Trust 2010 Grant Awards

The Chesapeake Bay Trust is a state-chartered, nonprofit grant-making organization, sparking on-the-ground change in communities throughout and the broader Chesapeake Bay watershed. Since its inception in 1985, the Trust has awarded more than $34 million in grants and engaged hundreds of thousands of citizen stewards in projects that have a measurable impact on the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. 60 West Street, Suite 405 In 2010, the Chesapeake Bay Trust awarded more grants than ever before in its 25-year history, Annapolis, MD 21401 almost 400 grants totaling $4.2 million throughout the Chesapeake Bay region, funding projects PH: 410-974-2941 and programs designed to engage the community and help restore and protect the Chesapeake Bay and its rivers. FX: 410-269-0387 The Trust is supported by sales of the Maryland Treasure the Chesapeake license plate, www.cbtrust.org donations to the Chesapeake Bay and Endangered Species Fund on the Maryland State income tax form, donations from individuals and corporations, and partnerships with private foundations and federal and state agencies. Fully 90 percent of the Trust’s expenditures are directed to its Chesapeake Bay restoration and education programs. Grant recipients include nonprofit organizations, civic and community groups, schools and public agencies.

Allegany County - John Humbird Elementary Anne Arundel County - $46,501 School $756,356 $572 Allegany High School For supplies and materials to Aleph Bet Jewish Day School $1,530 implement the Trash Bash in $33,966 For costs to attend the Allegany County. For the development of four Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s rain gardens and one bioreten - Port Isobel program. Maryland Association for tion cell on school grounds. Environmental and Outdoor Beginnings - A Montessori Education (MAEOE) Alliance for Community Preschool and Kindergarten $11,000 Education $1,399 For costs associated with $25,000 For students to install a native MAEOE’s Annual Conference. For stormwater restoration plant garden and rain barrel on costs, restoration materials school grounds. National Council of and project oversight on the Churches Eco - Justice . City of Cumberland Program $4,000 $19,000 Alliance for Community For a storm drain stenciling For supplies to support Education project including curb marks, the Chesapeake Church $2,500 billboard marketing and media Environmental Stewardship For plant materials and supplies development and documentation. program. to install 10 raingardens and five rain barrels with Crofton Fort Hill High School Sykesville Middle School residents. $2,500 $2,000 For costs and materials for For construction of a raingarden Arlington Echo Outdoor students to conduct native at Sykesville Middle School. Education Center plantings and improve $2,000 schoolyard habitat. Unitarian Universalist For partial replacement Fellowship of Greater MARYLAND equipment for the Terrapin O George’s Creek Watershed Cumberland, Green Connection Program. R Association Sanctuary Committee CCBBTTRRUUSSTT G $2,500 $2,000 Arlington Echo Outdoor Treasure the Chesapeake For native trees and 250 tree For plant material, supplies Education Center stakes for a Meadow Park tree and signage for raingarden $16,686 planting. construction. For native plants and mulch for 25 Years of schoolyard habitat projects. Grant-Making 2010 Grant Awards • 1 Chesapeake Bay Trust 2010 Grant Awards

Anne Arundel County

Anne Arundel County Chesapeake Bay Foundation National Wildlife Federation Shady Side Rural Heritage (continued) $23,220 $4,400 Society, Inc. Arlington Echo Outdoor For staff costs, plants and trees, For scholarships and support $21,570 Education Center tree shelters, pre-auger holes, for the first annual Choose For costs associated with the $35,000 pin-flag bundles, and others Clean Water Conference. creation of a bioretention cell For support of the Chesapeake support elements for a South and heritage eco-tour. Connections Program working River Greenway riparian buffer Olde Severna Park with 52 schools and approxi - planting. Improvement Association, Inc. Smithsonian Environmental mately 7,000 students. $4,800 Research Center Chesapeake Science Point For restoration costs and $45,000 Arlington Echo Outdoor Public Charter School educational project signage For costs associated with Education Center $5,000 associated with the proposed a 3,000 linear foot Living $30,000 For students to attend night bioretention project in Olde Shoreline project at the For watershed tool box develop - field experiences at Echo Hill Severna Park. Smithsonian Environmental ment, restoration project seed Outdoor School. Research Center property. funds, native plants and trees Pasadena Elementary School for restoration projects, and Indian Creek School $680 Federation design and construction. $1,200 For fifth grade students to $750 For an Atlantic White Cedar participate in an oyster garden - For costs associated with Belvedere Elementary School planting (grow-out) at Indian ing project and boat experience South Riverkeeper community $2,000 Creek School. with the Chesapeake Bay outreach. For plant materials associated Foundation. with a native planting project at Londontowne Property South River Federation Belvedere Elementary School. Owners Association Riverdale on the Magothy $12,500 $90,000 Community Association For construction of a 55 linear Biophilia Foundation For a 499 linear foot Living $1,060 foot living shoreline on Beards $20,000 Shoreline project at Glebe Bay For native plants and water Creek. For development of agricultural in Anne Arundel County. testing for a riparian planting land restoration support. at the community beach area. South River Federation Magothy Cooperative $25,000 Box of Rain Foundation Preschool Saunders Point Community For a rain garden and seepage $458 $1,000 Association wetland project in the Hillsmere For field experience fees to For support of a series of $36,896 Shores community. the Smithsonian Environmental schoolyard habitat planting and For contractual costs (BMP Research Center. installation of rain barrels at installation), rain garden South River Federation the Magothy Cooperative design, native plants, and $50,000 Broadneck High School Preschool in Pasadena. interpretive signage. For a seepage wetland project $3,988 at Davidsonville Wildlife For materials and costs to Maryland DNR - Tidewater Severn Riverkeeper Program Sanctuary. support a Sandy Point Park Administration $65,000 field experience. $3,996 For the study of nutrient South River Federation For Maryland Conservation impacts of a stormwater BMP $9,000 Chesapeake Bay Foundation Corps costs and soil and sand by the Chesapeake Biological For a 120 linear foot living $12,550 delivery to support the Bay Laboratory. shoreline project on Beards For costs associated with the Grasses in Classes program. Creek. Volunteers as Chesapeake Severn Riverkeeper Program Stewards (VOICES) program. National Wildlife Federation $35,000 $10,000 For costs associated with For costs for educational the design of a Regenative outreach and other Stormwater Conveyance in communications initiatives. the Cabin Branch of the .

