A monarch butterfly enjoys its exclusive host plant, butterfly milkweed.

Monthly Giving

Clean Water Starts with You!

The Alliance works across the Chesapeake Bay watershed to bring on-the-ground solutions upstream. With a monthly gift, you can help plant trees, restore streams and rivers, enhance healthy forests, measure and track local water quality, create green jobs, and give a voice to all those who believe in clean waters and healthy land.

Give Monthly

Our impact video offers a glimpse at just four of our many projects across the watershed. Beginning in the headwaters, where our Agriculture Team is helping a Virginia farmer fight drought and improve water quality, our journey then takes us to the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay, up the Susquehanna to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and wraps up with two exciting events in Maryland and Virginia.

As you’ll see in the video, our team has been hard at work. Taking on bold conservation projects requires ongoing action, and that’s only possible with steady, reliable support from dedicated friends like you. Becoming a monthly sustainer is an opportunity for you to give the Chesapeake the steady, reliable support it needs.

“I give monthly to the Alliance because protecting clean water and healthy lands is something that requires sustained effort. I see how critical it is to support organizations that are driving real, on-the-ground impact. The Alliance is doing meaningful work to improve water quality and strengthen ecosystems, and giving monthly is a simple way for me to contribute to that progress over time.” – Rachel in Pennsylvania

Small Monthly Gifts Equal a Big Impact

Giving monthly builds more sustainable programs that can continue making on-the-ground changes for the lands and waters throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

  • A $25/month gift can divert 50 lbs of pollution from a creek monthly, reducing 600 lbs of pollution after 1 year!
  • A $40/month gift can grow 1 native tree from seed monthly, leading to 12 native trees grown in 1 year!
  • A $75/month gift can plant a cover crop on 1 acre of pasture, adding up to 12 acres per year!
  • A $100/month gift can train a new water quality monitoring (WQM) volunteers, helping launch 12 new WQM volunteers a year!
  • A $125/month gift can install 5 square feet of permeable pavers. This adds up to 60 feet per year!
The Susquehanna River Valley is a unique, ancient landscape with a rich cultural and agricultural history. Photo credit: Nicholas A. Tonelli

Your Monthly Support Does More

“I donate monthly because I moved back to Annapolis a year and a half ago and wanted to do what I could to give back to my hometown and home state.” – Andrea in MD

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