Executive Director's Message: 2008 Year in Review

As the year concludes, we are grateful for what we have been able to accomplish with your help, and only with your continued support will we be able to persist advocating our message of ocean stewardship.

Since our humble beginnings in 1984, we have grown to 3 staff members, a board of 12, close to 200 members, over 700 active volunteers and over 5,000 people interested in hearing about us. It has been an exciting time in our history and we are grateful to you, for without you, we could not have accomplished so much good in our community.

This year, as members, volunteers and sponsors, you have enabled us to:

- Reach over 1300 San Diego school children through our Ocean in Motion: Marine Science Education Program
- Including bringing close to 200 onto Floating Marine Labs
- Stencil over 300 Storm Drains across San Diego neighborhoods
- Raise and release over 100,000 White Seabass to date
- Remove close to 500lbs of trash from San Diego Bay
- Present monthly SeaSeries Seminars to over 200 people
- Conduct hundreds of REEF monitoring surveys
- Protect San Diego Canyons, with over 200 Canyon Watch hikes

Only with your continued support can we grow our programs and reach more underserved children, increase our marine life restocking and monitoring impact, as well as to continue preventing sewage spills and runoff pollution. By becoming a member, you not only gain your year-end, tax-deductible contribution, you also grow our SDOF family, as an additional ocean steward. Click here to join or give a gift of membership to someone

We wish to thank you, each of you who have selflessly given of yourself, your finances, your services or your things, each contribution helps us to continue to grow and help our marine environment.

Happy Holidays!

John Valencia
SDOF Executive Director

Radio Sophie @ 103.7's Green Christmas Concert on Dec 11

SDOF has been chosen to receive the proceeds from Sophie's Green Christmas at the Dec 11 Alanis Morissette concert with SeaWorld matching contributions raised from the event.

SDOF would like to thank all of organizations that are involved:

SeaWorld
Port of San Diego
Sempra
SDGE
Dive Heart
Casa Del Mar Cozumel
Scuba Travel Ventures
Roddenberry Dive Club
On Assignment Studios
UGG Australia
Adopt a Christmas Tree
Hornblower
Adame Organization
Maritime Museum
Midway Museum
Sun Valley Golf Club
A Joyous Moment
Kyxy
Sophie@103.7


Help SDOF - Get Your Year-End Donations In Before Dec 31

SDOF relies on membership donations to continue to promote ocean stewardship. Renewing or purchasing a new membership can be done easily with 3 ways:

Mail a Check to:
P.O. Box 90672
San Diego, CA 92169

Call us at (619) 523-1903 to place a credit card order

Or pay by credit card online at sdoceans.org

SDOF Featured on "Community Connections" Radio Program

Listen to any of the 7 Clear Channel radio stations during December and you may hear the "Community Connections" segment highlighting the San Diego Oceans Foundation.

John Valencia (SDOF Executive Director), Heidi van Lydegraf (SDOF Marketing and Development Director, Paul Dayton (SDOF Roger Revelle Award 2008 Recipient) and Delana Bennett (Jeff and Jer Showgram) discuss the current ocean issues and how the San Diego Oceans Foundation is actively promoting ocean stewardship.

Listen to Star 94.1, KGB 105.5, Channel 93.3, Rock 105.3, AM 600 KOGO, and New Country 95.7 to catch the 30 minute segment!