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.
"Massive restoration of the world's forests would cancel out a decade of CO2 emissions, analysis suggests."
Throughout the year, The Trust offers grant programs that can include the planting of more trees. Two such programs in Anne Arundel County are open and accepting applications now. cbtrust.org/grants/
Green Towson Alliance
Apparently, the number of trees on earth have been underestimated. A new study has found that our beautiful planet has room for an additional 1.2 trillion trees to grow in parks, woods and abandoned land across the planet. Planting them would take us a long way towards clearing up the carbon dioxide in the air.
If such a goal were accomplished, ecologist Dr Thomas Crowther said it would outstrip every other method for tackling climate change – from building wind turbines to vegetarian diets.
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