removal and a Rising Sun Middle School, $5,000 for 200 and Watershed Studies, $1,893 for a Blue Water Baltimore, $25,000 for Lakeland Elementary/Middle School, waste to reduce sanitary sewer overflows planting project 7th graders to remove 400sf of concrete conference to educate local stakeholders increased tree canopy and a tree planting $5,000 for a NorthBay field trip for 80 $5,000 for and install 2 rain gardens and rain barrels about ways to reduce stormwater and maintenance workforce development Saint Ignatius Loyola Academy, $1,785 for The Tidewater School, 6th graders 45 students to build a 650 square foot program 27 7th grade students to participate in a Hood College: Center for Coastal and Living Classrooms Foundation, $1,234 Living Classrooms field trip rain garden CHARLES Watershed Studies, $1,055 for a water Blue Water Baltimore, $4,300 for a for an interpretive sign about osprey at Barrels by the Bay, $10,000 for rain barrel quality project in Lake Linganore community photo project to encourage Second Chance, Inc., $75,000 for a University of Maryland Center for Masonville Cove Urban Wildlife Refuge $43,949 workshops and distribution of 100 barrels community and environmental stormwater project on Russell Street, the Environmental Science (UMCES), Land and Cultural Preservation Fund, Inc, to research on the design of monitoring stewardship Living Classrooms Foundation, $24,650 Gateway to Baltimore Charles County Public Schools, $4,950 $15,273 for a tree planting project in a for the School Leadership in Urban programs to assess the effectiveness of for environmental education professional townhouse community Blue Water Baltimore, $50,000 for Runoff Reduction Program (SLURRP) for best management practices development training for 7th grade planting 160 trees and removing impervious 650 students teachers surface in 3 underserved neighborhoods

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Poolesville High School, $1,614 for 90 Tanglewood Homeowners Association, Westbrook Elementary School, $3,366 for City of Mount Rainier, $1,250 for a rain People for Change Coalition, $35,000 for Kennard Elementary, $4,965 for the annual students to install a 360 sf rain garden $12,000 for design of bio-retention field experiences for 5th graders garden at Thomas S. Stone Elementary School an outreach and education program for five schoolwide event "Bay Days" facilities and pervious paving faith based organizations The Town of Burkittsville, $24,986 for a Westbrook Elementary School, $5,000 for Clean Water Fund, $25,257 for an outreach Stevensville Middle School, $5,000 for a Green Street and Stormwater Master Plan 75 fourth graders to conduct field research project to encourage adoption of residential Prince George’s Forestry Board, $5,000 for NorthBay experience for 179 sixth graders KENT on the Little Falls stream stormwater practices a contractor training on rain barrel, tree, $360 for support Tuscarora High School, Chester River Association, $2,088 for the pervious paver, and rain garden installation ST. MARY’S of the student-driven oyster investigation Chester River Report Card ECO City Farms, $45,000 for a rainwater and field research experience PRINCE GEORGE’S capture and reuse project Suitland Civic Association, $35,000 for St. Mary’s College of Maryland, $4,500 for the Chester River Association, $310 for Accokeek First Church of God, $75,000 education about rain barrels and recruitment control of invasive species with grazing goats Wolfsville Elementary School, $510 for outreach workshops on lawn care for 2 stormwater projects at the Accokeek Friends of Lower Beaverdam Creek, of 50 residents to install barrels St. Mary’s River Watershed Association, 26 fifth graders to participate in a Philip decisions First Church of God Church $114,227 for stormwater projects in the Merrill Center field experience Quincy Run Watershed Suitland Civic Association, $3,000 for $2,450 for interpretive signage at St. Mary’s Ridge to Reefs, $4,999 for monitoring with Accokeek Foundation, $19,053 for 30 rain barrels at residential properties College highlighting a restored oyster reef GARRETT Washington College students on two new environmental education professional Global Health and Education Projects, agricultural best management practices development training for teachers Inc., $15,000 for the Family Tree Adoption Tall Oaks High School, $3,012 for field SOMERSET Northern Garrett High School, $665 for Program experiences for 45 students and a campus Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine a skipjack experience and brook trout Sassafras River Association, $75,000 for a Accokeek Foundation, $1,171 for a rain garden restoration project for 23 high school living shoreline project wetland enhancement project Haitian’S Harmony Corp., $4,107 for a Research Reserve-MD DNR, $1,250 for a students community storm drain stenciling project in The Low Impact Development Center, Inc., biodiversity monitoring project to engage the Springhill Lake Elementary School Special Alice Ferguson Foundation, $1,196 for Prince George’s County $8,423 for a Resource Center at Behnke public at Monie Bay Education, $4,975 for a field trip to Camp a rain garden at the William S. Schmidt Nursery to engage residents in stormwater $39,459 for Crisfield Heritage Foundation, $3,500 HARFORD Pecometh for 43 fourth graders Outdoor Education Center Housing Initiative Partnership, practices Harford County Department of Parks & pavement removal, permeable pavers, trees, for a fishing heritage waterfront event $951 for exemplifying trades and traditions of Recreation, $25,000 for a stormwater MONTGOMERY Alice Ferguson Foundation, and rain barrels at residential properties Town of Capitol Heights, $30,000 for green retrofit project in the Anita C. Leight installation of a trail to provide access street designs for Chambers Avenue working waterfront communities Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Estuary Center parking lot Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central to the Brown Farm for students Atlantic States, Inc., $1,250 for 2 rain visiting William S. Schmidt Outdoor Basin (The), $61,938 for engagement of Town of Edmonston, $2,075 for a bilingual Smith Island United, Inc., $15,872 for Harford County Soil Conservation gardens and native plantings Education Center 400 students at 3 schools in campus action activity booklet to education residents about support of the Smith Island Watermen’s District, $70,900 for design of 4 stream projects stormwater impacts Apprenticeship Program Environmental restoration and wetland restoration Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, Inc., Stewardship and Outreach Initiative $25,000 for a rain Kenmoor Middle School, $4,985 for field Town of Edmonston, $74,720 for 3 rain projects Atlantic States, Inc., $131,926 for 450 trees on faith-based garden project institution property and 300 trees with the trips to Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary for gardens and 24 street trees TALBOT $4,500 300 7th graders Havre de Grace Maritime Museum, congregations on other properties Union Bethel AME Church, $128,381 for Chesapeake Christian School, $2,000 for for invasive plant and debris removal, Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central $35,000 for a garden- Maryland League of Conservation Voters a bioswale and rain garden 22 6th graders to explore the bay with a native plantings, and invasive plant Atlantic States, Inc., Anacostia Riverkeeper, $27,715 for based environmental literacy program faith-based community watershed Education Fund, $22,500 for increasing concentration on crabs, oysters and marsh maintenance awareness among Latino youth about litter University of Maryland College Park, education and installation of cisterns at $80,000 for stormwater practices the Easton High School, $4,174 for 42 students $130 for a Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central issues in their communities Joppatowne High School, $49,955 for a rain three congregations Branch Avenue in Bloom Urban Farm and to participate