See The Sea, Charitable Foundation was founded in 1998 and is a non-profit (501(c)3 tax exempt) marine education and environmental awareness organization. Our mission is to actively take part in and help to promote the reversal of human-caused environmental damage and to help revive and preserve our ocean ecosystem. 

We achieve this through educating, inspiring and creating a personal connection to the oceans for both those already actively seeking information, as well as, and perhaps more importantly, the general public that is unaware of the significant environmental damage that is inflicted upon our oceans every day. We hope to make people think and act to reduce and reverse the negative human impact upon our seas. We believe that true change will occur with, not only an informed public, but also by encouraging the public to actively and continually inform businesses and policy makers of critical issues. Both encouraging the business world to act in a more environmentally responsible manner and pressing for more effective legislation will help to protect and preserve our global waters. Laws and enforcement are needed to prohibit those businesses and individuals who fail to act in an environmentally responsible manner.

This site is continually being updated to create a site that is truly unique. We have assembled a  wealth of valuable and current information that identifies problems facing our ocean environment and their causes. We also provide information and suggestions on what individuals and businesses can do to make a difference. We are now adding an activity area and are working with k - 12 schools to incorporate this information into the curriculum. 

The oceans need your assistance! As a non-profit organization, we depend upon donations from interested and caring persons to continue our operations. To date, 100% of the donated funds have been used to pay for expenses we have incurred. Such expenses include educational material, equipment, required registration and filing fees and internet-related expenses. All of our time continues to be donated with no salaries being paid. We are members of CAN (California Association of Nonprofits) and we participate on GuideStar, the on-line standard for nonprofit accountability. Click the GuideStar link below to take a look at our listing.

Why donate to See the Sea?  Your donation will enable us to continue to:

• raise public awareness about the care needed for the ocean environment.
• inspire and assist our readers to inform their elected officials of legislative changes needed to protect and preserve our oceans.
• contact and work with k-12 grade schools to encourage the use of our site information as course material and classroom projects for a wide range of disciplines thereby helping to create a generation of citizens better able to care for our oceans.
• acquire, preserve and maintain the equipment used on our sailing vessel "Valkyria". The equipment is used to bring live and recorded sights and sounds from the ocean and coastal areas on this website. We also use our vessel as a platform to collect data on marine pollution and marine life.
• introduce and connect our site visitors with selected ocean ecosystems around the globe in the "Our Travels" section as we acquire and publish information, sites and sounds to this web site from various locations around the globe.

We invite and encourage you to help us continue our work and invest in the preservation of our oceans in any of the following ways:

• Turn your everyday online shopping into philanthropy.  Shop as you normally do through igive.com, the first and largest online network of shoppers, online stores, websites, and nonprofit organizations.  You can link to the iGive.com secure mall with over 650 stores like Lands’ End, Barnes & Noble, Eddie Bauer, JC Penney, Expedia, eBay and many more! These stores give up to 30% from every purchase you make back to us at no additional cost to you. You must join iGive to shop, however, the membership is free, has no obligation, no spam and offers total member privacy. As a member, you will receive great discounts, free shipping offers and special savings to add to the low prices already offered.  As an additional bonus, the portion of the purchase price these stores return to us through iGive.com may be tax deductible for you.  (Click here for more information from igive.com.)

• Donate funds directly to us in any of the following ways. No amount is too small, as a number of small donations add up to a significant amount.

• Mail a check to us at 

  See the Sea Charitable Foundation

  820 Park Row #590

  Salinas, CA 93901

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• This button will link you to Network for Good where you can use credit or debit card (also called check cards, ATM cards, or banking cards) with any one of the following logos  as well as by use of electronic check transfer from your bank account.  Donations made through the Network for Good Giving System are safe and secure. Donations can be made in your name, as a gift in honor of someone else or even anonymously (in which case See the Sea will not be notified of the donor). If you are making a donation as a gift, you can personalize your gift by sending a card from the Network for Good site to let the recipient know you have made a donation in his or her honor. You will be required to log on and enter some information.  This information is only to be used for this transaction and will not be shared with any other party unless you explicitly consent. When you make a donation through the Network for Good Giving System, you can be certain that your charitable donation is 100% tax deductible and the organization of choice is a legitimate charity that is recognized by the Internal Revenue Service and in good standing. 

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PRIVACY POLICY: See the Sea respects your privacy. We will not release any personally identifiable information such as your name, address, e-mail address, phone number or credit card information without your expressed consent. We may wish to publish the names of our donors in the future, however, before taking such a step, we will ask for your consent.