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Mike Hankin, President and CEO of Brown Advisory, is a community steward who is leading by example. To further the mission of making the Baltimore Inner Harbor swimmable and fishable, Mike has committed to swim across the harbor in 2020. Join him by filling out the sign up form at the bottom of this page.
Sign Up to Swim Across the Harbor in 2020
Brown Advisory is committed to the communities in which we work and operate and Baltimore is but one of the communities where we invest human and financial capital to help improve the lives of the citizens at large. Other regions which we make significant investment include Austin, Boston, the Carolinas, Delaware, London, New York and Washington, D.C. Corporate Social Responsibility however, is more than just community involvement and the truly inspiring firms—the game-changers, the industry leaders and the disruptors—have cultures that propel them to innovate and stand out. At Brown Advisory, we aim to be one of those inspired firms through a focus on corporate governance, ethical business behavior, environmental accountability, promoting healthy human resources and advocating for universal human rights.
Did You Know?
Each spring, the Healthy Harbor Report Card is released.
This report presents a summary of water quality scores and major restoration activities that took place throughout the prior year, and it monitors water health in four major water bodies: The Jones and Gwynns Falls streams, the Baltimore Harbor, and the Tidal Patapsco River.
The Healthy Harbor Report Card is produced in partnership with Blue Water Baltimore, and near-real time water quality scores can be found at HarborAlert.org.
 2014 Report Card |
 2015 Report Card |
 2016 Report Card |
Did You Know?
Mr. Trash Wheel and Professor Trash Wheel have collected 1,477,580 lbs. since May 9, 2014.
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594,800 Plastic Bottles - 688,727 Polystyrene Containers
- 9,818,900 Cigarette Butts
- 7,734 Glass Bottles
- 499,587 Grocery Bags
- 687,269 Chip Bags
Did You Know?
There is an oyster sanctuary in the Baltimore Inner Harbor?
We grow oysters because of their amazing ability to filter pollution out of the water. A full-grown oyster can filter up to 50 gallons of water every day! Two hundred years ago there were enough oysters to filter all of the water in the Chesapeake Bay every three days. Today it takes the remaining oysters over a year to filter the same amount of water.
Did You Know?
There are over 2,000 square feet of floating wetlands in and around the Baltimore Inner Harbor.
Because very few natural wetlands exist along Baltimore Harbor’s urban shorelines, man-made Floating Wetlands were built to float in the water. Inside these buoyant islands are bundles of plastic bottles that have been collected from the harbor and up-cycled to help the wetlands float.
The Floating Wetlands are colonized by crabs, mussels, and eels, while waterfowl and fish use them for refuge.
At the end of each growing season, the Floating Wetlands are harvested and composted, turning them into useful fertilizer which can be used for landscaping around the Inner Harbor.
Learn More about the Healthy Harbor Initiative
