CHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST 2013 GRANT AWARDS In 2013, the Chesapeake Bay Trust awarded $5.3 million throughout the region through its organizations, civic and community groups, schools and municipalities as well as direct management ofcompetitive certain initiatives grant programs including and the special Chesapeake initiatives. Conservation These efforts Corps included program. 322 In grants 2013, tothe nonprofit Trust’s efforts created 4,500 feet of living shoreline; engaged 25,000 community volunteers who donated 26,000 hours to clean up local neighborhoods; educated 60,000 students using the outdoors as a classroom; planted 90,000 native trees and plants; removed 25 tons of trash from area waterways; and restored 87 acres of forest buffer, wetlands, and other habitats. The Chesapeake Bay Trust (www.cbtrust.org) The Chesapeake Bay Trust is supported by sales of the Maryland Treasure the is a nonprofit, grant-making organization Chesapeake license plate, donations to the Chesapeake Bay and Endangered Species dedicated to improving the Chesapeake Fund on the Maryland state income tax form, donations from individuals and Bay and its rivers through environmental corporations, and partnerships with private foundations and federal and state agencies. Ninety percent of the Trust’s expenditures are directed to its Chesapeake Bay restora- education, community tion and education programs and for the 11th consecutive year, the Trust has received 29 years. outreach, and local a “Four Star Rating” from Charity Navigator, placing the organization in the top 1% of watershed restoration. charities nationwide. $55 million Allegany County West Side School Created by the in Grants. $3,373 Maryland General $39,163 For support of an outdoor field experience for Assembly in 1985, the Trust has awarded more students at the Swan Creek wetlands. than $55 million in grants and engaged Allegany County Public Schools hundreds of thousands of individuals in $877 For support of an outdoor field experience and projects and programs student led action project that planted 30 Anne Arundel County that are having a native species. $482,950 measurable impact on the Chesapeake Mountain Ridge High School Annapolis Maritime Museum Bay and its $4,923 $5,000 For costs associated with the water quality tributaries. For costs to provide an outdoor educational testing of Frostburg’s water sources by high school experience for second and third grade students from students. Georgetown East Elementary School. Learn more about University of Maryland Center for the Trust and its Annapolis Maritime Museum Environmental Science $28,000 programs at $29,990 For support of the sixth grade oyster education program www.cbtrust.org. For support for a schoolyard restoration program in partnership with Anne Arundel County Public Schools’ for first grade teachers and students in Allegany and Environmental Literacy Initiative. Garrett counties. CHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST 2013 GRANT AWARDS Anne Arundel County Linstead Community Association Severn House Condominium Association (continued) $1,000 $500 For costs associated with an invasive species removal For costs associated with a native planting project and native planting in Severna Park along the Severn conducted by local community volunteers. Ben Oaks Civic Association River. $1,744 Severn Improvement Association For costs associated with the design and Linstead Community Association $1,000 installation of a living shoreline project in the Ben $1,000 For support of a planting project with 20 volunteers Oaks community. For costs associated with planting 1,600 native plants installing native plants and trees. and trees for a streamside buffer along the Severn Captain Avery Museum, Inc. River in Severna Park. Severna Park Baptist Church $1,000 $1,000 For costs associated with a community engagement London Town Foundation, Inc. For costs associated with planting 25 trees and 900 project that planted 250 native plants at the Captain $24,731 native plants to address a stormwater runoff Avery Museum. For costs associated with the installation of a green problem. roof at the London Town and Gardens. Chesapeake Bay Foundation Sherwood Forest Boys and Girls Club $21,570 London Town Property Owners’ Association $908 For support of environmental professional $50,000 For costs associated with 263 students constructing development in Anne Arundel County middle schools. For costs associated with removing 330 linear feet and installing oyster cages in the Severn River. of bulkhead and installing a living shoreline in the Emmanuel Lutheran School London Town community. South River Federation $348 $47,500 For costs associated with sending middle school Olde Severna Park Improvement Association, For costs to build and sustain organizational students