Groundswell
$10,000 / 2017 / Environment
In support of Groundswell’s community solar subscriber management application “Sharing Power.”
Harry R. Hughes Center for Agro-Ecology, Inc.
$75,000 / 2008 / Environment
Three-year funding for long-term research on the effect of planting switchgrass to reduce subsurface nitrogen seepage from Eastern Shore croplands into the Chesapeake Bay, and on the feasibility of switchgrass serving as a perennial grass-based source of biofuel to local agricultural and conservation communities.
Herring Run Watershed Association
$5,000 / 2001 / Environment
For general support of stewardship activities designed to improve the environmental quality of the Herring Run watershed, which reaches the Chesapeake Bay.
Herring Run Watershed Association
$5,000 / 2003 / Environment
For operating funds during a leadership transition, to ensure active stewardship in the watershed.
Herring Run Watershed Association
$25,000 / 2004 / Environment
Toward staffing costs to increase local efforts to restore the Herring Run Watershed. The association has played a major role in environmental monitoring of illegal industrial dumps and sewage pipe leakages, and has advocated for stream cleanups, tree plantings, installations of rain gardens, and other bio-retention modifications in homes and schoolyards.