National Center for Smart Growth
$Adelphi, MD
Support for work to improve Maryland’s planning for a sustainable future.
Sustainability Program
Summer 2018 Grants
Maryland League of Conservation Voters Education Fund
$Annapolis, MD
Support for work to strengthen the political power and effectiveness of Maryland’s environmental community.
Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers
$Baltimore, MD
Project funding to support work to assist Town Creek Foundation with archiving the history of the foundation from its establishment to its sunset, and sharing lessons learned through the sunset for the benefit of our grantees, partners, and other funders.
Spring 2018 Grants
University of Maryland School of Public Health
$Adelphi, MD
Interim grant to cover expenses for 2018 Environmental Justice and Health Symposium.
Special Fall 2017 Grants
Maryland League of Conservation Voters Education Fund
$Annapolis, MD
Project support for work to leverage public attention and engagement during Maryland’s 2018 statewide elections in order to advance environmental protections.
Maryland Leads / Tides Foundation
$San Francisco, CA
To support work providing coordination and strategic support to individual and institutional donors.
Summer 2017 Grants
UMES MANRRS
$Princess Anne, MD
Interim grant for sponsorship of the 4th Annual Junior MANRRS Leadership Institute.
Maryland League of Conservation Voters Education Fund
$Annapolis, MD
http://www.marylandconservation.org/
For work to support continued environmental policy progress in Maryland.
Special Fall 2016 Grants
Sustainafest
$Annapolis, MD
Interim grant for Transforming Local Businesses to Spread Triple-Bottom-Line Prosperity in the DC-Baltimore Area project.
Sustainable Agriculture and Food System Funders / New Venture Fund
$Santa Barbara, CA
Interim grant for membership to the SAFSF network and sponsorship of the 2017 DC Policy Briefing.
Maryland Environmental Health Network / Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers
$Baltimore, MD
Interim grant to support the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland Breakfast education and networking event.
Summer 2016 Grants
United Workers Association
$Baltimore, MD
For continued work to challenge the proposed Energy Answers incinerator in the Curtis Bay community of Baltimore City.
Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group / Tides Center
$Boston, MA
Interim grant to help support the participation of a delegation of Chesapeake representatives at the 2016 NESAWG Conference.
Institute for Policy Studies
$Washington, DC
In support of the Maryland New Economy Fellows program.
Spring 2016 Grants
National Center for Smart Growth
$Adelphi, MD
continued support to complete a project to improve sustainability planning in Maryland.
Maryland Nonprofits
$Baltimore, MD
renewed project support for work to organize Maryland’s non-profit community behind a broad, integrated framework for progress in Maryland.
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
$Washington, DC
for work to advance composting as a key waste management strategy for Maryland.
Environmental Finance Center / University of Maryland Foundation
$College Park, MD
for work to promote and support the implementation of public sector sustainability initiatives in Maryland through the Sustainable Maryland Certified program.
Center for Environment & Society / Washington College
$Chestertown, MD
for work to continue to promote energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions reductions on the Eastern Shore.
Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers
$Baltimore, MD
Interim grant to contract with a qualified consultant, oversee a body of research, and convene and facilitate a set of meetings focused on assessing the impact of Town Creek’s departure on Maryland foundations and non-profits.
Special Fall 2015 Grants
New Venture Fund
$Washington, DC
to conduct a multi-stakeholder food system assessment that would be used to support collaborative work to develop a regional food system reform vision.
Chesapeake College
$Wye Mills, MD
for work to advance food system reform efforts in Kent, Queen Anne’s, Talbot, Dorchester, and Caroline counties. Requested funds will be used to support the staffing and development of a Mid-Shore Food System Coalition.
Summer 2015 Grants
United Workers Association
$Baltimore, MD
in support of organizing and leadership development work to promote community-based, cooperatively owned renewable energy and zero waste projects in low-income Baltimore neighborhoods.
