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[Press Release] The Alliance Partners with NOAA and NAAEE to Offer Watershed STEM Education Grants

“From working with new partners, providing training about using the outdoors as an extension to classroom learning to providing MWEE experiences in an after-school setting, I feel hopeful about this opportunity. Despite all the challenges we face in 2020-2021 school year, we will continue to empower students and teachers in RPS to make tough environmental decisions and build a resilient community,” said Meredeth Dash, RiverWise Schools Project Coordinator for the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay.

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Welcoming Two New Faces to the Alliance!

The Alliance is excited to welcome two new faces! Jake Solyst joins us as the Web Content Specialist for the Chesapeake Bay Program Communications Office, and Lydia Martin joins us as our Green Infrastructure Coordinator in our Pennsylvania office. Jake Solyst has several years of content production and social media experience, and while he dabbles …

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Our Commitment to All Chesapeake Bay Communities

The mission of the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay is to bring together communities, companies, and conservationists to improve our lands and waters. As an organization, we know we must do a better job of addressing social injustices through our work to restore our Watershed. The Alliance has taken purposeful steps to raise awareness around and address diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice issues and opportunities internally for several years. These are the Alliance’s commitments to our staff, partners, and constituents to continue to advance these efforts in the immediate future.

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Celebrating Carol Newill, A Project Clean Stream Champion

While Project Clean Stream (PCS) is rescheduled for the fall , that shouldn’t stop us from celebrating our past accomplishments and planning ahead for future events. We thought this would be the perfect time to recognize our incredible volunteers,especially those that lead Project Clean Stream events year after year. One name that kept appearing when …

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Virtual Events to Attend to Celebrate Juneteenth

What is Juneteenth? According to History of Juneteenth ©JUNETEENTH.com, Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. On June 19th 1865, Union army general Gordon Granger’s read the federal orders in the city of Galveston, Texas proclaiming that all enslaved persons in the U.S. state of Texas were …

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Chesapeake Watershed Forum Goes Virtual

The 15th Annual Chesapeake Watershed Forum “Climate Resiliency in a Changing Chesapeake Watershed” Late October 2020 (dates coming soon!) // Online When it comes to the Chesapeake Watershed Forum, your safety and comfort is our chief concern. It is with this in mind we announce our decision to move this year’s Forum online. While it disappoints us not to gather together in person, we know that …

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Board Member Spotlight: Andy Field

“After self-quarantining for two months, I bore the living daylights out of myself and can’t imagine anyone else wanting to hear what I might have to say.” This was the first thing Andy told me when I called her to interview her for this month’s Board Member spotlight. I said I was sure she had …

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Year of the Woman: Rebecca Stack

The Alliance is featuring influential women of the Chesapeake during the Year of The Woman. This month, our very own Queen Richardson wrote a blog about one of her mentors, Rebecca Stack. Check out Queen’s blog below. This month’s Year of the Woman feature is Rebecca Stack, the owner and sole principal of Designgreen, LLC, …

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Of Willows and Willow Flycatchers

Fitz-bew! This year I didn’t hear the familiar bird song until mid-May. I was checking up on a riparian forest buffer site which I am always delighted to visit. The landowner is enthusiastic, generous, and a great steward, and had recently enrolled in the Alliance’s buffer program to reforest a wet pasture that is intersected …

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We Are An Alliance of Allies

The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay stands in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement during this turbulent and important time of national discourse on historic pain and trauma due to a legacy of systemic racism in our country. The Alliance believes that clean water and equal access to nature are civil rights that impact …

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