News & Stories Archive
April 1, 2015
By guest writer David Thompson, a high school junior in Prince George’s County. On March 21, along with eight others, I cleaned up a few streets in a Maryland residential […]
March 24, 2015
By Tim Murphy, Potomac River Watershed Cleanup Coordinator I recently had the privilege of addressing a communications class at the College of Southern Maryland (CSM) taught by Assistant Professor Michelle […]
March 6, 2015
Recognizing the importance of public education and awareness in creating behavior change, AFF’s Trash Free Potomac Watershed Initiative created the Regional Litter Prevention Campaign to target active litterers in the […]
December 12, 2014
Located on 32nd and Branch Ave in Temple Hills, MD is a 5,000 square foot abandoned street scape project that has existed since 1974. Thirty years later this forgotten site, […]
October 24, 2014
By Lori Arguelles, AFF Executive Director It was 60 years ago today that the pioneers of the Alice Ferguson Foundation (AFF) realized the first fruits of their labors. On October […]
October 3, 2014
By Kara Pennino, AFF Community Outreach Liaison There has been a lot of talk recently about how to grab the attention of people in their teens and twenties, also known […]
July 7, 2014
By Alena Rosen, AFF Communications Coordinator This year reveals another record breaking year for the Annual Potomac River Watershed Cleanup with 14,766 volunteers removing 288 tons of trash from 671 sites throughout the Watershed. […]
July 1, 2014
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 1, 2014 (Washington, DC) Thousands of Potomac Watershed residents battled against the negative impacts of litter this spring through the two of the Alice Ferguson Foundation’s […]
May 23, 2014
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 20, 2014 (Accokeek, MD) In partnership with Old Line Bank, the Alice Ferguson Foundation will unveil its Potomac Watershed Study Center Wetlands Boardwalk with a ribbon […]
April 9, 2014
By Clara Elias, Program Manager, Trash Free Potomac Watershed Initiative Litter is in our communities, parks, and waterways in large part because someone chooses to drop their trash on the […]