Partners for Open Space / 1000 Friends of Maryland
$Baltimore, MD
funding to support convening experts and thought leaders to generate innovative approaches to land conservation, including those that would directly support Bay restoration and food system reform efforts, and development of a report in response to a comprehensive study of Maryland’s land preservation programs requested by the General Assembly.
Montgomery County Food Council
$Bethesda, MD
General support of efforts to serve as a forum for food system work by connecting communities, organizations, and businesses to address challenges and opportunities with a comprehensive collaborative approach.
Maryland Food Matters / Institute for Public Health Innovation
$Catonsville, MD
interim grant for the Grow Maryland project to convene a series of stakeholder listening sessions in order to inform a future legislative agenda.
Institute for Public Health Innovation
$Washington, DC
in support of Prince George’s County Food Equity Council’s policy and advocacy work to increase access to healthy, affordable, sustainably produced and culturally appropriate foods for residents of Prince George’s County.
Institute for Policy Studies
$Washington, DC
for a project to develop cross-sectoral Maryland leadership and coalitions focused on projects and campaigns that integrate social, economic and environmental values.
Future Harvest - CASA
$Cockeysville, MD
funding to assess the need for and, where appropriate, start implementation of robust and targeted farmer and buyer education and networking programming on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
Future Harvest - CASA
$Cockeysville, MD
to continue development of the Chesapeake Foodshed Network.
El Comité de Apoyo a los Trabajadores Agrícolas (CATA)
$Glassboro, NJ
http://www.cata-farmworkers.org/
To build a more fair and sustainable food system in the Mid-Atlantic region.
Eastern Shore Land Conservancy
$Queenstown, MD
ESLC was challenged to raise an additional $250,000.00 in private funding to help close out their campaign for the Eastern Shore Conservation Center and if met, Town Creek Foundation promised to match the funding up to $250,000.00. ESLC was able to raise the $250,000.00.
Eastern Shore Food Hub Corp.
$Easton, MD
to launch a community education and engagement program in support of the creation of a food hub on the Eastern Shore, Chesapeake Harvest, being led by the Easton Economic Development Corporation.
Community F.A.R.E. / Land and Cultural Preservation Fund
$Frederick, MD
http://l-cpf.org/community-fare/
to support laying the foundation for a local food hub to serve Frederick County and surrounding jurisdictions.
Civic Works
$Baltimore, MD
in support of its Retrofit Baltimore program, which will motivate 400 homeowners to adopt residential energy efficiency, solar energy and stormwater improvements over one year, and address the barriers that prevent people from completing these sustainability retrofits.
Center for a Livable Future / Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
$Baltimore, MD
for the Maryland Food System Mapping Project to build the capacity for food system reform through technical assistance, mapping and analysis, and specialized reports for Maryland food policy councils. CLF will also play a leadership role and provide research and data analysis for the Chesapeake Foodshed Network.
Spring 2015 Grants
Western Maryland Resource Conservation and Development Council Inc.
$Hagerstown, MD
for work to develop a Western Maryland Food Council.
Southern Maryland Agricultural Development Commission (SMADC) / Tri-County Council of Southern Maryland
$Hughesville, MD
for work to support the development of the Southern Maryland Food Hub, and the coordination of emerging food hubs across the state.
Smart Growth America
$Washington, DC
for support of the Maryland Chapter of the Local Leaders Council.
National Center for Smart Growth
$Adelphi, MD
for support of work to improve sustainability planning in Maryland through the completion and dissemination of the results of a unique modeling and scenario building tool.
Maryland Nonprofits
$Baltimore, MD
for organizing, research, and communications to develop and implement a Quality of Life Initiative, including a strategy and a dashboard.
Maryland Hospitals for a Healthy Environment / UMB Foundation
$Baltimore, MD
for support of the Chesapeake Food Leadership Council.
Maryland Farmers Market Association Inc.
$Annapolis, MD
for research and analysis to develop a farmers market certification program that will encourage sustainable production and more conscious consumption.
