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Celebrating 35 Years 6 20 CELEBRATING 35 YEARS 1 2019-2020 Year in Review WILDLIFE & HABITAT 157,836 native trees, pollinator plants, marsh grasses, and other native plants installed 34 acres of forests, stream buffers, meadow, and wetlands created or restored 28 acres of invasive species removed 295,595 oysters and fish raised and released STORMWATER 80 acres of impervious surface treated or removed 59,384 square feet of rain gardens created 213 storm drains stenciled 317 rain barrels installed 76,136 pounds of trash removed, including single-use plastics that choke wildlife and harm our ecosystems’ health EDUCATION & OUTREACH 48,199 students engaged by 2,758 teachers 50,219 people educated through 1,826 workshops 14,681 volunteers engaged, donating 117,008 hours cbtrust.org ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 2 CHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST The Chesapeake Bay Trust is a nonprofit, grant-making FISCAL YEAR 2020 GOVERNOR-APPOINTED TRUSTEES organization working towards a vision of healthy and safe watersheds in Maryland and the Chesapeake Bay region by CHAIR OF THE BOARD TREASURER empowering diverse groups to take actions that enrich natural Gary Jobson F. Carter Heim Jobson Sailing, Inc. HeimLantz, P.C. resources and local communities. Since 1985, the Trust has VICE CHAIR SECRETARY awarded more than $130 million in grants and projects for Benjamin S. Wechsler Dr. Erica Anthony Yumkas, Vidmar, Sweeney, Morgan State University education, watershed restoration, capacity building, and science & Mulrenin that have engaged over two million dedicated individuals. Coretta Bennett The Honorable Johns Hopkins University David Fraser-Hidalgo Maryland House of Delegates J. Robert Bradshaw Our Core Values Joseph Farren Jason Keppler Porter Novelli Maryland Department LEARNING of Agriculture Joe Koch The Trust is constantly learning from a wide range of constituencies, Washington Area New Automobile COUNCILMEMBERS including our collaborators, our grantees, and our critics, and is willing Dealers Association and able to embrace new approaches that help us meet our goals. Beth Caro Anthony Murray Leigh Tag and Title Service of Maryland U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs SCIENCE AND INNOVATION Thomas C. Ervin The Trust uses the best available natural and social scientific Dr. Thomas Miller The Snyder-Ervin Group Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, information to guide our actions. Where needs or information gaps University of Maryland Center for Dr. Rhonda Jeter exist, the Trust supports the pursuit of new tools and information. Environmental Science Bowie State University The Honorable Todd Morgan Vernice Miller-Travis ENGAGEMENT OF A GRANTEE COMMUNITY St. Mary’s County Board of Metropolitan Group Our vision of healthy natural resources for all relies on a wide range Commissioners John Quinn of types of groups. Power exists in giving local on-the-ground Bryan Offutt BGE groups ownership of projects that make a difference. E3 Ranch Company TRUSTEES COUNCIL DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION Thomasina Poirot Venable LLP The Honorable John Astle The watershed will not be restored without a broad range of John R. Valliant The Honorable Virginia Clagett communities investing in their natural resources, reaping the benefits Grayce B. Kerr Fund Paul Allen of a healthier environment and economic and health co-benefits. Peter Byrnes Success hinges on understanding and connecting to the values and EFFECTIVE JULY 2020: Fran Flanigan interests of diverse, often under-engaged communities. Alexander G. Núñez John Griffin BGE FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY Warren Hamel The Trust holds itself to the highest standards as the steward of EX OFFICIO TRUSTEES Bob Hoyt contributions made to the Trust. The Honorable Pam Beidle Virginia Kearney Maryland State Senate Midgett Parker TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY Lee Currey Martin Poretsky The Trust uses transparent and rigorous decision-making in its Maryland Department of the Tara Potter management of contributions made to the Trust, in implementing Environment Terence Smith our grant-making programs, and in operating internally. Matt Fleming Melanie Teems Maryland Department of Natural Resources ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 cbtrust.org 1 Letter from the Executive Director The year 2020 was transformational for almost everyone: nonprofits, for profits, governments all struggling with changing revenue streams amidst dealing with personal impact as a result of the novel coronavirus and the illness it causes, COVID-19. We feel so fortunate at the Chesapeake Bay Trust to still be standing strong at the end of our Fiscal Year 2020. The main reason is the unbelievable resilience of our grantees and our partners, who showed how adaptable and ingenious they are as a community and how quickly we can all adjust. Our educator