Major Awards for AFF's Programs
PARTNER OF THE YEAR
2010 Mayor’s Environmental Excellence Award
District of Columbia
AFF received recognition as Partner of the Year for the 2010 Mayor’s Environmental Excellence Award on August 5, 2010. This award
category is presented to an organization that encourages environmental sustainability and resource
conservation among residents of Washington, DC. The Mayor’s Environmental Excellence Award recognizes outstanding businesses and organizations each
year for their environmental stewardship, innovative best practices, pollution prevention, and resource
conservation.
MARYLAND GREEN CENTER
Maryland Association for Environmental
and Outdoor Education (MAEOE)
On June 4, 2010 the Alice Ferguson Foundation’s Hard Bargain Farm Environmental Center was officially recognized as a Maryland Green Center by the Maryland Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education (MAEOE). The Green Center award acknowledges that the work done by Maryland Green Schools would not be possible without the support of mentors and environmental centers that can model and support the process of re-culturing a school to meet the criteria in the Maryland Green School application. This doesn’t happen overnight, and it can’t happen unless the whole community is involved. On average it takes a school two years to effectively fulfill the requirements associated with certification, and our center focuses on long-term partnerships made possible through grants from NOAA BWET, the Chesapeake Bay Trust, and many others. For more on our partnerships, go to our Outreach page.
- More information about Maryland Green Schools and Centers
- Details on HBF's Green Center Qualifications
NORTHERN VIRGINIA LEADERSHIP AWARD
Leadership Fairfax
For meeting the leadership criteria of ‘vision, inspiration, courage, and commitment,’ The Alice Ferguson Foundation (AFF) is pleased to announce that it was awarded one of the prestigious Leadership Fairfax “Regional Leadership Awards” at the Northern Virginia Leadership Awards Gala on Friday, November 2, 2007 at the Westfields Marriott in Chantilly, Va. The award recognizes individuals and organizations for leadership in advancing the cause and spirit of regional collaboration and partnership.
Accokeek, MD-based Alice Ferguson Foundation has been selected as a featured charity in the 2007-08 Catalogue for Philanthropy. This is the Catalogue's fifth year in the Washington, DC region. Supported by local foundations (Harman Family Foundation, Meyer Foundation, Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, J Willard and Alice S Marriott Foundation, Marriott, Freddie Mac Foundation, John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation, Corina Higginson Trust) and local corporations (CGI, Chevy Chase Trust, Fannie Mae, Landon Butler & Co.) as a service to the community, the Catalogue profiles environmental, cultural, educational, human services, and international organizations.
According to Barbara Harman, Executive Director of the Harman Family Foundation, "The Catalogue is designed to be a showcase for DC region philanthropy and an inviting way for individuals and families to participate in charitable giving." A single check sent to the Catalogue's DC office, or an online donation at its website, www.catalogueforphilanthropy-dc.org, can be allocated to as many charities as the donor pleases. Donors may also contact the charities directly. "Because the Catalogue is fully paid for by its philanthropic partners," Harman notes, "100% of every donation goes to the designated nonprofits."
Alice Ferguson Foundation was selected from a competitive field of over 250 candidates. "Charities were selected for excellence, innovation, and cost-effectiveness--and for what they can teach us 
about the extraordinary ways that philanthropy works,” Harman said. “These are certainly among the best small charities in the Washington, DC region.”
"CENTENNIAL CHALLENGE"
National Park Service
National Park Service Director Mary Bomar and Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne announced that the Alice Ferguson Foundation’s Bridging the Watershed (BTW) environmental education program will be expanded throughout the Potomac Watershed as part of the National Park Service "Centennial Challenge."
The Centennial Challenge Initiative is a multifaceted approach, with public and private funding, to:
- engage all Americans in preserving our heritage,
- connect them with their parks with a special emphasis on linking children to nature, history and park resources, and to
- strengthen park operations and keep them sustainable in the next 100 years.