Environmental Finance Center / University of Maryland Foundation
$College Park, MD
to support the strengthening of sustainability initiatives and frameworks in Prince George’s County, and of work to support the Sustainable Maryland Certified municipal program.
Energy Justice Network / Action Center Inc.
$Philadelphia, PA
for support of organizing and advocacy work to contest proposals for new and expanded waste incinerators in Baltimore City and Prince George’s County.
Crossroads Community Food Network
$Takoma Park, MD
www.crossroadscommunityfoodnetwork.org
for support of work to strengthen a network of farmers serving the Crossroads Community Farmers Market, with a particular focus on immigrant farmers.
Common Market Philadelphia
$Philadelphia, PA
for support of organizing work to expand participation by growers and anchor institutions in the region’s markets for sustainably grown, local food.
Chesapeake College
$Wye Mills, MD
for Eastern Shore Agriculture Sustains, LLC to undertake a regional analysis of the economic, environmental, social, and health impacts of transitioning towards increasing local, sustainably produced foods through food hubs.
Center for Environment & Society / Washington College
$Chestertown, MD
support of the third year of the ShorePower Project to promote renewable energy and energy efficiency on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
Center for Emerging Media
$Columbia, MD
www.centerforemergingmedia.org.
for support of the Sound Bites on Delmarva program.
Center for a Livable Future / Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
$160,000Baltimore, MD
for training, technical assistance, and networking support to strengthen the capacity of food policy councils in the Chesapeake region.
Baltimore Commission on Sustainability / Baltimore Community Foundation
$Baltimore, MD
for research to update the City’s Sustainability Plan, to pilot an innovative “Whole Block” approach to establishing climate resiliency, and to develop and improve sustainability communications strategies and campaigns.
Assateague Coastal Trust
$13,000Berlin, MD
Interim grant to enable ACT to sub-contract for six months with a part-time Community Organizer in Somerset County, MD, Accomack County, VA and Sussex County, DE to work on industrial CAFO impacts on residents.
Special Fall 2014 Grants
National Center for Smart Growth
$Adelphi, MD
Support for work to develop a framework and metrics for tracking and assessing Maryland’s success at achieving sustainability.
CommonHealth ACTION dba Institute for Public Health Innovation
$Washington, DC
for Creating a Maryland Food Policy Network and Blueprint for the State
Summer 2014 Grants
USGBC Maryland
$Hunt Valley, MD
Interim grant to be used to introduce, educate and expand the conversation around the concept of ecodistricts in Maryland.
Montgomery County Food Council
$Bethesda, MD
To support work to advance policies and implement initiatives that will help to transform Montgomery County’s local food system.
Future Harvest - CASA
$Cockeysville, MD
For general support and to secure capacity building support.
Eastern Shore Land Conservancy
$Queenstown, MD
To aid in the renovation of the McCord’s building in Easton into the Eastern Shore Conservation Center.
CommonHealth ACTION dba Institute for Public Health Innovation
$Washington, DC
For work to promote more environmentally protective food policies, practices, and relationships in Prince George’s County.
Chesapeake College
$Wye Mills, MD
For the Center for Leadership in Environmental Education’s project to lead a regional dialogue toward building a more resilient food system on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
Chesapeake Bay Funders Network / New Venture Fund
$Washington, DC
General support
Center for a Livable Future / Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
$Baltimore, MD
To expand the outreach and advocacy capacity of the Maryland Food System Mapping Project.
Spring 2014 Grants
Southern Maryland Agricultural Development Commission (SMADC) / Tri-County Council of Southern Maryland
$Hughesville, MD
To be used for work to improve food access for underserved communities in Southern Maryland through a Food Hub Project.
Smart Growth America
$Washington, DC
To be used for the Maryland Chapter of the Local Leaders Council, providing a network of elected and appointed leaders with education, training, and support in promoting and implementing smart growth policies in their jurisdictions.