in the Midshore Riverkeeper student-directed monarch butterfly Atlantic States, Inc., garden project Maryland National Capital Park and local resident engagement Conservancy’s program waystation project Anacostia Watershed Society, $5,000 for a pontoon boat trip for 175 4th graders and Planning Commission, $5,000 for a native MNCPPC/Meadowside Nature Center, pollinator garden and vermicomposting University of Maryland College Park Environmental Concern Inc., $1,249 for Susquehannock Wildlife Society, Inc., a stream buffer planting $124,770 for removal of $1,187 for a composting demonstration site at the Southern Regional Technology & Foundation, an invasive removal and butterfly meadow $1,250 for interpretative signs and a native impervious surface and installation of rain Anacostia Watershed Society, $4,099 for Recreation Complex planting project plants and pollinators workshop at the Montgomery Parks Foundation, $4,996 for gardens to treat the UM Golf Course parking Hopkins Branch Wildlife Management Area stream clean up events at 13 sites the rejuvenation of the Bladensburg Road $22,284 Neighborhood Design Center, $50,000 lot runoff Mid-shore Community Foundation, Rain Garden for support of the Oyster Gardening Montgomery Parks Foundation, $1,250 for for green master plans for 7 communities HOWARD Carmody Hills Elementary School, $4,880 University of Maryland College Park Awareness Campaign a native planting project $24,432 for $5,000 for the Alternative $2,000 for an for a Hard Bargain Farm field trip for 60 Neighborhood Design Center, Foundation, Dunloggin Middle School, assistance with stormwater project design Breaks for the Bay volunteer service and Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy, Inc., oyster gardening professional development Muddy Branch Alliance, $50,000 for a students for small communities learning program $1,027 for the Kings Creek Kayak Trail training for all school staff green roof and a cistern at the Epworth United Methodist Church Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Inc., $1,250 Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy, Inc., for a public awareness project about the Neighborhood Design Center, $1,250 for Hollifield Station Elementary School, 42 Eleanor Roosevelt High School students QUEEN ANNE’S $4,521 for the annual report card for $2,000 for environmental education Paint Branch High School, $2,410 for a environmental and economic benefits of to create environmental murals Chesapeake Wildlife Heritage, $17,800 midshore rivers professional development for 20 teachers field trip to the Karen Noonan Center for local food 150 students for 2 wetland restoration projects Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy, Inc., $50,000 for design of New E.R.A. Community Group, Inc., $23,960 Howard County Conservancy, Inc., $377 City of Bowie, $1,125 $25,000 for a living shoreline Paint Branch High School, $729 for 25 stormwater practices for a community for pavement removal and permeable pavers Church Hill Elementary School, for 7th grade students to learn about for a Sultana field trip for 75 4th graders 11th graders to participate in a skipjack center (Kenhill Center) at residential properties Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy, Inc., natural resource monitoring and creation of a nature walk experience and build a stormwater project $125,000 $32,998 for the Students for Streams $28,895 for City of Bowie, $12,500 for an outreach New Hope Educational Institute, Howard County, Maryland, for stormwater practices to treat parking Environmental Concern Inc., $25,000 program design of a bioretention cell at Trinity River Road Unitarian Universalist program to increase residential tree planting lot runoff for the Queen Anne’s County Elementary School Congregation, $5,000 for a cistern at the Pickering Creek Audubon Center, $32,766 church, a rain barrel workshop, and rain City of Greenbelt, $5,000 for Anacostia Public Schools Milkweed and Habitat for all Talbot 10th graders to conduct a interpretive signage at the Springhill Lake Parkdale High School, $200,000 for a Monitoring Program Talbott Springs Elementary School, barrels at church members’ homes stormwater green infrastructure project habitat restoration project $1,000 for a field trip to the Smithsonian Recreation Center Grasonville Elementary School, $2,228 for Environmental Research Center for 75 St. Martin of Tours, $582 for a field trip to Talbot County Department of Finance, City of Hyattsville, $20,431 for a rain Parkdale High School, $2,998 for a field 80 fourth graders to participate in a Midshore fourth graders Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center for experience to study stormwater runoff $75,000 for a study to quantify the 18 fifth graders garden and bioretention at the Melrose Riverkeeper Conservancy’s program nitrate load reductions associated with Park Trail denitrification bioreactors

cbtrust.org 8 ANNUAL REPORT 2015 – 2016 cbtrust.org 9 ANNUAL REPORT 2015 – 2016 WHERE WE WORK EXAMPLE PROJECTS Funded through Parking lot stormwater retrofit design at the Chesapeake Bay Trust Grants Salvation Army Harrisburg Capital City

TALMAR Gardens & Horticultural Therapy Skipjack experience and brook trout Center’s initiative to provide veterans with skills restoration project for 23 Northern for employment in agriculture Garrett High school students Allegany: $ 9,900 Anne Arundel: $ 1,740,275 Baltimore City: $ 961,951 Baltimore: $ 484,539 Calvert: $ 132,098 Caroline: $ 73,548 Carroll: $ 200,710 Cecil: $ 149,492 Charles: $ 86,484 Dorchester: $ 577,070 Frederick: $ 93,009 Garrett: $ 665 Harford: $ 101,780 Howard: $ 46,272 Bird and pollinator habitat garden at Kent: $ 87,372 Oriole Park at Camden Yards Montgomery: $ 185,725 Prince George’s: $ 1,660,916 $ 56,118 Union Bethel AME Church’s bioswale and rain Queen Anne’s: garden restoration project and congregation Somerset: $ 20,622 environmental outreach program St. Mary’s: $ 6,950 Talbot: $ 304,519 Washington: $ 33,599 Wicomico: $ 150,766 Worcester: $ 403,724 *Washington, DC: $ 106,704 *Delaware: $ 14,000 *Pennsylvania: $ 361,549 *Virginia: $ 160,186 *West Virginia: $ 42,000 Statewide Maryland: $ 612,420 Watershed-wide: $ 203,545 *Funds generated by the Maryland Bay plate and tax- check off are only awarded to projects in Maryland. PHOTO: BRIAN KNOX, SUSTAINABLE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, INC Smith Island United, Inc.’s Watermen's Green street design plan for Minefee Apprenticeship Program, a community-led and Street in the Bellemeade Community led An invasive species control project with grazing replicable pilot environmental stewardship initiative by James River Association goats at St. Mary’s College of Maryland Grants and Projects Funded through the Trust in Fiscal Year 2016 Grants and Projects Funded through the Trust in Fiscal Year 2016

Talbot County Government, $58,500 for Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, DELAWARE The Salvation Army Harrisburg Capital Pungoteague Elementary School, $3,182 Dupont Park Elementary School, $4,463 design of 3 bioretention facilities $5,000 for teacher professional $29,760 for design of a for a Chincoteague Bay Field Station field for a field trip to the Aquatic Resources Cape Henlopen School District, $1,000 City Region, development on urban trees parking lot stormwater retrofit trip for 3rd graders and water quality Education Center and Common Good City $5,000 for for field experiences at Salisbury Zoo and Talbot County Public Schools, monitoring activities in Pungoteague Creek Farm for 60 students 328 6th graders to study at the Pickering Chesapeake Conservancy, $35,000 for a Delaware Make a Splash program for 125 Creek Audubon Center tool to help the public locate and use the first graders VIRGINIA Rivanna Conservation Alliance, $4,863 Friends of Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, 1200 public access points to bay waters Battlefield Middle School, $1,130 for the for support of the Water Health for the $4,875 for professional development $40,000 for design of the Delaware