Mission: Save The Bay works to protect and restore Narragansett Bay and its watershed. We have 20,000 members and supporters and over 900 volunteers who make our work possible. Save The Bay watchdogs government agencies, responds to pollution incidents, raises public awareness, offers extensive volunteer and internship opportunities, and provides educational programs to the region’s schoolchildren and the general public. Save The Bay offers exciting programs to give the public direct experience with the Bay because we know that when people understand the Bay, they care about the Bay. We host cruises, seal watching trips, kayaking events, an annual swim across the Bay, and much more.
Save The Bay has made an invaluable contribution to promoting the need to clean up one of the country's outstanding estuaries. I have volunteered on eelgrass restoration, beach clean up, and other activities, and have enjoyed many excursions on the bay with STB. The people at STB are always enthusiastic and knowledgable about bay-related issues. They have done an excellent job of engaging the public, educating children and adults, and in encouraging legislation that is vital to the bay. Without STBs many protection activities over the past 40-years, Narragansett Bay would not be the healthy ecosystem that it is today.
As one of Rhode Island's largest and foremost environmental organizations, Save The Bay and its work involving Narragansett Bay has succeeded in fostering a sense of community and stewardship around New England's largest estuary -- at least for this volunteer. I am highly impressed with the work that STB has done in protecting and restoring Rhode Island's largest natural resource. It receives a great deal of community support and involves people of all ages and backgrounds with its robust volunteer/internship program, education programs, public events, and corporate opportunities. Since its founding, STB has made great headway in its restoration and conservation efforts to ensure Narragansett Bay and its natural beauty will be here for posterity.