to attend an outdoor field experience. Inc. capacity to support restoration missions throughout $312 the watershed. Empowering Believers Church For costs associated with an invasive species removal $500 project in Severna Park. South River Federation For costs for the congregation to plant native trees $57,425 and shrubs on church grounds. Riva Trace Council For costs associated with installing a 430 linear foot $1,000 living shoreline project at Camp Woodlands. Fairwinds of Annapolis Condominium Council of For support of a reforestation project that resulted in Unit Owners 50 native plants and trees planted in the community. South River Federation $25,000 $14,298 For costs associated with installing rain Saunders Point Community Association For the creation of a 282 linear foot living shoreline gardens and a bioswale at the Fairwinds of $11,820 on the South River. Annapolis condos to reduce runoff. For costs associated with planting native plants in a bio-retention cell in the median of the Saunders Point South River Federation High Point Improvement Association Community Association. $2,313 $869 For support of an erosion and stormwater control For costs associated with planting native trees and project at Camp Woodlands and the planting of 150 removing 10 pounds of trash at High Point Park. native plants. Chesapeake Bay Trust 2 2013 Grant Awards CHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST 2013 GRANT AWARDS Anne Arundel County West/Rhode Riverkeeper, Inc. Baltimore Chesapeake Bay Outward Bound (continued) $27,500 Program For costs to build and sustain organizational $5,000 capacity to support restoration missions throughout For support of efforts to engage students in their South River Federation the watershed. environment through an outdoor field experience. $35,000 For costs associated with installing a stormwater West/Rhode Riverkeeper, Inc. Baltimore Community Foundation pond retrofit and restoration project to restore a $4,890 $5,000 tributary of Broad Creek. For the creation of an 80 linear foot living shoreline For support of the Clean Water Schools and Healthy project. Communities project to establish a program to clean South River Federation up local streams and neighborhoods. $4,973 West/Rhode Riverkeeper, Inc. For costs associated with installing a 300 square foot $35,000 Baltimore Community ToolBank demonstration rain garden. To support the creation of a stream restoration and $500 meadow project. For costs associated with installing recycled rain South River Federation barrels on the Baltimore Community ToolBank’s $932 West/Rhode Riverkeeper, Inc. grounds. For support of a water quality assessment project in $5,000 tidal and nontidal streams in the South River For support of the West/Rhode 2013 Report Card. Baltimore Curriculum Project Watershed. $3,370 West/Rhode Riverkeeper, Inc. For costs associated with sending students from the St. Andrews United Methodist Day School $11,476 Wolfe Street Academy on outdoor environmental $2,740 For costs associated with implementing a 125 linear experiences. For costs associated with sending students to foot living shoreline project on Bear Neck Creek. participate in an outdoor field experience. Baltimore Lab School $2,500 St. Anne’s School of Annapolis For costs associated with sending students to $307 Baltimore City participate in a series of outdoor field experiences. For costs to send fourth graders on an outdoor field $523,941 experience and to grow oysters in the classroom. Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts Archbishop Borders $15,000 The Summit School For materials needed for community volunteers to $374 $100 For costs associated with engaging students and install three rain gardens and plant 360 native plants For support of fourth and fifth grade students to at a local school. attend an outdoor field experience to release oysters community members in a native tree planting. and horseshoe crabs. Armistead Gardens Middle School #243 Baltimore Tree Trust $5,000 Watershed Stewards Academy $5,000 For costs associated with sending sixth grade For costs associated with students and volunteers to $25,920 plant 30 trees in the McElderry Park neighborhood. For costs associated to develop and pilot a program students to attend a NorthBay field experience as to foster leaf and trash removal from storm drains, well as complete a student-led stormdrain stenciling curbs and sidewalks. project. Chesapeake Bay Trust 3 2013 Grant Awards CHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST 2013 GRANT AWARDS Baltimore City Civic Works, Inc. Irvine Nature Center (continued) $45,000 $5,000 For costs associated with the construction of a For support of a professional development course for bioswale at Real Food Farm to reduce runoff, teachers at the Irvine Nature Center. Blue Water Baltimore involving the planting of