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2016–2017 Grants and Projects 2016–2017 GRANTS AND PROJECTS Arlington Echo Outdoor Education ANNE ARUNDEL Center, $1,250 for a bioretention Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, The Chesapeake Bay Trust facility, which will be integrated into the $14,907 for the Mount Moriah Church 4th grade curriculum works with many funding rain garden Chesapeake Conservancy, $74,997 for Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, partners to collaboratively developing high-resolution stream and $49,085 for a watershed education waterbody datasets for the Chesapeake program for elected officials support natural resource Bay watershed Annapolis Elementary School, $3,098 Gravely Property Owners Association, projects in several key areas for 30 students to learn about the $2,500 for forest stewardship: to remove bay, clean up a park, and produce an invasives and plant trees environmental art piece iCARRe Foundation, $4,505 for rain Annapolis Green, $250 to support barrels, trees, and an educational video EDUCATION Annapolis Drive Electric Week with youth from two churches Annapolis Maritime Museum, $1,345 We advance environmental education Magothy River Association, $31,044 to remove invasives and litter and clear through student experiential for a rain garden at Wee Lad & Lassie Early trails at Back Creek Nature Park learning, outdoor experiences, and Learning Center Annapolis Maritime Museum, $1,244 Maryland Association of Floodplain curriculum development. for the “Right Catch,” a program to and Stormwater Managers, $2,000 for promote local sustainable seafood a stormwater conference Anne Arundel County Public Schools, RESTORATION Maryland Environmental Service, $5,000 for environmental education $1,212 for a research project to compare professional development for 20 teachers We support the restoration of our thermal discharge of wet detention ponds bays, rivers, streams, forests, parks, and Anne Arundel Watershed Stewards and submerged gravel wetlands Academy, $40,000 to train homeowners other natural systems in ways that Maryland Municipal League, $48,875 with tools to reduce stormwater pollution engage communities and individuals. for a demonstration stormwater retrofit Anne Arundel Watershed Stewards project on its campus Academy, $355,549 for stormwater Maryland Water Monitoring Council, management and living shoreline on COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT $1,000 to support a water quality Cattail Creek We foster human connection to monitoring conference Arlington Echo Outdoor Education MD Department of Natural our natural resources using methods that Center, $1,250 for rain barrels and a Resources–Tidewater, $2,000 for a native plant and monarch garden at promote ownership and long-lasting submerged aquatic vegetation workshop changes in attitudes and behaviors. Van Bokklen Elementary School SCIENCE AND INNOVATION We work to advance science in many arenas in which we fund, such as best practices in environmental education, social science to change behaviors, and efficacy of restoration practices. THANK YOU TO OUR PARTNERS! We extend our thanks to our many federal, state, local, corporate, and foundation partners who enable us to expand our reach and make these projects possible. For a PHOTO: WILL PARSON/CHESAPEAKE BAY PROGRAM list of our partners, see page 16. Annapolis Maritime Museum’s The Right Catch pilot outreach program aims to help consumers and businesses make responsible seafood choices. cbtrust.org 1 ANNUAL REPORT 2016 – 2017 2016–2017 Grants and Projects Episcopal Church of Christ the King, $2,983 for rain barrels and cisterns on church property Gunpowder Valley Conservancy, $73,964 for demonstration stormwater practices to engage angling and hunting communities in water quality issues Halstead Academy, $4,900 for field trips and storm drain stenciling for 150 4th and 5th graders Halstead Academy, $4,480 for field trips and storm drain stenciling for 150 3rd and 5th graders Immaculate Conception School, $5,000 for field trips and learning about human impact on Jones Falls Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin, $4,980 for environmental PHOTO: CHESAPEAKE BAY PROGRAM education professional development for Recreational fishers are connected to environmental stewardship principles through grants like the 11 teachers one to Gunpowder Valley Conservancy. Irvine Nature Center, $1,067 to train North County High School, $1,059 South River Federation, $30,000 for a Chesapeake Conservation Corps members for an oyster raise and release project bioswale and pond retrofit at the United on service-learning programs Old Mill Middle South, $1,450 for a Church of Christ Irvine Nature Center, $1,250 to develop water quality field experience for 54 South River Federation, $13,722 watershed health service-learning curricula 