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 that involve residents in restoring local green spaces, waterways, and natural resources.
Donor Name: Chesapeake Bay Trust
State: Maryland
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/21/2025
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
The program engages a diverse range of organizations in Maryland that have community or environmental related missions. The goal is to implement projects that increase public understanding of environmental challenges, and solutions. They seek projects that address community environmental health disparities, or implement demonstration-scale, community-inspired, on-the-ground restoration projects; while expanding the base of public support.
All projects should meet one or both of the following goals:
- Engage members of a specific audience through knowledge building or behavior change initiatives. Outcomes should be measurable and have a surviving impact in addressing community sustainability and environmental health issues.
- Accomplish on-the-ground restoration and resilience projects that result in improvements to the health of a Maryland natural resource, or improvements to the climate and flood resilience of Maryland communities.
This grant program welcomes applications for projects in the state of Maryland. Applicants can request funds from one of the following tracks.
- Track 1: Outreach/Knowledge Building Projects (up to $50,000)
- Track 2: Behavior Change Projects (up to $75,000)
- Track 3: Restoration Projects (up to $125,000)
- Track 4: Outreach and Restoration Projects (up to $150,000).
Grant Period
Projects must be completed within one to two years upon receipt of the award.
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.