Valley Green Building Council, Town of Oxford, Girls Rock and Love Science Ecology Club Commonwealth program engaging 1000 training for high school teachers and other Causeway Stormwater Retention project $73,842 for $13,000 for expansion of a Delaware EcoLogix Group, Inc., to install a native pollinator garden, two students leaders involved in NatureFest development of a watershed education Green Schools program rain barrels, and a garden WASHINGTON program for local leaders Shenandoah Valley Pure Water Forum, Friends of Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, Belvedere Elementary School, $3,225 $5,000 for 30 7th graders to $4,581 for field trips for 100 students to, Cacapon Institute, $3,849 for rain garden $20,000 PENNSYLVANIA Inc., Environmental Law Institute, for a Living Classrooms shipboard field participate in a series of 7 field trips and a Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens training for 20 teachers, including for a guide to site and design green Borough of Chambersburg, $115,269 experience for 127 5th graders Cub Run subwatershed project installation of a 300-square foot infrastructure practices more effectively for a green street project, including Groundwork Anacostia River DC, $4,511 rain garden and sustainably bioretention, storm inlet structure Boxerwood Education Association, Spotsylvania High School, $3,793 for field for students to participate in a water replacement, and installation of pervious $4,500 for support of the Headwaters experiences for 250 students with an art quality monitoring project at four streams Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Inc., Future Harvest - Chesapeake Alliance sidewalk Investigators Project and field experiences $25,000 for riparian buffers and wetland connection for Sustainable Agriculture (C.A.S.A.), to CBF centers Tetra Tech, Inc., $49,999 for advisory installation on agricultural lands $15,000 for a program to educate new County of Blair, $66,825 for design St. Margaret’s School, $4,936 for field trips outreach tools for toxic contaminants of green infrastructure into parking $290 for 11th and $4,750 for 125 and established farmers on agricultural Broadway High School, for 60 students related to fish consumption and Highland View Academy, lot enhancements at an Emergency 12th graders to assess Linville Creek and high school students to participate in four best management practices subsistence fishing Management Center Shenandoah River health Sussex County Public Schools, $1,000 field trips and planting projects Maryland Association for Environmental for high school students to investigate Van Ness Elementary School, $1,650 for and Outdoor Education (MAEOE), Diakon Child, Family & Community Clarke County Public Schools, $4,840 for environmental issues in local waterways environmental education professional WICOMICO $10,000 for development of a framework Ministries, $5,000 for a Chesapeake Bay 155 4th graders to participate in outdoor through robotics development training for teachers for a green for integrating sustainability plans at a Foundation field trip for 30 students field experiments at Blandy Experimental City of Salisbury, $75,000 Virginia Fish and Wildlife Conservation Wilderness Leadership & Learning, Inc. infrastructure Main Street Masterplan school-system level Farm East Pennsboro Township, $35,000 for a Office, $44,998 for culvert assessments for (WILL), $5,000 for a field trip to project Maryland Association of Floodplain and plan to incorporate green infrastructure Fluvanna County School District, $4,540 fish passage Karen Noonan Center for 31 high $610 for the into a current regional connectivity study for 90 high school students to construct a schools students Salisbury University, $3,500 for support Stormwater Managers, $3,050 Association’s conference and field tour dock and sample biota Virginia Beach Friends School, of the Wicomico Creekwatchers Program Eastern PA Coalition for Abandoned Mine for a Fox Island field trip and a campus $3,549 for 25 eighth graders Wicomico County, $37,295 for design Maryland Water Monitoring Council, Reclamation, Friends of the North Fork Shenandoah stormwater runoff project WEST VIRGINIA $5,000 for the Maryland Water to participate in an abandoned mine River, $5,000 for 750 elementary school For Love of Children, $4,000 for 50 middle of a stormwater project at the Wicomico $50,000 Monitoring Council Conference drainage issue investigation students to participate in a watershed Virginia Department of Forestry, school students to investigate water quality County Airport for tools that help land use planners $4,206 for experience issues and install rain barrels Wicomico County Board of Education / Netcentric Campaigns, $21,000 for Everett Area School District, sustain and maintain forestland assistance to non-profit organizations in 150 students to create a Storm Water Grymes Memorial School, $1,030 for a The Mountain Institute, $9,000 for Public Schools, $34,971 for development $5,000 for membership list maintenance Walk with rain gardens, a butterfly garden, Fox Island field trip for 15 7th graders Virginia Wesleyan College, increased awareness of the West Virginia of a county-wide watershed program for 16 Deep Creek High School students to all seventh grade students and a bioretention cell Sustainable Schools program OpinionWorks LLC, $75,000 for Harrisonburg High School Governor’s attend a two-week inquiry-based program development a baseline indicator of the Halifax Area Middle School, $3,160 for a STEM Academy, $4,514 for multiple field The Nature Conservancy, $4,000 for the WORCESTER general public’s environmental stewardship canoe field trip and action project for 90 experiences for 26 10th graders WASHINGTON, D.C. West Virginia Watershed Assessment Pilot $2,100 for the seventh graders Project Assateague Coastal Trust, for James River Association, $5,000 for Anacostia Waterfront Trust, $5,000 for Float for the Coast clean water celebration Tetra Tech, Inc., $89,949 quantification of all Bay program-approved Lacawac Sanctuary, $4,750 for a environmental professional development work to develop a network of community Town of Bath, $20,000 for green Assateague Coastal Trust, $1,250 for best management practices on Bay Watershed Education Program and field for 30 teachers and environmental groups infrastructure improvements along an edible forest garden in Stephen trips for 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders Washington Street Agreement management strategies James River Association, $29,995 for a Anacostia Waterfront Trust, $5,000 for Decatur Park Tetra Tech, Inc., $79,952 for an analysis National Wildlife Federation, $13,000 green street design plan for Minefee Street work to increase the capacity of new West Virginia Rivers Coalition, $5,000 Maryland Coastal Bays Program, $69,755 of climate-related resiliency of Chesapeake for development of a network of trained in the Bellemeade Community community and environmental groups in a for outreach materials to educate for a dam modification, fish passage, assistance providers to support schools new network underserved communities about local Bay Agreement Goals Lacey Spring Elementary School, $3,285 stream restoration, and wetland project in implementing sustainable school source waters U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, $46,990 for programming for support of a year-long environmental Anacostia Watershed Society, $3,800 Maryland Coastal Bays Program, $1,250 development of a decision support tool to education program for 130 seventh grade students to plant for the revegatation of 8.5 acres with Redevelopment Authority of Cumberland wetland plants WATERSHED-WIDE inform black duck wintering habitat Locust Grove Middle School, $5,000 for native trees and shrubs at Ilia Fehrer County, $30,000 for design of an Consensus Building Institute, $118,997 50 6th and 7th graders identified as over- Capital City Public Charter School, Nature Reserve University of Maryland Center for Urban Stormwater Park with a series of for developing networks of community- Environmental