University of Maryland Environmental Finance Center
$5,000 / 2008 / Environment
Toward the launching of a virtual farmers’ market website, connecting buyers and sellers with availability of local produce. This project is among the first of its kind in the country, and provides an online venue for informing the general public about when food is harvested, how much is available, and where it can be purchased from local farmers’ markets.
University of Maryland/Philip Merrill College of Journalism
$25,000 / 2014 / Environment
For expenses related to the 2015 Abell Professorship in Baltimore Journalism symposium, “Can Art Change the City?”
US Green Building Council Baltimore Regional Chapter, Inc.
$5,000 / 2013 / Environment
Toward support of the Edgeless School Exhibit: Design for Learning at the City Arts Gallery in Station North.
Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore, Inc.
$100,000 / 2019 / Environment
Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore creates and manages Baltimore’s Waterfront and oversees the Waterfront Management Authority. It will build an interpretive stormwater management feature within a kinetic playground at Rash Field Park. The rain garden will provide opportunities for immersive environmental education. With a focus on age-appropriate childhood development, the site will feature interpretive signage and interactive lesson plans that can be used by local science teachers. This grant provides support for capital costs for the designated stormwater management area.
Waterkeeper Alliance, Inc .
$30,000 / 2008 / Environment
Toward support of the Chesapeake Stormwater Initiative, a collaborative project of local waterkeepers organized to monitor and initiate legal action against noncompliant developers known to be polluting the waterways. The regional office coordinates the activities of the “Get Out the Dirt” campaign, focusing on the reduction of stormwater from construction sites.