The Downstream Project’s vision is a Chesapeake Bay community of passionate people connected to their local watersheds.
Downstream is a nonprofit team of professional graphic artists, web developers, video producers, copy writers, and database experts. We protect watersheds by promoting awareness, alliance, and action. We do this by supporting partners — helping them strengthen their identities, share their stories, build digital platforms for activism, and manage their donors and events more efficiently. As a nonprofit, Downstream can share project costs with partners from our own public funds. Contributions to Downstream enable us to help people and organizations do more to protect water.
The Downstream Project is an approved National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) Technical Service Provider. This means that Downstream can provide technical support, manage projects, and submit and manage grants on behalf of beneficiaries which can include local governments, nonprofit organizations, and conservation districts.
Ways We Can Help
Website Design & Development
A website is the first place people go to learn, take action, volunteer, donate, or join — and you get only one chance to make a first impression.
Video Production
We have been putting our partners’ conservation stories on camera and in the public eye since 2007 — nothing tells a story better than seeing real people taking real action.
Member & Donor Management
Technology should make communication simpler, not harder. We have the expertise to update and streamline the tools you use to communicate with your constituents.
Graphic Design & Messaging
We craft messaging and graphic identities that capture the cause you care about—and make other people care, too.
Water Watch Data Visualization
Monitoring water quality helps keep streams safe. But data alone won’t drive action if the right people can’t see or understand it.
