BGE Awards Nearly $216K In Grants To More Than 60 Organizations To Support Environmental Stewardship Projects

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By CBS Baltimore StaffAugust 24, 2021 astatine 8:22 pm

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Baltimore Gas and Electric announced that they person awarded 61 non-profit organizations grants to assistance with biology stewardship projects successful the company’s work area.

The grants full to $215,750 and are a portion of the yearly BGE Green Grants Program that supported hundreds of innovative assemblage projects.

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“It is an grant to enactment and observe the enactment of these organizations that enactment truthful hard to amended the situation successful our Maryland communities,” said Rodney Oddoye, BGE’s elder vice president of governmental and outer affairs. “As we proceed connected our Path to Clean and achieving nett zero operations-driven emissions by 2050, we enactment committed to our shared work towards biology stewardship and the accidental to lend to our non-profit partners’ success.”

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Officials said grants scope from $500 to $10,000. More accusation astir the programme tin beryllium recovered connected BGE’s website.

Here is simply a database of the 2021 Green Grants recipients:

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  • Backyard Basecamp
  • BLISS Meadows Water Access
  • C&O Canal Trust
  • Canal Community Days
  • Chesapeake Bay Trust
  • Chesapeake Conservation Corps 2021-22
  • Gunpowder Valley Conservancy
  • Clear Creeks Project Bayscapes
  • Taste Wise Kids
  • TWKatHome – Strong Partnerships
  • American Chestnut Land Trust
  • Maintaining & Creating Sustainable Trails successful the Parkers Creek Preserve
  • Downtown Annapolis Partnership
  • Landscaping pedestrian pathways connected West Street
  • Foundation for Baltimore County Public Library Mobile Library Law Center
  • Friends of Patterson Park
  • Green and Go! Stewardship Volunteer Support
  • Green Street Academy
  • FSA Farms Community Commitment
  • Human Services Program of Carroll County HSPs Shelter Cleanup & Gard
  • Intersection of Change
  • Strength to Love II
  • Maryland Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education
  • Green STEM Careers; Exploration and Opportunity
  • The International Association of Triathletes Creating a Brighter Future Through the LENS of STEM
  • The United Way of Central Maryland
  • Baltimore Outdoor Learning Program astatine Bay Brook Elementary Middle School
  • Towson University Foundation
  • Glen Abrogation and Fostering Environmental Stewardship done hands-on Science
  • Parks & People Foundation
  • Schoolyard Park Improvement Projects
  • Grow Home
  • Grow Home, Baltimore Builders Program
  • African American Fire Fighters Historical Society Creating Shade for Happy Children successful West
  • Baltimore
  • Baltimore Green Space
  • Pandemic Impact and Greenspace Sustainability Support
  • Baltimore Office of Promotion and Arts
  • Baltimore Farmers’ Market Compost Drop-Off Program
  • Living Classrooms Foundation
  • School Leadership In Urban Runoff Reduction Project (SLURRP) and Community Engagement
  • Events
  • National Aquarium
  • Community Collaboration for Healthy Baltimore Watersheds
  • Severn River Association
  • Floating Classroom
  • Baltimore Community ToolBank
  • Environmental Education astatine the ToolBank
  • Defensores de la Cuenca
  • Latino Conversation Week: A measurement ladder into consciousness and conservation
  • I AM MENtality
  • Youth Male Empowerment Project
  • The Friends of Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary Invasive Species Removal and Native Pollinator Planting
  • at Glendening Nature Preserve
  • The Howard County Conservancy
  • Nature Preschool Expansion
  • The League for People with Disabilities
  • Garden Expansion
  • The William & Baer School Partnership Board Outdoor Classroom Project
  • Upcycled Inc
  • Waste for Wonder
  • Whiteford Volunteer Fire Company
  • Install Dry Hydrants astatine Streams successful Northern Harford County
  • Afri Thrive
  • Community Gardening
  • Belair-Edison Neighborhoods
  • Operation Clean Our Streets
  • Bikemore
  • Mobile Bike Shop and Greenway
  • Cheasapeake Therapeutic Riding
  • Educating connected the Sensory Trail astatine CTR
  • ClearShark Charitable Foundation
  • Community Outreach Toolboxes and Lessons
  • Forever Maryland
  • Local Land Trust Network Program
  • Friends of Baltimore City Public Schools Great Kids Farm Foundation Jill Wrigley Memorial Outdoor
  • Classroom
  • Greater Baybrook Alliance
  • Baybrook Beautiful
  • Gunpowder Riverkeeper
  • Invasive Species – Snakeheads and snails successful Gunpowder River Watershed
  • Irvine Natural Science Center
  • Sensory Garden astatine Irvine
  • Long Green Volunteer Fire Co
  • Energy Efficient Lighting
  • Loyola University Maryland
  • Living Landscapes and Stony Run Stewards
  • Monarch Academy Public Charter School
  • Native Greenhouse Nursery
  • Montessori School of Westminster
  • Nature Inspired Obstacle Course successful the Woods
  • National Audubon Society
  • Growing the Wingspan of Wildlife Habitats successful Multicultural Communities
  • National Wildlife Federation
  • Sacred Grounds successful Baltimore City
  • Natural History Society of Maryland
  • Nature Connections
  • Neighbor Space of Baltimore County
  • Enhancing Resiliency, Livability, and Park Stewardship successful the Powhatan Farms Community
  • Outcast Food Network
  • OFN Clean Space
  • Providence Center
  • New Greenhouse to Expand Production of Native Plants
  • Stevenson University
  • Environmental and Community Outreach
  • Women Empowered to Achieve the Impossible WeTATi Next Generation
  • STEM Enable Inc
  • STEM and vigor careers for K-12 students from disadvantaged communities
  • Village Learning Place
  • VLP Community Garden
  • Baltimore Sister Cities
  • Operation Trash
  • Pathway Forward
  • Sprouts Green Team
  • Butchers Hill Association
  • Stump Griding to Open Pits for New Trees
  • Beth Am Synagogue
  • Expand 2 histrion wells on N. Eutaw Place

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