grantees shifted to virtual learning, and adeptly brought their environmental stewardship work to that forum. Instead of large group field trips, teachers offered outdoor lessons students could do independently at home. Our community group grantees did not give up on their projects; they simply found a way to enable physical distancing. One of our favorite stories is a church rain garden project that was initially envisioned as a group volunteer planting day. The organizers ingeniously shifted to a “plant by number” (after the “paint by number”) model that volunteers could undertake at different times but still feel part of a larger effort. Our researchers got back in the field as soon as they could to continue data collection. Most importantly, a larger audience than we ever hoped for began to understand the value of the outdoors because indoor venues were closed. Fishing license applications CHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST STAFF skyrocketed, visits to local parks exploded, and people Jana Davis, Ph.D. RESTORATION PROGRAMS found natural resource gems in their backyards they never Executive Director Sadie Drescher knew existed. Director of Programs FINANCE AND for Restoration ADMINISTRATION More and more people are beginning to understand what Jeanne Nelson Jeffrey Popp science has shown us for decades: People who spend time Senior Program Officer outdoors are healthier, which means they likely have fewer Controller Sarah Koser underlying conditions, which means they are poised to be Heather Adams Senior Program Officer able to withstand attacks like COVID-19 better. We need to Administration Officer make sure ALL of our residents have access to healthy, clean, Sarah Higgins Nguyen Le green outdoor spaces, and that we work to solve race-based, Office Manager Program Coordinator socioeconomics-based, and other disparities in this access. Millicent Goodger Katherine Somoza-Garcia Accounting Consultant Program Assistant In the pages that lie ahead is our portfolio of the $11.1 Emma Cwalinski million in projects the Trust was able to fund this year, Sandi Hiller Accounting Consultant Intern through the Chesapeake Bay vehicle license plate, donation line on the state tax form, multiple partnerships with other OUTREACH AND DEVELOPMENT, funders, and other sources that reach such incredibly diverse EDUCATION PROGRAMS MARKETING, AND audiences in every corner of our watersheds. Taken together, COMMUNICATIONS these 350 projects tell the story that hundreds of thousands of Kacey Wetzel Director of Programs for Kelly Swartout people care about our natural resources, want to take action, Outreach and Education Director of Development and will find a way to do so even in light of COVID-19. and Marketing Tara Drennan Senior Program Officer Terry Pompey Marketing Officer Bre’Anna Brooks Program Officer Nikki Tyree Development Coordinator Emily Stransky Program Officer Kristina Arreza Intern Jana Davis, Ph.D. Joseph Toolan Executive Director Program Assistant cbtrust.org ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 2 The Chesapeake Bay Trust works 2019-2020 Grants and Projects with many funding partners to collaboratively support natural Arundel Rivers Federation, $1,456 to plant ALLEGHANY trees, shrubs, and marsh plants to help resources projects in several key Allegany County Recycling, $1,250 to stabilize a shoreline in the West Shoreham create a used cooking oil drop off site for Community topic areas: future recycling into biofuels Arundel Rivers Federation, $102,807 to The Nature Conservancy, $1,250 design the Quiet Waters Park Caffrey’s Run EDUCATION: to quantify biological impacts of fire on stream restoration project. We advance environmental education resiliency of Appalachian forests through student experiential learning, Arundel Rivers Federation, $364,225 to restore 3,760 linear feet of stream and outdoor experiences, professional ANNE ARUNDEL riparian buffer in Broad Creek Park development for teachers, and curriculum development. Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, $15,778 Arundel Rivers Federation, $349,312 to for communications tools and processes restore 2118 linear feet of stream in the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, $1,225 Beards Creek watershed RESTORATION: to develop an experiential watershed and Arundel Rivers Federation, $43,198 to We support the restoration of our bays, agriculture curriculum for middle schoolers restore 1300 linear feet of stream at the Girl rivers, streams, forests, parks, and other Scout Camp Woodlands natural systems in ways that engage Annapolis Elementary School PTA, $4,315 for field experiences at Back Creek Nature Chesapeake Conservancy, $54,000 for communities and individuals. Park and via boat on the Severn River for 30 environmental project technical assistance students to private landowners COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT: Annapolis Green, $750 to showcase a Chesapeake
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