San Diego Coastkeeper announced Friday that its 18th annual Seaside Soiree gala, which featured a talk by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., raised $80,000 for programs to protect local water quality.
Wednesday’s event at the Bali Hai restaurant raised funds for Coastkeeper’s volunteer water quality monitoring program, law and policy clinic, twice-monthly beach cleanups and countywide environmental science education that’s aligned with Common Core standards.
“These funds will support our aggressive plan to combat the chronic pollution threatening our quality of life in San Diego,” said interim Executive Director Travis Pritchard. “The success of this event and the broad support we continue to receive from the community is evidence that San Diegans won’t stop until we have clean water for everyone.”
Around $8,200 of the take will be applied toward a Coastkeeper campaign that seeks to raise $20,000 by the end of the year to mark its two decades in operation.
— City News Service