Together, Everyone Achieves More

Whether its collaborating on legislative strategy, coordinating a press conference in another city or guiding kids around the beach for a field trip, we are grateful for our generous network of nonprofit colleagues. When it comes to the defense and support of the environment, Heal the Bay and all the members of our community, including our local and national environmental nonprofits, are partners.

	Aquarium of the Pacific The Aquarium of the Pacific is the fourth most-attended aquarium in the nation. It displays over 11,000 animals in more than 50 exhibits that represent the diversity of the Pacific Ocean. Each year more than 1.5 million people visit the Aquarium. Beyond its world-class animal exhibits, the Aquarium offers educational programs for people of all ages from hands-on activities to lectures by leading scientists. Through these programs and a variety of multimedia experiences, the Aquarium provides opportunities to delve deeper into ocean science and learn more about our planet.
	Cabrillo Marine Aquarium A public aquarium which engages all visitors in education, recreation and research to promote knowledge, appreciation and conservation of the marine life and habitats of Southern California.
	California Coastkeeper Alliance Founded in 1999, California Coastkeeper Alliance (CCKA) coordinates, supports and enhances the work of local California Waterkeepers to ensure Californians enjoy clean water and a healthy coast. As part of the 190-member international WaterKeeper Alliance, the California Coastkeeper Alliance coordinates the 12 California Waterkeeper organizations. We partner with the Waterkeepers on legislative and policy issues. For example, we’ve worked with the LA Waterkeeper (formerly the Santa Monica Baykeeper), Ventura Coastkeeper, and San Diego Coastkeeper on the fight for marine protected areas in Southern California. Also, we work with the Keepers on the State’s policy to phase out once through cooling in coastal power plants. Together, we helped represent the environmental community to negotiate the State’s water recycling policy. Locally, we work frequently with the LA Waterkeeper on such issues as rectifying Malibu’s chronic pollution problems. LA Waterkeeper fulfills its mission through restoration and monitoring of kelp forests, creeks and wetlands. They are currently working on lawsuits against the City of Malibu and the County of Los Angeles for chronic stormwater and wastewater problems.
	Earth Protect Earth Protect tells stories about people who protect the earth. They inspire global adoption of cultural, environmental and economic solutions for a restorative future. Earth Protect offers videos and blog on 32 sustainability issues. Educators, students, interested businesses and world citizens will find information here that supports, challenges and expands their current understanding of the issues facing our worldwide society. Their video division, Earth Protect Productions, is a full-service video and film production division, which creates the stories ranging from public service announcements to commercials, documentaries and feature films. With award winning filmmakers, the company specializes in environmental, clean technology and sustainable development focused projects and helps organizations and companies tell, sell, advocate and educate their target audiences.
	EarthShare California Founded in 1982, EarthShare California's mission is to protect, support and improve California's natural heritage of clean air, safe water, diverse wildlife, and healthy communities and families by raising funds for leading environmental organizations. Earth Share of California coordinates workplace giving for a network of 80 leading environmental groups, working together with the purpose of creating sustainable communities, enhancing environmental education, and empowering individuals through volunteerism. Part of the national EarthShare network, EarthShare California offers business partners the opportunity to connect with the most respected organizations, offering solutions to environmental business questions, volunteer opportunities and networking. Earth Share's member organizations have been instrumental in maintaining the California landscape. One gift to EarthShare CA supports a broad spectrum of essential environmental work, conserving resources, protecting wildlife, and creating a sustainable future, here in California, and across the nation.
	Los Angeles County Department of Education The Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE) is the nation’s largest regional education agency. We provide a range of programs and services to promote the academic and financial stability of the county’s 80 school districts and the achievement of more than 2 million preschool and school-age children.
	Malibu Surfing Association (MSA) Formed in 1961 by a group of Malibu teenagers, the Malibu Surfing Association (MSA) is one of California's first surfing clubs. Today the MSA is an all-volunteer, nonprofit organization dedicated to the fellowship of surfing and to the stewardship of their local break, world-famous Surfrider Beach. Our work with MSA relies on their intimate knowledge of Surfrider Beach, their first hand accounts of illness because of Surfrider's chronic poor water quality, and on our shared emphasis of the importance of preserved and well-managed coastal resources.
	National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) The Natural Resources Defense Council’s purpose is to safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals and the natural systems on which all life depends. Operations An international organization, the Natural Resources Defense Council, or NRDC, has more than 300 staff, 1.2 million members and e-activists, and offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Washington, D.C.and Beijing. The NRDC Southern California office opened in October 1989. During the last 20 years, the Southern California office has grown to become a legal powerhouse with more than a dozen full-time lawyers who regularly prevail over corporate polluters, reckless developers and recalcitrant government agencies. Because NRDC has such a strong contingent of attorneys, much of Heal the Bay’s work with them has focused on finding legal and regulatory solutions to some of our biggest pollution problems: water quality, including bacteria and toxin pollution and marine debris. Our work with water quality attorney David Beckman and his staff has focused on TMDLs (pollution limits), stormwater and low impact development. NRDC is working to pass strong climate and energy legislation, saving open space throughout the country, and protecting our oceans from overfishing and pollution.