Science (UMCES), $60,000 stormwater practices and recreational active to conduct stream study field trips $4,940 for a field trip to Hard Bargain based and natural resource organizations Farm and marsh grass planting with Salt Grass Bali Hi, LLC, $329,369 for a for research to identify drivers of forage facilities $3,997 for 88 4th Norfolk Academy, 84 5th graders SKEO SOLUTIONS, $79,798 for assistance wetland project fish population trends and consumption graders to undergo a year-long inquiry- patterns School District of Lancaster, $4,980 for a developing the capacity of watershed schoolyard habitat project at Edward Hand based unit of study on watersheds Capital City Public Charter School, $1,885 organizations STATEWIDE for 49 11th and 12th graders to work with University of Maryland College Park, Middle School Northumberland County Public Schools, Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, Inc., an oyster farmer to construct oyster floats Skyline Technology Solutions, $4,750 $66,077 for support for the Chesapeake $1,071 for a Fox Island field trip for 14 $5,000 for Project Clean Stream involving Susquehanna Heritage Corporation, for a watershed behavior change case Bay Agreement Healthy Watershed Goal students thousands of volunteers $1,052 for a water trail and trail guide for District of Columbia Environmental study database Team’s management strategies $11,000 for a the Conejohela Flats $1,945 for Education Consortium, Page County Public Schools, green school recognition system for field trips for 150 students District of Columbia schools

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he Trust honored six exceptional Tenvironmental leaders for their outstanding contributions to education, watershed restoration, and volunteerism this year. The Corps provides early career development for a cohort of young people as they tackle key environment, agriculture, and energy projects with host organizations. This year, 41 young people were placed with the host organizations below. 2016 Educator of the Year: Beth Brownley 2016 Ellen Fraites Wagner Award: Kincey Potter Kennard Elementary, Queen Anne’s County Anne Arundel County Beth Brownley is a third grade teacher at Kennard Elementary The Trust recognized Kincey Potter with this year’s Ellen Fraites where she initiated Queen Anne County’s first engineering Wagner Award. This award was created in 1998 to honor Ellen program that provides environmental, computer and Fraites Wagner who was a tireless advocate for the Chesapeake 2016 CHESAPEAKE CONSERVATION CORPS CLASS PLACEMENTS mechanical engineering opportunities for third through fifth Bay and the environment. Kincey is the past board chair and graders. Brownley also coordinates her school’s Bay Days, a founder of the South River Federation, as well as board Accokeek Foundation, Latin American Youth Center, The Nature Conservancy, and is working to become a master teacher through NASA. member of the Anne Arundel Watershed Stewards Academy. Prince George’s County Montgomery County Montgomery County Each year the Trust’s Educator of the Year Award recognizes She has worked on countless restoration projects as well as Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland Coastal Bays Program, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, an educator who has shown an outstanding commitment to served as an environmental advocate for local waters, especially Anne Arundel County Worcester County Anne Arundel County environmental education. Along with her award, Brownley will the South River. Arlington Echo Outdoor School, Montgomery County Department of United Workers Association, Baltimore City receive a $2,500 grant to be used for environmental projects Anne Arundel County Environmental Protection, Virginia Department of Conservation & and programs at her school. Montgomery County 2016 Melanie Teems Award: GreenKids/ Assateague Coastal Trust, Recreation, Richmond, VA Audubon Naturalist Society Montgomery County Worcester County Maryland Department of Natural Resources Waterfront Partnership in Baltimore, Forest Service, Carroll County 2016 Student of the Year: Brieanna Smith The Trust named its Melanie Teems Award after its longest Baltimore City Blue Water Baltimore, Baltimore City University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), serving staff member to honor an exceptional program or Maryland Department of Natural Resources Chesapeake Bay Foundation, William S. Schmidt Outdoor Education Baltimore County Park Service, Anne Arundel County project that is improving local waters and communities. Anne Arundel County Center, Prince George’s County The Trust’s $5,000 Student of the Year Scholarship, awarded This year’s winner is the GreenKids program administered Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Chester River Association, Kent County to a high school or college student who participates in by Audubon Naturalist Society which seeks to embed Commission Meadowside Nature Center, City of Mount Rainier, Montgomery County efforts to improve the local environment, was awarded to environmental stewardship and outdoor learning into school Prince George’s County Brieanna Smith, a junior at UMBC where she is majoring in culture. To date, more than 30,000 Montgomery County Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning environmental science. Smith is an active volunteer with the students have participated in the program, which seeks to also Commission Pope Farm, Montgomery County National Aquarium in Baltimore, Blue Water Baltimore, and reach underserved populations as well as educate teachers Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy, Phillips Wharf Environmental Center where she raises oysters, and administrators on the importance of incorporating Talbot County plants trees, and organizes trash cleanups, among other environmental education into everyday school curriculum. National Aquarium in Baltimore, efforts. Smith is also launching her own Science Café to Baltimore City engage Baltimore youth in community action and the 2016 Commercial Stewards Award: National Park Service, Anne Arundel County environmental projects and outreach efforts. The Brick Companies Anne Arundel County The Trust’s Commercial Stewards Award recognizes an Neighborhood Design Center, outstanding corporate or commercial entity that strives to Prince George’s County 2016 Honorable Arthur Dorman Scholarship: make a difference in the community and for the Bay. The Parks & People Foundation, Baltimore City Marco Salgado Montgomery Blair High School, Brick Companies, a company that owns, develops and City of Rockville, Montgomery County Montgomery County Patterson Park Audubon Center, manages commercial, residential and recreational properties, Elms Environmental Education Center, Baltimore City The Trust’s $5,000 Arthur Dorman Scholarship is named in was selected as this year’s recipient for its commitment to St. Mary’s County South River Federation, honor of the late Senator Arthur Dorman who played a large environmental sustainability. The company works to ensure Frederick County Office of Sustainability & Anne Arundel County role in bringing Trust grant programs to a greater diversity of projects are environmentally compliant: their golf course Environmental Resources, Frederick County communities. This scholarship is given annually to a student has won the “environmental leader in golf award,” their Susquehanna Gateway Heritage Area, Hood College Center for Coastal & Wrightsville, PA of color, and this year’s award recipient, Marco Salgado, has headquarters has one of the area’s first green roofs, their two Watershed Studies, Frederick County led efforts to design and build a working hydroponics system marinas have been recognized as certified green marinas, and The Green School of Baltimore, Baltimore City Izaak Walton League of America, at his school while also volunteering to manage his school’s company leadership encourages employees to volunteer. Montgomery County greenhouse and serving as a senior mentor and tutor to fellow students.

