The Center's Unique Role and Accomplishments -
Ten Years of Achievements
One of the Center's primary goals is to enhance the region's capacity to provide better environmental protection through creative collaboration. Commitment to this goal is evidenced by the Center's major role in assisting three other coastal environmental non-profit organizations in being formed: Altamaha Riverkeeper and McIntosh SEED in 1999, and Satilla Riverkeeper in 2003.
In all of three cases, Center staff not only served on the founding boards, but sponsored and secured a total of $150,000 in start-up grants used in launching these new groups, and assisted by preparing bylaws and providing other administrative duties.
Further examples of the Center's dedication to collaboration are the contribution of innovative state policy proposals to the Legislative Briefing Books produced by Georgia Conservation Voters and assistance provided annually to Clean Coast in presenting its Coastal Issues Seminar.
Another unique service of the Center is hosting a series of annual lectures on a wide range of coastal issues as part of the organization's annual meeting, which is open to the public. In recent years, storm hazards, climate change, and oxygen depletion in coastal waters have been discussed by experts sponsored by the Center at these events.
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