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Of every dollar of expenses, approximately on Oceana’s programs. |
The remainder was spent on general and administrative costs (about raising funds (about 7 cents). |
Including cash received and commitments for additional contributions in future years, Oceana ended 2021 and beyond. |
Financial data was derived from audited financial statements, copies of which are available upon request, and are posted on the websites for the following Oceana entities: Oceana, Inc.; Fundacion Oceana; Oceana Belize; Oceana Brasil; Oceana Philippines; and Oceana Canada. |
Donations to the various Oceana entities may be tax deductible. |
8% 86% Oceana, Inc. Attn: Development Department 1025 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 200 Washington, DC 20036 [email protected] | 1.202.833.3900 54 Several of the largest donors provide multi-year funding, often on 2-3 year cycles. |
The changes in net assets above reflect that funding cycle. |
As the Chair of Oceana’s Board of Directors, Waterston brings to the organization a wealth of talent and resources in support of Oceana’s programming and mission. |
As an actor, his trophy case includes television awards such as the Emmy, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild and theater awards like the OBIE and Drama Desk. |
The Killing Fields and six Emmy Award nominations for his roles in I’ll Fly Away and Law & Order. |
Waterston grew up in New England, where he saw the effects of fisheries collapses on the life of seaside towns. |
María Eugenia Girón, Vice Chair Girón joined Oceana’s Board of Directors in officer of Carrera y Carrera, Spain’s top jewelry manufacturer and one of the world’s leading luxury brands. |
Girón is an active lecturer, teacher, and adviser at various universities and business schools. |
She brings to Oceana a vast knowledge of strategic planning, marketing, and public relations. |
The Nikita Foundation supports charitable initiatives in the areas of health, education, and environmental protection. |
© Oceana/Eduardo Sorensen Oceana campaigns for science-based fisheries management to help restore our oceans to abundance. |
Rebuilding plans are the single most significant way to allow overfished populations to recover, according to new research that reviewed the trajectories of hundreds of fish stocks. |
James Sandler, Secretary Sandler was a member of Oceana’s founding Board of Directors and is in charge of the Sandler Foundation’s environmental giving. |
Keith Addis, President Addis is the co-founder of Industry Entertainment, a leading management and production company. |
Prior to joining Oceana’s Board, Addis was the Chairman of the American Oceans Campaign (AOC). |
Under his leadership, AOC – founded by Addis’s longtime friend and client Ted Danson – achieved victories on key marine issues including bottom trawling and offshore oil drilling. |
Gaz Alazraki Alazraki is the writer and director of Mexico’s record-breaking comedy Nosotros los Nobles (and director of Club de Cuervos (2015) – Netflix’s first original series in Spanish. |
Bedolfe, the Executive Director of the Marisla Foundation, was one of Oceana’s founders and led the organization from 2002 until 2008. |
Under his leadership, Oceana’s efforts led to many victories for the oceans including the protection of over destructive bottom trawling, the commitment by the world’s second-largest cruise line to stop dumping inadequately treated sewage and wastewater into the ocean, and a decision by the European Union to shut down illegal driftnetters and thereby potentially save up to 25,000 juvenile bluefin tuna from being caught. |
Ted Danson To most, Danson is known for TV and movie acting roles, but for those in the conservation movement, he is much more famous for his work as a passionate ocean advocate and Oceana spokesman. |
Danson helped create the American Oceans Campaign in eventually became Oceana in 2001. |
In the last two decades, Danson’s stellar acting career has been complemented by his staunch ocean advocacy. |
He has appeared in public service announcements, appealed to donors, and testified before the government on the condition of our oceans. |
Nicholas Davis Nicholas Davis currently serves as the President of EuroAmerica, a Chilean insurance and financial services group. |
Davis is the founder of Fundación Punta de Lobos, a non-profit organization aiming to protect and preserve the Chilean coastline and its ecosystems. |
This organization seeks to educate, create awareness, and become a national example by implementing scalable models of conservation, focused on coastline public access, marine protected areas, and zoning tools and regulations. |
As an ESPY award winner and Gabeira is one of the most influential female surfers of all time. |
She is also passionately committed to, and a fierce advocate for, restoring the world’s ocean. |
César Gaviria Gaviria served as the President of Colombia from the Organization of American States from 1994 until 2004. |
During his four-year presidential term, Colombia drafted a new, more democratic constitution. |
Joining Oceana’s Board of Directors in Gouzer – most recently Chairman for the Post-War & Contemporary Art Department at Christie’s Auction House – uses his position in the art world to raise money and draw attention to ocean conservation. |
King founded the Jena and Michael King Foundation with her late husband in 1999. |
The foundation has supported the efforts of environmental and humanitarian nonprofits. |
As an advocate for the environment and human health, King is also a founding member of C.O.A.C.H. for Kids, an organization that provides medical assistance to underserved children. |
Sara Lowell Lowell is a long-time ocean philanthropist and board member of the Marisla Foundation. |
She is also the Foundation’s Marine Conservation Program Director and oversees efforts to create marine protected areas, advance sustainable fisheries, and protect coastal lands in California, Hawaii, Baja California, Chile, and the broader Pacific. |
Stephen P. McAllister McAllister is a successful developer. |
He became Executive Director of Greenpeace Australia in Executive Director and Campaign Director of Greenpeace International at its headquarters in Amsterdam. |
Dr. Kristian Parker Parker was born in Aalborg, Denmark and raised in Switzerland. |
