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Land Trust Capacity, Excellence and Stewardship Grants (including Aileen Hughes Grant and Janice Hollmann Grant) is sponsored by Maryland Environmental Trust. These grants are intended to increase land trust capacity, support programming and innovation, and foster stronger, better-connected land trusts that will protect natural resources and enhance the lives of Maryland citizens.
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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.
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Based on current listing details, eligibility includes: Local land trusts in Maryland; individuals representing Maryland land trusts are eligible for the Aileen Hughes Grant. Applicants should confirm final requirements in the official notice before submission.
Current published award information indicates Up to $10,000 (Land Trust Assistance Grant); Up to $5,000 (Aileen Hughes Grant) Always verify allowable costs, matching requirements, and funding caps directly in the sponsor documentation.
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Keep Maryland Beautiful Grant Program is a grant from the Maryland Environmental Trust, in partnership with the Maryland Department of Transportation, Maryland Department of Agriculture, and the Chesapeake Bay Trust, that funds environmental education, litter removal, citizen stewardship, and natural resource protection projects across Maryland. The program supports volunteer-based organizations working in both urban and rural areas to beautify communities and protect natural resources. Combined, the partnership has provided more than one million dollars over the past three decades. Schools, nonprofit groups, land trusts, and volunteer-based programs in Maryland are eligible to apply.
Community Stewardship Grants (Keep Maryland Beautiful Grant Program) is sponsored by Maryland Environmental Trust, Forever Maryland and the Maryland Department of Transportation. These grants are awarded to schools, nonprofits, and other community organizations in Maryland that directly engage community members (especially children and young adults) in environmental education and stewardship. Projects should activate citizens and encourage stewardship through education and outreach, while elevating awareness of local environmental problems and working to reduce them.
EPA is seeking insightful, expert, and cost-effective applications from eligible applicants to provide the Chesapeake Bay Program’s non-federal partners with technical analysis and programmatic evaluation support related to water quality modeling and monitoring and spatial systems to manage, analyze, and map environmental data. The project assists the partners in meeting their restoration and protection goals and in increasing the transfer of scientific understanding to the Chesapeake Bay Program modeling, monitoring, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) activities. The recipient will support modeling, monitoring, and GIS programs needed to explain and communicate the health of and changes in the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem. Funding Opportunity Number: EPA-R3-CBP-23-18. Assistance Listing: 66.466. Funding Instrument: CA. Category: ENV. Award Amount: Up to $5.3M per award.
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I is sponsored by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The EPA SBIR Phase I Solicitation invites small businesses to submit proposals for projects addressing critical environmental challenges. Awards are for six months to demonstrate proof of concept. Key focus areas include Clean and Safe Water, Air Quality and Climate, Homeland Security, Circular Economy/Sustainable Materials, and Safer Chemicals.
Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grants Program (CCGP) is sponsored by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The Community Change Grants Program funds projects that provide meaningful improvements to the environmental, climate, and resilience conditions affecting disadvantaged communities. While broadly focused on environmental and climate justice, projects can include aspects that relate to community health and well-being through addressing environmental health risks. The program aims to fund community-driven pollution and climate resiliency solutions and strengthen communities' decision-making power. Applications are accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis.