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You want to restore our watersheds.

We provide the resources.

The Chesapeake Bay Trust awards $20-30 million in grant funding each year to hundreds of nonprofits and community organizations throughout the region for hands-on projects that are ensuring cleaner, greener, healthier Chesapeake, Coastal Bays, and Youghiogheny watersheds for years to come.

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Impact of Our Work

Interested in learning more about the projects we’ve supported? This interactive map showcases the awards made and provides a snapshot of our portfolio. These data are approximate and derived from applicant information.

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Grants & Opportunities

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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Prince George’s County Rain Check Rebate Program

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.

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Proceeds from Bay Plates contribute directly to on-the-ground projects in the Chesapeake region: restoration of wildlife habitats, trees planted in urban areas, water quality monitoring in western streams, and so much more… your dollars go far and your impact is wide! For only $25, you can purchase your own Protect the Chesapeake & Coastal Bays plate and it will be mailed directly to your home.

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Latest News from the Trust

March 26, 2025 in Blog, News

Invasive Blue Catfish: Can We Eat Our Way Out of This Problem?

"As we see invasive blue catfish impact our keystone species more and more, it’s becoming more relevant because it’s impacting the things we really care about and love, and what…
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March 24, 2025 in News

“We are not your average friends group”

Watch the video to see how our community-driven grantmaking helps empower everyday people to get involved to promote the health of their own communities. Protecting our natural resources comes with ever-evolving…
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January 29, 2025 in Blog, News

Empowering people to restore nature: Rebates for residents

Watch the video to see how two rebate programs are empowering residents to protect our local waterways! The Chesapeake Bay is often referred to as a national treasure. Communities across…
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January 22, 2025 in Blog, News

Empowering people to restore nature: A fishtastic solution

Watch the video to see a fish-tastic solution to an environmental and community need! As threats emerge to streams, creeks, rivers and bays, so do innovative solutions to protect these…
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