Maryland Nonprofits
$Baltimore, MD
To be used for a campaign to raise awareness of the Genuine Progress Index (GPI) among non-profit organizations and decision makers and to position it as a robust quality of life metric around which a broad range of non profit organizations could rally.
Maryland Hospitals for a Healthy Environment / UMB Foundation
$Baltimore, MD
For work to educate healthcare professionals on food system issues, to help hospitals to shift their food procurement practices, and to bring the healthcare voice more fully into the food policy dialogue.
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
$Washington, DC
for work to promote Maryland policies and regulations to expand composting capacity and markets and to expand the constituency for decentralized composting.
Environmental Finance Center / University of Maryland Foundation
$College Park, MD
To be used to provide sustainability training, leadership development, and networking opportunities to high level elected and appointed officials across the state.
Crossroads Community Food Network
$Takoma Park, MD
www.crossroadscommunityfoodnetwork.org
To be used to conduct an assessment of your farmers’ market producers in order to better understand the barriers to use of sustainable growing practices and to lay a foundation for increasing use of sustainable growing practices.
Civic Works
$Baltimore, MD
To be used for work to build a network of urban farmers dedicated to improving the viability of farming in Baltimore and increasing access to city-grown foods.
Center for Sustainable Economy
$West Linn, OR
To be used for work to advance awareness and utilization of the Genuine Progress Index in Maryland with the expectation that these funds will be focused on completing technical upgrades to the GPI; completing work with the City of Baltimore to develop and employ a city-level GPI, and developing a GPI analysis of the 2014 Maryland Legislative Session.
Center for Emerging Media
$Columbia, MD
www.centerforemergingmedia.org
To support the Sound Bites (on Delmarva) program.
Center for a Livable Future / Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
$Baltimore, MD
www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/johns-hopkins-center-for-a-livable-future
To be used for the Chesapeake Food Policy Leadership Project.
Bay Journal /Chesapeake Media Service
$Seven Valleys, PA
To be used for a two-day conference exploring the consequences of expected regional population growth on the sustainability of the Bay restoration effort, and also for continued support of the Bay Journal News Service.
Special Fall 2013 Grants
National Center for Smart Growth
$College Park, MD
Support for work to develop a framework and metrics for tracking and assessing Maryland’s
success at achieving sustainability.
Maryland Hospitals for a Healthy Environment / UMB Foundation
$Baltimore, MD
project support for their Chesapeake Food Leadership Council which will focus on educating
healthcare professionals on food system issues, working with hospitals to shift their food
procurement practices, and bringing the healthcare voice more fully into the food policy
dialogue.
Summer 2013 Grants
Story of Stuff
$Berkeley, CA
$25,000 in support of “The Story of Solutions” development costs, and $25,000 to be used in support of Maryland outreach. The “Story of Solutions” film project will promote public dialogue in Maryland and throughout the country around the systemic economic and environmental challenges facing us and opportunities to create transformational change.
Real Food Generation / Third Sector New England
$Boston, MA
For the “Real Food Chesapeake” project. Real Food Chesapeake will galvanize student activism on college and university campuses throughout the Chesapeake Bay region to secure commitments from school administrations shifting their institutional purchases to local sustainable sources.
Montgomery County Food Council
$Bethesda, MD
For general support. The Montgomery County Food Council will work to advance policies and implement programs to transform the local food system in Montgomery County.
Institute for Policy Studies
$Washington, DC
For the Genuine Progress project, which seeks to effectively promote the incorporation of sustainability considerations in public decision making in Maryland. The project will promote Maryland’s Genuine Progress Indicator as an appropriate metric for assessing the value and return on investment of public policy initiatives like Maryland’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Plan and Baltimore City’s Climate Action Plan.
Future Harvest - CASA
$Cockeysville, MD
$25,000 towards general support and $75,000 towards the Foodshed Network project. Future Harvest-CASA (FH-CASA) will continue cultivating a network of agricultural professionals in the Chesapeake Watershed using sustainable practices. FH-CASA will provide farmer education programs and advocate on issues with implications for local family farms. FH-CASA will also continue the development of the Chesapeake Regional Foodshed Initiative which will develop a local and sustainable regional food system vision.
