Save The Harbor Save The Bay Inc Boston Fish Pier

Youth environmental education programs: save the harbor/save the bay runs the region's largest free, harbor-focused youth environmental education program, connecting over 300,000 youth, teens and families to boston harbor and the boston harbor islands since we began them in 2002. Our free programs include excursions to spectacle and georges islands in the boston harbor islands national park, and fishing trips to give smaller community groups a chance to interact with the species in the harbor. In 2024, save the harbor engaged 19,099 community members in free, diverse, and accessible youth-led programs on the boston harbor, the region's public beaches and the boston harbor islands.

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.we also chair the outfall monitoring science advisory panel's (omsap) public interest advisory committee (piac) 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.

The boston harbor women of color coalition creates a space that centers on women of color and is focused on cultivating relationships, creating professional pathways of advancement, developing culturally informed programming and events, and building strategies to specifically address climate change in communities of color.