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.

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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 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 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

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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 stewardship $5,000 for 15 6th graders to attend a debris and conduct a litter/recycling project St. Paul’s School, $4,979 for ship-board series of field trips Lakeland Elementary/Middle School, field trips for 211 K-4th grade students Canton Canopy, $18,050 for new tree $5,000 for 30 students to study litter St. Vincent de Paul Roman Catholic pits and street trees issues at Masonville Cove Congregation, $45,058 to design filters, Cecil Elementary School, $5,000 for Maree Garnett Farring Elementary rain gardens, and pervious pavement to 100 students to collect oyster shells for School, $5,000 for 30 students to take a treat parking lots the Oyster Recovery Partnership field trip and study litter issues Tetra Tech, $40,892 for educational Civic Works, $30,000 for a green MedStar Harbor Hospital, $70,066 for signage for vacant lot greening projects jobs stormwater training program for the design of stormwater practices to The Episcopal Church of the Holy undeserved residents treat impervious surface and create green Covenant, $54,444 for rain gardens on recovery spaces Civic Works, $20,625 for the green church property elements of the new Milton Preston Peace National Aquarium, $17,020 for a litter The Midtown Academy, $4,645 for an Park in a Berea/Milton vacant lot reduction program, community art, and environmental art project and storm drain greening in South Baltimore stenciling for 44 students National Aquarium, $25,000 to connect Thomas Johnson Elementary School, real-time Inner Harbor water quality $5,000 for a field trip and community monitoring to middle school curricula cleanup for 50 6th graders Neighborhood Design Center, $10,254 Transforming Life Church of God, to create and implement a development $3,432 for a cistern to treat plan stormwater and provide water to Parks & People Foundation, $5,000 a community garden for an outdoor field experience for TRF Development Partners, $10,253 for 50 9th graders program development and evaluation of Parks & People Foundation, $2,500 for existing services a water-based field trip for 50 high school Tunbridge Public Charter School, Civic Works' Baltimore Center for Green Careers students on the Middle Branch $2,341 for an outdoor field experience delivers comprehensive, certification-based job for 68 6th graders and to install a skills training in stormwater management. Parks & People Foundation, $1,250 for a training program on how to raise rain garden Association, seedlings for community greening Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore, $29,477 for a campus water quality Parks & People Foundation, $25,000 $25,000 for social media outreach to improvement master plan to create a green space in a vacant lot in increase water quality awareness Druid Heights Community Darley Park Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore, Development Corporation, $50,700 for Patterson Park Audubon Center, $30,000 for a rain garden at Harris a vacant lot greening project $10,253 to create and implement Creek Park Druid Heights Community a development plan for long-term Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore, Development Corporation, $1,250 sustainability $1,249 for materials and workshops for towards transforming two vacant lots into Patterson Park Audubon Center, the Highlandtown Alley Makeover green spaces $30,000 for engagement of Latino users Wildlife Habitat Enhancement Flight 1 Carriers, $2,659 for workshops of the park in bird programs Council, $1,000 for sponsorship of a about impact of natural Peoples’ Community Lutheran Church, conservation conference disasters and climate change on $41,785 to design a retrofit project to communities and the Bay treat parking lot stormwater

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Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy, CALVERT $22,284 for an urban tree inventory and American Chestnut Land Trust, $1,133 installation in Greensboro for a fish, shellfish, and water quality survey of Parkers Creek Town of Templeville, $15,000 for a stormwater project in the town park Calvert County Treasurer, $5,000 for a field trip for 640 9th graders to Battle Creek Cypress Swamp CARROLL University of Maryland Center for Carroll County Forest Conservancy Environmental Science (UMCES), District Board, $4,907 to support a $29,998 to measure abundance of 2000-tree planting effort bottlenose dolphins in the Chesapeake Bay Carroll Soil Conservation District, University of Maryland Center for $120,500 to design a stream restoration/ Environmental Science (UMCES), wetland complex $49,589 to study environmental factors affecting the juvenile blue crab abundance CECIL UMCES researchers