2010 Grant Awards • 2 Chesapeake Bay Trust 2010 Grant Awards

Anne Arundel County & County

Anne Arundel County West/Rhode Riverkeeper, Inc. Restoration Baltimore County Public (continued) $750 Committee Schools Spa Creek Conservancy For board of directors strategic $2,424 $3,927 $33,177 planning and support. For equipment, project costs, For costs for 11 riparian buffer For materials and equipment and volunteer needs for a trash planting field experiences for for an Annapolis urban West/Rhode Riverkeeper, Inc. clean up. 400 students. stormwater project. $12,136 For support to publish and Back River Restoration Boy Scouts of America, St. Andrews United distribute the West and Rhode Committee Baltimore Area Council Methodist Day School Rivers Report Card. $4,040 $3,356 $2,306 For support of Cox’s Point Park For trees and shrubs for a For plant materials and West/Rhode Riverkeeper, Inc. forest buffer enhance project reforestation project at Bear transportation costs for an $26,000 with volunteers. Branch Park. AquaEcosystem project For design of a treatment done in partnership with wetland and forebay at YMCA Baltimore County Department Catonsville Elementary School the National Aquarium in Camp Letts on the . of Environmental Protection $1,000 Baltimore. and Resource Management For program fees for 75 students Wiley H. Bates Middle School $5,000 to participate in a Living St. Anne’s Day School $754 For equipment for a storm Classrooms field experience. $330 For costs for a field experience drain awareness project. For transportation costs for a to Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Chase Elementary School Bay Grasses in Classes planting Phillip Merrill Environmental Baltimore County Department $325 trip. Center. of Environmental Protection For costs for a Bay Grasses and Resource Management in Classes planting trip. St. Anne’s Episcopal Church Wiley H. Bates Middle School $20,000 $14,626 $1,490 For Growing Home campaign Chesapeake Stormwater For the construction of biore - For costs for students to attend support services. Network tention areas and interpretive a SERC oyster/crab program. $12,000 signage. Baltimore County Department For costs to conduct webcasts Winchester on the Severn of Environmental Protection and workshops on new St. Martin’s In the Field Day Community Association and Resource Management stormwater regulations for School $3,500 $95,349 local jurisdictions to encourage $1,825 For construction of a 360 For the construction of a 1,079 “above and beyond” For field experience costs, square foot rain garden in linear foot living shoreline implementation. rain barrel supplies, mulch, the community. project at Essex Skypark. and plant materials. Cromwell Valley Elementary Baltimore County Department School The Summit School Baltimore County - of Environmental Protection $4,800 $1,639 $456,941 and Resource Management For field experience costs to For fees for an Oyster Gardening $32,252 Camp Wo-Me-To and native Program experience, trip to For development of the Small tree plantings with students. Ascension School Claggett Farm and Smithsonian Watershed Action Plan for $399 Environmental Research Center the Cromwell Valley Elementary For costs associated with a field experiences. watershed. School Bay Grasses in Classes planting $1,407 field experience. Unitarian Universalist Baltimore County Forest For field costs for a Martha Church of Annapolis Conservancy District Board Lewis experience, trees and Ascension School $998 $5,000 planting materials. $395 For native plants and signage For native trees to support For costs for a Bay Grasses in to support the installation of the Forest Buffer Restoration Classes planting experience. a rain garden. Project.

2010 Grant Awards • 3 Chesapeake Bay Trust 2010 Grant Awards

Baltimore County

Baltimore County Franklin Middle School Halstead Academy Lansdowne High School (continued) $1,250 $3,580 $2,000 Crossroads Circle/Center For materials as well as trans - For costs associated with the For costs to conduct invasive $1,600 portation and program fees Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s species removal and native For the reef ball construction for the Bay Grasses in Classes Program. planting on school grounds. service learning project. program. Hereford High School Logan Elementary School Eastwood Elementary Friends School of Baltimore $1,465 $440 Magnet School $3,595 For the wetland and striped For program fees for fourth $1,000 For a field experience to Wye bass restoration project done in grade students to participate in For construction of reef balls Island, to Spartina Alternaflora partnership with the National a Chesapeake Bay Foundation with the Science Club. and a skipjack experience. Aquarium in Baltimore. boat trip.

