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Global Ocean Health

Protecting Seafood at the Source

Seattle, WA   |  https://globaloceanhealth.org/

Mission

Focused on the impacts of climate change on the ocean, Global Ocean Health's mission is to protect seafood supplies, coastal communities and marine ecosystems from ocean acidification, warming, unraveling foodwebs, and related problems by enabling those who depend on healthy marine resources to tackle the underlying pollution and its consequences.

Notes from the nonprofit

National Fisheries Conservation Center is an agile and innovative non-profit, focused on assisting fishermen, tribes, coastal communities, governments and others who rely on abundant oceans. We define and identify solutions for emerging problems, and help waterfront leaders become their own champions. By functioning as a lean and adaptive organization we keep our overhead costs low, ensuring that funds go directly where they're needed most: protecting seafood at the source, and ensuring the health of the ocean that feeds us all. Known for our collaborative problem-solving and deep relationships with the seafood industry, tribes, and coastal communities, NFCC recently celebrated its 25 year anniversary.

Ruling year info

1997

Director, Global Ocean Health

Mr. Brad Warren

Main address

PO Box 30615

Seattle, WA 98113 USA

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Formerly known as

National Fisheries Conservation Center

EIN

91-1686596

NTEE code info

Natural Resource Conservation and Protection (C30)

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Programs and results

What we aim to solve

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Global Ocean Health works to protect healthy oceans and fisheries through collaborative problem-solving. Climate change, particularly the effects of carbon pollution, are causing many negative consequences to our oceans, including acidification, warming, harmful algal blooms, lack of oxygen in the water, and species shift. GOH focuses on adaptation and remediation of these changing ocean conditions.

Our programs

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?

Coastal Planning for a Changing Sea

This conservation project will educate decision makers to catalyze planning for sea level rise (SLR) and ocean acidification (OA), including the transition from farmlands to salt marsh. Phase I seeks to measurably advance self-organized community planning initiatives to enhance resilience on our changing coast by: 1) highlighting and removing “blind spots” (data gaps) that prevent effective planning for these climate-related changes, 2) providing visual products for decision-support, 3) sharing this work with our community-based collaborators who are engaged in key planning processes, and 4) aligning this effort with national initiatives to anticipate and plan for SLR (e.g. the Risky Business Project, TNC's Coastal Resilience project, and others). This project has been focused in Washington state so far.

Population(s) Served
Adults

Building Tribal Leadership in Carbon Removal prepares Tribes to evaluate, develop, and govern a future in climate tech that works for them — and thus for all. We are engaging Tribes nationwide, with three goals:

• Support Tribes in building leadership in both practice and governance of carbon removal;
• Accelerate growth of federal funding for carbon removal, especially in the ocean, and advancing Tribally led governance, R&D and implementation efforts;
• Develop sound legal frameworks, institutions, and guidance for this new field so that it can be built to last: just, inclusive, accountable, welcomed by those who live with it, and sustainable.

This work consists of a variety of working groups and is currently incubating a Tribally-led national consortium.

Population(s) Served
Adults
Low-income people
Indigenous peoples

Where we work

Our results

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.

Number of individuals in the target audience that expresses intent to adopt (or continue) desired behavior

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Population(s) Served

Work status and occupations

Related Program

Building Tribal Leadership in Carbon Removal

Type of Metric

Context - describing the issue we work on

Direction of Success

Holding steady

Goals & Strategy

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.

Charting impact

Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.

To help stakeholders and coastal communities fight, adapt to, and mitigate the effects of ocean acidifiation, sea level rise, and ocean warming.

The most compelling narratives come from those on the front lines. We give them the tools they need to tell their stories to policy and decision-makers, with a solid grouding of the science behind it.

We have all worked in the marine field for decades (collectively, over 100 years). We have established relationships with fishermen and seafood companies and associations who will not speak to other organizations they consider to be "environmental." We've earned their respect and carry a lot of credibility with this key audience.

We've made incredible progress. Please see the Accomplishments section at globaloceanhealth.org to learn more.

How we listen

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.

done We shared information about our current feedback practices.

  • How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?

    To inform the development of new programs/projects, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve

  • Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?

  • What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?

    It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback

Financials

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Operations

The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.

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Global Ocean Health

Board of directors
as of 09/03/2023
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
Board chair

Kevin Scribner

Brad Warren

Sustainable Fisheries Partnership

Jessica Hathaway

Ocean Strategies Inc.

Eric Scollard

Carbon Robotics

Daniel Grosse

TerrAqua Environmental Science and Policy, LLC

Alyson Myers

Evan Buntrock

Fraser Rieche

Daryl Williams

Tulalip Tribes

Brenna Davis

The Organically Grown Company

Wil Burns

Northwestern University/American University

Board leadership practices

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

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  • Board orientation and education
    Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? No
  • CEO oversight
    Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? No
  • Ethics and transparency
    Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? No
  • Board composition
    Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes
  • Board performance
    Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No

Organizational demographics

SOURCE: Self-reported; last updated 5/14/2021
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Leadership

The organization's leader identifies as:

Race & ethnicity
Decline to state
Gender identity
Male, Not transgender (cisgender)
Disability status
Person without a disability

Race & ethnicity

Gender identity

 

Sexual orientation

No data

Disability