To Our Stakeholders:
Your dedicated activities as a Chesapeake Crossroads stakeholder are very much appreciated, and are key to our organization’s continued success. This holiday season, we ask you to include the Chesapeake Crossroads Heritage Area in your year-end giving. We thank you for investing in our mission-driven efforts to protect and strengthen the natural, historic, and cultural resources of our heritage area; to nurture their discovery through educational and recreational experiences for visitors and residents; and to promote the region’s rich legacy — and we ask for your continued support via a donation before the year’s end.
As examples of our impact, we recently awarded nine Flex Sponsorships and ten Flex Grants to local heritage-related nonprofit organizations out of One-Time State funding deriving from the State’s FY24 Budget Surplus. These funding awards in August totaled $30,000. We also awarded $27,190 in traditional Mini-Grants to ten local heritage organizations for heritage-related projects, for total project costs of $136,943. We prioritize projects that foster Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility, as well as sharing the stories of our local history and heritage. These projects connect our heritage partners’ projects with the wider community. And these funds only partially funded the requests we received! We hope to do more in the future.
With your support, we will continue our work to enable our trusted and vetted local heritage-related non-profit partners to create new programs, products, activities, and events that build upon heritage-based interpretive themes, foster collaborative partnerships, and enhance local cultural historic resources and heritage tourism.
Every donation, no matter the size, adds to our impact and reach. Thank you! Sincerely yours,
Carol Benson, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Use this QR code to donate directly to us through Zeffy, a secure website for nonprofits; visit our website at chesapeakecrossroads.org/donate/; or send your check today to CCHA, Arundel Center, 44 Calvert Street, Annapolis, MD 21401. CCHA is a 501(c)3, charitable non-profit organization. Thank you for your consideration.