evaluate juvenile blue crab University of Maryland Center for Cecil County Government, $75,000 for survivorship. Environmental Science (UMCES), stormwater retrofits at two schools $199,314 for research on impact of living Friends of the Bohemia, $5,000 for United Way of Charles County, shorelines on seagrass beds a citizen science water quality $30,000 for whole-family watershed monitoring program programming targeting at-risk neighborhoods CAROLINE The Ocean Foundation, $46,106 to work Adkins Arboretum, $14,410 to enhance with boaters to learn to protect seagrass a demonstration wetland DORCHESTER Adkins Arboretum, $1,500 for a native Bucktown Village Foundation, $27,625 garden training activity for the Chesapeake CHARLES for a living shoreline project at a kayak Charles Soil Conservation District, Conservation Corps rental facility at Blackwater $4,800 to support stormwater and Adkins Arboretum, $21,554 to design agricultural best management practices Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy, bioretention, rain gardens, and pervious $74,752 to develop an environmental Mattawoman Watershed Society, surface to treat parking lot stormwater stewardship program for houses of $3,118 to teach homeowners about worship Adkins Arboretum, $1,250 for a native practices that can improve and protect plant garden at the Arboretum entrance Mattawoman tributaries Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy, $35,994 for an assessment of the Delmarva Resource Conservation and Port Tobacco River Conservancy, Cambridge Creek watershed Development Council, $1,250 for a $10,605 for design of the Dr. James wetland planting project and bird habitat Craik Elementary School Outdoor workshop for a local Girl Scout troop Classroom FREDERICK Chesapeake Bay Foundation, $17,805 Environmental Concern, $29,620 to Town of Indian Head, $12,500 for stream buffers and technical assistance treat stormwater through wetlands in the to design a stormwater retrofit in for Upper Potomac farmers Town of Ridgely Mattingly Park Frederick County Office of Sustainability and Environmental Resources, $1,215 for a storm drain stenciling project Hood College: Center for Coastal and Watershed Studies, $1,250 for harmful algal bloom research Land and Cultural Preservation Fund, $50,000 for tree planting and a riparian buffer on Tuscarora Creek and Monocacy River Poolesville High School, $1,614 for a rain garden project for 82 high school students Potomac Conservancy, $29,998 to build awareness of stormwater impacts in the Monocacy watershed GARRETT The Charles Soil Conservation District will combine best practices in stormwater and agricultural The Nature Conservancy, $1,250 for management to improve water quality and reduce the quantity of runoff at the Charles County tree restoration in Finzel Swamp and Agricultural and Environmental Service Center. conservation of beaver habitat

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Talbott Springs Elementary School, HARFORD $1,000 for 70 4th graders to study oysters, Bel Air Acres Improvement Association, fish, and plankton in the field $4,843 to remove invasive species and plant native trees and plants The Community Ecology Institute, $20,000 for events to engage diverse Harford County Soil Conservation groups of families in watershed stewardship District, $49,500 to design a stream restoration project in Graveyard Creek University of Maryland College Park, $30,000 for a homeowners’ rain garden social marketing plan with Howard HOWARD County‘s Watershed Stewards Academy Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, $30,535 for raingardens and neighborhood engagement in Columbia KENT Chester River Association, $771 for Everyone can do his or her part, including Center for Watershed Protection, a submerged aquatic vegetation survey breweries. Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s project $1,000 for a watershed and stormwater program and citizen engagement highlights restoration actions at farm breweries. conference Horizons, $5,000 for field trips and a rain Chesapeake Bay Foundation, $1,041 Chesapeake Stormwater Network, garden for 50 students $1,000 for a stormwater practitioner to educate consumers about farm conference Springhill Lake Elementary School breweries’ support of clean water Special Education, $4,450 for a field through the Brewing for the Bay event Dunloggin Middle School, $998 for 200 experience for 30 students to study Friends of Cabin John Creek, $86,750 7th graders to remove and measure litter sustainable gardens, oysters, and water for a stewardship program to engage and to plant trees quality neighborhoods, businesses, and Ellicott City Partnership, $4,500 to houses of worship convert turf into native vegetation as part MONTGOMERY James Hubert Blake High School, $1,900 of the “Soak It Up” program Anacostia Riverkeeper, $29,940 to for a Jug Bay and Cavella Farm field trip for reinvigorate the Paint Branch Citizens Friends of the Patapsco Valley Heritage 50 high school students Greenway, $30,000 for