Emmanuel Lutheran School Friends School of Baltimore Hereford Middle School Lutherville Laboratory for $405 $2,000 $4,970 Science, Mathematics and For program fees for a For cost of plants and mulch For 375 students to attend the Communications Chesapeake Bay Foundation involved in an outdoor 2010 Bay Days at Hereford $1,250 skipjack field trip. classroom and signage. Middle School. For supplies, materials and transportation costs for the Emmanuel Lutheran School Gunpowder Valley Hillcrest Elementary School Trout Raise and Release project. $3,390 Conservancy $430 For transportation, trees and $15,000 For costs for 282 elementary Lutherville Laboratory for tree shelters for a student For a tree planting on the Loch school students to release fish Science, Mathematics and planting field experience at Raven Reservior watershed. at Patapsco State Park. Communications Susquehanna State Park. $2,350 Gunpowder Valley Immaculate Conception For field experience expenses Emmanuel Lutheran School Conservancy School and travel costs and for meadow $1,240 $937 $90 soil, seeds, digging permit, For eighth grade students to For materials and costs associ - For rain barrels and spigots and habitat structure building plant oyster spat and for sixth ated with a volunteer planting for students to install on supplies. graders to take a field experi - at . school grounds. ence to the Karen Noonan McCormick Elementary Center. Watershed Immaculate Conception School Association School $975 Emmanuel Lutheran School $23,920 $1,724 For costs of supplies and soil $405 For a habitat restoration project For a Living Classrooms associated with a student For costs for a Bay Grasses in at the Jewish Community Foundation field experience raingarden on the grounds of Classes planting experience. Center in Owings Mills. aboard a skipjack. McCormick Elementary School.

Emmanuel Lutheran School Halstead Academy MPT Foundation $1,240 $2,420 $19,200 $13,000 For eighth grade students to For fees for a Martha Lewis For support of the Urban For support of the volunteer-a- plant oyster spat and for field experience and a follow Education Summer Fellowship thon, and production of two bay sixth graders to take a field up project. Program. focused programs (Agricultural experience to the Karen Runoff and Chesapeake Bay by Noonan Center. Halstead Academy Kenwood High School Air) for Bay Week 2010. $4,040 $600 Franklin High School For a Living Classrooms field For a field experience to Perry Hall Improvement $1,743 experience aboard the Sigsbee Horn Point Laboratory. Association For two field experiences to and the Mildred Belle $1,862 Claggett Farm for 100 students Skipjacks. For community trees, mulch, for Chesapeake Bay Foundation gator bags, shovels, tree guards, program stream studies. and digging bars.

2010 Grant Awards • 4 Chesapeake Bay Trust 2010 Grant Awards

Baltimore County & Baltimore City

Baltimore County Rosedale Center for Western School of Technology Baltimore Montessori PCS (continued) Alternative Studies & Environmental Science $19,650 Pleasant Plains Elementary $5,000 $1,025 For a bioretention cell project School For Students Protecting and For field experience fees to for a schoolyard restoration $2,400 Restoring the Environment attend the Karen Noonan project. For fees for an Arthur Sherwood (SPARE) the Bay Program Environmental Education Center field experience for a with 250 at-risk high school Center. Carnegie Institution for Bay Grasses in Classes project. students. Science, Department of Western School of Technology Embryology Pleasant Plains Elementary Sparks Elementary School & Environmental Science $19,940 School $200 $390 For support of Project BioEyes $1,800 For support of tree grow out For costs for a Bay Grasses in with Baltimore City schools. For fees for a Martha Lewis activities with students. Classes planting experience. field experience and a follow Clean Water Fund up project. Sparks Elementary School Windsor Mill Middle School $5,000 $300 $5,000 For development of a watershed Pleasant Plains Elementary For costs for a Bay Grasses in For support of a field experience action plan engaging Cherry School Classes planting experience. to NorthBay Environmental Hill neighborhood residents $3,220 Learning Center for sixth grade and leaders. For fourth grade students to St. Casimir Catholic School students. participate in a Living $2,000 Faith Presbyterian Church Classrooms field experience For program fees for the $1,200 aboard the Sigsbee, Lady Audubon field Baltimore City - For native plants, bioretention Maryland, and the Mildred experience. $322,224 soil and mulch, contractor Belle. costs, signage, and rain barrels. The Crossroads Center Armistead Gardens Pleasant Plains Elementary $600 Graceland Park - O’Donnell Elementary/Middle School School For transportation costs for Heights Elementary School $440 $3,620 a Bay Grasses in Classes $5,000 For fees associated with a For elementary students to planting experience. For program fees and costs for student experience aboard the attend the Potomac River a NorthBay outdoor experience Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s field experience. Trout Unlimited - Maryland for students. Chapter Snow Goose. Pleasant Plains Elementary $30,000 Greater Homewood Audubon Maryland – DC School For costs associated with a Community Corporation, Inc. $16,888 $410 design for concrete channel $10,732 For support of the expanded For costs for a Bay Grasses removal along a stretch of the For activities to accomplish a Audubon Watershed Experience in Classes planting trip. . volunteer planting of 475 trees program with Baltimore City including community outreach, schools. Rosedale Center for UMBC, Center for Urban plantings and trainings. Alternative Studies Environmental Research Baltimore Harbor Watershed $5,000 and Education Green School of Baltimore Association For transportation of students $50,000 $200 $30,000 and teachers to and from tree For study and implementation For costs for a Bay Grasses in For work to develop a small plantings and stream clean-up of a new soil compaction best Classes planting experience. watershed action plan for events. management practice. Harris Creek. Gwynns Falls Watershed Western School of Technology Association & Environmental Science Baltimore Medical System, Inc. $4,814 $1,804 $2,670 For native plants, materials, For supplies and materials for For Watershed equipment and rain garden the Bay Grasses in Classes Association’s work and materials installation. program and Ft. McHenry for rain garden workshops. planting field experience.

