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| Name of Organization | Amount | Description | Keywords | Year | Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piedmont Environmental Council | $20,000 | SVN works closely with local citizens | Land Use | 2013 | Chesapeake |
| Alice Ferguson Foundation, Inc | $10,000 | Address the persistent problem of litter in the Potomac by recruiting diverse and non-traditional audiences to participate in education and advocacy of litter solutions. The project is focused on engaging community members through awareness and behavior change activities, to drive continued action and support for trash reduction strategies. | Non-traditional Allies | 2013 | Chesapeake |
| River Network | $25,000 | Strengthen the overall organizational capacity of groups in the Chesapeake watershed through trainings and consultation, to work on increasing their base of financial, volunteer and/or board support via a customized approach that responds to specific organizational needs. | Capacity | 2013 | Chesapeake |
| National Wildlife Federation | $25,000 | Support the Maryland State Lead for the Choose Clean Water Coalition. The Maryland Lead will be the point organization to develop a state-wide strategy to identify the most relevant policy opportunities to improve water quality throughout the state. | Advocacy, Stormwater | 2013 | Chesapeake |
| Environmental Integrity Project | $70,000 | Seek opportunities to reduce nutrient and sediment pollution in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Comment on and appeal weak permits and regulations, bring citizen suits to hold poultry processors, other industrial point sources, and municipalities accountable for illegal discharges, and analyze pollution data to track Bay TMDL progress and identify areas for further improvement. | Agriculture | 2013 | Chesapeake |
| Clean Water Fund | $25,000 | In collaboration with the Choose Clean Water Coalition and other partners, educate decision makers and citizens on critical local water issues. Outreach will be done through community and homeowner associations in Northern Virginia jurisdictions. | Advocacy, Political Will | 2013 | Chesapeake |
| Chesapeake Stormwater Network, Inc. | $40,000 | Provide direct training to the stormwater design and review community; develop a network of stormwater professionals; track and analysis objectively on the changing regulatory landscape; and translate the science to improve the performance of urban stormwater practices. | Stormwater | 2013 | Chesapeake |
| Blue Water Baltimore, Inc. | $50,000 | BWB will push for the strong implementation of recent stormwater legislation and permits. They will hire a full-time advocacy staff person to help execute this work. | Advocacy, Stormwater | 2013 | Chesapeake |
| Potomac Conservancy, Inc | $40,000 | Roll out a policy campaign for clean water tentatively called | Advocacy, Political Will, Stormwater | 2013 | Chesapeake |
| PennFuture | $50,000 | Conduct advocacy on water policy issues affecting the Bay Watershed, and combine that advocacy with legal work around the nutrient credit trading system, CAFO NPDES permits, sewage treatment plant discharges and stormwater management plans. Monitor and hold DEP accountable for implementing and achieving its TMDL requirements. | Advocacy | 2013 | Chesapeake |
| Virginia Organizing, Inc | $10,000 | Virginia Organizing is a statewide grassroots organization dedicated to challenging injustice by empowering people in local communities to address issues that affect the quality of their lives. | Advocacy, Political Will | 2013 | Chesapeake |
| West Rhode Riverkeeper | $50,000 | Support the Waterkeepers Chesapeake's advocacy priorities. The overall aim is to uphold, strengthen and enforce the Clean Water Act and other policies that have a direct impact on the water quality and watersheds of the Chesapeake Bay and Coastal Bays. | Advocacy, Agriculture, Keepers, Stormwater | 2013 | Chesapeake |
| Virginia League of Conservation Voters Education Fund | $90,000 | General operating support to include: 1) implementing a non-partisan Get-Out-The-Vote (GOTV) civic engagement program leading up to Virginia's November election, and 2) exposing the threats of hydraulic fracturing to landowners and decision makers in the eastern third of Virginia in order to protect Virginia's open spaces, farmland and water resources . | Advocacy, Political Will | 2013 | Chesapeake |
| Resource Media | $45,000 | Develop and implement long-term strategies to bring new voices and constituencies into the fight to protect Chesapeake Bay from agricultural runoff and other pollution. Change the politics around Bay protection that now strongly favor agricultural interests and make progress difficult. | Agriculture, Communications | 2013 | Chesapeake |
| Calvert Marine Museum Society, Inc. | $6,000 | The Calvert Marine Museum will assist Senator Bernie Fowler, a pioneer in environmental advocacy for the Patuxent River and Chesapeake Bay, in cataloguing and preserving his extensive personal collection, amassed over a lifetime of work in the public sector. | Advocacy | 2013 | Chesapeake |
| Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central Atlantic States, Inc. | $125,000 | Develop and implement a campaign to: reduce environmental impacts from the land application of manure; increase accountability and transparency for state WIP provisions related to agriculture; and increase public awareness of, and engagement in, ag pollution issues. | Accountability, Advocacy, Agriculture | 2013 | Chesapeake |
| University System of Maryland Foundation Inc | $20,000 | Provide general operating support to the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Studies (UMCES), Maryland's premier research institution aimed at advancing scientific knowledge of the environment. | Agriculture | 2013 | Chesapeake |
| Wetlands Watch, Inc. | $50,000 | Push for greater accountability of Virginia wetlands programs; seek to expand the adoption of conservation landscaping solutions in local government MS4s and WIP strategies; and monitor the progress on Virginia comprehensive coastal resources management guidance. | Advocacy, Land Use, Stormwater | 2013 | Chesapeake |
| Lancaster Conservancy | $25,000 | Support the City of Lancaster in the development of a public education strategy to coincide with implementation of the City | Stormwater | 2013 | Chesapeake |
| Valley Conservation Council Inc | $20,000 | Fold into all of its program areas a greater emphasis on water quality protection. VCC promotes land use that sustains the farms, forests, open spaces, and heritage of the Shenandoah Valley of VA. Program areas include: land conservation, better development, & resource conservation. | Land Use, Nutrients | 2013 | Chesapeake |
| Friends of the Rappahannock, Inc. | $25,000 | FOR serves as the voice for a healthy and scenie Rappahannock River. They will continue to work on local WIP implementation and tracking, while expanding advocacy efforts downstream with a particular focus on the threat of hydrofracking. | Advocacy, WIP | 2013 | Chesapeake |
| National Parks Conservation Association | $60,000 | Advocate that local, state, and federal governments adopt, implement, and enforce strong clean air and water protections to benefit the Chesapeake region. Educate NPCA | Advocacy | 2013 | Chesapeake |
| James River Association | $15,000 | Ensure the protection and restoration of the Potomac, Rappahannock and James River watersheds by advocating for adequate water quality funding at the state level to implement the pollution reductions that are called for within Virginia | Advocacy, Political Will, WIP | 2013 | Chesapeake |
| Chesapeake Media Services Inc | $75,000 | General support for in-depth environmental reporting that reaches approximately 5 million people each month through a suite of products and services that includes the Chesapeake Bay Journal, Chesapeake Bay Journeys, Bay Journal News Service, and the Midday on the Bay radio program with WYPR. | Communications | 2013 | Chesapeake |
| Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, Inc. | $40,000 | Convene sportsmen leaders working on issues critical to the health of the Bay, and the future of the Chesapeake's outdoor pursuits. Strengthen laws, policies and practices affecting fish and wildlife conservation by leading partnerships that influence decision makers. | Fisheries, Non-traditional Allies, Political Will | 2013 | Chesapeake |