watershed Watershed Group John Poole Middle School, $4,980 for cleanups and training for “Stream Watchers” Anacostia Riverkeeper, $50,777 for 125 students to create a wildlife habitat a rain garden at Silver Spring United Howard County Conservancy, $21,000 on school grounds for an interactive watershed learning station Methodist Church Kemp Mill Elementary School, $3,760 Arts on the Block, $50,000 for a rain Howard County Conservancy, $1,029 for an outdoor field experience for garden in a neighborhood with little for the creation of curricula for a summer 75 4th grade students nature camp green space LDS Earth Stewardship, $25,000 for Audubon Naturalist Society of the Patapsco Heritage Greenway, $1,249 native plantings and rain barrels at the Central Atlantic States, $1,250 for a for a pollinator-friendly native plant garden Pleasant View Historic Site stormwater project at Woodend Sanctuary Patuxent Valley Middle School, $600 for Little Falls Watershed Alliance, $47,450 Beth Sholom Congregation and Talmud an outdoor field experience for 25 students for a stormwater management plan and Torah, $60,948 for a rain garden River Hill Watershed Committee, $7,820 rain garden for a homeowners association Cedar Grove Elementary School, $2,530 for rain barrels and native plants for the Metropolitan Washington Council for field trips for 82 4th graders community and local schools of Governments, $31,119 to remove impervious surface and plant native trees and shrubs MNCPPC–Meadowside Nature Center, $891 to educate 8th and 9th graders about the value of trees Montgomery Parks Foundation, $900 for a watershed public engagement program at National Wildlife Federation, $32,090 for a stewardship program to engage faith-based communities Poolesville Green, $4,450 for a community rain garden Potomac Conservancy, $15,000 for technology training to advance organizational sustainability Rock Creek Conservancy, $85,000 for Pollinators such as monarch and Baltimore checkerspot butterflies will find a home in the milkweed and conservation landscaping for the Derwood white turtlehead planted in this native plant garden in Ellicott City built by Patapsco Heritage Greenway. Homeowners Association

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Rock Creek Conservancy, $9,500 for a capacity building program to support organizational growth Silver Spring United Methodist Church, $5,000 for a rain garden Temple Shalom, $95,000 to replace an asphalt parking lot with permeable pavers The Center for Spirituality in Nature, $2,373 to engage congregations in the study of spiritual traditions around water Washington Waldorf School, $2,205 for 25 5th graders to plant a native pollinator garden Westbrook Elementary School, $3,035 for 22 5th graders to raise and release trout and shad and take bay field trips At the Therapeutic Program at Prince George’s County’s Schmidt Center, students who receive Special Westbrook Elementary School, $5,000 Education services study stream, wetland, and woodland ecology and create eco-art. for field experiences for 80 4th graders Centro De Apoyo Familiar, $30,333 Interfaith Partners for the Chesapeake, for workshops as part of the Aguas $51,010 for delivery of Vacation Bible PRINCE GEORGE’S Sana-Familias Sanas/Healthy Waters: School curriculum on watershed Accokeek Foundation, $5,000 for a Healthy Families project stewardship to 10 congregations sustainable agriculture project for 15 Chesapeake Bay Foundation, $25,323 Interstate Commission on the Potomac Prince George’s County students in the to support Prince George’s County teachers River Basin, $60,189 for a comprehensive Agriculture Conservation Corps in incorporating environmental education environmental education program for Alice Ferguson Foundation, $1,116 for into 3rd-6th grade curricula 749 students at Northwest High and an agricultural stewardship program at Accokeek Academy City of Greenbelt, $1,195 for community Largo International High School water quality and litter workshops James Ryder Randall School, $3,061 Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, for a field trip and planting project for City of Greenbelt, $56,000 for design of $33,322 to engage urban/heavy a stormwater retrofit project 150 students suburban homeowners associations Kappa Foundation of Fort Washington, in stormwater reduction City of Seat Pleasant, $2,000 for a clean-up project on the Chesapeake Trail $4,996 to foster grant applications from Anacostia Riverkeeper, $200,000 communities of color to reduce litter using trash traps Clean Water Fund, $42,402 to educate Capitol Heights residents about stormwater Magnolia Elementary School, $2,475 Anacostia Watershed Society, $500,000 for a field trip for 60 6th graders to integrate stormwater projects on school Cottage City, $4,800 for field trips for Maryland League of Conservation campuses into the curriculum seniors citizens to learn about water quality Voters Education Fund, $11,791 for Anacostia Watershed Society, $17,000 Cottage City, $4,060 for workshops in support of the