2010 Grant Awards • 5 Chesapeake Bay Trust 2010 Grant Awards

Baltimore City & Calvert County

Baltimore City Jones Falls Watershed Parks & People Foundation Calvert County - (continued) Association $21,341 $109,480 Harford Heights Elementary $22,268 For support of the Schoolyard School #37 For trees, tree pit expansion, Habitat and Education program Arc of Southern Maryland $400 soil, and other materials to be to work with the seven $2,224 For costs for a Bay Grasses in planted in Baltimore City Baltimore City schools. For materials and boat rental Classes planting experience. neighborhoods, parks and to support the Arc of Southern schools. Parks & People Foundation Maryland Chesapeake Bay Harlem Park Elementary $10,978 Watershed Awareness education School Jones Falls Watershed For support of water quality program. $3,900 Association community arts outreach For fees, field investigation kits $35,122 workshops in Watersheds Calverton School and transportation to two water For the construction of a Jones 263 and 246. $19,998 quality testing field experiences. Falls community rain garden. For materials, plants and Saint Ignatius Loyola interpretive signage for a 2,800 Herring Run Watershed Living Classrooms Academy square foot terraced rain garden Association Foundation $1,428 to be installed on school $2,250 $3,100 For program fees for an grounds. For board training support and For costs for 500 students to Oyster Restoration Project communications activities. attend the Masonville Cove field experience with seventh CHESPAX - Calvert County Environmental Festival. grade students. Public Schools Herring Run Watershed $4,400 Association New Era Academy Southeast Community For costs for a field experience $23,110 $4,000 Development Corporation to for For costs associated with the For program fees for under - $5,000 1,400 fifth grade students. development of seven rain served students to participate in For concrete removal, soil garden designs in Baltimore a NorthBay field experience. amendments, mulch, equipment, CHESPAX - Calvert County City schools. tools and tree signs. Public Schools Parks & People Foundation $26,837 Herring Run Watershed $6,000 Southeast Community For support of the CHESPAX Association For costs to support storm Development Corporation Green Schools for a Clean Bay $21,005 drain workshops at three $24,962 Initiative. For a tree planting project elementary schools in West For the design of rain gardens in several Baltimore City Baltimore as part of the in Baltimore City. Dowell Elementary School neighborhoods. Storm Drain Awareness and $1,543 Monitoring Program. The Samaritan Women For costs of students to partici - Herring Run Watershed $5,000 pate in Sultana programming. Association Parks & People Foundation For an invasive plant removal $25,900 $16,619 project at the Samaritan Friends of Jefferson For organizational strategic For 300 trees to be planted in Women House in Baltimore Patterson Park and Museum development costs. the Westport community of City. $50,000 Baltimore. For design of a 2,000-linear Johns Hopkins University, Waldorf School of Baltimore foot living shoreline project at Center for Social Concern Parks & People Foundation $1,080 Jefferson Patterson Park. $2,084 $19,178 For equipment and materials For costs associated with con - For support of the Schoolyard for a field experience to Huntingtown Elementary struction of a demonstration Habitat & Education Program Wye Island. School rainwater catchment system at working with seven new $1,800 Barclay Elementary/Middle Baltimore City schools. For fifth grade students to par - School. ticipate in a skipjack experience on the Dee of St. Mary’s and an oyster restoration project in Jefferson Patterson Park.

