Posts by Melissa Walker
Double Your Impact for Marine Animal Rescue & Response
On a chilly day this past December, the WDC North America team celebrated the first year of our Marine Animal Rescue and Response (MARR) program with a batch of freshly baked, dolphin-shaped cookies. I was excited – we all were – about the success of our first year, but even more excited about doubling our…
Read MoreWhale and Dolphin Conservation: Change Through Policy.
WDC focuses on education, research, conservation projects, and policy work to create a sustainable future for marine mammals and humans. Finding funding for the first three categories – education, research, and conservation projects – is much easier to accomplish than explaining the intricacies of policy work and asking for money to support it. In 2022,…
Read MoreCryptoKraken Makes a Splash In New Partnership
Newly-incorporated NFT company CryptoKraken launched its first collection of NFTs this month. CryptoKraken co-founders Samuel Driquez and Sione Milhem say the idea for their NFTs came when they understood the potential of the NFT space and the pace that it is moving at. They recognized the potential to not only fundraise but create a community…
Read MoreDolphin Defenders: Fintech start-up HEADLINE INC Makes a Splash with a New CSR Initiative
Texas-based fintech startup and media company HEADLINE INC has taken another step in distinguishing themselves by identifying their cause-based focus – supporting the international marine conservation group Whale & Dolphin Conservation (WDC). HEADLINE INC will be supporting WDC by donating a portion of all sales from HEADLINE Crypto’s NFT collections. The choice to sponsor WDC…
Read MoreHow Kylie Made A Whale of A Difference
In November of 2020, I answered the phone at our WDC office and was greeted by Amanda Enloe who was looking to make a donation in honor of Kylie Christine Schwartz. What started out as a seemingly typical donation quickly turned into so much more. Amanda shared with me that Kylie was diagnosed with a…
Read MoreWDC receives grant from the Sheehan Family Companies for conservation and education
Whale and Dolphin Conservation recently received a $450,000 grant from The Sheehan Family Companies. The grant supports work protecting humpback whales and critically endangered North Atlantic right whales through a new education initiative. This three-year partnership will help further WDC’s mission of using science, advocacy, and outreach to protect whales and dolphins by expanding its existing…
Read MoreGratitudes: Nantucket Whaler and WDC
I don’t usually write blogs. It’s not that overseeing fundraising and marketing for our North American office isn’t exciting – it’s very exciting – it’s just that it doesn’t pertain directly to whales and dolphins, so I don’t usually share what’s going on. As we preparing to sign on at least three new corporate supporters,…
Read MoreMeet a WDC Supporter Who is Helping Us Make Change
Grant Hensel is the Founder and CEO of Nonprofit Megaphone & The RoundUp App. A graduate of Wheaton College in Illinois, Grant is passionate about helping nonprofits use technology to accelerate their work. We caught up with him Earth Day weekend to find out a little bit more about how the RoundUp app will…
Read MoreWDC participates in ropeless fishing workshop
Last week, WDC was invited to participate in Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s workshop on reducing entanglements to critically endangered North Atlantic right whales. At this workshop, engineers introduced developing technologies for remote gear retrieval, which means a method for fishing that doesn’t use rope connecting the lobster trap at the ocean floor to the buoy…
Read MoreTrump Administration targets marine mammals…again
*Update: In spite of this Administration’s attempt to eliminate the US Marine Mammal Commission, the House and Senate have approved funding to continue the important work of this US Agency. For the second time since taking office, the Trump Administration is attempting to eliminate the US Marine Mammal Commission. The Marine Mammal Commission a legally…
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