cbtrust.org 14 ANNUAL REPORT 2015 – 2016 cbtrust.org 15 ANNUAL REPORT 2015 – 2016 Since the inception of the Treasure the Chesapeake Gifts, Grants, and Partnerships How the Trust license plate program, the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration has been an exceptional partner of the Chesapeake is Funded Bay Trust. Thank you MVA and we look forward to working with Thank you to the hundreds of friends, corporations, foundations, organizations, and government and nonprofit partners who you for many years to come. have given so generously to the Chesapeake Bay Trust during the 2016 fiscal year. We are proud to be your partner and truly appreciate your support that helps fund so many worthwhile restoration and education projects. TAX DONATIONS TO HELP THE BAY The Chesapeake Bay and Endangered Species Fund on the Maryland state income tax form allows Marylanders to make a tax deductible Nick Fertig donation that helps the local environment and protects native wildlife. Over $300,000 $1,000 – $2,499 Anne Arundel County Government Anonymous Donor Andrew Sourlis and Susan Finkle Many thanks to the Office of the Comptroller of Maryland. MARYLANDERS SHOW THEIR BAY PRIDE Chesapeake Bay and Endangered Species Fund Annapolis Towne Centre Giant Foods Tax Check-off Contributors Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore The Samuel & Grace Gorlitz Foundation BY PURCHASING BAY LICENSE PLATES INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS Maryland Department of the BriteStar Mary Grant Individuals throughout the region and country entrust their resources Environment Donna Brown GreenVest to the Trust to administer grants throughout the watershed. Maryland Department of Natural Resources Lynn Buhl Phillip and Marian Griffiths Maryland State Highway Administration Calvert Marina Gunpowder Valley Conservancy Maryland Treasure the Chesapeake Center for Watershed Protection, Inc. Eric Hindman License Plate Owners Chesapeake Bay Foundation Mary-Scott Kaiser Montgomery County Government Virginia Clagett Scott and Karen Koppa National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Judith and Edwin Cohen Foundation Conni Kunzler Prince George’s County Government Corvias Solutions Rachel Lachow U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Austin Darden, Jr. Lori Lilly Alan and Lynda Davis Low Impact Development Center, Inc. $100,000 – $299,999 Jana Davis Jessica MacBride Baltimore City Government Matthew A. Earl Corey Mauzone Howard County Government Environmental Concern, Inc. M-NCPPC Special Programs Division National Oceanic and Atmospheric Gene Pittenger & Suzanne Pittenger-Slear Ken and Betsy Morrow Administration Environmental Quality Resources, Inc. The Nature Conservancy Town Creek Foundation Robert Ginsburg Donna Palmiotto Christoffer Graae Mr. and Mrs. Jerry F. Pelch, Jr. $30,000 – $99,999 Greenburg Gibbons Amy Peters ore than 400,000 drivers show their bay pride by Charles County Government The Hatcher Group Performance Environment Design Group (PEDG) John and Kim Quinn owning Treasure the Chesapeake vehicle license plates. City of Gaithersburg HeimLantz, Carter Heim Exelon Corporation, Constellation Energy Pamela Roeming The plates cost $20 and can be purchased online Achsah Henderson M and BGE Daniel Hexter Jennifer Schorr and Craig Sacks at bayplate.org, from your dealership, or online at the MVA. Hillsdale Fund Jen Family Charitable Trust Janell Schweickert The Bay plate not only looks great on vehicles, but proceeds Federal, State and Local Partners Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson (JMT) Ann and Tom Selle are administered through the Chesapeake Bay Trust to fund MARPAT Foundation Linowes and Blocher, LLP Martina Siwek restoration and education programs. The Trust distributes the The Trust collaborates with a host of federal, state and The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Scott Masterman Sustainable Science funds to projects and programs that benefit local communities. local agencies on its grant programs and specific initiatives National Park Service The MHE Foundation, Inc. Robin Toblin to support restoration and outreach programs throughout Rauch Foundation Mullen, Sondberg, Wimbish & Stone Alexander Vollmer Water Words that Work the watershed. William and Michele Nalls $10,000 – $29,999 North American Sea Glass Festival Association Weitzman • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Anne Arundel County Forestry Board Lester Poretsky Family Foundation Barbara and Rick Wurster Foundation Partners (NOAA) Agua Fund Pauline Reznicek $250 – $499 E. & J. Gallo Winery Barry Slevin • National Park Service Alice Ferguson Foundation Numerous foundation partners offer their funding and Prince Charitable Trust Andrew and Trudy Snope Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay expertise through jointly funded initiatives managed by the • U.S. EPA Chesapeake Bay Program U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Stormwater Maintenance & Consulting Annapolis Maritime Society Trust to raise awareness and further our shared mission of • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region III Michael and Jennifer Wargo $5,000 – $9,999 Association of Maryland Pilots enhancing Bay stewardship throughout the watershed. Water Protection Division Benjamin S. Wechsler Doppelt Family Foundation of the Jewish Baltimore Community Foundation • Agua Fund, Inc. • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Federation of Palm Beach $500 – $999 Margaret Bennett • Chesapeake Bay Funders Network • Maryland Department of Natural Resources Hannon Armstrong American Society of Landscape Architects Biohabitats Kegs and Corks Festival • Exelon Corporation, Constellation Energy, and BGE • Maryland Department of the Environment AnchoringPoint LLC, Tara Potter The Talbott and Ann Bond Family Foundation Linda Founds Rev Trust Evelyn Bond • Hillsdale Fund Angler Environmental • Maryland State Highway Administration M&T Bank Anne Arundel County Public Schools Timothy Bowders • MARPAT Foundation • Anne Arundel County Forestry Board The Nabit Foundation, Inc./Great Robert Book Brick Companies • Nabit Foundation/Great Chesapeake Bay Swim Chesapeake Bay Swim