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Annual Report 2016 ANNUAL REPORT Choose Clean Water Coalition 20 Ridgely Ave, Suite 203, Annapolis, MD 21401 www.choosecleanwater.org DEAR FRIENDS OF THE CHOOSE CLEAN WATER COALITION, We are pleased to present you with the Choose Clean Water Coalition’s STEERING first ever Annual Report, highlighting the incredible successes that we ABOUT THE COALITION as a coalition have achieved over the past year. More than 220 members COMMITTEE 2016 worked together to advocate for meaningful change for the Chesapeake Bay watershed at the local, regional, and federal level. We forged new * The Choose Clean Water Coalition harnesses the collective power alliances with important stakeholders, launched a region-wide strategic of more than 220 groups to advocate for clean rivers and streams communications campaign to drive change, and made an unprecedented in all communities in the Chesapeake region. By mobilizing the commitment to bring increased diversity, equity, and inclusion to advocacy community and coordinating policy, messaging, action, 225 MEMBERS our community. and accountability, the Coalition is able to speak louder with one of the Choose Clean By collaborating on these goals as a Coalition, we are able to achieve more. voice toward our collective goal – clean water. Water Coalition Looking to 2017 and beyond, we are adapting our approaches to address a * changing landscape. Recognizing the importance of the agricultural sector to *+ WHAT THE COALITION CAN PROVIDE our clean water goals, we adopted a new policy priority for 2017 focusing on agriculture. With a changed federal outlook, our efforts at the state and local TO MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS INFORMATIONAL level to reduce pollution are more important than ever. WEBINARS When we harness the collective power of the region’s advocacy community The Coalition supports member organizations through advocacy CONDUCTED to accomplish our goals, we will achieve long lasting success for clean water. and policy support, communications assistance, and information 9 sharing and networking. ADVOCACY AND POLICY SUPPORT ADVOCACY Jill Witkowski Heaps The Coalition advocates for meaningful change at the federal LETTERS Director level, as well as through state-specific, targeted campaigns which 19 advance strong policy, greater accountability, and increased funding for water quality improvement. + + 95 ORGANIZATIONS COMMUNICATIONS ASSISTANCE SIGNED ON TO How we communicate about clean water is vital to our success. Coalition staff and outside communication professionals assist in COALITION developing and implementing messages that articulate clean water ADVOCACY LETTERS goals to our audiences, including local decision makers. INFORMATION SHARING AND NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES JILL WITKOWSKI HEAPS CHANTÉ COLEMAN KRISTIN REILLY facebook.com/choosecleanwater Director Deputy Director Communications Manager With more than 220 members, the Coalition offers significant opportunities and resources for information sharing and networking @ChooseCleanH2O between organizational members through workgroups, state specific + calls, pass-through grants, webinars, and our annual conference. @choosecleanwater + Policy Priorities Photo courtesy of the Chesapeake Bay Program FEDERAL POLLUTION STORMWATER SHALE ENVIRONMENTAL AGRICULTURE Promote and defend LIMITS Strengthen policies Protect public JUSTICE *New in 2017: and permits to stop Ensure the DAVID MORGAN PETER MARX KIM SNELL-ZARCONE * Co-chair federal policies and Ensure Chesapeake health, communities Promote environmental + State or investment that polluted runoff in and regional water agricultural Water Policy Associate Federal Affairs, Agriculture, Outreach Lead Bay pollution limits justice to ensure support Chesapeake urbanized areas. resources from the underserved and sector achieves Contractor Contractor continue to make Bay watershed progress towards impacts of natural overburdened pollution reductions restortation and returning clean gas development. communities share necessary to reach SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR STATE AND OUTREACH LEADS protection efforts. water to the region. equitably in the benefits the 2017 and 2025 Ben Alexandro • Mariah Davis • Brenna Goggin • David Lillard • of clean water. water quality goals. Trieste Lockwood • Jennifer Quinn • Michael Sellitti 2 | Choose Clean Water Coalition choosecleanwater.org | 3 COALITION SUCCESS HIGHLIGHTS IN 2016 NY: In an effort to engage more organizations from the far northern areas of the watershed, the Coalition partnered with the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, the Sidney Center Improvement Group, and other local member organizations to host the First Annual Upper Susquehanna Watershed Forum in Oneonta, New York. The day brought together over 90 