The Chesapeake Bay Trust awards more than $10 million in grant funding each year to hundreds of nonprofits and community organizations throughout the region for hands-on projects that are ensuring a cleaner, greener, healthier Chesapeake watershed for years to come.
Grants
The Trust’s grant-making strategies are shaped by three core objectives: environmental education, demonstration-based restoration, and community engagement. We look to these objectives as touchstones for developing our grant programs, engaging new partners, and communicating about our work.
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Rain Check Rebate
The Chesapeake Bay Trust is proud to partner with Prince George’s County on its Rain Check Rebate Program, offering incentives to homeowners, businesses, and others to install practices that will improve stormwater runoff quality, reduce runoff quantity, and improve local streams and rivers.
Excited to share this piece on the new Bay Plate unveiling from The Capital!
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Maryland's new Chesapeake Bay license plate highlights blue crab, bay bridge
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What would you expect on a new state license plate about the Chesapeake Bay? You guessed it — a blue crab and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.
Love this so pretty. I live in PA and our plates suck
The bridge brings back so many find memories of multi-mile backups and not being able to go home after work on Friday evenings. Let me know when the bridge is replaced with birds on the plate and I’ll take another look.
Beautiful!!
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🦀⚓️💙🧜🏼♀️ Love these!
Alina Pankova
Katy Lovell
Latest News from the Trust
Kent Island Beach Cleanups Unveils Educational Environmental Sculpture
Images courtesy of Kent Island Beach Cleanups. “Many Hands of the Chesapeake” project illuminates the detrimental effects of single-use plastics; Mentorship program advances nonprofit’s mission Last month, the Trust was…
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Outdoor Enthusiasts Have Yet Another Way to Give Back
Photo: Maryland DNR/Larry Hindman Partnership with Maryland Department of Natural Resources Establishes Maryland Outdoor Recreation and Clean Water Fund Anglers, boaters and hunters who purchase their licenses or registrations from the Maryland…
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Project Highlight: Narragansett Parkway’s Micro-bioretention Areas in the City of College Park
City of College Park, Maryland, installs two micro-bioretention areas to treat stormwater runoff along Narragansett Parkway. Impervious surfaces, such as driveways and parking lots, prevent rainwater from soaking into the…
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Project Highlight: Borough of Chambersburg’s Rhodes Drive Reconstruction and Bioretention Basin
Click the edit button to add your testimonial. “Green Streets” grant helps Borough upgrade central emergency route while improving water quality This week the Trust joined the Borough of Chambersburg,…
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Bay Plates
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