Financial sponsors for Spring 2022 edition

of the Operation Trash international education exchange

BGE Green Grant

Clean Up & Green Up Maryland
a Keep Maryland Beautiful grant program

We are looking for grants and sponsors for future programs for kids in Baltimore and/or Rotterdam about environmental sustainability and sustainable trash management. Please contact us at if you would like to sponsor or have ideas for grantors and sponsors to approach.

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Financial support over the years

Activities associated with the Baltimore-Rotterdam art/educational exchanges since 2008 have been partially funded by the following organizations and grant programs:

• Baltimore County Commission on Arts and Sciences
• Baltimore Mayor’s Office
• Baltimore Office of Promotion and The Arts
• Baltimore Office of Sustainability
• Baltimore-Rotterdam Sister City Committee (BRSCC)
• Baltimore Rotary Club
• Baltimore Gas & Electric (BGE)
• Center for Art Design and Visual Culture at University of Maryland, Baltimore County
• Clean Up & Green Up Maryland (a Keep Maryland Beautiful grant program)
• CSX Beyond Our Rails
• GGB
• Maryland State Arts Council
• MECU Foundation
• SB7 Sagamore grant
• WWF: The Netherlands chapter of the World Wildlife Fund (Stichting Het Wereld Natuur Fonds – NL)

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Supporting institutions over the years

Many institutions have a connection with the Baltimore-Rotterdam artist exchange and its activities and provided support, as it evolved over time. They include:

USA Baltimore Mayor’s Office Baltimore Office of Sustainability Baltimore-Rotterdam Sister City Committee Arts for Learning, Maryland University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) Center for Art Design and Visual Culture BreakingGround American Studies Imaging Research Center Fellows Professor Stephen Bradley and his students Baltimore Traces Professor Exsul Van Helden and his Stevenson University film students Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) Contemporary Museum Schools in the Baltimore City Public School system Schools in the Baltimore County Public School system Filbert Street Community Garden Masonville Cove Environmental Educational Center (MCEEC) (affiliated with Living Classrooms) Sheppard Pratt’s Mann Residential School Curtis Bay Coalition Curtis Bay Seniors Polish Home Hall Chesapeake Arts Center Chipotle Federal Hill Schools Curtis Bay Elementary/Middle School Bay Brook Middle School Bard High School Early College Baltimore Benjamin Franklin High School Lakeland Elementary/Middle School and other South Baltimore Gateway District schools Baltimore Polytechnic Institute

Netherlands Stichting Lawine / Avalanche Arts Rotterdam’s Foundation B.a.d. Willem de Kooning Academie (WdKA) Centrum Beeldende Kunst Rotterdam TENT arts space, Rotterdam The Consulate General of The Netherlands in New York Duurzaam Heijplaat Heijplaat Groen Wijkgebouw de Kolk (Heijplaat) Schools Wolfert van Borselen school Wolfert Lansing school Lyceum Vos school IKC Het Balkon IKC ’t Palet Holy

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About BRSCC

The Baltimore-Rotterdam Sister City Committee (BRSCC) is a volunteer-run committee based in Baltimore that conducts the sister city affairs. It is member of the Baltimore Sister Cities 501(c)(3) association, which is affiliated with the Baltimore Mayor’s Office. BRSCC promotes economic, cultural, educational, health/environmental and other cooperation and exchanges between Baltimore, Maryland, USA and Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and supports Baltimore region’s other activities and programs related to the Netherlands and the local Dutch community. The committee encourages engagement between the two cities to creatively learn, work, and solve problems together through reciprocal exchanges and projects.

More about our committee and its mission

Visit the BRSCC web site  and our social media channels for more information about the Baltimore-Rotterdam Sister City Committee’s activities. Visit the BSC web site for more information about all of Baltimore’s Sister Cities.