	Pacific American Volunteer Association "Stand up, volunteers!" the UN encouraged in 2001. The Pacific American Volunteer Association (PAVA) answered the call. We have come forward to engage in the act of volunteering to make a brighter, healthier society. The first step in making a brighter healthier society is to cease pollution and cleanse the toxins that destroy nature. In life, the most valuable way of living is to help others. PAVA's goals include preserving the environment and encouraging positive relationships with local communities. Environmental awareness and conservation is an urgent task that many communities wish to solve. By working together on projects that preserve and cleanse the earth, we will be able to narrow the gap between different communities and better understand each other.
	Roundhouse Aquarium The Roundhouse Marine Studies Lab and Aquarium is a non-profit organization committed to fostering and promoting the public study of, and interest in, the oceans, tidelands and beaches of Southern California, the marine life therein, and the impact of human population on that environment.
	Save the Bay Save the Bay is the largest regional organization working to protect, restore and celebrate San Francisco Bay. As the Bay’s leading champion since 1961, the group battles pollution and inappropriate shoreline development, making it cleaner and healthier for people and wildlife. With more than 25,000 supporters, Save the Bay focuses on restoring habitat and securing strong policies to re-establish 100,000 acres of wetlands that are essential for a healthy San Francisco Bay. Because the names are so similar, Heal the Bay and Save the Bay are often mistaken for one another. But they are two very distinct organizations with very different missions, and of course different geographic footprints. One of the ways in which our missions do overlap, though, is through Heal the Bay’s Beach Report Card. As the Beach Report Card has grown to cover Northern California beaches, we’ve worked with Save the Bay to help raise awareness of high bacteria levels at beaches throughout the state. Save the Bay is working towards the goal of 100,000 acres of restored wetlands, which scientists say are necessary to restore San Francisco Bay back to health. They also offer an award-winning education program that reaches thousands of local schoolchildren.
	Sea Grant California's spectacular and diverse coastal resources provide recreation and livelihoods for thousands of people each year. California Sea Grant sponsors marine research, extension services, and education activities to support the management, conservation, and enhancement of those resources for the benefit of current and future generations. We invite you to explore our website to learn more about California's coastal resources and our programs.
	SEA Lab Since 1997, the LA Conservation Corps has operated and managed the marine conservation and education programs at this hands-on science center located in the City of Redondo Beach. Each year, SEA Lab staff, corpsmembers and volunteers educate schoolchildren and visitors about marine life and the importance of protecting our oceans.
	Surfrider Foundation The Surfrider Foundation is dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of the world’s oceans, waves and beaches for all people, through conservation, activism, research and education. Surfrider is largely volunteer-run. With a local staff of fewer than 20 people, the San Clemente-based home office of Surfrider works with more than 60 volunteer-run chapters in the U.S. Supported by more than 50,000 members worldwide, Surfrider also has also affiliations in Australia, Japan, France and Brazil. We partner with Surfrider on all sorts of regulatory issues. Most recently, we worked on the MPA fight. Additionally, we are both working on ending the problem of plastics polluting our ocean. Some of Surfrider’s highest priorities are Not The Answer, which seeks to end the renewed effort to expand offshore oil drilling off our nation’s coasts, and Save Gaviota, which is working to preserve a currently undeveloped stretch of environmentally fragile coastline north of Santa Barbara.
	TreePeople To inspire, engage and support people to take personal responsibility for the urban environment, making it safe, healthy, fun and sustainable and to share the results as a model for the world. Operations Los Angeles-based TreePeople was started by teenagers in 1970 who planted smog-tolerant trees around summer camp sites in the San Bernardino Mountains. The group has evolved to plant and care for trees in urban areas, educate school children, and work on critical water issues facing Southern California. With a dedicated staff and a strong volunteer force, TreePeople has made a huge difference in the literal greening of Los Angeles. Because we both have such long histories in the Los Angeles area, and such iconic leaders, Mark Gold and Andy Lipkis, Heal the Bay and TreePeople have worked together on a myriad of issues throughout the years. Largely, our work together has focused on big picture environmental issues affecting the Los Angeles watershed, including bringing communities and community leaders together to improve the environments of millions of L.A. residents. TreePeople engages, trains and supports communities in underserved regions of Los Angeles County. They’ll also focus on fire restoration in the Santa Monica Mountains, San Bernardino National Forest and Angeles National Forest, all areas devastated by our seasonal wildfires.
	WiLDCOAST WiLDCOAST conserves coastal and marine ecosytems and wildlife. It is a unique and very effective organization that works internationally, and cross-culturally, to address water pollution in the southernmost part of California and across the border into the Baja California part of Mexico. With more than 15 staff people split between offices in Imperial Beach, and Ensenada and Acapulco, Mexico, WiLDCOAST is uniquely positioned to benefit both countries. They’ve been especially successful at protecting open space in Mexico, with over 1 million acres of coastal wetlands preserved. Heal the Bay and WiLDCOAST are tackling MPAs together, bringing expertise in the San Diego and L.A. regions to the table. WiLDCOAST and Heal the Bay have been partnering on Heal the Bay’s Beach Report Card in the San Diego region. Priorities for WiLDCOAST are to help permanently preserve coastal UNESCO World Heritage sites in Baja California and the Sea of Cortez, dramatically reduce beach closures along the U.S.-Mexico border and to stop the slaughter of sharks and sea turtles in the Eastern Pacific.