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