2022 Projects

The Estuarium offers extensive educational programming and a variety of estuary and marine ecology topics for Pre-K through 12th grade students.

Whale Scout will help fund the transformation of the Wayne Golf Course into a public park. It will also invest in three students from diverse backgrounds to engage community groups in salmon restoration at the converted golf course.

Helping share an award-winning curriculum.

Build a stronger, more diverse team of river stewards and advocates through a rafting and river education trip for Latine youth on the North Fork Nooksack River in June 2022.

Extend the tour and expand the venues of Braided River’s multimedia traveling exhibit as part of an innovative citizen action campaign to celebrate, protect, and restore Puget Sound.

Support the third season of Raincoast’s interactive online education program, Coastal Insights, as well as a Student Innovation Contest in partnership with Take A Stand: Youth for Conservation.

Provide Whatcom County K-8 students with hands-on, locally relevant learning activities focused on energy efficiency, water conservation, waste reduction and recycling, and climate science and impacts.

Expand the Institute’s Exploring Plankton! lendable backpacks program by creating three new backpacks that will be available to classrooms and the public.

Offer diverse Seattle youth a paid opportunity to gain environmental education and workforce development skills through hands-on conservation projects at local parks and green spaces.

Enable the Vashon Nature Center to participate in an on-going community science effort to estimate wildlife population sizes for black bear, cougar, black-tailed deer, Roosevelt elk, bobcat, and coyote throughout the Salish Sea region.

Reduce threats to the survival of the critically-endangered Southern Resident orcas by supporting public conservation education work on Orca Month and the Give Them Space campaign.

Support a gathering of more than 200 Salish Sea Ecoregion land conservation practitioners at the 2022 Northwest Land Camp, and underwrite a six-part Equitable Communications in Land Conservation workshop series.