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You can make a credit card donation to any Chesapeake Charities fund on this website. To pay by check, please make your check payable to “Chesapeake Charities” and mail to the address shown at the bottom of the page.

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Adopt-A-Bear

Adopt-A-Bear provides Christmas gifts to children enrolled in Queen Anne's County public elementary & middle schools free lunch program, The Judy Center, Head Start, The Family Center, and Queen Anne's County Healthy Families. "Bear Trees" are displayed at...

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Amy’s Army

AMY'S STORY On October 10, 2015, Amy Marie Stoops Rhodes married Jason Rhodes in a gorgeous ceremony on the Rhodes’ family farm surrounded by their closest friends and family. It was truly the perfect day and the happiest of their lives; all anyone could see was their...

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Blackie Wills Community Leadership Fund (BWCLF)

Through education, awareness, volunteerism, fundraising, and grant making, the BWCLF supports opportunities for all people to get their basic needs met and create a better future for families in Maryland, Virginia, and Delaware. The BWCLF is particularly focused on...

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Calvert County Commission for Women

Calvert County Commission for Women seeks to support and improve opportunities for women and girls in Calvert County. The Commission recognizes their contributions and achievements through the annual Women of the World celebration.

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Cancer Comfort Angels

Cancer Comfort Angels is a faith-based organization that provides Cancer Comfort Kits for those diagnosed this cancer. We have provided over 2000 cancer patients with kits all over the country to help them through their journey. A Cancer Comfort Kits consists of a...

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Caroline County Public Recreation

The purpose of this fund is to foster the support and engagement of individual and community public recreation to benefit the citizens of Caroline County through the programing, services, parks and open spaces produced and/or coordinated through Caroline County...

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Foundations of Recovery

The purpose of Foundations of Recovery is to provide individuals living free from drugs and alcohol with the opportunities necessary to establish a healthy lifestyle and reacclimate into society as positive members of the community.

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Grace Street

Grace Street opened August 1, 2023 as the Midshore's sole recovery community organization (RCO) and helps reduce overdose deaths by filling gaps in services with peer-based, non-clinical supports for people affected by substance abuse. Grace Street is founded and led...

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Healthy Families Midshore

Healthy Families Mid-Shore is a free and voluntary home visiting program that services Queen Anne’s County, Talbot County, Kent County, and Caroline County. The purpose of Healthy Families is to help relieve some of the stress of having a new baby and coping with...

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Jacob Sloan Family Assistance

Jacob Sloan Family Assistance continues Jake's passion for helping others by providing food, shelter, utilities, and assistance with medical expenses to children and families in need, either directly or in partnership with other community organizations.

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Jacob Sloan Foundation

The Jacob Sloan Foundation has been created to honor the life and legacy of Jake Sloan. Jake lived his life being a friend to all through his kindness and giving, always striving to "make a difference" in someone's life. The mission of this foundation is to make a...

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Paso a Paso

To support the impoverished communities in Guatemala by providing educational opportunities, after school programs and nutritional support.

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Poetry X Hunger

The Poetry X Hunger fund promotes the use of poetry in reducing, preventing, and eliminating hunger. Please help Poetry X Hunger turn poetry into food! Visit this YouTube video and vote for it with a thumbs up.  Any winnings will be donated to an anti-hunger...

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SOAR Delmarva

The purpose of this fund is to support SOAR  programs that offer opportunities for success, outreach, achievement and responsibility to special needs, underprivileged, and at-risk children.

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