MISSION

The Ocean Foundation (TOF) is a unique community foundation with a mission to support, strengthen, and promote those organizations dedicated to reversing the trend of destruction of ocean environments around the world. Our slogan is "Tell Us What You Want To Do For The Ocean, We Will Take Care Of The Rest." We work with a community of donors who care about the coasts and oceans. In this manner, we grow the financial resources available to support marine conservation in order to promote healthy ocean ecosystems and benefit the human communities that depend on them.

NEWS

Global Conference on Oceans, Climate and Security 2012 - Boston, Mass.

The Global Conference on Oceans, Climate and Security (GC '12) -- May 21-23, 2012 in Boston -- will examine the conditions that are likely to be produced by climate change, how these conditions will affect coastal and ocean ecosystems and communities, and how they may affect human and national security interests. GC '12 will focus on three specific themes examining the overall problem from different perspectives with a unified goal of understanding how to mitigate the effects that we can control and adapt to those that we cannot. Ocean Foundation President Mark J. Spalding, a member of the Advisory Board of the Collaborative Institute for Oceans, Climate, and Security, will serve as a panelist during several sessions at GC '12.

FEATURED PROJECT

The Watersheds Project

The Watersheds Project provides visual geospatial and temporal literacy to help the world discuss the nature of global issues and apply their focus on local action to help combat negative global trends or magnify positive global trends from the perspective of their community. The project enables communities to participate in a computer-mediated social process we design on behalf of their local watershed. The project helps communities participate in community health through a water quality focus by servicing its visual geospatial literacy needs to a customized interface, built upon a shared on-line interface, to allow a community to promote and participate in personal action for watershed quality.

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