Event Sponsorship
As one of San Diego County’s oldest and largest non-profit environmental education organizations, I Love A Clean San Diego (ILACSD) promotes awareness of environmental issues including resource conservation, waste reduction, recycling, community enhancement, and pollution prevention. A diversified organization operating throughout San Diego County, ILACSD offers a broad range of expertise in public education and outreach, event coordination, and community relations.
8th Annual Creek to Bay Event Sponsorship
Event Date: April 24th, 2010 from 9 AM to Noon
Why Support the Environment?
Environmental work is more important now than ever, as evidenced by society’s growing interest in, and reliance upon, our natural resources and open spaces including California’s rivers, bays, and coastlines. The health of our ocean and waterways directly impacts the success of California’s business interests, and ultimately the economy.
What is the Creek to Bay Cleanup?
- A countywide event with over 60 cleanup locations, each staffed by trained volunteer site captains
- Engages community members in removing debris from San Diego’s beaches, waterways, canyons, and parks
- 50% of the cleanup sites are coastal
- 50% of the cleanup sites are inland - emphasizing the fact that almost 80% of marine debris originates inland
All of these areas are integral parts of San Diego’s eleven watersheds, and every piece of litter is a potential piece of marine debris. Inland volunteers help to illustrate one of the event’s key messages:
We are connected to the coast and oceans by our rivers, streams, and storm drains. The solution to ocean pollution is litter prevention and protection of all areas throughout the watershed.
Last year, at the Creek to Bay Cleanup, 4,565 dedicated volunteers cleaned 152.25 miles of shoreline and inland areas at over 60 sites, removing a total of 173,497 pounds of debris. The event continues to grow in popularity each year, as the environmental message spreads throughout San Diego County.
Why Support the Creek to Bay Cleanup?
ILACSD plans to:
- Conduct an extensive amount of media coverage for the event through television, print, radio, and Internet outlets
- Market the event through its annual base of 20,000 volunteers
- Distribute ILACSD newsletters that reach over 6,000 County residents
- Promote the event on the ILACSD website which is accessed by countless environmental enthusiasts, businesses, schools, and families throughout the world
Your organization can be part of this unique marketing opportunity to show your support of community enhancement and the environment in San Diego County. Please take a few moments to review the sponsorship levels and benefits.
Visit the Creek to Bay website to learn more about this worthy event!
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26th Annual California Coastal Cleanup Day
Next Event Date: September 25, 2010 from 9 AM to Noon
What is California Coastal Cleanup Day?
California Coastal Cleanup Day (CCD) is the country’s largest volunteer event in support of the marine environment.
The mission of CCD is to:
- engage people to remove trash and debris from the world’s beaches and waterways
- identify the sources of debris
- ultimately change the behaviors that cause pollution
CCD is a partnership between the community and local non profit groups and municipalities that coordinate cleanups at the city and county levels. CCD is a major part of an International Coastal Cleanup, which includes all 50 states and over 100 countries worldwide.
In addition to being the world’s largest single-day volunteer event for the marine environment, CCD is unique because of its data collection. After years of collecting data on the specific types of marine debris being found, CCD data now focuses on the activities that cause the debris. We compile, analyze, and track this data to identify the activities and general sources of the debris. The final information is used to educate the public, businesses, industry, and government officials about the problem of debris.
CCD data reports have:
- Influenced public policy on waste management
- Prompted legislation
- Convinced individuals, organizations, and communities to examine their waste handling practices
Why Support California Coastal Cleanup Day, San Diego County?
Each year, I Love A Clean San Diego (ILACSD) and San Diego Coastkeeper (SDCK) partner with the California Coastal Commission to coordinate 80 coastal and inland cleanups throughout San Diego County.
The San Diego Coastline is one of the most magnificent in the world, yet each year tons of garbage ends up on the beaches and in the oceans. CCD empowers citizens to not only accept responsibility for the environmental impacts occurring in their community, but to also take immediate, hands-on action to remove the debris and alleviate this pollution problem. Debris that is not collected may end up in the oceans where it endangers marine life and is harmful to human health.
In 2009, 10,153 volunteers removed 173,198 pounds of trash and recyclables from San Diego’s beaches, bays and inland waterways.
This debris is much more than an eyesore; it represents a public health threat and contributes to the declining health of our ocean systems.
Changing Behaviors
In addition to educating participants, CCD’s message of stewardship reaches a very large and diverse audience through extensive television, radio and newspaper coverage. Tens of thousands of television viewers in San Diego are affected by the image of volunteers spending the day cleaning the beaches, and by interviews with event organizers who drive the pollution prevention message home to viewers. This also holds true for newspaper readers and radio listeners.
Cleaning Coastal Watersheds
In recent years, the Commission has expanded its efforts to recruit participants from inland areas to clean creeks, rivers and lakes. Inland volunteers help to illustrate one of the event’s key messages – we are connected to the coast and ocean by our rivers, streams and storm drains and that the solution to ocean pollution is in preventing the pollution from getting there in the first place.
ABOUT THE EVENT ORGANIZERS
Since 2002, I Love A Clean San Diego (ILACSD), San Diego Coastkeeper (SDCK), and the California Coastal Commission have partnered to coordinate over 50 coastal and inland cleanups throughout San Diego County as part of California Coastal Cleanup Day (CCD), an annual statewide cleanup. As this partnership continues to grow, we are engaging more and more San Diegans in protecting and restoring the waterways that are so central to our way of life. In 2008, 7,729 volunteers removed 160,573.2 pounds of trash and recyclables from San Diego’s beaches, bays and inland waterways.
I Love A Clean San Diego 
Through outreach, community involvement and example, I Love A Clean San Diego leads and educates our community to actively conserve and enhance the environment. As one of San Diego County's oldest and largest environmental education non-profit organizations, ILACSD promotes awareness of environmental issues including resource conservation, waste reduction, recycling, community enhancement, and pollution prevention. A diversified organization operating throughout San Diego County, ILACSD offers a broad range of expertise in public education and outreach, event coordination, and community relations.
San Diego Coastkeeper
San Diego Coastkeeper protects the region’s bays, beaches, watersheds and ocean for the people and wildlife that depend on them. We balance community outreach, education, and advocacy to promote stewardship of clean water and a healthy coastal ecosystem. Dedicated to the belief that we all have a right to clean water, Coastkeeper is the largest professional organization dedicated solely to the monitoring and protection of San Diego’s coastal areas and waterways. Launched in 1995, Coastkeeper empowers San Diegans to become actively involved in protecting the natural resources in our communities through habitat restoration, beach clean-ups, watershed monitoring and our groundbreaking Project SWELL curricula and Environmental Law & Policy Clinic.
The California Coastal Commission
The Coastal Commission mission is to ‘Protect, conserve, restore, and enhance environmental and human-based resources of the California coast and ocean for environmentally sustainable and prudent use by current and future generations.’ The Commission, in partnership with coastal cities and counties, plans and regulates the use of land and water in the coastal zone, including construction of buildings, divisions of land, and activities that change the intensity of use of land or public access to coastal waters. Among its many programs, the Commission is the statewide event coordinator for CCD.
Sponsorship Opportunities & Benefits
Coastal Cleanup Day is a major part of an International Coastal Cleanup that includes all 50 states and over 100 countries worldwide, making it one of the world’s largest volunteer events.
ILACSD and Coastkeeper respectfully request that you consider supporting the community and the environment by becoming a Sponsor of California Coastal Cleanup Day.
Stay tuned for the 2010 event sponsorship packet. Learn more by downloading the CCD 2009 event Sponsorship Package.
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