Douglas Brant Brown Advisory • Anne Arundel County Government Robert Robbins and Astrid Caldas Phil Bye • National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Katharine Brown • Baltimore City Government The Elise P. van Buren Foundation Charles P. Johnson & Associates The Ann and Frank Cahouet Foundation • Prince Charitable Trusts • Charles County Government Venable, LLP Elyse Cohen Capital Gifts & Awards, Inc. Chris Card • Rauch Foundation • Howard County Government $2,500 – $4,999 Lucas Cox-Galhotra DLA Piper Care2 • The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment ABC Events–MD Seafood Festival • Montgomery County Government Jeffery Dresher Jeffrey and Rebecca Carlisle Opinion Works • The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation • Prince George’s County Government Earth Data Incorporated Rachel Carren Straughan Environmental Chesapeake Environmental Management, Inc. • Town Creek Foundation • City of Gaithersburg Eden Contracting EMCO (Pave Drain) Michael and Nancy Chronister CityScape Engineering

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Jon Coile Partnerships for Ecological Janet Brown Diane Evans Thomas Joachim Marion Miller Larry and Leah-Curry Rood Stephanie Wasta The Community Foundation for Restoration, Inc. Marney Bruce Melanie Evans Dawn Johnson Barbara Miller Helene Rosenberg Earl Wayne the National Capital Region Danny Patry Arnold Bruckner Donald and Mary Fair Joanne Johnson Leonard and Mona Mitnick Edgar Rosenthal Mr. and Mrs. John Ways CREATIVE Signage Systems Daniel Pfaff Leo and Theresa Bruette Ronald Farrah C. Clark Jones Sally Moody Terry Ruffatto Ann Weeks Fae Daniels John Phelan III Joseph Brust and Jeannette Plante Carol Farris Mary Jo Jordan Judith Moore Teri Russell Marian Weems Scott Dennis Premier Fitness Eugene Brzezinski Larry Feather Jeffrey Jury Dagmar Morgan Lynn Rust Nina Weigner Brian Dillistin Ridge to Reefs David Bullen Theodore Fedders Edward Kaplan John Mossel Mr. and Mrs. Alan Salisbury David Weiss Ruth Dix Mr. and Mrs. John Rowe Erich Burger Kurt Feldmann Elizabeth Kappes Cheryl Murphy Bernice Sandler John Weiss III Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Doctrow Paul Rowe Elizabeth Burin Ellen Ficklen Barry Kasinitz Sheila Nebel Alexander Sarau Carol Welser EA Engineering, Science, and Dale Schumacher Charles Burns Patricia Finney Thomas Kaspar Timothy Neill Martin and Dawn Sarsfield Mike Welsh Technology, Inc., PBC The Rev. Canon Angela Shepherd Brian Butler First Clearing, LLC Sheldon Katz Dorothea Neiman Peter Schiff Mr. and Mrs. Roger Westphal EcoGardens Linda W Siecke Jordan Butler Janna Fitzgerald and Hans Tiefel Judie Keithley William Nichols Jon Schraft Jackie White Anne Elmlinger Janine Simmons Donna Byers Robert Fleer Douglas Kelso Evelyn Nolan Nancy Sebring Katherine White Brian Engler Terry and Susy Smith Teresa Calzonetti Gregory Flowers Mechelle Kerns Roger Nordquist Linda Serwatka Peter Wilhelm Envirocorp, Inc. Robert Summers Angela Campbell Jerry Forbes James Kindle Kevin Norris Barry Shender James Williams ER&M, Ecological Restoration Rita Svec Mary Campbell Arlene Ford Timothy King Samuel Norvell Anne Shewan Mr. and Mrs. Donald Williamson and Management Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Thomas Bruce Canham Dan and Elaine Frasier Glenn King Michael O'Brien Dick Shively John Williamson Craig Eranosian Jeffrey Toretsky Yvonne Carignan William Freyer Michael Klaus Phillip and Janine O'Brien Lynn Shoppell Jonathan Wilson Lee Fantone Philip True Carl Carlson Kate Fritz David Klubes Bruce Odessey Joyce Siegel Nancy Winchester Matt Fellowes Mr. and Mrs. James Tucker Mr. and Mrs. Roger Carpenter Daphne Fuentevilla Benjamin Klubes Lloyd Oliver Marjorie Siegelman Vivien Witheford John Ferguson E.W. Marshall Tucker James Chandler Harvey Galper John and Dionna Knight Humberto Olivera Phyllis Sisk R.W. and Lois Woodhouse Friends at Dahlgren Sandra Wax Nancy Chang James Geidel Ellis Knox J. Carol Osgood Darlene Smith Kathryn Wurster Michael Furst John Wells Esther Chapman Jerome Geraghty Jeffrey Kolb John Overton Jean and Lawrence Smith Mark Wynn Carol Giffen James & Deborah Wetzel Donna Chauvet Vera Gerovac Crystal Konny Glynn Owens Judith Smith Melissa Yanowitz Peter Grace William Chesnutt Evelyn Gilbert Karl Krieger Ruth and John Packard Lee Smith William Yeaman Gracefully Green $100 – $249 Genevieve Clemens Mr. and Mrs. John Gillett Steve Kronheim Gregory and Juliet Page Raymond and Linda Smith Laura Yeomans J. Erin Gruver Jerome Acks Rose Ann Cleveland James Gilmer III Donald Lambert Barry Palmer Mr. and Mrs. Sylvia Smyth John Yi Michael Heffner Adedoyin Adewodu Canal Clinic Stephen Girard James Langley Mr. and Mrs. Adam Panarese, Jr. Dahlia Sokolov Carroll Yingling Daniel Hely Donald Angert John Farrell and Nancy Colburn Molly Goldman Paul and Janice Larson Jean Pascoe Jean and David Spaans Rodney Yoder Terry Hess The Annapolis Naval Sailing Sandra Wallace Coleman Dawn Goodman Nancy and Doug Lashley Dean Patterson Lisa Spinazola Lucia Young Elizabeth Hoagey Association Foundation, Inc. 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Thomas Straehle Robert Acker Dave Jones Isam and Emma Ballenger Diann Creager Harry Harbin Ian Limbach Paul Pompier Warren Stringer Mark Addleson Virginia Kearney Dr. and Mrs. Paul Barrett Ronald and Joanne Creamer Jane Hardy Laurie and Leonard Lipton Robert Poole Richard Strom Deborah and Daniel Ahalt Kerns CRM Consultants Michael Barrett, Jr. Thomas Crowell Kathleen Hargrove Rosemary MacDonald Georgianna Porter Allen Stuhl Ann and Ron Albrecht Killarney House Shannon Barrow Gloria Cummings Carleton Harkins Marie Maddox Pauline Powell Mary Sugar John Alexander Charlotte Ludlow King Dr. and Mrs. Robert Batchelor Joan Cunningham Elizabeth Hartge Michael Mann Donald and Renate Powers Sharon Sweeney Gary Allen Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund Frederick C. Bath Franklyn Dailey Bridget Hartman, Jr. James Manzuk Lutz Prager Jim and Denise Swink William Allison Walter Kuehl Elizabeth Becker Harold Davis Betty Haslett The Marcom Group John Prugh System Source Foundation Roy Alvarez Lyn Lansdale James Beckstrom William Davis Caroline Hazard Joellen Marek Elsa Quiles John