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| Name of Organization | Amount | Description | Keywords | Year | Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Integrity Project | $75,000 | Oppose efforts to weaken rules that require CAFO's to minimize both air and water pollution. | N/A | 2009 | Chesapeake |
| Environmental Integrity Project | $35,000 | Address the need for improved Clean Water Act permitting and enforcement in Virginia and Delaware through petitions to EPA for review, and possible withdrawal of those states' CWA programs. The primary focus of the review will be the states' CAFO programs, which regulate large factory farms. | N/A | 2010 | Chesapeake |
| Environmental Integrity Project | $60,000 | Push EPA to classify ammonia as an air pollutant, requiring its regulation under the Clean Air Act. Remove, through legal challenges, the CAFO air emissions reporting exemption. | Political Will | 2010 | Chesapeake |
| Environmental Integrity Project | $60,000 | Secure strict Clean Air Act permits for Maryland's major polluters, and challenge those permits which contain inadequate monitoring requirements and emission controls. | Political Will | 2010 | Chesapeake |
| Environmental Integrity Project | $35,000 | Address the need for improved Clean Water Act (CWA) permitting and enforcement in Virginia and Delaware through petitions to EPA for review, and possible withdrawal, of those states' CWA programs. The primary focus of the review will be the states' CAFO programs, which regulate large factory farms. | Agriculture, Political Will | 2011 | Chesapeake |
| Environmental Integrity Project | $65,000 | On behalf of MD communities, review, comment and take action related to Clean Air and Clean Water permits. Engage citizens in efforts to achieve more accountability and transparency from the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) in its permitting and enforcement practices. | Political Will | 2011 | Chesapeake |
| Environmental Integrity Project | $15,500 | Support the development and maintenance of "Chesapeake Commons", a multifaceted database to share, visualize and publish information pertaining to Chesapeake Bay progress, restoration and enforcement. | Nutrients, WIP | 2011 | Chesapeake |
| Environmental Integrity Project | $60,000 | This project seeks to improve enforcement of air and water regulations addressing Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO's). It has been expanded this year to also include large urban sources of nutrient pollution that, if brought into compliance with permits, could help states reach their TMDL goals. | Agriculture | 2011 | Chesapeake |
| Environmental Law Institute | $20,000 | Support an evaluation of Maryland tax policies that could assist agriculture nutrient reductions. | N/A | 2005 | Chesapeake |
| Environmental Leadership Program | $24,000 | Support the launch of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Network. This will be the 4th regional network. ELP provides training for individuals early in their careers with the support and guidance to rise to key public leadership positions. | N/A | 2008 | Chesapeake |
| Environmental Working Group | $50,000 | Provide an interactive web-based mapping tool in the Chesapeake Bay that will aid in making the case for better targeting of limited conservation funds and the need to balance commodity and conservation program funding. | N/A | 2007 | Chesapeake |
| Environmental Working Group | $75,000 | Couple research, communications, and policy education to bring media and policy attention to the critical problem of phosphorus-saturated soils in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. | N/A | 2009 | Chesapeake |
| Environmental Working Group | $50,000 | Support the Chesapeake Sustainable Agriculture Program to accelerate EWG's work in the Chesapeake to strengthen current approaches to solving agricultural water quality problems and to make public institutions and officials accountable for their agricultural-environmental policies. | N/A | 2008 | Chesapeake |
| Estuarine Research Federation | $2,500 | Support the exchange of Chesapeake Bay related research at the Estuarine Research Federation Conference. | N/A | 2005 | Chesapeake |
| ETV Endowment of South Carolina | $25,000 | Support research, in-depth reporting, and field investigations to develop a national prime-time PBS documentary on the Chesapeake Bay. Work will be done through Hedrick Smith Productions, Inc. | N/A | 2007 | Chesapeake |
| Everglades Foundation | $25,000 | Support the First Annual Everglades Foundation Benefit. | N/A | 2006 | Chesapeake |
| Forest Trends | $10,000 | Sponsor the Katoomba meeting focused on market-based tools to improve water quality in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. | N/A | 2008 | Chesapeake |
