Technical Assistance Program Overview

If you are applying for funding from the Chesapeake Bay Stewardship Fund please consult the technical resources and contacts in the other resources section of this website. These resources can help you develop a technically sound project concept/design, estimate the outcomes of your project e.g. pounds of nutrients and sediments reduced, and write a more competative grant proposal.

The Foundation and its partners are committed to the success of every grant-funded project. The Chesapeake Bay Stewardship Fund’s technical assistance program is a partnership with Chesapeake NEMO (Network for Education of Municipal Officials) and is meant to deliver appropriate technical assistance to both Chesapeake NEMO clients and Chesapeake Bay Stewardship Fund grantees on an as needed basis.

Chesapeake NEMO is a network that helps communities in the Chesapeake watershed foster well-planned growth, preserve water quality and protect natural areas. Chesapeake NEMO delivers free technical help and leveraged financial assistance, helping communities implement sound land use planning and watershed protection.

This technical assistance program is meant to empower those acting on a local level in the Chesapeake Bay watershed through providing free access to technical assistance throughout the course of their projects. This technical assistance program is not meant to be relied upon to implement on-the-ground work and is not a substitute for securing the appropriate level of implementation funding to successfully complete a project.

How to Get Technical Assistance

If you are a current Chesapeake Bay Stewardship Fund grantee and would like to inquire about this technical assistance program please contact Lacy Alison at: Lacy.Alison@nfwf.org.

Areas of Technical Assistance

Technical Assistance Providers can offer grantees expertise in the following areas:

Habitat restoration (e.g., coastal, living shorelines, and riparian habitat, forests and wetlands),

Agricultural conservation practices,

Forest and farmland preservation (e.g., conservation easements),

Stormwater management practices and low impact development,

Watershed and related land use planning (including, but not limited to: community / watershed resource assessments, land conservation planning, and code and ordinance development for resource protection),

Social marketing and strategic communications ventures designed to motivate specific conservation actions,

Collaborative processes and conflict resolution in order to help make mid-course corrections and to take advantage of new opportunities,

Water quality monitoring and modeling, and/or,

Financing watershed restoration and conservation actions, strategies and implementation plans.