2010 Grant Awards • 6 Chesapeake Bay Trust 2010 Grant Awards

Calvert County, Caroline County, Carroll County & Cecil County

Calvert County Carroll County Government Freedom Elementary School Conowingo Elementary (continued) $19,212 $2,200 School Mutual Elementary School For costs associated with the For costs for 120 fourth $500 $2,678 installation of 2,100 feet of grade students to participate For mussel tank setup and For a Sultana trip, project stream fencing and a livestock in a Living Classrooms field maintenance and Octoraro signage, transportation, native watering facility. experience. field experience. plants, mulch and compost. Carroll County Outdoor Hampstead Elementary Fair Hill Environmental School School Foundation, Inc. $3,818 $1,189 $449 Caroline County - For a native plant nursery at For costs associated with a For costs for 15 trees and $33,111 Carroll County Outdoor School. 450 square foot native planting supplies. plant garden at Hampstead Adkins Arboretum Carroll County Outdoor Elementary School. Gilpin Manor Elementary $5,000 School School For construction of an $2,000 South Carroll High School $1,434 800 square foot rain garden For a toolkit to be distributed $3,803 For costs of a Martha Lewis at Adkins Arboretum. to Carroll County elementary For supplies associated Skipkack field experience schools for rain garden with ongoing programs in and transportation. Caroline County Department maintenance. the aquatic laboratory. of Planning and Codes NorthBay Environmental $20,000 Carroll County Outdoor Learning Center For the development of water - School Cecil County - $43,952 $5,000 shed plans in Caroline County. $5,000 For a week long field For support of a Resource experience to NorthBay Bohemia Manor Middle Caroline County Public Specialist in Carroll County Environmental Learning School Schools providing professional Center for sixth grade $2,410 $5,000 development and project students. For costs and program fees For costs and program fees in assistance to all schools. for students to attend field support of 20 field experiences NorthBay Environmental experiences at Port Isobel. aboard the Sultana. Carroll County Public Learning Center Schools $3,872 Bohemia Manor Middle Caroline County Public $35,000 For equipment, supplies and School Schools For support of the Carroll staff to develop and pilot a $380 $3,111 County environmental fresh water mussel propagation For transportation costs and For transportation to the education and STEM program. project. fees for a Bay Grasses in Chesapeake Bay Environmental Classes planting experience. Center, and costs associated Charles Carroll Elementary Perryville Middle School with CBEC programs. School $480 Cecil County Forest $400 For costs associated with a Conservancy District Board/ For students and teachers stream clean-up at Principio Cecil County Forestry Board to visit Poplar Island and Creek. Carroll County - $500 participate in field experiences. $88,277 For distributing information on Association Francis Scott Key High the Maryland Big Tree Program. $19,807 Boy Scouts of America School For costs in support of the Cecil County Public Schools Venturing Crew 202 $655 production of the first Sassafras $5,000 $15,000 For fees for a Bay Grasses in River Report Card. For a weeklong field experience For native trees, fertilizer, soil Classes planting experience. moist, and tractor auger. to NorthBay Environmental Water Stewardship, Inc. Learning Center for Cecil $4,120 County Public School students. For organizational strategic development.

2010 Grant Awards • 7 Chesapeake Bay Trust 2010 Grant Awards

Charles County, Dorchester County, Frederick County & Garrett County

Charles County - Nanticoke Watershed Frederick County - Volunteer Frederick $38,315 Alliance $58,208 $10,000 $12,000 For a reforestation project in J. C. Parks Elementary For support of the production of Catoctin High School the Dearbought Community School the Watershed $220 with Summer Serve youth $15,500 report card. For environmental science volunteers. For plant material and supplies students to participate in the to implement a schoolyard habi - Nanticoke Watershed Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Walkersville Middle School tat project on school grounds. Alliance Baltimore Harbor Boat $1,558 $600 Program. For project costs for a native J. C. Parks Elementary For support of team training plant garden on school grounds. School and organizational development. City of Brunswick $21,600 $29,801 Wolfsville Elementary School For materials and signage asso - Nanticoke Watershed For 160 trees to be planted in $1,996 ciated with a school wetland. Alliance the City of Brunswick. For materials and equipment $19,985 involved in construction of a North Point High School for For water quality monitoring Middletown High School schoolyard habitat. Science and Technology kits to support the Nanticoke $1,269 $465 Creekwatchers Citizen For perennials and tools to For transportation costs for a Monitoring program. create a garden for an outdoor Garrett County - Bay Grasses in Classes planting classroom. $70,776 experience. Nanticoke Watershed Alliance Monocacy Middle School Alice Ferguson Foundation $818 $3,511 $15,000 Conservancy For native plants and signs for For plants, soil amendment For research work and the $750 a rain garden on the grounds for trees, shrubs, mulch and Potomac River Outreach and For support of organizational of the Nanticoke Watershed equipment rental. Awareness Campaign. strategic development. Alliance. Tuscarora Elementary School Friends of University of Maryland $375 $18,286 Center for Environmental For students to participate in Dorchester County - For costs to develop the first Science (UMCES) a Chesapeake Bay Foundation $142,669 State of the Lake Report Card. $18,000 field experience at the Phillip For costs associated with the Merrill Environmental Center. Dorchester Soil Conservation production of watershed report Watershed Association, Inc. District cards. Urbana High School $12,500 $1,722 $778 For funds associated with For costs for Horn Point and University of Maryland For native plants and shrubs, a 1,000 linear foot stream the use of the Skipjack for Center for Environmental plant delivery, mulch and for restoration project in the students and teachers to Science (UMCES) shovels and other tools. participate in the Land and $30,304 Savage River headwaters. Water Connection Program. For the “Learning Science Volunteer Frederick Southern Middle School, through Chesapeake Bay $3,700 Garrett County Ducks Unlimited Research” outdoor education For program fees for two $5,000 $6,240 experience for all 7th grade Chesapeake Bay Foundation For sixth grade students to For the survey and design of Dorchester County students. field experiences as part of attend the NorthBay Adventure 33 acres of wetland restoration the Summer Serve Express Center. in Blackwater National Wildlife University of Maryland volunteer program. Refuge. Center for Environmental University of Maryland Science (UMCES) Volunteer Frederick Center for Environmental $65,000 $5,000 Science (UMCES) For a study on nutrient and For costs to support the 9th $19,980 the cost-effectiveness of floating annual BIG Sweep project. island wetlands. For costs associated with a schoolyard habitat program.

