Three Maryland Eastern Shore organizations receive grants as a part of Governor Hogan’s initiative
Three Eastern Shore organizations receive grants as a part of Governor Hogan’s Day to Serve Initiative in Maryland.
To support Maryland nonprofits in their Day to Serve projects, the Governor’s Commission on Service and Volunteerism announced that 33 organizations have received a total of $111,000 in funding, funded by the Walmart Foundation. An independent team reportedly went over more than 180 applications, and awarding the grants to organizations including Eastern Shore’s Diakonia, Inc in Ocean City, Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy in Easton and the United Way of the Lower Eastern Shore in Salisbury.
Governor Hogan announced Thursday, Maryland’s Day to Serve Initiative that reportedly gives state employees four consecutive hours of paid leave to participate in their choice of a volunteer activity from September 10 to October 10.
Day to Serve is a yearly community service initiative that lasts a month where Maryland joins the nation’s capital, Virginia, and West Virginia in recommending that its residents get out and volunteer. For the fifth consecutive year, the three states and Washington, D.C will reportedly keep track of how many volunteers, their hours served, how much food they donated, and more.
Governor Hogan says, “We already know that Marylanders are kind and generous people who serve their communities and neighbors 365 days a year, for the next 30 days, I encourage all state employees and Marylanders from every corner of the state to carve out just four hours of their busy day to give back to those less fortunate.”
In 2016, the Maryland State Police and the Department of Transportation will join arms with the Maryland Food Bank for the 4th yearly Maryland Hunger Action Month food drive, called “Stuff-A-Truck.”
Nonperishable item donations will be received at State Police barracks and certain Department of Transportation offices. Furthermore staff from the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services will reportedly be serving evening meals at one of Baltimore’s residential programs for formerly homeless or incarcerated men.
Marylanders can also participate in the initiative by cleaning up parks, streams, and beaches, to putting together care packages for military troops and feeding the hungry. To register for the event, officials say, Marylanders can go to this website, and to learn more about Day to Serve, visit this website.
According to government officials, Governor Hogan will be going to the Travis Manion Foundation’s 9/11 Heroes Run in Annapolis on Sunday and Lieutenant Governor Boyd Rutherford will be going to the 6th Branch’s Together We Serve 9/11 Day of Service in Baltimore.