Latino River Festival for 22 acres of native riparian meadow English and Spanish about protecting the Maryland League of Conservation habitat Chesapeake Bay watershed Voters Education Fund, $29,497 Anacostia Watershed Society, $15,000 DuVal High School, $26,207 for a rain for workshops and outdoor activities for technology support as part of a garden and outdoor classroom for the Latino community in the capacity building program Edward M Felegy Elementary PTA, Anacostia watershed Bishop McNamara High School, $4,939 $2,773 for 3rd and 4th grade students to Maryland National Capital Park and for a field trip and rain garden project for restore part of an Anacostia wetland Planning Commission, $250,000 for 120 students Elizabeth Seton High School, $5,000 stormwater management practices in the Bladensburg High School Parents for 40 female students to participate in a Anacostia watershed Teachers Students Assocation, $1,408 STEM program with a watershed theme Metropolitan Washington Council of for tree planting End Time Harvest Ministries, $16,415 Governments, $3,044 for sponsorship Carolina Missionary Baptist Church, for the environmental component of a of the 2016 Festival del Rio Anacostia at $2,200 to remove invasives and plant career and college readiness program at Bladensburg Waterfront native trees, creating a Trees for Sacred Bladensburg High School Neighborhood Design Center, $27,363 Places project Green Muslims, $4,961 for 40 students for technical assistance to communities Central Kenilworth Avenue to participate in restoration engagement interested in stormwater practices Revitalization Community activities, part of the “Our Deen is People for Change Coalition, $44,151 Development Corporation, $50,000 Green” program for homeowner association workshops on to increase tree canopy in East Riverdale/ Greenbelt Homes, $101,935 to install a residential stormwater practices Bladensburg Transforming Neighborhoods bioswale and engage residents People for Change Coalition, $41,130 Initiative communities for technical training for 5 faith-based institutions

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People for Change Coalition, $68,432 Kennard Elementary, $3,758 for 174 Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy, for a pet waste campaign and waste 3rd grade “Environmental Engineers” to $74,000 for systemic 9th grade station installations design and build a campus wetland and environmental education programs to take a schooner field trip engage 1255 students per year People for Change Coalition, $4,996 to foster grant applications from Kennard Elementary, $4,650 for 175 fifth Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy, communities of color graders to develop a campus report card $14,960 to support the merger of the and rejuvenate a wetland Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy, Prince George’s County Public Schools/ the Chester River Association, and Williams S. Schmidt Outdoor Education Queen Anne’s County High School, the Sassafras River Association into Center, $70,870 to create an outdoor $3,045 for 20 students to study ShoreRivers field program for all county 7th graders effectiveness of farming techniques at improving watershed health Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy, Prince George’s County Public $1,250 for a riparian buffer at the Unitarian Schools/Williams S. Schmidt Outdoor Queen Anne’s County Public Schools, Universalist Church of Easton Education Center, $4,909 for a $4,988 for a field experience and action 5-day outdoor field program for project for 400 high school students Talbot County Public Schools, $5,000 20 students with special needs for a wetlands-oriented field trip for 328 6th graders Prince George’s County, $50,000 for ST. MARY’S green infrastructure work at Morningside Friends of St. Clements Bay, $4,999 Town of Easton, $6,847 for a street Community Center and in University Park for a rain garden and signage at Dynard tree project Elementary School Prince George’s Green, $50,000 for YMCA of the Chesapeake, $4,033 an urban tree planting project targeting St. Mary’s River Watershed Association, to connect under-engaged high school inside-the-Beltway communities $1,330 for 19 10th graders to install a rain students to watershed issues through garden at their school boat-building REAL School Gardens, $100,000 to train teachers at 11 schools in use of outdoor classrooms SOMERSET WASHINGTON Somerset Intermediate, $1,008 for a City of Hagerstown, $48,424 for a The Low Impact Development Center, skipjack field trip for 30 7th graders green street project to address stormwater to identify Port Towns stormwater $60,000 and safety retrofit opportunities Highland View Academy, $4,789 Town of Cheverly, $121,833 for a green TALBOT Channel Marker, $4,911 to install a rain for field trips, tree planting, and infrastructure project at Boyd Park garden and rain barrels at a mental health litter cleanup projects for 120 high Town of Colmar Manor, $30,000 for a wellness center school students green