Keep Maryland Beautiful Awards
The Keep Maryland Beautiful Program was established in 1967 as the first program administered by the Maryland Environmental Trust. Keep Maryland Beautiful Program is partially funded by the Maryland State Highway Administration and provides grants to non-profit organizations and schools to support environmental education and demonstration projects that enhance and maintain the environment.
Maryland Environmental Trust accepts applications annually for the following two categories: the Margaret Rosch Jones Awards and the Bill James Environmental Grants.
The Margaret Rosch Jones Award of up to $2,000.00 is awarded to non-profit groups or communities for an ongoing project or activity that has demonstrated success in solving an environmental issue, whether local or statewide. This award recognizes those organizations that have been actively educating people in their community about litter prevention, community beautification, or eliminating or reducing the causes of a local environmental problem.
The Bill James Environmental Grant of up to $1,000.00 is awarded to school groups, science and ecology clubs, and other nonprofit youth groups for proposed environmental education projects.
The objectives of the grants are to:
• Encourage a sense of stewardship and personal responsibility for the environment
• Stimulate a better understanding of environmental issues
• Aid in the elimination or reduction of a local environmental problem
• Encourage education about growth management protection of rural areas and sensitive resources while
discouraging sprawl development
For more information of applying check out Maryland DNR website. Completed applications must be received by March 31, 2014.