Coastal America Partnership

Matching Collaborative Tools to Coastal Challenges

The Coastal America Partnership is an action-oriented, results-driven collaboration process dedicated to restoring and preserving coastal ecosystems and addressing critical environmental issues.

Our Partnership brings together people and resources from federal agencies, state and local governments, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector to collaboratively address our nation's coastal environmental challenges.

With a goal of better management of coastal resources, the partnership coordinates the statutory responsibilities and combines the resources and expertise of 16 federal agencies, 23 Coastal Ecosystem Learning Centers, and hundreds of corporate partners.

As a result, the Coastal America Partnership maximizes the environmental and economic benefits—and minimizes the costs—of addressing complex watershed, coastal, and marine problems.

Presidential Memorandum for the

Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies

"Government should be collaborative. Collaboration actively engages Americans in the work of their Government. Executive departments and agencies should use innovative tools, methods, and systems to cooperate among themselves, across all levels of Government, and with nonprofit organizations, businesses, and individuals in the private sector. Executive departments and agencies should solicit public feedback to assess and improve their level of collaboration and to identify new opportunities for cooperation."

President Barack Obama
January 21, 2009

Happy 10th Anniversary CWRP!

Nancy Sutley, CEQ Chair, participates in a Coastal America Meeting

The Corporate Wetlands Restoration Partnership (CWRP) will be celebrating its 10th Anniversary on June 24, 2010 in Washington, DC. The CWRP facilitates partnership between the federal agencies and corporate and non-governmental organizations. More than 300 corporate partners have contributed time, materials and money to facilitate restoration and protection projects over the last decade. Click here to see a Letter of Support for the CWRP from Nancy Sutley, Chair, White House Council on Environmental Quality, to Pat Hester, Chair of the CWRP.

2010 Coastal America Annual Meeting
June 22-25, Washington, DC

The 2010 Coastal America Annual Meeting was held at the Hall of States on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC from June 22‐25, 2010. The national meeting brought together representatives of the federal and state agencies, national corporations and NGOs to discuss ways the Coastal America Partnership can use its unique resources and capabilities to advance the Administration’s new National Ocean Policy and federal/state partnerships for regional action. Participants also explored ways to strengthen public‐private partnerships through the Corporate Wetlands Restoration Partnership and engage the public through the Coastal Ecosystem Learning Center Network.

2010 Coastal America Annual Meeting Agenda (119 kB)
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Coastal America 2010 Annual Meeting Minutes (364.14 kB)

Coastal Zone 2011 Conference

The Coastal Zone 2011 Conference (CZ11), July 17-21, 2011, in Chicago, Illinois. The Coastal Zone Conferences are biennial international symposiums on coastal, ocean, and Great Lakes issues that have been held since 1978. This will be the first time the conference has been held in Illinois and only the second time that it has been held on the Great Lakes.

Visit the Coastal Zone 2011 Conference website for more information.

http://www.doi.gov/initiatives/CZ11/index.htm

CZ '11 Conference Background (94.5 kB)
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CZ '11 Color Schedule at a Glance (28.26 kB)
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CZ '11 Call for Abstracts (1.66 MB)
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CZ '11 Partner Update (98 kB)

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