street design plan Chapel District Elementary School, Town of Edmonston, $1,190 for $3,860 for a student-led rain garden for WICOMICO pollinator garden workshops in English 380 pre-K to 5th graders Comite de Apoyo a los Trabajadores and Spanish Agricolas – CATA, $10,333 for staff Eastern Shore Community Rowers, leadership training University of Maryland College Park, $977 for a bird- and bee-friendly native $135,000 for a pet waste education planting project Future Harvest – Chesapeake Alliance program that engages municipalities and for Sustainable Agriculture, $10,333 for Easton Elementary School, $637 for installls stations a lower Eastern Shore outreach plan 50 4th graders to undertake a terrapin raise and release project Maryland Department of Natural QUEEN ANNE’S Resources, $210 for a video on the Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy, Chester River Association, $1,269 for endangered Delmarva Blackbanded Sunfish a trash trawl experience for high school $53,319 to design a stream restoration in students to learn about microplastics and Kings Creek Socially Responsible Agricultural Project, $10,333 for strategic planning and polystyrene Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy, technology Chester River Association, $1,500 for $4,630 for a watershed report card a Chesapeake Conservation Corps bay Waterkeepers Chesapeake, $10,334 grasses training for a strategic plan to support sustainable farming Church Hill Elementary School, $1,125 for a schooner field trip for 59 4th graders Wicomico County Board of Education, $39,807 to develop county-wide Environmental Concern, $80,000 for environmental literacy curricula for all an unprecedented systemic environmental 7th graders education curriculum for every elementary grade level in the county Wicomico County Board of Education, $5,000 for an environmental education Grasonville Elementary School, $2,210 professional development training for for an oyster education field trip for 17 teachers 80 students Wicomico Environmental Trust, $4,800 for volunteer water quality monitoring and reporting Students at Easton Elementary School study diamondback terrapins.

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Franklin County Visitors Bureau, $20,000 for a tourism ambassador program to advance the region’s natural and cultural heritage J. Sickler Consulting, $8,770 to create a tool to track the status of environmental literacy programs across school districts Mountain View School District, $4,180 for a Chincoteague field trip for 25 high school students National Audubon Society (Audubon Pennsylvania), $13,659 for a communication strategy as part of capacity building Newport High School Marine Science Club, $2,544 for a Chincoteague field trip for 18 high school students Stormwater Authority of the City of Chester, $65,000 for a community-based public private partnership for stormwater financing

Pocomoke Middle School student installs a native garden on the school campus. Sylvan Heights Science Charter School, $4,477 for a field trip and Trout in Trash Free Maryland, $13,768 for the Classroom project for 88 3rd and WORCESTER leadership training for watershed 4th graders Assateague Coastal Trust, $50,000 to organization executives develop a collaborative outreach program The Salvation Army Harrisburg Capital City Region, $75,000 to treat stormwater Assateague Coastal Trust, $10,334 for and green the campuss capacity building support DELAWARE Townsend Elementary School, $3,712 Waynesboro Area Senior High School, Land Trust Alliance, $30,000 to support for a schooner field trip for 67 4th graders $3,658 for 125 students to conduct water restoration projects for water quality University of Delaware, $43,780 quality investigations purposes on protected lands to develop a protocol for evaluating Pocomoke Middle School, $2,498 for a efficacy of manufactured stormwater VIRGINIA field trip and native garden planting for 82 treatment devices Achilles Elementary School, $2,050 for 7th graders 29 fifth graders to survey the school and Surfrider Foundation, $10,333 for PENNSYLVANIA create a prioritized bay impact “to-do” list capacity building support to build volunteer Appalachian Trail Conservancy, South Belvedere Elementary School, $4,505 outreach activities Mountain Partnership, $48,900 for a for a field trip for 139 5th graders strategic plan for the South Mountain Partnership Boxerwood Education Association, STATEWIDE $5,000 for an outdoor field experience and Bay Journal Media, $10,000 for capacity Bendersville Elementary School, $1,350 action project for 7th graders at 3 schools building support for a field trip and native planting project for 60 6th graders Center for Non-profit Excellence, Center for Watershed Protection, $31,774 to facilitate collaboration $18,000 for analysis of green infrastructure Capital Area Resource Conservation and potential merger of Shenandoah retrofit costs and Development Council, $17,586 for Valley nonprofits Chesapeake Legal Alliance, $11,800 capacity building support and