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Maryland League of Conservation Voters Education Fund $12,000 The Citizens Campaign for the Environment will conduct a strategic planning to address challenges and opportunities to better position the overall environmental movement in Maryland, strengthening internal procedures and external outcomes.  Advocacy, Political Will 2014 Chesapeake
University System of Maryland Foundation Inc $10,000 Support a forum on Environmental Justice; bring a much needed focus to the nexus between water quality, environmental impacts, and community and public health.  Non-traditional Allies 2014 Chesapeake
University System of Maryland Foundation Inc $9,000 As coordinator of the Chesapeake Bay Funder Network Agriculture Workgroup, strengthen the economic sustainability of the Chesapeake Bay farming community while simultaneously addressing nutrient run-off from farming, particularly related to manure, that threatens the Chesapeake Bay and its local tributaries.  Agriculture, Nutrients 2014 Chesapeake
Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore, Inc $25,000 A Water  Wheel trash interceptor that uses solar power and hydro-power to collect and remove trash and debris from the Jones Falls in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. Non-traditional Allies, Stormwater 2014 Chesapeake
Alice Ferguson Foundation, Inc $15,000 Trash Free Maryland Alliance is a network of organizations and businesses focused on reducing trash pollution by coordinating and informing groups around a common policy agenda.   Advocacy, Non-traditional Allies 2014 Chesapeake
Alice Ferguson Foundation, Inc $5,000 Support Prince George’s Green in their efforts to expand the green workforce and green business development in Prince George’s County, MD.  Green Career Workshops will provide necessary skills training and potential employer matches.  Advocacy, Stormwater, WIP 2014 Chesapeake
Anacostia Watershed Stewards $20,000 Recruit stewards from diverse backgrounds and neighborhoods, thereby increasing public awareness of watershed protection issues in many communities throughout the Capital region.  Advocacy, Stormwater 2014 Chesapeake
Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central Atlantic States, Inc. $84,300 Manage and provide coordination, leadership, strategic and administrative support for the Maryland Clean Agriculture Coalition (MCAC). Improve Maryland waterways and protect public health by reducing pollution, and increasing transparency and accountability, from agriculture.  A key element of the coalition’s work is to drive reductions in the land application of manure in the Chesapeake watershed. Accountability, Agriculture, Communications 2014 Chesapeake
Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central Atlantic States, Inc. $33,150 Development and implementation of the Phosphorus Management Tool (PMT) andthe implementation of the new CBP verification standards for agriculture Accountability, Advocacy, Agriculture 2014 Chesapeake
Chesapeake Conservation Landscaping Council $25,000 Create a certification program and therefore a standardized workforce of trained landscaping professionals with the skills and expertise to design, install, and maintain small-scale landscaping practices for efficient pollution removal. Stormwater, WIP 2014 Chesapeake
PennFuture $25,000 Protect the Loyalsock State Forest from an imminent threat of unconventional gas development activities by preventing Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) from entering into a Surface Disturbance Management Agreement (SDMA) with Anadarko Petroleum Corporation and other third parties. Advocacy, Land Use, Nutrients, Water Quality, WIP 2014 Chesapeake
The Funders Network $10,000 Support the National Stormwater Funders’ Group.  The group focuses on joint learning and collaborative work among funders interested in stormwater management and green infrastructure.  Advocacy, Stormwater 2014 Chesapeake
Environmental Grantmakers Association $3,000 Help launch The Blue Sky Funders Forum, a national hub for funders to learn, connect, and grow philanthropy for environmental education. Advocacy, Political Will, Water Quality, WIP 2014 Chesapeake
National Environmental Education Foundation $20,000 Strengthen coverage of weather, climate and environmental information in Spanish-language media by providing science based and actionable information through media stakeholders they trust in the DC metro area.  Communications 2014 Chesapeake
Piedmont Environmental Council $25,000 Build local partnerships to increase civic participation on projects leading to stronger stormwater protection, improved local water quality, and better environmental outcomes in Fairfax County, VA and Montgomery County, MD.  Advocacy 2014 Chesapeake
Responsible Drilling Alliance $5,000 Provide strategic guidance and communications support to the Save the Loyalsock Coalition (www.saveloyalsock.com), a coalition comprised of 23 non-profit organizations. The Coalition was formed to protect an area in Pennsylvania known as the Clarence Moore lands of the Loyalsock State Forest from natural gas development. Communications 2014 Chesapeake
Queen Anne's Conservation Association $10,000 Pilot an electronic system of gathering signatures in citizens-driven referendum efforts. Advocacy, Capacity 2014 Chesapeake
Schrauth Consulting, LLC $8,000 Support coordination of a stormwater community of funders in the Chesapeake Bay.  Advocacy, Stormwater 2014 Chesapeake
Sierra Club Foundation $50,000 Support strong implementation of Maryland stormwater policies that reduce polluted runoff  and draw connections between local water quality work and broader efforts to heal the Bay.  Address the negative impacts of agricultural pollution on Maryland’s waterways. Advocacy, Agriculture, Stormwater 2014 Chesapeake
Sustainable Chesapeake $72,550 Provide project management for the USDA Conservation Innovation Grant to the Chesapeake Bay Funders Network.  Accelerate deployment of manure to energy technologies and other options that provide alternatives to land application and reduce nutrient pollution from animal agriculture production.  Agriculture 2014 Chesapeake
Virginia Conservation Network $8,500 Support the tuition for participation in the Institute for Conservation Leadership’s Executive Director Leadership Program.   Capacity 2014 Chesapeake
Virginia Institute of Marine Science Foundation $10,000 Support the VIMS SAV program to monitor SAV beds annually baywide and restore eelgrass to areas that can now support these plants.  Seagrass  (SAV) beds are important habitats in the Chesapeake Bay region that provide a variety of ecosystem services such as habitat, protection, nursery areas, and other functions for economically valuable fishery species.  The emphasis for the last decade has been successful restoration of eelgrass to the Virginia coastal bays and the bay scallops that were once abundant in these bays back in the 1930s. Advocacy, Fisheries 2014 Chesapeake
West Rhode Riverkeeper $8,500 Support the tuition to participate in the Institute for Conservation Leadership’s Executive Director Leadership Program.  Capacity 2014 Chesapeake
Conservation Strategies, LLC $60,000 Organize a regional civic engagement strategy; work with other national water funders to get endorsement of the EPA Clean Water Rule; support the new leadership of the Chesapeake Bay Funders Network and help facilitate a mid-point assessment workshop for funders and key advocates.  Advocacy, WIP 2015 Chesapeake
Environmental Grantmakers Association $5,000 EGA hosts a Federal Policy Briefing every other year to allow environmental funders to strategize, coordinate, and reflect on the most recent election cycle. The next Federal Policy Briefing will be held in Washington, DC on February 24-25, 2015.  Advocacy, Political Will 2015 Chesapeake