Blue Convergence Fund

🦑 Join us on Mon, Mar 16 for an evening of poetry with our own @emilyknight.bsky.social. Register here: zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🦑 Thank you to all who filled out our Request for Information to inform our Ocean Biodiversity program! Next up - we'll be releasing a Request for Proposals on Monday, Mar 2 and Informational Webinar all about it on Wednesday, Mar 4 at 2pm ET/1pm CT/11am PT.

📅 Register: lnkd.in/eH4gxYDC

🦑 Our Feb newsletter is out! Dive into our Ocean Biodiversity program as we prepare to release a Request for Proposals (RFP) on Mon, Mar 2. And as a bonus.. a virtual poetry reading! mailchi.mp/blueconverge...

Our February newsletter from @blue-convergence.bsky.social is out - join us for Ocean Biodiversity (forthcoming RFP!) and a little poetry! mailchi.mp/blueconverge...

🦑 Our latest newsletter is out! Dive into our Ocean Biodiversity program - which has a forthcoming Request for Proposals: mailchi.mp/blueconverge...

🦑 A reminder that our Ocean Biodiversity Request for Information is still open through Feb 15. As we develop a Request for Proposals - we will hold an informational webinar about it on Wed, March 4.

✍ RFI: forms.office.com/Pages/Design...
📅 Webinar registration: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🦑 Join us on Monday, March 16, 8pm ET/5pm PT for another virtual poetry reading featuring contributors The Nature of Our Times - hosted by our own @emilyknight.bsky.social

Register: zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🦑 We've had two virtual listening sessions for Chesapeake Bay and Mobile Bay - today we have our final for Puget Sound. Even if you can't make it or are not in any of those regions, you can still provide input on ocean biodiversity - respond to our RFI: forms.office.com/Pages/Design...

🦑 Today we'll have our first listening session for the Chesapeake Bay region. But we also currently have out a written Request for Information - if you are unable (or even if you're able) to attend any listening session you can still share with us your perspective!
forms.office.com/Pages/Design...

🦑 Our first virtual listening session for Ocean Biodiversity is tomorrow for the Chesapeake Bay region and it's looking like we'll get a great turnout.

📅 Chesapeake Bay: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
📅 Mobile Bay:
zoom.us/meeting/regi...
📅 Puget Sound: zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🦑 OPEN – OCEAN BIODIVERSITY REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

JAN 15 – FEB 15

To inform future funding, we want to understand people's experiences of ocean biodiversity - what it is, what it provides, and how (and whether) it shows up in community sustainability:
forms.office.com/Pages/Design...

🦑 The best way to keep up with Blue Convergence Fund in 2026? Sign up for our newsletter: blueconvergence.org/newsletter-s...

🦑 On the value of community engagement - ideas emerge that never would have otherwise.
Webinar 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Wk...
Webinar 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjJo...

🦑 From Managing Protected Areas in a Changing Ocean - Richard Dacosta on the importance of community exchanges. When people can learn from each other, our challenges seem more solvable and less daunting.

Webinar 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Wk...
Webinar 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjJo...

🦑 Special edition newsletter announcing virtual public listening sessions for our Ocean Biodiversity program in Chesapeake Bay, Mobile Bay, and Puget Sound. Join us to share local needs around better stewarding ocean biodiversity for people and nature.
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🦑 And that's a wrap on the Managing Protected Areas in a Changing Ocean webinar series. We've learned so much and will continue sharing insights like this from Juliano Palacios Abrantes.

Nov 7 recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Wk...
Dec 11 recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjJo...

🦑 STARTING SOON (3pm PT/6pm ET/11pm GMT): Our final webinar on Managing Protected Areas in a Changing Ocean. We have learned so much from these experts about how much can be done (it's a lot). Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🦑 "It's not just what you do, it's how you do it." - Jake Kritzer, NERACOOS

You can do the right research, but it still won't inform management, and this quote captures why. Research and community engagement must be integrated on a common platform of mutual respect throughout.

🦑 TODAY: Final webinar on Managing Protected Areas in a Changing Ocean. At our first (Nov 7), experts like Sarah Lester provided her vision for what is needed next.
Register for today: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Recording (Nov 7): www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Wk...

🦑 Expert Laurel Field on creating hotspots of refuge as well as acute impacts, enabling managers to act now to target protections and areas of sustainable use. Final webinar on Managing Protected Areas in a Changing Ocean tomorrow (Thurs) at 3pm PT/6pm ET/11pm GMT. Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🦑 Get to know our Grants and Operations Manager, Mohammed Alhammami in our latest newsletter. He makes us function and has a fascinating background in Arab Studies, International Development, and Public Policy.
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🦑So many insights from Managing Protected Areas in a Changing Ocean... it can be done, and these researchers are showing us how. We'll host a final webinar tomorrow at 3pm PT/6pm ET/11pm GMT.

📅 Register for Dec 11: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🎦 Recording from Nov 7: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Wk...

🦑 Meet the people behind our organization - get to know our Grants and Operations Manager, Mohammed Alhammami in our latest newsletter. mailchi.mp/blueconverge...

THURS: Final webinar on our Managing Protected Areas in a Changing Ocean. We're now featuring insights from experts like Fresia Villalobos Rojas who is working among communities to link actionable research with management in the Eastern Tropical Pacific.
Register for Thurs: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🦑 TOMORROW! Join @jasonlandrum.bsky.social and @emilyknight.bsky.social for the launch of our Ocean Biodiversity program. Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🦑 We created an event page for our upcoming Launching Ocean Biodiversity webinar. Check it out and register: www.linkedin.com/events/73947...

🦑 On Dec 3 at 3pm ET/12pm PT come learn our new Ocean Biodiversity portfolio. This is an invitation to the start of a conversation - with communities - about how ocean biodiversity shows up in your life. Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🦑 The webinar recording for Part 1 of Managing Protected Areas in a Changing Ocean is now available! Watch the recording on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Wk...

Join us for Part 2 on Thurs, December. Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🦑 Thank you to all who joined us on Friday for the first of our two-part webinar series on Managing Protected Areas in a Changing Ocean. We will post the recording very soon! In the meantime, join us for second webinar on Thursday, Dec 11. Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Reminder - join us for Part 1 tomorrow at 11am ET for a webinar on all we've learned from the Lenfest Ocean Program's support of a portfolio of projects on Managing Protected Areas in a Changing Ocean: zoom.us/webinar/regi...