2010 Grant Awards • 8 Chesapeake Bay Trust 2010 Grant Awards

Harford County, Howard County & Kent County

Harford County - Howard County - Maryland Association for Kent County - $43,062 $63,924 Environmental and Outdoor $156,569 Education (MAEOE) Edgewood High School Clemens Crossing $2,880 Association $762 Elementary School For equipment to support $750 For a Bay Grasses in Classes $1,500 the statewide youth For support of board planning planting trip, macro invertebrate For fees to participate in summit/Maryland Green and organizational development. studies and a storm drain a Lady Maryland field experi - Schools ceremony. stenciling project. ence with the Living Chester River Association Classrooms Foundation. Maryland Department of $1,500 Harford County Government Natural Resources For costs to print and distribute $35,000 Dunloggin Middle School $2,100 the Chester River Report Card. For services to create a design $1,560 For fees to support the for the Wheel Creek at Calvert For native trees for seventh statewide youth Echo Hill Outdoor School Walk stream restoration project. grade students to conduct a summit/Maryland Green $15,609 steam buffer planting on Schools ceremony. For students to participate in Harford County Public school grounds. Echo Hill outdoor education Schools Master Gardeners, Maryland programs. $3,625 Hammond Middle School Cooperative Extension For Martha Lewis and Echo $165 Howard County Kent School Hill field experience fees as For costs associated with $11,350 $375 part of the “Environmental class participation in the Bay For costs for Howard County For fees for students to Study of the Susquehanna and Grasses in Classes program. fifth graders to participate in participate in a field experience Upper Chesapeake” course. a tree planting project. aboard the Sultana. Howard County Harford Glen Environmental Conservancy, Inc. Oakland Mills Middle School Sassafras River Association Education Center $28,325 $980 $15,000 $1,563 For support of the meaningful For costs associated with the For the implementation phase For students participating in watershed experience program Trout Raise and Release in the of the Sassafras Watershed the Environmental Summit for Howard County middle classroom program. Action Plan. to attend a Chesapeake Bay schools students. Foundation field experience. Oakland Mills Middle School Sassafras River Association Howard County Public $1,312 $65,000 St. Margaret School Schools For native trees associated For implementation and $1,732 $9,000 with a schoolyard reforestation study of an agriculture For costs involved in a field For a tree planting project project. treatment wetland. experience by the Living in partnership with Howard Classrooms Foundation. County Master Gardeners. Triadelphia Ridge Sultana Projects, Inc. Elementary School $5,000 Trinity Lutheran School Ilchester Elementary School $150 For partial program fees for $380 $341 For costs for a Bay Grasses in 10 Schooner Sultana boat For fees for a Bay Grasses in For fees for a Bay Grasses Classes planting experience. trips with 250 students from Classes planting experience. in Classes planting trip. Washington, DC schools. Wilde Lake Middle School Lime Kiln Middle School $2,276 Town of Chestertown $1,985 For Wilde Lake and Lime Kiln $18,335 For native planting projects Middle Schools to participate For support of the Chestertown with students from Lime Kiln in the National Aquarium in Raingarden program. Middle School, Lime Kiln Baltimore wetland nursery Elementary School and Perry and planting program. Washington College, Center School in Washington, DC. for Environment & Society $35,000 For implementation of the Town of Chestertown’s urban tree canopy goal. 2010 Grant Awards • 9 Chesapeake Bay Trust 2010 Grant Awards

Montgomery County & Prince George’s County

Montgomery County - Herbert Hoover Middle Potomac Conservancy Travilah Elementary School $101,901 School $9,983 $1,600 $600 For project outreach, organiza - For trip fees to attend the Audubon Naturalist Society For costs for a Bay Grasses in tional development and supply Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s of the Central Atlantic Classes planting experience. costs. Merrill Center Education States, Inc. Program. $10,000 Ivymount School Potomac Conservancy For support of the “Take the $300 $20,562 Westbrook Elementary Pulse of your Stream” project. For costs for a Bay Grasses in For costs associated with the School Classes planting experience. ESD bioretention project at $5,000 Brown Station Elementary Green Valley Elementary For costs of a Living Classroom School Little Bennett Elementary School. field experience and fees to $558 School attend Echo Hill Outdoor For a watershed model $1,669 Potomac Conservancy School and Flags pond. and costs involved in a field For students to participate in $750 experience to Flag Ponds a field experience to Flag For organizational strategic Westbrook Elementary Nature Park. Ponds Nature Park and to build development and outreach School watershed models. support. $3,452 Cabin John Middle School For costs of Aqua Eagle’s field $1,113 Little Falls Watershed Potomac Riverkeeper experiences with the Living For fees for a Karen Noonan Alliance $4,000 Classroom Foundation. Center field experience for $1,000 For costs for the Potomac students. For supplies needed to protect “Get the Dirt Out” program. William H. Farquhar Middle native planting from deer and School Friends of Rock Creek’s rabbit predation. Spark Matsunaga Elementary $1,550 Environment (FoRCE) School For costs associated with a $10,000 Montgomery County $3,000 Port Isobel field experience. For support to implement Department of Economic For support of the Smithsonian the Rock Creek stream team Development (DED) Environmental Research program. $4,500 Center’s Chesapeake Bay Prince George’s County For the publication of a field experience. - $115,270 Georgian Forest Elementary Howard-Montgomery County School Environmental Stewardship St. Martin of Tours Anacostia Watershed Society $835 Guide and an Environmental $1,632 $750 For fees for a Bay Grasses in Checklist for Families. For costs associated with a field For organizational development Classes planting experience. experience at the Chesapeake Newport Mill Middle School Bay Environmental Center. support activities. Germantown Elementary $899 Accokeek Foundation School For fees for a Bay Grasses in Strawberry Knoll Elementary $6,000 $1,321 Classes planting experience. School For sustainable agriculture For fourth grade students to $1,500 conference support. participate in a experience High School For a field experience to the aboard Living Classrooms $1,562 Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Alice Ferguson Foundation vessels and Lady Maryland For a Chesapeake Bay Phillip Merrill Environmental Foundation multi-day field Education Center and follow up $12,000 and the Sigsbee. nd experience to the Karen tree planting project. For support of the 22 Annual Potomac River Watershed Herbert Hoover Middle Noonan Center. Clean Up. School The Harvest Collective, $4,600 Potomac Pick Up America Alice Ferguson Foundation For students to attend Club $2,415 $18,000 Chesapeake Bay Foundation $7,500 For stream clean-up materials For support of the Climbing field experiences. For costs associated with to support project Pick Up the Northwest Branch Water America. the Environmental Education Quality Project. Ladder program.