6th graders and a campus action project for reforestation efforts at Historic for K-12 students Olde Severna Park Improvement Londontown Gardens Maryland Association for Association, $700 to remove invasive South River Federation, $199,990 Environmental and Outdoor species from 2 acres of wetlands to quantify effectiveness of stormwater Education, $1,000 to support an OpinionWorks, $112,000 to quantify management practices at a watershed environmental education conference current adoption rate of citizen scale for teachers stewardship behaviors South River Federation, $15,000 Stevenson University, $3,641 for a Scenic Rivers Land Trust, $97,672 to to develop an action plan for county stream cleanup at Gwynn Falls for permanently protect 12 acres of the watershed groups 60 middle school students Palisades Forest Tract The Preserve at Broad Creek Tetra Tech, $39,833 to evaluate potential Scenic Rivers Land Trust, $300,938 Homeowners Association, $47,000 toxic reduction benefits of wastewater to permanently protect 93 acres of the for a living shoreline treatment plant upgrades Cranberry Woods Forest Tract Versar, $180,408 to quantify trade-offs University of Maryland Baltimore Scenic Rivers Land Trust, $105,455 to on different natural resources of County, $19,916 for advancing best permanently protect 32 acres of critical restoration techniques practices and effective use of pervious concrete stormwater systems area in the Herring Bay Forest Tract Waterkeepers Chesapeake, $52,000 Scenic Rivers Land Trust, $1,000 for a for an SAV monitoring program University of Maryland College Park, workshop on conservation easements $198,332 to quantify the effects of riparian deforestation on groundwater South River Federation, $27,548 to BALTIMORE quality identify environmental needs of and Catonsville Elementary School, $1,180 engage the Hispanic community for a boat-based field trip for 88 4th graders BALTIMORE CITY South River Federation, $21,200 for a Association of Baltimore Area Catonsville Presbyterian Church, living shoreline project incorporating oysters Grantmakers, $10,253 to increase $10,700 to design stormwater practices information gathering capacity on justice, South River Federation, $128,940 to treat impervious surface for stormwater retrofits and stream equity, and public health issues Catonsville Presbyterian Church, restoration in the headwaters of Flat Creek Baltimore City Public Schools, $40,000 $4,975 to remove invasive species and to add a schoolyard assessment South River Federation, $377,100 for enhance a woodland the Twin Harbors shoreline project component to the systemic 5th grade Center for Watershed Protection, watershed science unit South River Federation, $86,665 for a $200,000 for research on the stormwater Baltimore Lab School, $5,000 for field living shoreline and oyster restoration at treatment value of urban trees Turnbull Estates trips for 134 1st-12th grade students Cromwell Valley Elementary School, Baltimore Tree Trust, $74,737 for urban South River Federation, $169,900 for a $5,000 for 65 students to attend a field street trees groundwater recharge wetland project trip and build a native habitat garden cbtrust.org 2 ANNUAL REPORT 2016 – 2017 2016–2017 Grants and Projects Baltimoreans United In Leadership Friends of Herring Run Parks, $24,475 Pigtown Main Street, $75,000 Development, $10,253 for program for a park cleanup and litter prevention for Green Street elements along development and evaluation of existing program Washington Boulevard services Govans Presbyterian Church, $68,907 Saint Ignatius Loyola Academy, $2,085 Blue Water Baltimore, $50,000 to for a bioretention system to treat for an oyster restoration project for increase community research and stormwater from the church parking lot 30 7th graders facilitation skills training Green School of Baltimore, The, $2,345 Southeast Community Development Blue Water Baltimore, $10,254 to for 125 students to participate in outdoor Corporation, $10,253 to increase support green workforce development field experiences leadership capacity for strategic planning initiatives Hamilton Elementary/Middle School, St. David’s Church, $22,506 to design Blue Water Baltimore, $50,000 for $4,000 for outdoor education for 70 4th a rain garden system engaging the removal of impervious surface and tree graders to learn about litter and runoff congregation planting in Druid Heights Interfaith Partners for the Chesapeake, St. Ignatius Catholic Community, Blue Water Baltimore, $1,246 for $10,254 for organizational development $1,417 for the “Our Common Home: a public event on Gwynns Falls and strategic planning Reflection and Action” program to watershed health Lakeland Elementary/Middle School, connect spirituality and environmental Booker T Washington Middle School, $5,000 for 80 students to study marine
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