WATERSHED-WIDE: This past year, people from the EPA, state agencies, over 60 Coalition members attended the 4th local government, academia, and the Annual Chesapeake Bay Day on Capitol non-profit sector, to discuss the state Hill. The visit was a key component of our of the Upper Watershed, build new lobbying efforts to secure $73 million for partnerships, and share successes. the Environmental Protection Agency’s Chesapeake Bay Program, and $12 million specifically for on the ground restoration projects in the watershed. PA: The Coalition was MD: Our Maryland state lead instrumental in working with and Maryland Coalition members Congress and the Obama worked together to collect more Administration to allocate than 50 stormwater success WATERSHED-WIDE: In an effort to $28.8 million for agricultural stories from across Maryland increase communications capacity around conservation in south-central to highlight on the ground the watershed, the Coalition launched a Pennsylvania. Coalition staff projects that reduce stormwater strategic communications campaign. The advocated for the funding pollution. The Coalition plans campaign brought together advocates and to White House officials and to use these stories to educate used polling to identify messaging and worked with the EPA and US local government officials about themes around clean water issues that Department of Agriculture on stormwater projects and the resonate with Pennsylvania, Maryland DC: In October 2016, the Anacostia the proposal. need for robust local financing. and Virginia residents. The research will Watershed Society co-hosted the help identify untapped audiences in the Festival del Rio Anacostia, a multicultural Chesapeake Bay watershed that are primed and bilingual celebration designed to for action for clean water. engage local Latinos in the restoration DE: The Delaware Nature Society secured legislation to create a Clean of the Anacostia River. Over 300 people Water and Flood Abatement Task Force that examined the issues facing attended, most of them local families and Delaware’s water quality and recommended creating a related to a dedicated other members of the public. funding source to address the state’s $100 million water funding shortfall. WV: The West Virginia Rivers Coalition launched its 2016 OneWatershed initiative, a program designed to connect local watershed organizations with high school and college students. The REGIONAL: In February, the Coalition fellows analyzed each partnered with the Audubon Naturalist watershed group’s Society on its first-ever Black History Month website, newsletters, and Event titled Taking Nature Black. Over 100 social media for “youth VA: In response to major gas pipeline proposals through the Central Appalachians, people attended this day-long celebration, appeal” and created Coalition members Shenandoah Valley Network, Wild Virginia, West Virginia Rivers which brought together environmentalists event and outreach plans Coalition, Southern Environmental Law Center, and Shenandoah Riverkeeper helped and naturalists from the region to participate for upcoming events launch two highly-effective partnerships. The 51-member Allegheny-Blue Ridge in listening sessions and panel discussions designed to engage Alliance and the environmental watchdog Dominion Pipeline Monitoring Coalition are on environmental advocacy, working cross- younger demographics. drawing attention to the risks of pipeline construction through rugged forest terrain culturally, and living green. and Bay headwater streams. 4 | Choose Clean Water Coalition choosecleanwater.org | 5 THANK YOU TO THE AMAZING WORK OF OUR COALITION MEMBERS! 2016 CONFERENCE National American Canoe Association • American Rivers • Center for Progressive Reform • Civil War Trust • Clean Water Action • HIGHLIGHTS Defenders of Wildlife • Ducks Unlimited • Earth Force • Earthworks • Environment America • Environmental Working Group • Izaak Walton League of America • National Aquarium • National Parks Conservation Association • National Wildlife Federation • Natural Resources The Coalition’s annual conference is Defense Council • Nature Abounds • Pick Up America • Restore America’s Estuaries • River Network • Theodore Roosevelt Conservation designed to foster an environment to Partnership • Trout Unlimited share ideas, learn communications strategies, and build relationships among Regional Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay • Anacostia Riverkeeper • Anacostia Watershed Society • Audubon Maryland/DC • Audubon our member organizations. In 2016, Naturalist Society • Chesapeake Bay Foundation • Chesapeake Foodshed Network • Chesapeake Legal Alliance • Chesapeake Stormwater Network • Coalition for Smarter Growth • Green Muslims • Interfaith Partners for the Chesapeake • Interfaith Power and Light (MD. DC. more than 240 people from across
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