Salisbury, Md. (Thursday, April 5, 2018) — The Franklin P. and Arthur W. Perdue Foundation recently presented a $20,000 grant to the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay to support Project Clean Stream, the Alliance’s annual Chesapeake Bay watershed environmental stewardship initiative. Every year, the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay rallies thousands of Project Clean Stream volunteers, including hundreds of Perdue associates and their family members and friends, to clean up trash from local streams and rivers to improve the health of local waterways and communities, and to help to restore and protect the Bay and the environment.

Launched in 2004 as a small grass-roots effort, the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay has expanded its Project Clean Stream program to thousands of sites from New York to Virginia. Perdue Farms has been partnering with the Alliance on Project Clean Stream since 2008.

“We are grateful for the decade of support that Perdue and its associates provide each year to Project Clean Stream.” said Kate Fritz, Executive Director of the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay. “It takes passionate local volunteers and committed community partners working together to protect and restore our streams and rivers and the Chesapeake Bay. We all live upstream and need to be the caretakers of our local home waters. Project Clean Stream provides a way to get involved and make a difference for healthier communities, clean streams and a clean Chesapeake Bay!”

“At Perdue, we’ve long viewed the opportunity to invest in the success of a program like Project Clean Stream as mutually beneficial,” said Kim Nechay, executive director of the Perdue Foundation. “It really is a win-win to be part of such a productive and meaningful event that helps make strides toward a cleaner Bay and waterway system — something that is very important to our company and our associates.”

Perdue launched its Project Clean Stream volunteer initiative in 2008 in Salisbury, Md., where 30 associates removed more than 2,000 pounds of debris from two locations in Wicomico County. Since then, Perdue has expanded the Project Clean Stream environmental stewardship concept across 12 states where its associates live and work. More than 6,855 volunteers have removed in excess of 211 tons of trash from more than 300 sites and planted more than 4,100 trees.

“Project Clean Stream provides an exciting opportunity to engage our associates and their family members in helping protect the environment in our communities, while reinforcing our company’s commitment to being a good corporate citizen,” said Steve Levitsky, vice president of sustainability. “The combined strength of our associates’ efforts has made a tremendous impact in those communities.”

Project Clean Stream events are scheduled through June. For more information about the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay and to sign up to be a Project Clean Stream volunteer, visit: allianceforthebay.org

About The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay
Founded in 1971, the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, with headquarters in Annapolis, MD, and offices in Richmond, VA, Washington, DC and Lancaster, PA, works throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed to lead, support and inspire local action and build partnerships with individuals, communities, governments, businesses, and other environmental groups to improve and protect the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed lands, rivers and streams.

About Perdue Farms
We’re a third-generation, family owned, U.S. food and agriculture company. Through our belief in responsible food and agriculture, we are empowering consumers, customers and farmers through trusted choices in products and services. We focus on continuously improving everything we do, constantly learning, and sharing those insights across different production methods. That innovative approach is driving change throughout the company and onto farms. This continuous advancement is leading us toward our vision of becoming the most trusted name in food and agricultural products.
The PERDUE^® brand is the number-one brand of fresh chicken in the U.S., and Perdue AgriBusiness is an international agricultural products and services company. As we approach our 100^th anniversary in 2020, our path forward is about getting better, not just bigger. We never use drugs for growth promotion in raising poultry and livestock, and we are actively advancing our animal welfare programs. Our brands are leaders in no-antibiotics-ever chicken, turkey and pork, and in USDA-certified organic chicken. We’ve increased our support for the family farm by creating new markets, including specialty crops. Through agricultural services, we give farmers more options for the acre, including conversion to organic production and products and services that increase the sustainability of conventional agriculture. Learn more at www.perduefarms.com.

About The Franklin P. and Arthur W. Perdue Foundation
The Franklin P. and Arthur W. Perdue Foundation, the charitable giving arm of Perdue Farms, was established in 1957 by company founder Arthur W. Perdue and is funded through the estates of Arthur W. Perdue and Frank Perdue. As part of our belief in supporting the communities where and with whom we do business, the Foundation provides grants on behalf of Perdue Farms in communities where large numbers of our associates live and work.  At Perdue Farms, we believe in responsible food and agriculture.