1,000+ Opportunities
Find the right grant
Search federal, foundation, and corporate grants with AI — or browse by agency, topic, and state.
Land Trust Capacity, Excellence and Stewardship Grants (Aileen Hughes Grant and Janice Hollmann Grant) is sponsored by Maryland Environmental Trust (Maryland Department of Natural Resources). These grants are intended to increase land trust capacity, support programming and innovation, and foster stronger, better-connected land trusts that protect natural resources and enhance the lives of Maryland citizens.
Get alerted about grants like this
Get emailed when new opportunities from “Maryland Environmental Trust (Maryland Department of Natural Resources)” or related funders appear. Free, weekly, unsubscribe anytime.
Or search similar grants →Extracted from the official opportunity page/RFP to help you evaluate fit faster.
Grants for Maryland Land Trusts Accessibility Information Grants for Maryland Land Trusts The Keep Maryland Beautiful Grant Program presents the Land Trust Assistance Grants. These grants are intended to increase land trust capacity, support programing and innovation and foster stronger, better connected land trusts that will protect all natural resources and enhance the lives of Maryland citizens and generations to come.
These grants are available to local land trust in Maryland and include: Aileen Hughes Grant of up to $5,000 This grant recognizes an individual representing a Maryland land trust for outstanding leadership, partnership and innovation in a conservation project or organization development.
Land Trust Assistance Grant of up to $10,000 This grant is awarded to Maryland land trusts to increase capacity, support community programing and innovation and foster stronger, better connected land trusts. The Aileen Hughes Grant of up to $5,000 is awarded annually to an individual representing a Maryland land trust who demonstrated outstanding leadership in land conservation.
Funding is awarded to a land trust, on behalf of an individual and their good work (not to the individual). The grant honors the late Aileen Hughes, a true leader in the conservation movement. Aileen was a supporter of women's and civil rights, as well as the protection of our State's natural and cultural resources.
Aileen was the President for many years of the American Chestnut Land Trust. The Aileen Hughes Grant recognizes an individual who demonstrates outstanding leadership, partnership and/or innovation in a conservation project or organizational development. Since 2006, Maryland Environmental Trust has recognized 18 land trust leaders and awarded $41,000 in funding to support local land trust programming.
Past recipients of the Aileen Hughes Award are listed Land Trust Assistance Grant The Land Trust Assistance Grant (formerly the Janice Hollmann Grant) of up to $10,000 are awarded to land trusts within Maryland. Janice Hollmann exemplified citizen leadership of local land trusts in Maryland. She co-founded the Severn River Land Trust and the Arundel Conservation Trust, and served on the Severn River Commission.
She was Izaak Walton League’s Conservationist of the Year in 1989 and the Capital newspaper’s Person of the Year for 1990. Janice died of cancer in April 1990. Thanks to the long standing partnership and support of Maryland Department of Transportation, Maryland Environmental Trust has awarded 177 grants totaling over $545,000 to 45 Maryland land trusts.
In turn, local land trusts have provided a funding match of more than $775,000 to foster stronger, better connected land trusts that protect natural resources and enhance the lives of Maryland citizens and generations to come.
The purpose of the Land Trust Assistance Grant program is to build sustainable land trusts by increasing organizational capacity, developing community programs and services, implementing Standards and Practices and increasing public support for the diverse spectrum of conservation, stewardship and related land trust activities in the State of Maryland. We're available on the following channels.
ensures HTML content is downloaded and parsed first. This also means the site can begin to display prior to loading all JS, which helps display performance.
According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Local land trusts in Maryland. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows up to $5,000 (Aileen Hughes Grant); Up to $10,000 (Janice Hollmann Grant). Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
Land Trust Capacity, Excellence and Stewardship Grants (Aileen Hughes Grant and Janice Hollmann Grant) is funded by Maryland Environmental Trust (Maryland Department of Natural Resources). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
This opportunity targets applicants in Maryland. If your organization operates elsewhere, check the official notice for location requirements.
Start from the official opportunity page linked in this listing — it carries the sponsor's submission instructions.
NSF's Arctic Research Opportunities solicitation funds roughly 75 awards a year — up to $50 million — across six program areas from natural sciences to social sciences to the Arctic Observing Network. The July 15, 2026 target date is not a hard deadline, and understanding that distinction is the first strategic decision an Arctic researcher makes. Here is how the six doors differ and how to choose the right one.
Read articleOn April 20, 2026, the White House declared grid, natural gas, LNG, petroleum, and coal 'essential to national defense,' unlocking DPA Title III loans, loan guarantees, and purchase commitments through DOE. Here is how this non-traditional financing works, who qualifies, why the September 30 sunset matters, and how energy companies and their supply chains should position now.
Read articleOn June 11, 2026, U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel ruled that the EPA's February 2025 termination of the $2.8 billion Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grant Program — created by Section 60201 of the Inflation Reduction Act — was arbitrary, capricious, and unlawful. The ruling voids the termination but does not order the EPA to resume the program, leaving the September 30, 2026 statutory deadline as the binding constraint. For the 116 grantees and the coalition of nonprofits, cities, and tribal partners that were already in award negotiations, the next 105 days will determine whether the program survives in any operational form or migrates entirely to the Court of Federal Claims as a damages action.
Read article