Spring 2013 Grants
Southern Maryland Agricultural Development Commission (SMADC) / Tri-County Council of Southern Maryland
$Hughesville, MD
Advancing Maryland Regional Food Sustainability and Security
Smart Growth America
$Washington, DC
Smart Growth America’s Leadership Institute / Smart Growth America’s Maryland Local Leaders Council
National Center for Smart Growth
$College Park, MD
To develop a plan to establish an Institute for Sustainable Communities within the National Center for Smart Growth at the University of Maryland, College Park, in partnership with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.
Labor Network for Sustainability / Voices for a Sustainable Future
$Takoma Park, MD
Project in Maryland that will prepare a report on the impact of climate change on work and working people in Maryland examining existing research and supplementing it with work and worker focused research and framing, through a process which will engage labor in sustainability organizing in Maryland as well as support the release of the Worldwatch 2013 State of the World report; and build the LNS network in Maryland
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
$Takoma Park, MD
Renewable Maryland: Steps to an emissions-free energy sector in Maryland by 2050
Environmental Finance Center / University of Maryland Foundation
$College Park, MD
Sustainable Maryland Certified -Promoting Policies and Practices for Sustainability
Eastern Shore Land Conservancy
$Queenstown, MD
From Vulnerability to Vibrancy on Maryland’s Eastern Shore project
Corporate Accountability International / Infact
$Boston, MA
Real Food Media Project
Center for Sustainable Economy
$Washington, DC
Work with partners to make Maryland’s Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) a vehicle for advancing social equity, genuine economic growth, and environmental sustainability.
Center for Environment & Society / Washington College
$Chestertown, MD
www.ces.washcoll.edu
To expand the energy usage reporting work it has been conducting in Chestertown to the other eight municipalities on Maryland’s Eastern Shore that are also county seats: Elkton, Centreville, Denton, Easton, Cambridge, Salisbury, Princess Anne, and Snow Hill.
Center for a Livable Future / Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
$Baltimore, MD
Further Expansion of the Maryland Food System Map Project
Baltimore Commission on Sustainability / Baltimore Community Foundation
$Baltimore, MD
Sustainability Leadership – Climate Adaptation Planning
Special Fall 2012 Grants
Maryland Hospitals for a Healthy Environment / UMB Foundation
$Baltimore, MD
For Maryland Hospitals for a Healthy Environment’s Chesapeake Food Leadership Council to begin shifting health care facility food purchase to local, sustainable sources.
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
$Takoma Park, MD
To undertake research and outreach to scope out a study of the potential for Maryland to transform its energy system to 90% carbon free by 2050.
Demos
$New York, NY
To plan, organize and facilitate a convening of established and emerging GPI practitioners and public policy advocates to help generate support and momentum for a state-based GPI movement.
Summer 2012 Grants
Worldwatch Institute
$Washington, DC
for work to promote broad and targeted awareness of the urgent need for a rapid accommodation of human needs to the capacities of a finite planet and the concomitant need for establishing and employing a rigorous definition of sustainability.
Real Food Hopkins / Johns Hopkins University
$Baltimore, MD
https://towncreekfdn.org//www.facebook.com/groups/150501264993488/
to help defray the costs of “The 100-Mile Meal,” a locally sourced meal, in conjunction with Johns Hopkins University’s celebration of national Food Day.
Real Food Generation / Third Sector New England
$Boston, MA
for the “Real Food Chesapeake” project which aims to build a sustainable food movement in Maryland and the Chesapeake Bay region through university and college campus advocacy.
New Economics Institute
$Great Barrington, MA
for work to develop and implement a communications campaign in conjunction with Worldwatch Institute’s 2013 State of the World volume, “Is True Sustainability Possible.”
Institute for Policy Studies
$Washington, DC
support for work to broaden awareness of Maryland’s Genuine Progress Index within the State’s advocacy community.