| Friends of Jefferson Patterson Park | $3,000 | Support for the 25th Anniversary celebration of the Patuxent restoration | N/A | 2004 | Chesapeake |
| Friends of MD State Forests and Parks, Inc. | $17,000 | Support the Maryland State Park Services' Funding study group effort to address the fiscal deficiencies in the budget. The study group will formulate the funding strategy to meet the legislative mandate to fully fund the state park system. | N/A | 2007 | Chesapeake |
| Friends of the John Smith Chesapeake Trail, Inc. | $2,500 | Garner support for a coordinated land conservation approach across jurisdictions. | N/A | 2009 | Chesapeake |
| Friends of the John Smith Chesapeake Trail, Inc. | $92,000 | Using advocacy and technical consultation, implement a "Great Rivers, Vital Lands" initiative that focuses on the long-term protection of essential areas of the Bay watershed. Policies and practices that promote conservation of critical ecological and cultural resources will be pursued, including the preservation of contiguous lands. | Advocacy, Nutrients | 2010 | Chesapeake |
| Friends of the Rappahannock, Inc. | $30,000 | Support capacity building within the organization, while enhancing their work on low impact development and riparian forest buffer preservation. | N/A | 2007 | Chesapeake |
| Friends of the Rappahannock, Inc. | $30,000 | Support capacity building within the organization, while enhancing their work on low impact development and riparian forest buffer preservation. | N/A | 2008 | Chesapeake |
| Friends of the Rappahannock, Inc. | $30,000 | Support capacity building within the organization, while enhancing work on low impact development and riparian forest buffer preservation. | N/A | 2009 | Chesapeake |
| Friends of the Rappahannock, Inc. | $30,000 | Expand organizational advocacy work by hiring a Lower Rappahannock Manager to serve that portion of the river. | Keepers | 2010 | Chesapeake |
| Friends of the Rappahannock, Inc. | $30,000 | State-wide advocacy | Advocacy | 2010 | Chesapeake |
| The Funders Network | $1,500 | Support a funders briefing and reception on the "Transportation for America" campaign. The meeting will have a discussion of state and local implementation capacity. | N/A | 2009 | Chesapeake |
| Green Corps | $15,000 | Support a Mid-Atlantic Regional Expansion Program to train young leaders in the skills of environmental organizing and advocacy. This project works to increase civic engagement, strengthen the region's environmental movement, and highlight the regional environmental groups. | N/A | 2006 | Chesapeake |
| Green Treks Network, Inc. | $30,000 | Support a communications project on stormwater best management practices, targeting municipal officials, engineers and developers with the goal of implementing BMPs in the Pennsylvania stormwater manual. | N/A | 2007 | Chesapeake |
| Green Treks Network, Inc. | $35,000 | Continue support of a social marketing project designed to encourage municipalities to adopt regulations and promote the implementation of stormwater BMPs throughout Pennsylvania. StormwaterPA.org will be an online resource center, including video case study success stories. | N/A | 2008 | Chesapeake |
| Gunpowder Valley Conservation, Inc. | $500 | Tribute to a great environmental leader, Jo Owen, by supporting a tree planting in her honor. | N/A | 2007 | Chesapeake |
| Harry R. Hughes Center for AgroEcology | $20,000 | Successful match of a challenge grant to build their fellowship program. Funds will be used to support future graduate students working on issues of Maryland's working lands. | N/A | 2008 | Chesapeake |
| Harry R. Hughes Center for AgroEcology | $50,000 | Evaluate the energy and environmental benefits of warm season grasses used as a biofuel and as buffers by farmers in the Chester River watershed. | N/A | 2009 | Chesapeake |
| H. John Heinz III Center for Science Economics and the Environment | $25,000 | Develop a strategy to ensure that long term data on phosphorus build up in soils and current science is elevated to the policy making level to improve agricultural phosphorus management. | Agriculture | 2011 | Chesapeake |
| Herring Run Watershed Association | $10,000 | Participation in a program created by the Maryland General Assembly to provide assistance from local businesses for community organizations. (Campbell & Company tax credit) | N/A | 2003 | Chesapeake |
| Herring Run Watershed Association | $18,000 | Support the Baltimore stormwater action coalition to establish a baseline of citizen knowledge about stormwater impacts in the Patapsco/ Back River Basin to create an effective messaging plan. | N/A | 2006 | Chesapeake |
| Herring Run Watershed Association | $19,500 | A study of attitudes and behaviors among residents of the Patapsco/ Back River watershed, aimed at gaining a full understanding of how the public perceives stormwater runoff, and what messages will result in action. | N/A | 2007 | Chesapeake |
