The Outreach and Restoration Grant Program encourages outreach, community engagement activities, and on-the-ground restoration projects that increase knowledge, change behavior, and accelerate stewardship of natural resources.
Donor Name: Chesapeake Bay Trust
State: Maryland
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: (mm/dd/yyyy) 08/22/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Outreach and Restoration Grant Program is a partnership between the Chesapeake Bay Trust and BGE an Exelon Company, Charles County, the City of Baltimore Department of Public Works, the City of Gaithersburg, the City of Rockville, the City of Salisbury, Harford County, Howard County, the Maryland Department of Transportation Maryland Port Administration, Queen Anne’s County, and Tradepoint Atlantic.
The Outreach and Restoration Grant Program aims to engage a diverse range of organizations, both with community-related missions and environmental-focused missions, to implement community-led stewardship efforts that will increase public understanding of environmental challenges and solutions; address community environmental health disparities, implement demonstration-scale, community-inspired, on-the-ground restoration projects; and expand the base of public support necessary to advance the restoration and protection of Maryland’s bays, tributaries, and other natural resources.
All projects should meet one or both of the following goals:

Engage members of a specific audience in community sustainability and environmental health issues through knowledge-building or behavior-change efforts. 
Accomplish on-the-ground restoration that will result in improvements to the health of a Maryland natural resource, either through water quality improvement or habitat enhancement.

Types of Projects
Applicants can request funds from one of the following tracks. Within any track, the Trust encourages projects that address the interconnectedness between the health of the environment and human health. They seek projects that provide water or other natural resource benefits along with co-benefits for human communities such as improved air quality, access to greenspace, reduced flooding, mitigating urban heat island effect, etc. 
Funding Information 
Applicants can request funds from one of the following tracks: 

Track 1: Outreach/Knowledge Building (up to $50,000) 
Track 2: Behavior Change (up to $75,000) 
Track 3: Restoration (up to $100,000) 
Track 4: Outreach and Restoration (up to $125,000)

Geographical Areas
This grant program funds projects throughout the entire state of Maryland. Funding for this program comes from several different partners, each of whom are looking for projects within their specific locations and areas of focus. Funding partners are seeking projects in Charles County, the City of Baltimore, the City of Gaithersburg, the City of Rockville, the City of Salisbury, Harford County, Howard County, Queen Anne’s County, southeast and southwest Baltimore County. 
Eligibility Criteria
The Trust and the funding partners welcome requests from the following applicants: 

501(c)3 Private Nonprofit Organizations 
Faith-based Organizations 
Community and Homeowners Associations 
Service, Youth, and Civic Groups 
Federal, State, Regional, County, and Municipal Public Agencies 
Soil/Water Conservation Districts & Resource Conservation and Development Councils 
Forestry Boards 
Public and Independent Higher Educational Institutions.

For more information, visit Chesapeake Bay Trust.