The Carolina Ocean Alliance believes in the power of partnerships led by local people and guided by local and traditional knowledge to promote equitable, reciprocal, and sustainable community-driven solutions. We are committed to using our network-of-networks model to collaborate with local and regional partners as we work to solve the challenges facing our community and communities like ours around the world. To achieve this, our approach is based on community ecology where each individual and organization has a role to play and collaboration is necessary to promote a resilient and regenerative community.

By supporting Carolina Ocean Alliance, you will help promote greater collaboration and community-driven solutions as we work to develop the next generation of local leaders, cultivate ideas, inspire hope, and accelerate solutions to protect, preserve, and restore the coastal ecosystems of South Carolina. With your help, we'll be able to:

• Advance our initiatives in education, local stewardship, ecosystem restoration, and environmental justice through the process of healing natural communities to heal human communities
• Enhance our ability to host The Hope Summit annually tohighlight the challenges facing our community and celebrate the community-driven solutions possible through the dozens of nonprofits, community organizations, schools, and local agencies working to create agency and hope in coastal South Carolina.
• Support our Community Grants initiative that seeks to invest $5000 annually into small community solutions-based projects that create agency and produce regenerative impacts through education, ecosystem function, cultural connection to natural spaces, and other systemic interventions. 
• Enable us to fulfill our niche within our community's ecology as connectors who work with local partners to enhance their existing work to identify gaps in capacity or bandwidth that can be overcome through targetted partnerships by organizations with similar goals or programming, or through strategic fiscal partnerships through external grants, fiscal sponsorships, or other means of enhancing the scale of impacts on our community.

Thank you for helping us heal our world, one local solution at a time.