and Pat Taylor Margot Amelia Lehigh Valley Organic Growers, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bender Robert Deason Gail Henry Jerry Markowitz Edward Rankin Alfred Teuscher H. Ames III Lindquist Insurance Thomas Bensinger BRIAN Delgrosso Gregory Hicks Robbin Marks Nagaraj Rao C. Elizabeth Thater Betty Ammons Mr. and Mrs. S. William Livingston Anne Bent Leslie Derr Valerie Hirsch Paul and Marlene Marx Mary and Robert Rapczynski Charles Thorpe Robert Anderson Colin MacLachlan Cynthia Benton-Groner David Dienner Terry Hooper Karen Masken Russell Reno, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Tilghman Lauren Anthone Tyler Mahy Harvey Berger Robert Dooling Joseph Howard Steven Masterman Andrew Renzulli Patricia Toebe Thomas Armstrong Jill Masterman Richard Biggs Charles Dougherty Ann Hriciga Karen Matheson Robert W. Reynolds Dorothy Tompkins Michael S Ashford Elizabeth Masterson Diana June Blalock Scott Douglass Sue Hu Chuck McCarty Elaine Reynolds Darlene Townsend Emmanuel Atsalinos George McAleese Kathleen Block Gregory Dowd Charles Huber Marion McDermaid Eugenia Rhoten William Trapnell Robert Ausura Elizabeth McCall Daniel Bobowicz Ann Ducca Dr. and Mrs. Foster Hutchinson Robert and Elizabeth McGuire Edwin Richardson Sarah Trees Robert Avery Meadville Land Service, Inc. Darlene Bookoff Renee Dudley Margaret Hymes Sylvia McKnight Rebecca Ridgley Robert Tynes Christine Bailey Philip Metzler Robert Boublitz Arthur and Margaret Duggan Richard Hynson, Jr. Colleen McNamee Chris and Suzanne Riley Roger Umstott Alexandra Bair Mary Ann Miller Margaret Bounds Mr. and Mrs. Charles Eberhart Tricerat, Inc. Donald McNellis James and Ann Riley Judith Urbanczyk George Balas Morgan Stanley Wealth Allen Bowers Richard Eckersley Stephen Isaacson Christine McNerney Denise Rill Hermes Van Der Lee Tannis and Kent Baldwin Management Kay Bowers Edgar Eckert Nancy Izant Mr. and Mrs. James Menke James Roahen Wendy Jane Van Horn Joseph Ballou David and Melanie Mustone Charles Bowler, Jr. Pat Eden Jean Jacocks Edward Metcalf Shane Robinson Elmira Vogtmann Bradford Bangel Neighborhood Design Center Walter and Mary Ellen Boynton Bert Edwards Thomas Jameson Sally Meyer Admiral Samuel Rogers Barbara von Schilcher Claire Barile Sharon Nelson Tim Brennan Mr. and Mrs. Robert Edwards James Jamison William Michie Edward Rogers Chris Wacker Elisabeth Barnes Michelle Nicoll Marika Brown Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Emory Laurie Jenkins William Miller Sean Rogers Donald Wakefield Mr. and Mrs. David Barnstable Valerie Nyce Alice and Larry Brown Alexandra Evans Elizabeth Jewett

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Chris Barnum Peter Cascio Ann Duffey Eliot Girsang Andrea Hirsh Dolores Kent Christopher Martin George Niederehe June Bashkin James and Patricia Case Henry Dugan Bernard Glynn Susanne Hobbs Katherine Kerchner Gail Martinez Mary Nolt Mr. and Mrs. William Bateson Gregory Catrambone Arthur and Margaret Duggan Carol Goddard Joan and Jean Hoblitzell Alan Kerxton Mr. and Mrs. James Mason Stephanie Norrell Erica Baugh Nancy Catron John Dullahan Dean Goeldner Steven Hoffman Frances Kilcullen Elliot Maxwell Robert North Harry and Louanna Baxter Grace Chang Philip Dunn Judy Goldenberg Annie Holley Candy Kimball Marcia and Klaus May Robert Noyes Bennett Beach Marc Charpentier Mary Dunne Roya Golpira Catherine Holloway Bonnie Kind JG Mayor Terry O'Bryan Charles Beard Pamela Charshee Emily Durkee Christopher Goncalves Albert Holm Jessica Kirk Joyce Mayor Kevin O'Callaghan John and Priscilla Becker Dorothy Chidester Jeanne Dussault Vicki Goodman Sandra Kay Holmes Cody Klahold Paul Mazzi Michael O'Connell Judith Benkendorf Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Christian III Carol Duvall Robert Gorray Lisa Hopp Ronald Klauda Mr. and Mrs. Harrison McAlpine John Oleson Leslie Berman Dinah Christopher Susan Duvall Eleanor Gorsuch Joanne Horn Peter Klein Scott McClure Patricia O'Malley Toby Berman Susan Church Lauren Eagan Jeffrey and Cheryl Gramling Ruth Horowitz Miriam Klein Laura McCrory Alise Orloff Bonnie Berry Lorraine Claggett Thomas Earley Edith Grassi Joel Hoskowitz Janice Knepper Leo McDonagh Jr. Donna Oser Max Bertholf Alan Clardy Nancy Eason Bill Grauch Ernest Huckaby Charlotte and Gary Knipling Lizabeth McDowell Susan Otto Laura Bertran Thomas Clark Euna Edwards Jody Green, M.D. Howard Hughes Barbara Knox-Seith Jeanette McGee Olga Owens Margaret Black Camillia Clough Fern Edwards Roy Greene Lorraine Hughes Steve Kover Timothy McGrath Margaret Pagan Mr. and Mrs. Almore Blair Daniel Comegys, Jr. Theodore Einstein Richard Greenspun Janet Hunter Ronald Kraus Ann McGuirk Lane Page Mr. and Mrs. Toni Lee Blate Thomas Conger Elisa Elliot Nanette and Irvin Greif Gregory Hurtt thomas krebser Carol McHale Charles Palmer Lauren M Bloom Elizabeth Conklin Louise Emmert Gloria & Yaakov Gridley John Hutchinson Linwood Kulp Jr. Thomas and Christine McKeever Frederic Parsons Sophie Blumenfeld Michele Cooke Helen Endo Scott Gromacki Sara Hutchinson Kalla Kvalnes Kathleen McKenna Alfred Pavot Christine Blunt Joan Cooper Peter Engel Deborah Grossman David Hynson Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Labrum Judith McKevitt Carolyn Pelosi Donald Boerum Thomas Corcoran Mr. and Mrs. Hans Engler Alan Grubb Marc Imlay William Lancellotti Jr. Flynn McLean Kathleen Pencek Betty Borland Craig Cousin Farah Englert Karen Grumbine Elisabeth Immer Dorothy Landis Peter McLean Ronald Perkins Herman Bostick Douglas Cox J. Episcopo Beth Grupp Gwen Infante Charles Langley Hugh Mealy Melissa Peters Thomas Bottiglieri Patricia Crane Elma Erickson Joan Gugerty Roberto Iraola John Lapouraille Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Merchant D. Lee Alekel and Charles T. Peterson Sara Bowen Alexandra Crawford Frank Erk Pod Susan Gustafson Evan Jackson Madelyn Larkin David Mershon Rebecca Peterson Gail Boyar Sandra Creasy Terry Evangelista J Glenn Guy Susan Jackson-Stein Annette Lasley Francis Michelsen Eric and Carleen Petterson Irvin and Patricia Boyles Michael Dean Crouch Janet Evans Jacques Hadler Jr. Susan Jacobs Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lecren Patrick Michielli David Pettit William Brabant