2010 Grant Awards • 10 Chesapeake Bay Trust 2010 Grant Awards

Prince George’s County, Queen Anne’s County, St. Mary’s County & Talbot County

Prince George’s County Samuel Ogle Middle School Kennard Elementary St. Mary’s River Watershed (continued) $3,404 $4,152 Association Anacostia Watershed Society For field trips with Living For materials and supplies $2,000 $20,000 Classrooms and an oyster aqua - to enhance existing native For costs in producing a For support of the Town of culture service learning project. school plantings. green living guide, “From My Cheverly’s green plan community Backyard to Our Bay.” and awareness campaign. Town of Forest Heights Kennard Elementary $9,575 $1,090 Baden Elementary School For costs for a tree canopy For costs associated with Talbot County – $4,125 assessment and tree planting the American Eel raise and $306,710 For costs for students to project in the Town of Forest release project. participate in a NorthBay Heights. Chesapeake Wildlife Heritage field experience. Matapeake Middle School Washington Suburban $5,000 $23,810 For costs associated with the Earth Reports Sanitary Commission For costs associated with the Barnstable Hill Rain Garden, $3,000 $110 NorthBay field experience. Bozman Field Wooded For printing and mailing costs For Chesapeake Bay Wetland, Canterbury Hedgerow, associated with the Patuxent Foundation boat fees to support Stevensville Middle School Canterbury Wetland River report card. the distribution of oyster $5,000 reef balls by students from For sixth grade students to Restoration, and Canterbury Meadow projects. Gwynn Park High School Montgomery, Prince George’s, attend NorthBay and participate $2,616 and Howard counties. in a wetland enhancement For a wetland restoration project. Conservancy, Inc. project with the National $35,000 Aquarium in Baltimore. Queen Anne’s County – Summer Days Math and Science Camp for Girls For costs to develop a watershed $82,428 plan for the Upper Choptank Holy Trinity Episcopal Day $839 and watersheds. School For costs for a field experience Camp Wright, Convention $2,250 to Turner’s Creek State Park. of the Protestant Episcopal Environmental Concern, Inc. For costs for a field experience Church Diocese of Easton $52,000 for students to the Patuxent Tuckahoe and Martinak $9,470 For the construction of 625 4-H Center. State Parks For rain barrels, a rain garden $1,527 linear feet of living shoreline. project and a wetland enhance - Maryland National Capital For supplies and equipment for ment/shade tree planting. Environmental Concern, Inc. Park and Planning environmental education stations. $75,000 Commission Centreville Middle School For construction of a 748 linear $3,440 $5,000 foot living shoreline. For the “A Greener Backyard” For sixth grade students to St. Mary’s County – project supplies and signage at attend the five day NorthBay $46,340 Pickering Creek the Watkins Nature Center. environmental education Environmental Center experience. Ducks Unlimited $23,749 Neighborhood Design Center $25,000 For support of Pickering Creek’s $5,000 Forest Trends For wetland restoration and program to engage every middle For costs associated with a $50,000 buffer restoration in St. Mary’s school aged student in Talbot volunteer stream clean-up along For an agriculture treatment County. County. Oxon Run. wetland as a way to model the Chesapeake Fund. Elms Environmental Pickering Creek Samuel Ogle Middle School Kennard Elementary Education Center Environmental Center $5,000 $350 $19,340 $1,500 For field trips with Living For costs for a Bay Grasses in For a professional development For costs of native plants, nest Classrooms and an oyster aqua - Classes planting trip. program for students to partici - box materials and mulch. culture service learning project. pate in a meaningful watershed experience.

