Support a CBF Program That Is Important to You Through
CBF's Online Giving Catalog

CBF's Online Giving Catalog is a great way to give a gift with meaning to friends and family for holidays and other special occasions. Give a gift of baby oysters or native trees to help filter our waterways…or support CBF's award-winning environmental education program by helping students and teachers learn out on the water…or choose from many other environmentally-friendly "virtual gifts" below.

Plant Native Trees

Trees are crucial to the health of our waters. They slow runoff and erosion, provide habitat, keep streams cool, and absorb excess nutrients that are the biggest source of pollution in the Bay.

Your Price: $25 to Plant Five Native Trees

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Grow Native Oysters

Oysters feed on the algae that robs our waters of oxygen and make them uninhabitable for fish, crabs, and other Bay critters. One adult oyster can filter 50 gallons of water a day.

Your Price: $25 to Grow 2,500 Native Oysters

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Water Quality Testing Kit

Better than a text book! Teachers and students conduct their own water quality testing in the field, learning first-hand what's in their water and what needs to be done to keep it healthy.

Your Price: $35 to Provide One Water Quality Test Kit

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Field Guide for Students and Teachers to Learn About Their Watershed

After seining or fishing with trawl nets and scrapes, students and teachers use field guides to identify the fish and underwater grasses they've collected.

Your Price: $40 to Provide One Field Guide

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Build Reef Balls

Reef balls are effective and safe artificial homes for oysters. They solve some key challenges to oyster restoration: the lack of hard surfaces on which oysters can grow and the ease of poaching oysters from protected sanctuary reefs.

Your Price: $50 to Build One Reef Ball

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Hip Waders for Students

To really understand the importance of wetlands and streams you've got to get out into them. Hip waders keep students clean and dry while they study the fish and invertebrates in the streams and rivers of the Bay.

Your Price: $65 to Provide One Pair of Hip Waders

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Send Students on a CBF Field Experience

Students return from our award-winning education programs with a passion for saving the Bay, an appreciation of the environment and their impact on it, and a stronger grasp of the concepts they've learned in text books and in the classroom.

Your Price: $70 to Send One Student on a CBF Field Experience

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Help CBF Spread the Word at Fairs and Festivals

CBF exhibits at 100 outside functions annually, ranging from local fairs to national events. At these events, CBF distributes brochures, flyers, and postcards to promote its Save the Bay efforts.

Your Price: $100 to Send CBF to Exhibit at One Fair or Festival

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Tuition for Teachers to Attend a Five-Day Professional Development Course

When teachers are excited about teaching, they instill that excitement in their students. Educators who participate in our professional development courses learn how to inspire students with outdoor teaching experiences that are aligned with their school system's standards.

Your Price: $1,800 to Pay Tuition for One Teacher

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Gift of Membership to CBF

A gift of membership to CBF is a wonderful way to show how much you care while passing on a legacy of clean water, clean air, and a healthy environment for generations to come.

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Gift in Honor or Memory

A gift in honor or memory of a loved one is a wonderful way to pay tribute to someone—or a special occasion—while helping the Chesapeake Bay Foundation protect, preserve, and restore the Bay and its rivers and streams for current and future generations.

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