The Manta Caribbean Project is developing specific conservation strategies that ensure the long-term safeguarding of mobulid rays by studying several aspects of the species' ecology and biology, in collaboration with various stakeholders such as lobster fishermen, MPA rangers, and MPA managers. With this funding, the project will provide practical training workshops to fishing cooperatives to reduce the risk of mobulid entanglements in small-scale fisheries gear within Marine Protected Areas, identify the most commonly used fishing gear and which causes the most harm, and lead educational workshops to increase community knowledge about the species.

Training 10 students over the course of 5 months on ocean conservation in Colombia, as well as local cleanups around Baranquilla.

Through this project, the University of Southern Mississippi Hub will conduct monthly cleanups during the academic year at polluted locations at or near bodies of water in the Hattiesburg and Mississippi Gulf Coast areas. The focus is on areas that drain into major rivers in the area. Collected waste will be tracked and reported to local interest groups.

Ocean Wide Web (OWW) is one of Ocean Hub Portugal's programs that is essentially an Ocean Literacy educational online platform. With SOA support, they have started their first online courses: Caravela and Bússola. Caravela's goal is to raise awareness of the challenges facing the ocean and share an overview of the current global situation as well as possibilities for action in the area, with the aim of inspiring and training young leaders to align their course with the ocean sustainability.

Mymizu (“mizu” is water in Japanese) provides a free water refill platform that connects people to 200,000+ locations globally where they can refill their water bottle, instead of buying bottled water. A large part of their mission is education on the oceans & the plastic problem; they carry out workshops and awareness-raising activities at schools, universities & events (70+ times in the past 7 months to 5000+ people), as well as create digital content (e.g. infographics/videos) to engage people on social channels.

La Academia is an online course developed and managed by Sustainable Ocean Alliance through the SOA Hubs in Peru and Ecuador, in coordination with Hispanoamerica Hub network in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico, Chile, and Colombia. It educates Spanish-speaking young people interested in ocean conservation through seminars conducted by experts, multimedia educational content, and weekly assignments.

This software MVP seeks to provide real-time reporting of catch and bycatch using cloud-based AI to review videos from fishing vessels to enhance electronic monitoring and thereby improve the policy and action the data inform.

CarbonEthics is a startup, non-profit organization that aims to educate individuals and institutions about how to reduce and offset their carbon footprints. Blue Carbon Ecosystem is a project to directly sequester carbon through the conservation and restoration of coastal habitats (mangroves, seagrass, and coral) while also enhancing the livelihood of local communities. Through this grant, stakeholder mappings are being conducted, carbon stock potential is being assessed, and the organization is gaining formal government accreditation. Income generated from offsets as a result of this project goes directly to blue carbon-farmers.

Bocas de Ceniza is the point where the Magdalena River flows into the Caribbean Sea. In this wonderful place, three ecosystems can be appreciated from the same position: beach, river and mangrove. During the last 10 years this region has been seriously affected by pollution and toxic waste thrown into the river by industries. This group developed an educational series, implemented a clean up, and introduced a citizen-science process, encouraging participatns to identify and document usable material and the process in a toolkit. The project will directly benefit the population of Bocas de Cenizas by reducing riverine and marine pollution and through education.