Past Grants

Audubon Maryland-DC

For continued support to enable the Audubon Center in Patterson Park to serve as a conservation resource, providing a broad range of educational and family events. Working closely with neighboring schools, Audubon will continue to enhance an environmental program that integrates Maryland State Standards and includes field trips and end-of-year service projects.

Chesapeake Bay Foundation

For the 2006 Environmental Legislative Summit. The agenda will include issues of restoration of full funding for Program Open Space, preservation of agricultural lands, and reduction of pollution from agricultural run-off and coal-fired power plants.

Clean Water Fund

Matching grant in support of the reopening of a Baltimore office. Its objective is to develop grassroots organizing, and to strengthen coalitions with other local environmental organizations. The Baltimore effort will focus on creating community awareness, eliminating toxic emissions from medical waste incineration, energizing community support for clean water and clean air, and training neighborhood groups to use federal, state, and local strategies for environmental health protection.

Environment Law Institute

In support of “Putting Tax Policies in the Service of Chesapeake Bay Pollution Prevention.” The goal is to develop tax incentives that support Maryland agriculture, while providing measures to help prevent water pollution caused by agricultural practices.

Environmental Integrity Project

In support of an effort designed to strengthen Maryland’s Clean Air Act by investigating permit and compliance records of Maryland’s coal-burning power plants. The project will attempt to educate the community about the cost benefits of requiring clean-up of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, mercury, and carbon dioxide emissions.