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Programs: Youth environmental education programs:save the harbor/save the bay runs the region's largest free, harbor-focused youth environmental education programs, connecting nearly 200,000 underserved youth, teens and families to boston harbor and the boston harbor islands since we began them in 2002. Our free programs include 25 all access boston harbor islands excursions to spectacle and georges islands in the boston harbor islands national park. In the spring and fall we run free marine mammal safaris and treasures of spectacle island excursions for the region's families. We also run our boston harbor explorers program at 12 program sites on boston harbor and at 22 free events on the region's public beaches. In 2017 these free programs served more than 30,000 young people and their families from 124 youth development and community groups from 43 communities.

clean water and environmental advocacy and public policy:save the harbor convenes and leads an independent beaches science advisory committee which produces an annual report card on water quality and beach flagging accuracy on the metropolitan region's public beaches that are managed by the department of conservation and recreation. It also advises us as we develop site specific plans to improve water quality on the region's public beaches. In partnership with this committee in 2017 we also produced a report on water quality issues at king's beach in lynn and swampscott. We also chair the outfall monitoring science advisory panel's public interest advisory committee and serve on the boston harbor dredging project technical working group and on the city of boston's municipal harbor plan advisory committee for both the downtown and the south boston waterfront.

better beaches program:we lead and manage the metropolitan beaches commission for the massachusetts legislature, which issues an annual report focusing attention on the state of the region's public beaches from nahant to nantasket. Our better beaches program strengthens boston's waterfront neighborhoods and the region's beachfront communities by hosting and sponsoring scores of free events and programs on the region's public beaches from nahant to nantasket including concerts, campfires, clambakes and family reading nights, sand sculpture competitions and healthy outdoor activities including swimming and kayaking. Funds for the 2017 better beaches program were raised entirely at save the harbor' annual harpoon shamrock splash. In 2017 we made more than $55,000 in small grants to 27 community organizations and beaches friends groups in lynn, nahant, revere, withnrop, east boston, south boston, dorchester, quincy and hull. They leveraged our small grants with additional cash and in-kind support to fund 93 free events and programs. Save the harbor has also built solid partnerships with boston's business community and the region's corporoations, with whom we work to host coproate service days and beach cleanups on the region's public beaches and the harbor islands.