leadership development Chesapeake Environmental for website support as part of a capacity Communications, $46,005 to accelerate building initiative City of Lancaster, $75,000 for a Green wetland restoration through technical Delaware Maryland Synod ELCA, Street project in downtown assistance to private landowners $16,520 to plant trees on 170 church Conservation Foundation of Lancaster City of Charlottesville, $50,000 to properties across the Synod County, $100,000 to develop a watershed- explore market-based approaches to Interfaith Partners for the Chesapeake, wide stormwater financing program stormwater investments $4,826 to attract new grant applications Diakon Child, Family & Community City of Portsmouth, $34,086 to from and provide support to faith-based Ministries, $4,990 for campus stormwater design a green street in the Historic entities runoff investigation by 25 7th-12th graders Olde Town District Interfaith Partners for the Chesapeake, Endless Mountains Heritage Region, Community Alliance for Preservation, $29,443 to train congregational leaders to $15,000 to advance conservation $5,000 to explore partnerships among facilitate green ministries initiatives in the Susquehanna River other Shenandoah organizations to North Branch Watershed enhance long-term sustainability

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Earth Force, $4,941 for professional Stonewall Jackson Middle School, $975 development for 20 middle school for a Fox Island field experience for teachers 15 7th graders Elizabeth River Project, $5,000 for Timber Lane Elementary School, capacity building support for a sister land $3,000 for a ship-board experience for trust entity 100 3rd graders Friends of the North Fork Shenandoah Tri County/City Soil & Water River, $5,000 for strategic planning Conservation District, $3,500 for capacity building support environmental education professional development for 100 K-12 teachers Friends of the North Fork Shenandoah River, $4,957 for professional University of Mary Washington, development on the Shenandoah $4,600 for school library watershed watershed for 15 teachers resources for 300 elementary and middle school students Friends of the Rappahannock, $11,730 for capacity building support to improve Village School, $417 for 40 students member engagement opportunities to create educational backpacks for use at Wildrock Nature Center Hanover Education Foundation, $3,350 for a Poor Farm Park outdoor Virginia Beach Friends School, $4,985 field experience for 1,500 6th graders for a field trip to Fox and Smith Islands for 39 middle school students Innovate!, $29,722 for an online environmental justice screening and Virginia Institute of Marine Science, mapping tool School of Marine Science, College for James River Association, $5,000 of William & Mary, $59,999 for 55 high schoolers to visit analysis of shell habitat dynamics in oyster restoration Presquile National Wildlife Refuge PHOTO: LINDA LARSON HOGAN and conduct a service project at Students at Orange County High School raised Windsor Elementary School, $4,000 Chippokes State Park and released brook trout. for an oyster education field trip to First James River Association, $4,550 for Landing State Park for 100 students professional development for 30 fourth Page County Public Schools, $1,812 grade science teachers for a water quality canoe experience WASHINGTON, D.C. and compost project for 210 high Anacostia Coordinating Council, James River Association, $1,900 for a school students $10,000 for organizational capacity field trip to Presquile Wildlife Refuge building efforts for Monacan High School Ecology Environmental Council for Club students the Shenandoah Valley Network, Anacostia Coordinating Council, $5,000 to explore partnerships among $2,500 towards creation of a beneficial Kiptopeke Elementary School, $189 other Shenandoah organizations to civic space on a clean river for 50 pre-K students to convert an enhance long-term sustainability unused sandbox to a new garden Anacostia Waterfront Trust, $48,000 Piedmont Environmental Council for to implement a community engagement Locust Grove Middle School, $2,720 the Shenandoah Valley Network, plan for a new Anacostia collaborative for outdoor field experiences for $ 84,100 for a new shared organizational 50 middle school students structure among partnered organizations Anacostia Watershed Society, $5,000 for 350 2nd graders to learn about National Wildlife Federation, $1,000 Richmond Public Schools, $4,989 for a meadows and stream buffers to support the Choose Clean Water field trip to study the organisms in Virginia’s Conference aquatic habitats for 60 5th graders Anacostia Watershed Society, $4,000 for 125 7th graders to participate in Newport News Public Schools, $2,800 Rivanna Conservation Alliance, $5,000 wetlands restoration for a Presquile National Wildlife Refuge for a field trip to water resource facilities field trip and riparian buffer project for for 1,000 6th-12th graders Anacostia Watershed Society, $5,000 60 high school students