Helene Crystal J.G. Felton robert Hairfield Thelma Jacobs Harvey Lee Jan Migliaccio William Pheil Judith Brace Jesse Cunningham Brian Fennelly Shelly Hairston-Jones Diane Jacobsohn Jane Lee Daniel Miller Susan Phelps Angela Bradbery Susan Currie Patricia Ferraro William Haley William and Sharon Jahn III Cheryl Lee Joel Miller Bradley Phillips Diana Bradley Jacqueline Curro Jack Finkelstein Ridgway Hall Jr. Anne Jamison Elizabeth Lee Mr. and Mrs. David Miller Joseph and Maud Pinkney Jeffrey Brainard Frederick Cwiekowski Quentin Fischer Mr. and Mrs. Henry Haller Carol Jelich Robert Leheny Mr. and Mrs. Steven Miller Noreen Pleines Claire Braswell Linda Dane Farley Fisher Mary Hamlin Mollie Jenckes Phyllis Leins Carol Miller Sharon Pohlner Nancy Brazerol Michael David Mark Fitterman Arnold Hammann Margarette Jennings James Lemert Elizabeth Miller David and Ann Poltilove Ann Bride Hilliard Frauke Davidsen Lynne Fitzhugh Deborah Hanka Diana Jensen Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Lentz Margaret Miller David Power William Brieger Addison Davis IV Herbert Fleear, Jr. Sharon Hansen Scott Johnson Marie Louise Lerch Marissa Miller C. 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Gustavus Rice Daniel Sheehan John and Julia Thackrah Margaret Wilmore Chesapeake Bay Trust Kathy Richardson Melinda Sherbs Harriet Thomas Mary Wilson G. Paul and Marjorie Richter Douglas Shifflet Thomas Thomas Patricia Winston Lester Riegel, Sr. Kim Shifren George Thomas Eileen Wirtchafter Fiscal Year 2016 Financial Data Donald Righter Daniel Shively Margaret Thrasher Ronald Witko Paul Ringley Debra Shreve Todd Thurwachter Edward Paul Wizniak Debbie Risko Michael and Norma Shylanski Mr. and Mrs. George Tinker Rebecca Wolf Peter Ritzel Jr. Eric Siegel Kimberly Todd Eileen Wolfand Jared Roberts Diana Siemer Alexandra Totten Barbara Wolper William Robinson Julian Silk Anthony and Rosemary Trenkle, Mr. and Mrs. Jennings Wong Karen Robison Janet Silvers Sr. Thomas and Silva Woo William Roche James Simmons Mr. and Mrs. Bob Trice Gene Wood Russell Roegner Marjorie Simon Susan Tritinger Kathryn Wood Richard Romer Lisa Simpson Francis Troendle Kenneth Wood Barbra Rosdahl Virginia Skinner Betty Trosper Katherine Wood Robert Rose Danielle Slouf Tammy Truitt Josie Woodley-Jones Barbara Rosenberger Carole Small Vicki Tuke Robin Woods Gary Ross Linda Smith Robert and Olive Turnipseed, Sr Bryan Wood-Thomas REVENUE EXPENSE Amy Rothstein Margaret Smith Margaret Twilley Daniel Woodworth Contributions $ 4,471,689 Judith Rowe Wayde Smith Mr. and Mrs. G. Robert Tyson Elizabeth Wright Program Services B.J. Rowlett, Jr. Carol Smith Anjali Umar Allison Wright Grants and Partnerships $5,928,058 Program Grants and Projects $7,775,966 Nancy and George Rubenson Michelle Smith Jeanne Vacante Sandra Yeager Joan Rubin Stephen Smith Gwen Vacarro Frank and Eugene Young Net Investment Income $288,800 Program Management $1,166,904 William Rudd III E.C. Smith Florence Valentine Joyce Young Ronald Zabel Nuhad Ruggiero Jennifer Sohns Cynthia Van Ells Special Events $69,393 Total Program Services $8,942,870 Robert Runyan John Sondheim Wanda Van Goor Marzi Zang Susan Rush David and Lucille Sonnichsen Caroline Van Mason Mr. and Mrs. Alan Zatz Total Support and Revenue $10,757,940 James and Caroline Russel T.K. and Wei Tang Soong Carl and Carol Van Wyk Steven Zemsky Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Russell Regina Spallone Robert Vandevort Joanne Zimmerman Amelia Ryba Marjorie Sparer Bruno Vasta Nancy Zinn Support Services J. S. Mr. and Mrs. G.L. Sparlin Sally Vavrek Fundraising $440,233 Juanita Sala Jeff Spencer Richard Veach Sr. In Memory of… Peter Salsbury Michael Spiro David Verchomin Chris Baker Management and General $350,429 Brian Samuels Rosalie Sporn Margaret Vogel Millicent Beal William Sanders Mary Louella Starling Linda Vrooman Glenn Brengel Total Support Services $790,662 James Sanders Michael Stasuk Gail Waesche Peter Furness Frank Sanford Thomas and Barbara Statas Clare Walker Elizabeth Haught Carole Sargent Adrienne Stefan Zoe Warner Juddy Henderson Krista Schejbal Joseph Stein III Cheryl Wasmund Jay McAleese Dave Schelle Rudolph and Ann Stewart Mr. and Mrs. Howard Waters Arthur Sherwood TOTAL EXPENSES $9,733,532 Margaret Schelts George Stimak Karen Watt Shawn Tagg Change in Net Assets $1,024,408 Patricia Schenk John Stockett Mary Ellen Waugh Sol Schindler Joan and Peter Stogis Diana Weatherby In Honor of… Serra Schlanger J.E. Stoney Edward and Janis Weisberg Conservation efforts in Ronald Schlesinger Eleanor Storck Stephanie Weiss Susquehanna River Valley, PA Edward Schmidt Lisanna Stotts Holly Welch Jana Davis, Ph.D. Overall Expenses Richard Schneible Paul Stout Jr. Katelin Welles Pam and Sheldon Franck Program Services $8,942,870 91.99% June Schneider Mary Louise Stransky Betty Wells Judith and Charles Goedeke Karen Schneider George Strattner Susanne Wells Maya Groner Fundraising $440,233 4.59% Matthew Schneider Baird Straughan Sandra Wenger Gary Hedges Kenneth Schnepp Jr. Micheal Stricker Donna Wenzel Richard A. Jamison Management and General $350,429 3.67% Mr. and Mrs. Carl Schulten Richard Strom Christine Werner Skip and Sue Kauffman Diane Schulz Dorothy Stronsky Kendra Westervelt Suzanne B. Kirk Deborah Schwab George Sushinsky Margaret Weston Peter Lyons Mary Schwartz David Sutter Glenn White Jr. Masterman Family Lois Schwoerer Richard Talarigo Laurie White Lawrence Page John Scott Nancy and Neil Talbot William Whitman Mr. and Mrs. Richard Romer Thomas Scott III Carolyn Talcott Marianne Wilburn Soledad Salame Please see the Trust’s audited financial statements (available on the Trust’s George Seal Marcus Tallant Bettye Wilkinson Susan Trosper and Robert Nethen website) and the accompanying notes, which are an integral part of the Sally Sellman Barbara Taylor Stephen Will financial statements. Nomi Seltzer Elizabeth Taylor Kenneth Williams Annual program expenses may be lower than annual awards because Susan Sepelak Sarah Taylor Rogers Ronald Williams portions of grant awards are paid out in future fiscal years. William Sewell Beth Terhorst Jeanne Williams Jack Sharretts Ryan Terry Mary Louise Williamson

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