The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation is establishing a $100,000 scholarship endowment for the new Emerging Leaders program of Leadership Montgomery, the Rockville-based community leadership training organization, which is now 25 years old, announced Friday.

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The Sodexo Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Gaithersburg-based food and facilities management services provider Sodexo, awarded a $150,000 grant to the Food Recovery Network to advance its work of fighting food waste and hunger nationwide.

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The France-Merrick Foundation, a Baltimore-based charitable foundation, named Amy Michelle Gross as its new executive director, effective June 10.

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Fall of 2010, when we first announced Baltimore as one of five sites selected to remake America's great urban places and reconnect residents to economic opportunity, I declared that there was no more important work that we could undertake.

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Marshall Clarke was pleasantly surprised to find out he’d come into a healthy stack of money.

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Maryland’s bay restoration strategy is underfunded and may not get the job done as promised, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation said Tuesday. Alison Prost, the foundation’s Maryland executive director, said Maryland is more than halfway to its bay restoration goals, but ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Gov. Martin O’Malley’s administration began its push Tuesday for higher transportation spending and job creation efforts with local Democratic officials, cabinet secretaries, business leaders and others making the case to lawmakers. “Maryland’s infrastructure needs are critical,” said Lt. ...

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NORFOLK, Va. — A report by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation claims that pollution from a $6 billion coal-fired plant proposed in Surry County would cause an estimated 26 premature deaths annually and generate additional regional health costs exceeding $200 million ...

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The federal government should conduct a comprehensive federal analysis of Marcellus Shale drilling in the six bay-watershed states, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and other environmental groups said Monday. The foundation said it has filed a petition under the National Environmental ...

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The former owners of the Sparrows Point steel mill are asking a judge to dismiss a suit filed by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz is scheduled to hear arguments Friday in Baltimore. Attorneys for former ...

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