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Volunteering is a great way to take action and get involved in the Alliance’s critical work to restore and protect the Bay and its watershed lands, creeks, rivers and streams. Our volunteers are at the heart and soul of our mission to lead and inspire those who live and work throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed to become true environmental stewards.
Help out at a Project Clean Stream cleanup site, collect local water quality samples, organize the planting of native trees in your community — as an Alliance volunteer you are our most important resource helping us to fulfill our mission to heal the lands and waters of the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
Join the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay for a garden cleanup and refresh for the native plant garden at John B. Cary Elementary School. Participants should come prepared to plant native plants, weed, prune, water, and spread wood chips. This event will be held outdoors with plenty of space to spread out. Supplies and tools …
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For three weekends in a row, the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, Manchester Manifest, and Manchester Alliance will host a litter cleanup event in the Manchester and Blackwell neighborhood of Richmond! Friday, March 31 | 2-4 PM Join our Project Clean Stream Kick-Off Event! Meet at the Alliance Office outside the Manchester Pie Factory …
Kick off our spring Project Clean Stream volunteer season! Join the Maryland staff at our new Annapolis office (151 West Street, Suite 101, Annapolis, MD 21401) for a local trash clean-up event. Refreshments will be provided. Street parking is available. Register Today
Kick-off spring and the annual Project Clean Stream weekend with the Alliance on Friday, March 31, with a clean-up event in the Manchester neighborhood of Richmond. We’ll gather outside the Alliance’s office at the Manchester Pie Factory building starting at 2 PM before splitting up to collect street litter. Our efforts will focus on the area …
Join the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay’s DC staff, DC Greens, The Green Scheme, Friend of Oxon Run Park, and Nature Forward for a cleanup of Oxon Run Park to kick off this spring’s Project Clean Stream season! Gloves, trash bags, water, and light snacks will be provided. Please dress appropriately for the weather and …
Become a Water Quality Monitoring Citizen Scientist and gain hands-on experience collecting data and water samples throughout the District!
The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay is looking for volunteers to join us in planting nearly 3,000+ trees across the Commonwealth this spring! Consider attending a tree planting and be a part of restoring Pennsylvania’s lands and waters.
Join The Piedmont Environmental Council and the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, and Maola Milk for a volunteer tree planting on Wednesday, April 5, at the J Team Dairy in Culpeper County, VA.
Last October, the Alliance hosted back-to-back tree plantings in a first-ever relay-style event to get over 5,000 trees in the ground over a 24-hour period. Known as “Treelay,” the event took place at 8 different sites across the Chesapeake Bay watershed, and volunteers planted continuously for 24 hours straight. Our team will hold the next Treelay in 2024.
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Do you want to become a Volunteer Water Quality Citizen Scientist and gain hands-on experience collecting data and water samples throughout the District? The District of Columbia Department of Energy and Environment (DOEE) awarded a grant to Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay to continue the implementation of a DC-based citizen science water quality monitoring program with the goal of providing up-to-date, weekly water quality data to residents and visitors by sampling for bacteria, turbidity, pH, air and water temperature weekly from May-September.
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