| Herring Run Watershed Association | $35,000 | Support the "Advancing Runoff Awareness" campaign in the Baltimore City and County. This project will bring attention to the problems caused by stormwater and seek solutions to those problems by consulting with elected officials, business groups and community leaders. | N/A | 2008 | Chesapeake |
| Herring Run Watershed Association | $20,000 | Reduce stormwater runoff through public education and engagement of the local community in Baltimore. | N/A | 2009 | Chesapeake |
| Herring Run Watershed Association | $10,000 | Support the merger of 5 Baltimore watershed organizations, forming one Baltimore Watershed Alliance. | N/A | 2009 | Chesapeake |
| Herring Run Watershed Association | $30,000 | Develop a comprehensive public policy and advocacy program, providing one Baltimore voice, particularly focused on stormwater. | Advocacy, Stormwater | 2010 | Chesapeake |
| Herring Run Watershed Association | $19,000 | Support for the Baltimore Harbor Waterkeeper. | Keepers | 2010 | Chesapeake |
| Herring Run Watershed Association | $20,000 | Support the tracking and evaluation of administrative and treatment waivers that may take place in 7-10 focused jurisdictions in response to regulation exceptions to the 2007 MD Stormwater Act. | Stormwater | 2010 | Chesapeake |
| Institute for Conservation Leadership | $20,000 | Support the Mid-Atlantic Complete Fundraiser Program - work with ~20 Chesapeake organizations to increase their total income, diversify their funding base and develop effective fundraising strategies. | N/A | 2006 | Chesapeake |
| Institute for Conservation Leadership | $7,700 | Support two tuitions for the "Leading from Within' training; a five-month training designed to strengthen participants" leadership skills and increase their effectiveness as leaders. | N/A | 2008 | Chesapeake |
| Island Press | $25,000 | Launch an outreach campaign, raising the importance of menhaden with the public and promoting policy discussions on the topic of over-harvesting, done through the release of the book, "The Most Important Fish in the Sea". | N/A | 2007 | Chesapeake |
| Izaak Walton League of America | $20,000 | General Support | N/A | 2003 | Chesapeake |
| Izaak Walton League of America | $10,000 | General Support | N/A | 2005 | Chesapeake |
| Izaak Walton League of America | $10,000 | General Operational Support to support their goal of strengthen partnerships in the sporting community and expanding outreach to involve more citizens in conservation decision making. | N/A | 2006 | Chesapeake |
| Izaak Walton League of America | $10,000 | General operating support to assist the League's goal of protecting our country's natural heritage and improving outdoor recreation opportunities for the public. | N/A | 2007 | Chesapeake |
| Izaak Walton League of America | $10,000 | Develop capacity to energize and expand their grassroots base, build awareness of their mission and programs, and strengthen their chapters and divisions. They currently have 12,000 members in Maryland and Virginia. | N/A | 2009 | Chesapeake |
| Izaak Walton League of America | $10,000 | Support the League in their ongoing efforts to build a stronger and more effective network of grassroots activists. In addition to working with the Choose Clean Water Coalition, they will provide direct support and training to their chapters and divisions. | Capacity | 2010 | Chesapeake |
| James River Association | $25,000 | Capacity building for transition year. | N/A | 2005 | Chesapeake |
| James River Association | $50,790 | Support environmentally sensitive development practices. | N/A | 2005 | Chesapeake |
| James River Association | $50,000 | Support the Healthy Rivers Alliance, a partnership of the James River Association, Friends of the Rappahannock, the Potomac Conservancy, and Friends of the Rivers of Virginia to conduct education and outreach among its citizens. | N/A | 2005 | Chesapeake |
| James River Association | $39,422 | Follow-up from a project examining the development codes and ordinances of all 45 major counties and cities of the James River watershed. Phase II will communicate scores and recommendations to the elected officials and planning staff of those 45 jurisdictions and at workshops and meetings. One locality will be targeted for a focused effort. | N/A | 2006 | Chesapeake |
| James River Association | $50,000 | Support the Healthy Rivers Initiative, a 30-member partnership including the James River Association, Friends of the Rappahannock, the Potomac Conservancy, and Friends of the Rivers of Virginia to conduct education and outreach on the cost of restoring and protecting our waterways. | N/A | 2006 | Chesapeake |