Future Harvest - CASA
$Cockeysville, MD
general support for sustainable farming education and advocacy work and project support for its Food Shed Initative, involving a feasibility study for conducting regional food system vision.
Demos
$New York, NY
To plan and organize multi-state convenings to advance the Genuine Progress Indicator and other alternative social accounting systems.
Crossroads Community Food Network
$Takoma Park, MD
https://towncreekfdn.org//www.crossroadscommunityfoodnetwork.org/
For the local food system community needs assessment project.
Chesapeake Film Festival
$Easton, MD
www.chesapeakefilmfestival.com
To bring environmental films and support for expert panel discussions to 2012 Chesapeake Film Festival.
Spring 2012 Grants
Sassafras River Association
$Georgetown, MD
General support for its Riverkeeper program, community-based outreach and restoration efforts, and local government partnerships, all of which are focused on and support the WIP.
Responsible Purchasing Network
$Oakland, CA
Project support for work to advance the development and implementation of sustainable procurement policies and practices in Maryland, Washington DC, and northern Virginia. With the requested funds RPN will provide technical support to help Maryland state officials develop environmental product specifications, evaluate bids to avoid ‘green-washing’; create a website to facilitate dissemination of environmentally responsible procurement across the state bureaucracy and to other public agencies and institutions, and establish a tracking system to measure expenditures, cost impacts and environmental and health benefits.
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
$Washington, DC
Project support for the Composting Makes $en$e Project which aims to advance composting in Maryland in order to create jobs, enhance soils, protect the climate and reduce waste. Over a two-year period ILSR plans to raise awareness of composting’s benefits for Maryland; build a strong constituency to promote composting in the state; and increase the tonnage of food residuals recovered in Maryland.
Environmental Finance Center / University of Maryland Foundation
$College Park, MD
www.efc.umd.edu and www.sustainablemaryland.com
To continue and further the goals and objectives set forth through previous funding in support of the Sustainable Maryland Certified (SMC) program. Specifically, the funds requested will: 1) provide for an event recognizing municipalities that have achieved certification in the first year of SMC; 2) enable the further development of the SMC website to include additional categories and action items and levels of certification; 3) continue the valuable Green Team training sessions.
Corporate Accountability International / Infact
$Boston, MA
In support of the Real Food Media Project, a collaborative project that uses online videos, grassroots events and workshops, and a web-based action and resource center to inspire, educate, and grow the movement for sustainable food and farming.
Clean Water Action / Clean Water Fund
$Baltimore, MD
for a collaborative, multi-year campaign to halt Maryland’s rush to burn and bury; reform Maryland’s solid waste, energy and economic policies; and fundamentally reframe the public policy debate surrounding solid waste management.
Chesapeake College
$Wye Mills, MD
In support of the development and construction of the Center for Leadership in Environmental Education (CLEEn), at its Wye Mills (MD) campus, a community resource that will model emerging renewable energy technologies while expanding education and training opportunities for students and small businesses.
Center for Emerging Media
$Columbia, MD
www.centerforemergingmedia.org
In support of Sound Bites on Delmarva (“Sound Bites”) series, a weekly radio series that investigates the current food system on the Delmarva Peninsula and Chesapeake Watershed, to educate and engage the public in discussions around transforming this food system to one that is more sustainable, healthy for the environment, and allows for accessible nutritious food to all persons regardless of income or location.
Baltimore Sustainability Commission / Baltimore Community Foundation
$Baltimore, MD
Project support for work to expand statewide sustainability leadership and to more proactively advance Baltimore City’s sustainability agenda. Funds would support communications, policy development and advocacy.
Assateague Coastal Trust
$Berlin, MD
In support of Grow Berlin Green, a partnership working with the Town of Berlin on sustainability policies and practices.
Summer 2015 Grants
EDGE Funders Alliance
$San Francisco, CA
interim grant for the Just Giving Conference Community Exchange.