Eastport Civic Association

ECA Grant Recipients

Funds for the ECA Grants Program are available thanks to the generosity of our members and the success of our fundraising events.

The Grants Committee uses the ECA grant guidelines and the ECA mission statement as a basis for making decisions. We also consider ECA’s history of support with organizations that apply for grants. Although past relationships do not guarantee funding, the committee does take into account the commitment and successful outcomes of organizations in Eastport over the years.

SPRING 2024

The ECA awarded 8 grants totaling $8,000 in the Spring 2024 cycle.

  1. Annapolis Area Imagination Library – $1,500 for monthly distribution of age-appropriate books for 150 low-income Eastport children between the ages of 0 and 5. Parents are encouraged to read the books with their children and engage in other language development activities.
  2. Annapolis Dragon Boat Club – $500 to support the “Awaken the Dragon” Opening Ceremony and raise awareness about this sport, which benefits breast cancer survivors.
  3. Annapolis Maritime Museum – $500 to beautify museum grounds and Back Creek public access areas with native plants and landscaping to help manage stormwater runoff in flood-prone areas.
  4. Chesapeake Region Accessible Boating, Inc. (CRAB) – $1,000 to support the Center of Help’s two-day sailing and leadership clinic for low-income girls who live and attend school in Eastport.
  5. Friends of Eastport Volunteer Fire Company – $500 to help complete construction of an outdoor kitchen to serve fire station personnel during nice weather.
  6. Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts – $1,000 for “Creating Communities” at Eastport United Methodist Church—an arts outreach program held in the church parking lot during the spring and fall.
  7. Seeds 4 Success – $1,500 to take 20 middle- and high-school students by bus to local Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Hispanic Serving Institutions for campus tours and lunch – thus exposing them to the possibility of post-secondary education.
  8. Start The Adventure in Reading (STAIR) Annapolis – $1,500 for educational materials for volunteer tutors who work one-on-one twice a week to improve the skills of 1st and 2nd graders reading below grade level.

SPRING 2023

The ECA awarded 6 grants totaling $7,000 in the Spring 2023 cycle.

  1. Annapolis Dragon Boat Club – $500 for the season kick-off ceremony to honor those who have died of breast cancer.
  2. Annapolis Maritime Museum – $1,500 for the Voices of Eastport Oral History Project, to hire a researcher for interviews with people who figure in local history. The interviews will be posted online.
  3. Annapolis Police Association – $1,875 for Shop With a Cop, which provides gift cards to 25 needy Eastport Elementary School students who are paired with Annapolis police officers to shop for back-to-school uniforms and clothing.
  4. Eastport Volunteer Fire Co. – $500 to purchase two Automatic Electronic Defibrillators (AEDs) to use with people experiencing electrical heart problems.      
  5. Seeds 4 Success – $1,375 to help fund the Online Mentoring Platform Pilot, a partnership between Seeds 4 Success and LifeRamp, an Annapolis-based technology company that delivers virtual coaching and mentoring for young adults to increase career success and leadership skills.
  6. Severn River Association – $1,250 to buy tools for volunteers to use in removing prolific invasive species that are killing local trees.

SPRING 2022 

The ECA awarded 7 grants totaling $8,000 in the Spring 2022 cycle. 

  1. Annapolis Area Imagination Library – $500 to provide books for early childhood literacy to low-income children in Eastport whose primary language is not English.
  2. Creating Communities – $1,500 for after-school program in collaboration with teachers to provide weekly arts and stem activities tied to the school curriculum for low-income students in Eastport.
  3. Eastport Methodist Church – $1,000 to provide backpacks for 250 low-income students in Eastport.
  4. Eastport Volunteer Fire Co. – $500 to upgrade the electrical system.
  5. Seeds 4 Success – $1,500 to provide summer tutoring and mentoring with books and materials to implement curricula for literacy and math skills.
  6. Start The Adventure In Reading (STAIR) – $2,000 to provide trained tutors for after-school instruction to 2nd graders with basic reading skills.
  7. The Live Water Foundation – $1,000 for water safety, swimming, paddle boarding, and kayaking instruction to low-income students in Eastport.

SPRING 2021

The ECA awarded 10 grants totaling $5,000 in the Spring 2021 cycle.

  1. Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay – $500 for creation and printing of Green Tours in Eastport, rain barrels, and signage.
  2. Annapolis Maritime Museum and Park – $500 for the Box of Rain Summer Maritime Program for students.
  3. Creating Communities – $500 for Outdoor Arts Program to purchase arts supplies, personal protective equipment, supplies, healthy snacks, and mentors.
  4. Eastport Volunteer Fire Co. – $500 for pumper and apparatus upgrades.
  5. Eastport United Methodist Church – $500 to purchase collapsible grocery hand carts for families to take food home from the Food Pantry.
  6. Live Water Foundation – $500 for the Junior Wai Koa Youth Program to support in-pool and in-the creek water sports activities.
  7. Marshall Hope Corporation – $500 to purchase milk, eggs, and butter for Eastport families.
  8. Seeds 4 Success – $500 for the Summer Reading Program to provide books, transportation, materials, and book consults with an educator or a librarian.
  9. Start The Adventure In Reading (STAIR) – $500 for 2-hour-per-week tutoring to second graders below the grade level.
  10. Street Angels – $500 for mobile nursing support to provide one-time health assistance and well care checks, distribute hygiene and safe sex materials, and make medical referrals to residents of Eastport. 

SPRING 2020

The ECA awarded 5 grants totaling $7,500 in the Spring 2020 cycle.