| James River Association | $50,000 | Work on sediment and erosion compliance from construction sites, improve stormwater permits and regulations in new and existing development, and examine the overall effectiveness of sediment and stormwater requirements to determine if current standards prevent degradation of waters. | N/A | 2006 | Chesapeake |
| James River Association | $39,650 | Continue work at a targeted county and city level on revising development codes and ordinances. This will be done by building awareness and support among elected officials and planning staff, supporting partners with the same objectives, and providing recommendations for change. | N/A | 2007 | Chesapeake |
| James River Association | $35,770 | Provide legal, technical and advocacy efforts to improve Virginia's stormwater regulations, for both stormwater construction permits and MS4 permits. | N/A | 2007 | Chesapeake |
| James River Association | $25,000 | Support the Healthy Rivers Initiative, a partnership of 30 Virginia river conservation groups. The group's goal is to build support for nonpoint source programs, building a coalition of conservation and agricultural leaders. | N/A | 2007 | Chesapeake |
| James River Association | $30,000 | Support the start-up of a new Upper James Riverkeeper program. | N/A | 2007 | Chesapeake |
| James River Association | $30,000 | Continue support of the new Upper James Riverkeeper program. | N/A | 2008 | Chesapeake |
| James River Association | $35,000 | Support a project to advocate for stronger stormwater regulations for construction and MS4 permits and strengthen a volunteer program to increase compliance of sediment and erosion controls. | N/A | 2008 | Chesapeake |
| James River Association | $25,000 | Support the Healthy Rivers Initiative, a partnership of 30 Virginia river conservation groups, whose goal is educate legislators on the importance of non-point source programs, particularly agriculture. | N/A | 2008 | Chesapeake |
| James River Association | $40,000 | Utilizing a review of code and ordinances in 45 counties and cities of the James River Watershed to seek policy changes at the local level. This is being done by developing recommendations and working one-on-one with several targeted jurisdictions. | N/A | 2008 | Chesapeake |
| James River Association | $75,000 | Advocate for strong long-term stormwater standards throughout Virginia and support local entities through the implementation of updated codes & ordinances, removing barriers to low-impact development. | N/A | 2009 | Chesapeake |
| James River Association | $30,000 | Continued support of the Upper James Riverkeeper program. | N/A | 2009 | Chesapeake |
| James River Association | $25,000 | The Healthy Rivers Initiative is a conservation organization partnership working with farming groups to secure funding for agricultural water quality programs. | N/A | 2009 | Chesapeake |
| James River Association | $60,000 | Advocate for strong standards in the TMDL and related state Watershed Implementation Plans, as well as the VA stormwater regulations and MS4 permits. | WIP | 2010 | Chesapeake |
| James River Association | $25,000 | Support for the Upper James Riverkeeper program. | Keepers | 2010 | Chesapeake |
| James River Association | $20,000 | Support the partnership, "Healthy Rivers Initiative", which focuses on raising awareness around the funding needs for Virginia's water quality programs. Funding will be a critical element in Virginia meeting its water quality commitments. | Capacity | 2010 | Chesapeake |
| James River Association | $20,000 | Support the partnership,"Healthy Rivers Initiative", which focuses on raising awareness around the funding needs for Virginia's water quality programs. Funding will be a critical element in Virginia meeting its water quality commitments. | Capacity | 2010 | Chesapeake |
| Jones Falls Watershed Association | $10,000 | For general operational support for watershed organization to transition from previous organizational structure. | N/A | 2004 | Chesapeake |
| Lancaster County Conservation District | $25,000 | Investigate the economic and environmental viability of a gasification project to reduce nutrients from manure. | N/A | 2005 | Chesapeake |
| Lancaster Farmland Trust | $55,000 | Support the education of conservation practices to the Amish and Mennonite farmers that have land in conservation easements, protecting soils and improving water quality. | N/A | 2007 | Chesapeake |
| Lancaster Farmland Trust | $55,000 | Increase the adoption of conservation practices for protecting soils and improving water quality by Plain Sect farmers whose land is under conservation easements. | N/A | 2008 | Chesapeake |
| Lancaster Farmland Trust | $10,000 | Enlist farm owners interested in land preservation, to document baseline conditions on farms and evaluate conservation opportunities, and to monitor implementation of agricultural best management practices. | N/A | 2009 | Chesapeake |
