Dispatch Goods is a women-founded reverse logistics company building the infrastructure for circular packaging. We enable restaurants, grocery stores, and direct-to-consumer brands to offer their customers food in reusable packaging, again and again.

This project in collaboration with the YPAC Southeast Asia Deep-Sea Mining Coalition worked to raise awareness about Deep Sea Mining among high-level government officials in Indonesia. They developed a policy brief containing deep-sea mining key action plans and launched the brief through webinars and a campaign.

Blue School Bali is an informal educational program in Amed, Bali. The free of charge school provides lessons on environmental and ocean awareness to local children ages 7 to 15. They aim to educate 20 students over the term of the grant through classroom education and reef snorkeling excursions.

This project, led by the NGO Roots of the Sea, engages Martiniquan and Caribbean youth in the celebration of Mangrove Week by creating a mangrove tree nursery (planting 50-75 mangroves) and doing a mangrove cleanup event. They also aim to establish a mangrove network with other organizations across the Caribbean.

Divers Clean Action Network (DCA) created a learning platform for youth leaders by holding campaigns and webinars with the topic "Let's Talk About Deep Seabed Mining in Indonesia" (Bahasa Indonesia: Yuk, Ngobrolin Deep Seabed Mining di Indonesia) that will be incorporated into their monthly SOA Indonesia webinar. They invite academicians, experts, public figures, and activists to gain comprehensive knowledge about DSM. They first hosted a webinar with Indonesian panelists, and then one with international -level panelists , as well as a social media campaign that will be held along the way.

Kampo Mariknows will educate maritime students and professionals about marine conservation, maritime security, maritime law and encourage and guide them on the current and most pressing issues about environmental impacts of shipping, environmental impacts of ports, and marine pollution so that they will enrich their knowledge and skills through this camp to preserve and protect our ocean, maritime domain, the marine environment while onboard, in port and to ensure the sustainable development and future operation of our Ocean and the Maritime Industry.

This project aims to educate the average New York City resident about the ocean and marine ecosystems that the city interacts with and depends on. To enact these ocean literacy initiatives, the new SOA NYC Hub will use these funds to make an interactive website, create pop-up exhibitions, do classroom demonstrations and in-person cleanups of the critical waterways surrounding NYC.

France has the second most maritime territory in the world, including all 5 oceans, and the French government plans to allow deep sea mining. This project spreads awareness about this little known topic in all French speaking territories through social media campaigns, scientific literature reviews as well as articles and interviews in French media, with the goal of addressing the issue politically.

This will be a continuation of the same data journalism training that Gideon and SOA Ghana conducted last year, which successfully trained 15 journalists that published articles spotlighting illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing activities as well as marine pollution and its dangers to the ocean and society. This year he will do the same; conducting a training built around expert mentorship from 4 expert journalists. The ultimate objective is to influence ocean-related policy decisions by elevating ocean discussions to the top of the national agenda. The project will also deploy a digital campaign involving 10 short videos and 20 infographics to promote the articles and to educate residents across West Africa on the dangers of marine pollution, and improve practices of waste management. The digital campaign is expected to reach 100,000 people online.