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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 basic touchstones for developing our grant programs, engaging new partners, and communicating about our work.

To support these objectives, the Trust currently makes awards through ten grant programs. To learn more about the criteria for each grant program and the partners the Trust works with, select one of the following: 

Please click here to learn more about the Trust's Chesapeake Conservation Corps program.


In 2009, the Trust awarded $4 million in grants to over 400 organizations, in every county in Maryland. These awards, spearheaded by grassroots organizations, schools, community groups, and others dedicated to creating environmental stewards and committed to restoring the health of their local waters and the Chesapeake Bay, engaged over 87,000 students, mobilized 36,000 volunteers, planted over 220,000 trees and native plants, and removed over 429 tons of trash.