| League of Conservation Voters Education Fund | $25,000 | Support the establishment of a Pennsylvania common agenda, bringing the environmental community together fostering statewide cooperation. | N/A | 2009 | Chesapeake |
| LEAD Maryland Foundation, Inc. | $25,000 | Expand the agricultural training for young farmers to include environmental matters in the curriculum, promoting responsible agricultural practices that ensure environmental sustainability. | N/A | 2006 | Chesapeake |
| LEAD Maryland Foundation, Inc. | $25,000 | Expand the LEAD | N/A | 2007 | Chesapeake |
| LEAD Maryland Foundation, Inc. | $25,000 | Identify and develop leaders within the agriculture, natural resources and rural communities. Support seminars and study tours designed to increase participants' understanding and broaden their perspective on the technologies, business practices and environmental issues affecting agriculture. | N/A | 2008 | Chesapeake |
| LEAD Maryland Foundation, Inc. | $5,000 | Educate young agricultural leaders about critical public issues and broaden their perspective on the technologies, business practices and environmental issues associated with agriculture. | Agriculture | 2011 | Chesapeake |
| LEAD Maryland Foundation, Inc. | $10,000 | LEAD's youth leadership training increases participants' understanding of critical public issues and broadens their perspective on the technologies, business practices and environmental issues affecting agriculture. | N/A | 2009 | Chesapeake |
| Leadership Anne Arundel | $2,900 | Sponsorship of local leader to attend capacity building and networking program. | N/A | 2004 | Chesapeake |
| Leadership Anne Arundel | $3,500 | Continue sponsorship of a candidate for local leadership development. | N/A | 2005 | Chesapeake |
| Leadership Anne Arundel | $6,500 | $4,000 - Support the tuition for an up and coming environmental leader in the community; $1,500 - co-sponsor the Environmental Session for the 2007 Flagship Class. | N/A | 2006 | Chesapeake |
| Leadership Anne Arundel | $1,500 | Support the 2007 Environmental Session for the 2007-2008 Flagship Class. This will expose the present class to regional environmental concerns and facilitate a discussion on strategies to meet Anne Arundel County's environmental challenges. | N/A | 2007 | Chesapeake |
| Leadership Anne Arundel | $5,400 | Support two individuals to attend the LAA Flagship Class of 2008, adding an environment viewpoint during the training sessions and programs. | N/A | 2007 | Chesapeake |
| Leadership Anne Arundel | $6,000 | Support two individuals to attend the LAA Flagship Class of 2009, adding an environment viewpoint during the training sessions and programs. | N/A | 2008 | Chesapeake |
| Leadership Anne Arundel | $4,200 | Support the tuition for an individual to attend the 2011 Flagship Class. The program offers an intense curriculum of civic information and leadership skills development. | Capacity | 2011 | Chesapeake |
| League of Conservation Voters Education Fund | $10,000 | To promote citizen/legislative dialog on key environmental policy issues by co-sponsoring the Annual Legislative Environmental Summits. | N/A | 2003 | Chesapeake |
| League of Conservation Voters Education Fund | $25,000 | Funding for voter education projects. | N/A | 2004 | Chesapeake |
| LightHawk, Inc. | $10,000 | Conduct aerial monitoring with the Waterkeepers. Build volunteer pilot base and expand outreach to other environmental organizations in the area. | N/A | 2009 | Chesapeake |
| Maroon Consulting, LLC | $13,500 | Evaluate states' nutrient trading programs to identify improvements that may be needed to provide greater assurance that actual reductions will occur from the credits exchanged. | Nutrients, WIP | 2011 | Chesapeake |
| Maryland Center for Agro-Ecology, Inc. | $25,000 | Investigate "poultry litter to energy" issues. | N/A | 2005 | Chesapeake |
| Maryland Center for Agro-Ecology, Inc. | $25,000 | Support an Agro-Ecology Fellowship, honoring Governor Harry Hughes. | N/A | 2006 | Chesapeake |
| Maryland Center for Agro-Ecology, Inc. | $25,000 | Establish 80-100 acres of switchgrass riparian buffers on Eastern shore cropland to evaluate nutrient uptake, energy capture, carbon sequestration and habitat effects during the first three years of establishment. Assess environmental benefits as well as opportunities to provide an energy source. | N/A | 2008 | Chesapeake |
| Maryland Coastal Bays Foundation, Inc. | $20,000 | Support the focus of improving water quality, restoring fish and wildlife populations, improving recreation and navigation, and ensuring sound development and planning in our Maryland Coastal Bays. | N/A | 2007 | Chesapeake |
| Maryland Department of Natural Resources | $75,000 | To enhance technological approaches of the restoration of ecological functions of wetlands through purchase of an amphibious excavator. | N/A | 2003 | Chesapeake |