Category: Downstream News

Downstream rolls out an even faster web server.

Are you planning for communications in your grant proposals?

A transformation is underway at The Downstream Project. We call it Downstream 2.0. We’re expanding our digital storytelling power with new technology and smarter data tools to amplify conservation voices. We’re upgrading our web-hosting and digital infrastructure so that our 40 web partners have faster, more robust web services — at prices nonprofits can afford.

PFAS have been detected throughout the Bay Watershed, including in public drinking water systems in West Virginia’s Eastern Panhandle and Northern Panhandle. The Downstream Project is supporting efforts to create PFAS Action Plans for every affected public drinking system in West Virginia impacted by PFAS contamination. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a group of

Margarita Carey joined The Downstream Project in October, serving  as Operations Manager and supporting the Executive Director in coordinating conservation and communication initiatives. Before joining Downstream in 2025, she spent nearly two decades with The Conservation Fund, first as Program Associate with the Conservation Leadership Network and later as Operations Manager for Conservation Services. A