for 417 4th grade students to participate Shenandoah Forum, $5,000 to explore in a shad restoration project Newport News Public Schools Plant partnerships among other Shenandoah Services, $5,000 for a stormwater study organizations to enhance long-term Capital City Public Charter School, and project by 312 3rd-5th grade students sustainability $4,300 for 50 students to study oysters, on school grounds install oyster floats, and learn about Shenandoah Valley Battlefields aquaculture Newport News Public Schools Plant Foundation, $5,000 to participate in a Services, $60,000 for green infrastructure partnership among other Shenandoah Clean Water Fund, $10,000 to build practices on school grounds organizations to enhance long-term capacity through technology advancement Orange County High School, $1,554 sustainability Clean Water Fund, $2,500 for for 60 10th graders to raise and release Skeo Solutions, $49,977 to develop a work with the Anacostia Park and brook trout diversity, equity, and inclusion plan for the Community Collaborative environmental community

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DC Appleseed, $10,000 to support the Friends of Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, plan for a revitalized Anacostia Park $4,920 for nature-based outdoor experiences for 40 students DC Appleseed, $2,500 to assist the transformation of the Anacostia River Friends of Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, Corridor to a valuable civic asset $10,000 for strategic planning and to address technology challenges Dumbarton Oaks Park Conservancy, $4,944 for 300 Hardy Middle School Groundwork Anacostia River DC, students to learn about erosion and $2,500 for the Anacostia Park and invasive species Community Collaborative Earth Force, $5,000 for environmental Institute for Public Health Innovation, education professional development $2,500 to help support community and training for 6 teachers environmental collaboration in the Anacostia East River Family Strengthening Annual Scholarship Collaborative, $2,500 for training Progressive National Baptist & Awards Program and curriculum development to support Convention Community Development Ward 7 residents Corporation, $9,652 to increase the community engagement of member East River Family Strengthening churches in Ward 7 and 8 Collaborative, $10,000 for data system upgrades and training to improve Rock Creek Conservancy, $5,000 for The Trust honored six exceptional program evaluation efforts 25 students from Capital City Charter environmental leaders for their outstanding School to develop a restoration plan for Endangered Species Coalition, $3,915 contributions to education, watershed Fort Slocum for 75 Woodrow Wilson High School restoration, and volunteerism this year. students to restore an urban creek Ward 7 Business Partnership, $10,000 for board development and succession Friends of Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, 2017 EDUCATOR OF THE YEAR planning $2,500 to support development of Ophelia M. Barizo an environmental collaborative in East Ward 7 Business Partnership, $2,500 to Anacostia help support small businesses that connect Highland View Academy with the environment Washington County Wilderness Leadership & Learning 2017 STUDENT OF THE YEAR (WILL), $5,000 for an environmental education immersion program for Claire Wayner 34 students Baltimore Polytechnic Institute Baltimore City WEST VIRGINIA Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, 2017 HONORABLE $5,000 to support the Chesapeake ARTHUR DORMAN SCHOLARSHIP Watershed Forum City of Charles Town, $75,000 for Micayla Velez stormwater practices and creation of a park Harford Community College in distressed downtown neighborhood Harford County along Evitts Run Creek Friends of Deckers Creek, $3,313 for a 2017 ELLEN FRAITES Monongahela River field trip for 100 9th WAGNER AWARD graders from Morgantown High School Timothy D. Junkin, Founder West Virginia Rivers Coalition, $15,000 Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy for technical capacity building support Talbot County

WATERSHED-WIDE 2017 MELANIE TEEMS AWARD Eastern Research Group, $74,445 to develop a suite of climate change indicators READY Program/Alliance National Wildlife Federation, $70,000 for for the Chesapeake Bay resources to promote stormwater projects Howard and Anne Arundel Counties on urban/suburban school grounds 2017 COMMERCIAL The Nature Conservancy, $69,269 to Many on the water experiences are supported by enhance the Chesapeake Fish Passage STEWARDS AWARD the Trust, such as grants to Page County Public Prioritization website Behnke Nurseries Schools in Virginia, Pocomoke Middle School Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State in Worcester County, James Hubert Blake High Prince George’s County School in Montgomery County, and Springhill University, $217,322 for research on the Lake Elementary in Kent County. physical conditions under which stream restoration practices “fail”

cbtrust.org 10 ANNUAL REPORT 2016 – 2017