2010 Grant Awards • 11 Chesapeake Bay Trust 2010 Grant Awards

Talbot County, , Wicomico and Dorchester, Worchester & Statewide

Talbot County Worchester – $68,624 Worcester County Public Statewide – $59,000 (continued) Schools $18,800 St. Michael’s High School/ Assateague Coastal Trust Alliance for the Chesapeake For costs associated with teach - St. Michael’s Middle School $6,400 Bay, Inc. ers attending an environmental $2,500 For support of the Grow Berlin $12,000 professional development For the Echo Hill Outdoor Green, Neighborhood Green For support of Project Clean program. School experience for students. Team initiative, including Stream. supplies and outreach. Town of Oxford Alliance for the Chesapeake $69,436 Maryland Coastal Bays Washington County – Bay, Inc. For the construction of a biore - Program/Maryland Coastal $76,222 $14,000 tention swale and a 215 linear Bays Foundation For support of the Chesapeake foot Living Shoreline project $15,000 Network. For grant program support City of Hagerstown at the Oxford-Bellevue Ferry $35,000 landing in Oxford. to continue the Community Friends of the John Smith Stewardship Mini-Grants For implementation of the Chesapeake Trail Program in the Coastal Bays. new City of Hagerstown $14,000 Town of Oxford Urban Tree Canopy goal. $23,715 For costs to conduct conserva - For the construction of a Maryland Coastal Bays tion training workshops for Program/Maryland Coastal Highland View Academy local watershed organizations 325 linear foot living shoreline $2,810 at Morris Street Park. Bays Foundation and local governments. $20,000 For costs of Chesapeake Bay For support of the Coastal Foundation field trips to National Council of Stewards and Civic Justice Baltimore Harbor, Clagget Churches Western Maryland - Corps program engaging Farm and the Phillip Merrill $4,500 $163,000 60 high school students in Environmental Center and a For development of program the Coastal Bays Region. small tree planting. components for training and Chesapeake Bay Foundation outreach for faith based University of Maryland $163,000 National Aquarium in communities in the Maryland Extension - The Maryland For the Managing Livestock Baltimore Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Rural Enterprise Pasture Systems for Profit and $4,000 Development Center Water Quality project. For native trees and tree River Network planting project support at $3,412 $2,500 Nature For development of green jobs For scholarships for individuals and communication vehicles. Wicomico and Preserve. associated with Maryland watershed and river organiza - Dorchester - $68,000 Pocomoke Middle School Western Maryland Resource tions to attend the 2010 River $995 Conservation & Rally. Nanticoke Watershed For materials associated with Development Council Alliance a Chesapeake Bay Foundation $35,000 $68,000 field experience. For organizational support For a pilot project utilizing and development. the strategies of the Chesapeake Worcester County Bay Funders Network’s Department of Review Shenandoah Adaptable and Permitting Streamfencing project targeting $3,429 outreach to farmers, compre - For a rain garden and rain hensive technical assistance, barrel project at the Delmarva and flexible standards. Discovery Center.

2010 Grant Awards • 12 Chesapeake Bay Trust 2010 Grant Awards

Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, DC & West Virginia

Pennsylvania – James River Association Washington, DC – Potomac Riverkeeper $108,500 $750 $180,146 $750 For support to expand For organizational development Environmental Defense Fund presence in the upper and Brookland Education and communications support. $108,500 lower watershed. Campus at Bunker Hill For communications work $4,500 School Without Walls and a development plan for Rivanna Conservation For costs for students to High School the Oregon Dairy Regional Society attend the Watershed Explorers $1,100 Composting Project. $750 program. For field experience costs For organizational support with Living Classrooms and board development. Capital City PCS National Capitol Region. Virginia – $449,400 $1,880 Shenandoah Resource For Chesapeake Bay Sierra Club Foundation Conservation and Foundation program fees and $945 City of Norfolk Development Council transportation to the University For students to participate $20,700 $75,000 of Maryland’s Center for in a Living Classrooms field For design of a 1,125 linear- For developing the Chesapeake Marine Biotechnology. experience. foot living shoreline project Bay Funders Network’s on two opposite shorelines of Shenandoah Adaptable Friends of Thomson Theodore Roosevelt Senior Colley Bay. Streamfencing pilot project. $2,185 High School For second grade students to $2,730 Elizabeth River Project Trout Unlimited – National participate in the Anacostia For students to participate in a $750 $56,400 Watershed Society’s program field experience at the Phillip For organizational support and For costs associated with the Watershed Explorers/River Merrill Environmental Center. board development. restoration of 1,000 linear feet Habitat as well as in a shad of headwater stream. release. Wilderness Leadership & Friends of the Rappahannock Learning, Inc. (WILL) $750 Timberneck Farm Hope Community Charter $3,969 For organizational support and Community Association School For students to participate in communications development. $50,000 $1,090 a three day field experience to For construction of a 470 linear For students to participate in the Karen Noonan Center. Jamestown 4-H Educational foot living shoreline project a field experience with Living Center along Timberneck Creek. Classrooms and the Half Shell. Young America Works PCS $92,500 $4,775 For construction a 125 Virginia Institute of Marine Metropolitan Washington For support of three field trips linear-foot living shoreline at Science, School of Marine Council of Governments for underserved high school Jamestown 4-H Center. Science, College of William $75,000 students. & Mary For costs associated with a Jamestown 4-H Educational $50,000 stream restoration project on Center For a study of living shoreline Upper . West Virginia – $101,800 ecological and engineering $75,000 For a 175 linear-foot living issues. Oyster Community Council shoreline project at the $5,000 West Virginia University Jamestown 4-H Center. For sixth grade students to Foundation attend an Echo Hill Outdoor $75,000 School field experience and For a 1,200 linear foot stream conduct a stream cleanup in restoration/bank stabilization Rock Creek Park. project in the Cacapon River.

2010 Grant Awards • 13