SALISBURY, Md. — Recently, Perdue Farms restored its support and commitment to the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay with a $20,000 investment into the Alliance’s annual Project Clean Stream initiative. This investment is part of the company’s dedication to protect and improve the health of the Chesapeake Bay.
“Project Clean Stream is a community-based initiative and wouldn’t be possible without people volunteering to pick up litter before it reaches their local waterway,” Lauren Sauder, ACB’s capacity building projects manager, said in a statement. “It is paramount to have companies like Perdue investing in this project. It enables the Alliance to ensure cleanup supplies remain free, lowering the barrier to environmental stewardship and enabling people to readily take local action.”
“Perdue has become a pillar in this initiative,” Sauder added. “Thank you to the Perdue team for empowering their employees, continuing to support Project Clean Stream, and for their ongoing commitment to the Chesapeake Bay.”
The $20,000 grant will be funded through the Franklin P. and Arthur W. Perdue Foundation, the company’s charitable giving partner, and aligns with Perdue’s Delivering Hope to Our Neighbors outreach to improve quality of life and build strong communities, Perdue noted.
Project Clean Stream is the Alliance’s annual initiative that brings thousands of volunteers from companies and communities together to clean up trash around the Chesapeake Bay watershed before it reaches the various creeks, streams and rivers.
For almost 20 years, the company has contributed $100,000 in financial support and more than 24,000 volunteer hours to the project, the company added. Perdue’s associates are only a part of the large number of volunteers who participate in these annual cleanups throughout the watershed states of Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C.
“Our renewed commitment to the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay and Project Clean Stream is about putting our stewardship and teamwork values in action,” Ben Hildebrand, Perdue’s director of environmental sustainability, said. “By combining financial support with the time and energy of our associates, we’re able to help protect local waterways in the Bay watershed and strengthen the communities where our associates and neighbors live, work and raise their families.”
For more information about Perdue’s commitment to environmental stewardship, visit their website https://corporate.perduefarms.com/responsibility/environment/. For more information about the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay and Project Clean Stream, visit www.allianceforthebay.org.