He graduated from Colby College (Waterville, Maine) and received a Doctorate in Environmental Sciences from the Duke Marine Laboratory (Beaufort, North Carolina). |
Parker was a member of Oceana’s founding Board of Directors. |
He is a trustee of Oak Foundation, based in Switzerland, and oversees Oak’s environment program. |
Dr. Daniel Pauly Pauly is a world-renowned fisheries scientist. |
He currently serves as the Principal Investigator of the Sea Around Us Project at the University of British Columbia’s Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries. |
His global, multi-year analyses of marine ecosystems have allowed him to reach startling and important conclusions – most critical among them that fish populations are declining rapidly all over the world. |
David Rockefeller, Jr. David Rockefeller, Jr. is a lifelong sailor and conservationist and was a founder of Sailors for the Sea, now a component of Oceana. |
He served on the Pew Oceans Commission and was previously the Citizen Chair of the National Park Foundation. |
He and his wife Susan are active in overseeing an organic and biodynamic farm in upstate New York, and they like to use the phrase “Healthy Seas, Healthy Soils” to describe their collaborative work. |
Susan Rockefeller Susan Rockefeller is a documentary filmmaker whose award-winning films have appeared on HBO and PBS. |
Rockefeller also authored the groundbreaking guide Green At Work (Island Press) that helped usher environmentally-friendly jobs into nontraditional arenas. |
Simon Sidamon-Eristoff Sidamon-Eristoff leads the tax-exempt organizations group at Kalbian Hagerty LLP in Washington, DC. |
He has deep experience working with national and international nonprofit organizations, both as a board member and as a staff member. |
His nonprofit experience includes chairing the boards of both the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and American Friends of Georgia. |
Oceana has won victories that help protect loggerhead turtles from becoming bycatch in various fisheries. |
Dr. Rashid Sumaila Sumaila is a professor and Director of the Fisheries Economics Research Unit and the OceanCanada Partnership at the University of British Columbia. |
He specializes in bioeconomics, marine ecosystem valuation, and the analysis of global issues such as fisheries subsidies, illegal fishing, climate change, and oil spills. |
Valarie Van Cleave Van Cleave’s business career encompasses work in mergers and acquisitions, sales, marketing, and new business development. |
She has spearheaded successful fundraising efforts for political campaigns and conservation advocacy. |
She cofounded SeaChange, a record-breaking benefit for Oceana. |
Elizabeth Wahler Wahler is a long-time ocean advocate and philanthropist. |
Growing up on the California Coast, and having a father who pioneered carbon capture, she has a deep love and interest in protecting our oceans. |
Her business career is technology-centric, specializing in working on the tools of tomorrow and creating strategic solutions to simplify complex problems. |
She serves as an advisor to tech start-ups, is an angel investor, and is proficient in fundraising. |
She currently serves as event chair for Oceana’s highly successful SeaChange Summer Party. |
Jean Weiss Weiss is a philanthropist with a business background in training and development. |
She worked for The American Funds, a member of The Capital Groups Companies. |
Weiss’s connection to Oceana began the day the BP Oceana campaigns for measures that better regulate Chile’s salmon farming industry, which is notorious for its excessive use of antibiotics throughout the country. |
Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew up and destroyed the marine life, fishing industries, and way of life in her hometown on the Louisiana Gulf Coast. |
Antha Williams Williams leads the Environment program at Bloomberg Philanthropies. |
Under Williams’ direction, Bloomberg Philanthropies supports environmental initiatives to improve the sustainability of cities around the world, accelerate the transition to clean energy, and combat overfishing and protect coral reefs. |
To learn more about Oceana and see a full list of Oceana’s media advisory board, science advisors, staff, celebrity supporters, and more, visit oceana.org. |
A fishing vessel in pictured in Rio Grande do Norte, a state in northeastern Brazil. |
Oceana works with artisanal fishers across Brazil to achieve its policy goals. |
Artisanal lobster fishers who were previously opposed to fishing quotas ended up changing their position and supporting Oceana’s proposal for science-based catch limits. |
© Oceana/Alex Elis Local fishers weigh their catch of the day at the Dangriga Fish Market in Stann Creek, Belize. |
Oceana is the largest international advocacy organization dedicated solely to ocean conservation. |
Oceana is rebuilding abundant and biodiverse oceans by winning science-based policies in countries that control one-third of the world’s wild fish catch. |
With more than pollution, and the killing of threatened species like turtles and sharks, Oceana’s campaigns are delivering results. |
A restored ocean means that enjoy a healthy seafood meal, every day, forever. |
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Cover photo: Aerial view of people participating in a voluntary afforestation campaign at the edge of the Badain Jaran Desert in the Gansu Province of China, in 2021. 2 | World Resources Institute • Annual Report 2021 As we look back on the past year, one word repeatedly comes to mind: Resilience. |
We are in the midst of one of the most challenging times in recent history: a global pandemic, the invasion of Ukraine, natural and human-made disasters, and a constant flow of disinformation. |
In such a world, a global, independent, science-based organization that uses research and data to solve problems on the ground can make lives better. |
We bring people together to confront the world’s most urgent environmental and developmental challenges. |
Today, we are doing it at a larger scale, in many more places on earth. |
Despite these stressful times, our team continues to produce outcomes and deliver impact. |
Our staff worked behind the scenes to ensure that COP26 in Glasgow delivered in essential ways. |
In Africa, we are supporting a movement, led by AFR100 million hectares of degraded land. |