Event Plan Creation
Save the Harbor/Save the Bay
Event Plan Creation
Project details
What we need
- Description of event concept and programming
- Recommendations and research on venue, catering, and other vendors needed
- Timeline for preparation and outline of team roles & responsibilities
- Recommendations on pre- and post-event communications
- Detailed day-of-event schedule
- Note: This project does not include on-site event coordination or support on the day of the event. Related projects that may be completed in parallel are the Event Vendor Selection project, the Event Publicity Plan project, and the Event Budget Plan project
Additional details
On December 6, we will host an opening of our Boston Harbor Pop-Up Museum, featuring a new exhibit of marine art and the launch of our Seven Fishes Project. The event will feature local artists exhibiting their maritime themed projects and discussing the relationship between their art and our waters, alongside tasting dishes featuring seven sustainable, locally available fish and shellfish. Artist in Residence and curator, Robyn Reed, will unveil Changing Course, which we have worked together on throughout the year, as well as present marine related pieces by Alex Buchanan, Helen Kamins, Justice McDaniel, Debby Krim, and PT Sullivan.
What we have in place
- We currently have staff working with local partners to publicize the event, which should make it easy for you to get started. We also have our event space, a chef familiar with preparing the seven fish we have chosen,, and the ability to provide any other information you need.
How this will help
This project will save us $4,212 , allowing us to Dedicate our additional staff time and resources to running free environmental education programs for more than 30,000 of the Greater Boston's youth, teens, and families this year.
Over the past year, Save the Harbor has been working on an exciting new project to identify seven sustainable, locally available, healthy, and delicious species of fish and shellfish to release to the public. This aptly named Seven Fishes Project will present these species as an alternative to popular fish that are experiencing increased pressure from over-fishing. This project also aims to address public health concerns where a seafood rich diet has been found to be beneficial, such as high blood pressure and heart disease.
Project plan
Posted by
Winston D.
Director of Youth and Community Programs
Our mission
Save the Harbor/Save the Bay is a non-profit, public interest Boston Harbor advocacy organization made up of thousands of citizens as well as civic, corporate, cultural and community leaders and scientists.
As the region's leading voice for clean water and continued public investment in Boston Harbor, the region's public beaches, and the Boston Harbor Islands, our mission is to restore and protect Boston Harbor, Massachusetts Bay and the marine environment and share them with the public for everyone to enjoy.
What we do
In 1986 Boston Harbor was a national disgrace as our waste washed up on the beach and shore from Cape Cod to Cape Ann. Today all that has changed, thanks to the extraordinarily effective advocacy of Save the Harbor/Save the Bay and the hard work of thousands of people who all believe in the power of Boston Harbor to strengthen our community and improve people's lives.
In one generation we have transformed Boston Harbor from a liability into a civic, recreational, and educational asset for Bostonians and the region's residents. Today the harbor has moved to the center of civic life and emerged as an engine of economic growth for Boston's waterfront neighborhoods and the region's beachfront communities.
The beaches of South Boston are now the cleanest urban beaches in America, and new private development and public spaces have transformed the Boston Harbor waterfront into a desirable space for the regions businesses and residents.
Boston is now also home to the Boston Harbor Islands National Park, but it is seriously underutilized and too expensive for many of the region's residents to enjoy.
Our region's public beaches, which serve as the primary recreational resource for many of the region's residents, are on the rebound, though there is still work to be done on beaches in Lynn, Swampscott, and Dorchester, which still remain closed to the public as many as one out of every five days during the summer.
We are proud of what we have accomplished in the span of a generation, but are cognizant of the fact that it will take another generation -or more - to finish the job.
Today Save the Harbor/Save the Bay:
-Convenes and leads our Beaches Science Advisory Committee, which led the effort to transform the South Boston beaches into the cleanest urban beaches in America and is working to improve water quality at King's Beach in Lynn and Swampscott and Tenean Beach in Dorchester.
-Leads and manages the Metropolitan Beaches Commission for the Massachusetts Legislature, which is charged with improving the Boston Harbor Region's public beaches from Nahant on the North Shore to Nantasket on the South Shore.
-Uses our Beach Water Quality Report Card to focus attention and additional resources to address water quality concerns in communities that still face frequent beach closures.
-Strengthens Boston's waterfront neighborhoods and the region's beachfront communities by hosting and sponsoring scores of free Better Beaches Program events and programs on the region's public beaches from Nahant to Nantasket.
-Helps shape the future of the waterfront by actively participating in state and local planning efforts including the City of Boston's Municipal Harbor Plan Advisory Committee and Imagine Boston 2030.
-Leads the City of Boston's efforts to complete the South Bay Harbor Trail, a 3.5-mile long pedestrian friendly bicycle trail that will reduce automobile traffic in the Seaport District by connecting Roxbury, the South End, and Chinatown to the Fort Point Channel and the Seaport.
-Is the Boston Harbor Connection for the region's underserved and low-income youth and their families, with free STEAM-Based Youth Environmental Education Programs that have introduced almost 200,000 underserved and low-income young people to the spectacular harbor we have worked so hard to restore and protect since we began them in 2002.