  1. Annapolis Maritime Museum – $750 for restoring four Chesapeake workboat models for the new permanent exhibition, “Our Changing Waterfront.”
  2. Charting Careers – $1,000 for costs associated with providing tutors and mentors for middle school students to determine their needs and provide applicable goods and services.
  3. Eastport Elementary – $2,250 for two basketball hoops for the new basketball court for students and the Eastport community to use.
  4. Seeds 4 Success – $2,000 for backpacks and school supplies for the fall season.
  5. Start The Adventure In Reading (STAIR) – $1,500 for materials, books, and supplies for tutoring/reading buddies program.

FALL 2019

The ECA awarded 4 grants totaling $4,830 in the Fall 2019 cycle.  

  1. Annapolis Maritime Museum – $830 to support production of a 2- to 5-minute documentary that will be a permanent exhibit.
  2. Eastport Volunteer Fire Co. – $500 for purchasing equipment.
  3. Seeds 4 Success – $2,000 to support a full-time Program Manager.
  4. Spa Creek Conservancy – $1,500 to support the Eastport 2019 Water Report.

SPRING 2019

The ECA awarded 8 grants totaling $7,370 in the Spring 2019 cycle.  

  1. Annapolis Maritime Museum – $500 to support a temporary exhibit “A Single Goal: The Art of Trumpy Yacht Building,” from April 16 through June 15. The exhibit focuses on the craftsmanship of these distinctive yachts.
  2. Back Creek Conservancy/Severn River Association – $545 to support maintaining and purchasing calibration fluids and buffers for their water testing.
  3. Charting Careers, Inc. – $500 to support the Create Your Story program, which serves 15 8th to 12th grade students and parent/caregivers from impoverished communities. Create Your Story addresses barriers via services and opportunities to promote youth success in high school and tackle achievable college and/or career plans.
  4. Chesapeake Region Accessible Boating – $1,250 for a two-day sailing camp for 18 kids from low-income families, many of whom live in Eastport. The camp introduces the kids to sailing and teaches them team-building skills.
  5. Eastport Elementary School PTA – $2,500 to support Play Eastport, a capital campaign to purchase new playground equipment and complete a comprehensive green space restoration at the school. ECA is pleased to be a Founding Sponsor for Play Eastport.
  6. Eastport Volunteer Fire Co. – $500 toward their new engine, which will be delivered late summer or early autumn 2019.
  7. Peninsula Athletic League (PAL) – $500 to replace football helmets with the latest technology.
  8. Start The Adventure In Reading (STAIR) – $1,075 for books for their program. STAIR focuses on improving reading skills for low-income students who live in Eastport.

FALL 2018

The ECA awarded 5 grants totaling $6,895 in the Fall 2018 cycle.  

  1. Annapolis Maritime Museum – $500 to fund gangway building and personal device storage units for the Skipjack Wilma Lee.
  2. Start The Adventure In Reading (STAIR) – $760 for materials for the Eastport Community Center program.
  3. Seeds 4 Success – $1,500 toward program costs for the Academic and Career Exploration Club for low-income high-school students.
  4. St. Luke’s Episcopal Church – $2,500 for plantings along trails that are part of the filtration system for storm water management.
  5. Eastport Elementary School – $1,635 for new curtains in the gym/auditorium.

SPRING 2018

The ECA awarded 8 grants totaling $9,350 in the Spring 2018 cycle.

  1. Annapolis Police Department – $1,000 for summer camp programs.
  2. Family Night Partners – $500 for family night dinners at Eastport Terrace/Harbor House.
  3. Seeds 4 Success – $1,000 for Eastport Boys Club collaborative summer programming.
  4. Box of Rain – $1,500 for a part-time master’s level mentor coordinator to support the New Navigating Futures mentoring program.
  5. Eastport Volunteer Fire Co. – $1,000 toward the purchase of new equipment (hook and ladder truck).
  6. Start The Adventure In Reading (STAIR) – $1,000 for materials for a summer reading enrichment program.
  7. Annapolis Maritime Museum and Park – $2,000 for an exhibit on maritime history and heritage.
  8. Eastport Elementary School – $1,350 to send four students to summer camp at Arlington Echo.

FALL 2017

The ECA awarded 4 grants totaling $4,000 in the Fall 2017 grants cycle. 

  1. Annapolis Police Department – $500 for a culturally based youth mentoring program.
  2. Eastport Elementary School – $1,000 for headphones for students.
  3. Start The Adventure In Reading (STAIR) – $1,000 to cover materials, supplies, and administrative costs for the STAIR site at Eastport Community Center.
  4. Seeds 4 Success – $1,500 for its pilot Eastport Boys Club program.

SPRING 2017

The ECA awarded 8 grants totaling $9,025 in the Spring 2017 grant cycle.

  1. Annapolis Maritime Museum – $1,500 to support the Tides and Tunes Summer Concert Series.
  2. Back Creek Conservancy – $735 to cover the cost of USCG gear for the Conservancy’s launch.
  3. Box of Rain – $2,500 to support a Program Outreach Assistant position that provides employment and training to a Box of Rain teen.
  4. Center of Help (Centro de Ayuda) – $1,000 for assistance to low-income Hispanic/Latino families living in Eastport.
  5. Eastport Elementary School – $1,300 to send four students to the week-long residential Arlington Echo Summer Camp.
  6. Eastport Volunteer Fire Co. – $1,000 toward retiring debt from purchasing the Advanced Life Support Medic Unit in 2016.
  7. Seeds 4 Success – $750 to cover the cost of staff supervising Seeds 4 Success students attending a summer program at the Anne Arundel County library.
  8. Start The Adventure in Reading (STAIR) – $240 for educational materials and backpacks for S.T.A.I.R. participants.