Summary of the grants made by the Board of Trustees in Spring 2024 and Fall 2024
• Back Country Medical Guides $5000 for training instructors in maritime safety courses serving 12 ports
• Barry University, Inc. $3000 for support of 2025 Climate Oceans Summit
• Bellingham Bay Community Boating Center $5000 for a fully electric Safety Boat
• Billion Oyster Project $5000 for dive training, theory & Practice
• Brigs Youth Sail Training $10,000 3–10-person life rafts
• Broad Reach Foundation for Youth Leaders $6000 Safety Training for crew and participants, Safety lines, and life jackets
• Call of the Sea $5000 for lifeboat maintenance, safety aloft, leadership training
• Cobscook Community Learning Center $5000 safety equipment for learning to sail classes
• Fins attached Marine Research and conservation $5000 for environment study of birds and fish
• Friends of Casco bay $5000 for Implementing new app for Water Reporter Program
• Hurricane Island Foundation $3200 2 underwater drone cameras
• Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association $2500 for safety equipment for technicians restoring habitat
• Sail Newport $2836 First Aid &CPR Training for staff
• Save the Bay $2000 Garmin AIS 800
• Sea Meadow Marine Foundation $5000 for 14’skiff & electric motor for aquaculture
• SEA Education Association Inc. $4500 Safety harness tethers
• Spaulding Boat Center $5000 youth summer sailing program – safety and scholarships
• The Gloucester Adventure Inc. $9000 NEW JIB FOR Gloucester dory schooner
• Vashon-Maury Nature center $5000 High school students to study, draw, and reconstruct beached whale
• Wooden Boats for Veterans Foundation $15000 equipment to adapt boats for wounded vets
The following is a brief summary of grants made by the Board of Trustees in Spring 2023 and Fall 2023
o Billion Oyster Project received $2500 for exposure suits.
o Brigs Youth Sail Training receives $3975 for fall restraint harnesses.
o Call of the Sea received $9945 for required WFA &WFR courses for staff.
o Center for Coastal Studies received $8448 for equipment to study juvenile Sharks.
o Centrum received $6000 for Scholarships to their water world program.
o Gulf of Maine Lobster foundation received $10,000 for kits built in the student drifter program.
o Hurricane island Foundation received $3200 to retro fit a dive boat.
o Maine Islands Trail received $5,000 to continue their work on the crusher project.
o Maine Coast Fisherman’s Assoc. received $5000 to add needed Safety Gear to their lending equipment library.
o Maine maritime Museum received $3350 for scholarships to their Green Teen program
o MarAlliance received $5000 to support safety at sea training.
o Marine Mammals of Maine received $3000 for signage about the mammal Hotline reporting system.
o National Audubon Society’ seabird Institute received $3000 for safety equipment.
o Nooksack salmon Enhancement assoc. received $5000 for Electric brush cutters to improve salmon habitat.
o Ocean Research Project received $5000 for Multibeam Transducers
o Puget sound Restoration Fund received $5000 for lapsed time gear to study underwater flora kelp growth.
o US Sailing Assoc. Inc. received $6000 for Safety at Sea efforts.
o Vashon-Maury Island Nature center received $5000 for kelp studies.
o Wooden Boats for Veterans received $2500 for adaptive sailing Technology.
Grants from Spring 2022 and Fall 2022
• Bellingham Bay Community Boating received $5000 to purchase a safety boat
• Billion Oyster Project received $5000 for safety equipment
• Brigs Youth Sail Training received $3000 for personal safety Equipment upgrades
• Cape Cod maritime Museum received $5000 for Young Mariner Scholarships
• Coral Reef Alliance received $5000 for collecting and analyzing data on the health of coral reefs in Hawaii and Florida
• Friends of casco Bay received $7500 to develop and distribute Healthy Bay information from a pump out boat
• Gulf of Maine Research Institute received $4000 for the purchase of personal safety equipment
• Loggerhead Marinelife Center received $10000 to increase efforts to reduce harm to turtles by speeding boats
• Maine Island Trail Association received $10000 for the construction of an innovative trap crusher
• Rocking The Boat received $10000 to replace their volunteer-built dock on the East River
• Sail Newport received $3000 to upgrade Safety equipment including ADE and floating VHFs for instructor boats
• Sound Experience received $8500 for scholarships benefiting marginalized, underserved youth
• Sustainable Marblehead received $2269 to purchase a WaterMonster, a portable means to refill water bottles
• Wooden Boats for Veterans received $4900 for sail training support for veterans returning to life in the USA