Ocean Conservancy

Ocean Conservancy (OC) works to protect the ocean from today’s greatest global challenges. It creates evidence-based solutions for a healthy ocean and the wildlife and communities that depend on it as it pursues its vision of a healthier ocean protected by a more just world. From 2000-2024, OC used Foundation support to offer mindfulness training to its staff and established a Climate Grief Affinity Group, recognizing the significant mental and emotional effort required from staff to carry out their work. This group allows staff to share challenges and cultivate active hope for OC’s work and its collective future. With its current grant, OC seeks to apply mindfulness/inner development to its restorative justice work to advance zero-waste solutions focused on systems-level change.