Programs

Beach Cleanups

Beach Cleanups are the most immediate action you can take to make our coasts and ocean cleaner and healthier. They are a great way to publicly declare your concern for our local beaches to the various visitors and tourists that frequent them. By picking up trash before it enters the ocean, you prevent the cigarette butts and plastic, which often get mistaken for food, from being eaten by sea animals.

Teach and Test

Teach & Test is an educational water quality monitoring and advocacy program that teaches students about the importance of water quality while providing them with hands-on lab experience and an opportunity to affect positive change in their community.

Rise Above Plastics

Surfrider’s Rise Above Plastics campaign aims to reduce the impact of plastics in the marine environment by raising awareness about the dangers of plastic pollution and by advocating for a reduction of single-use plastics and the recycling of all plastics.

Task Forces

Surfrider WLAM organizes task force groups to investigate chronic water quality issues at area beaches. These small groups focus in on specific problems, allowing them to act effectively and to make lasting improvements at their beach. As a grass roots organization, Surfrider has earned a reputation for respectful advocacy, and the Task Force is a fun way for volunteers to build on existing relationships in the community, to engage with local government, and to earn the deep satisfaction of making change in our polluted beaches.

Clean Your Space

The “Clean Your Space” (CYS) campaign is an on-going resident and business action campaign focused on keeping clean and preventing sidewalk and street gutter garbage from entering our waterways and ultimately polluting our ocean. It’s essentially a beach clean up in your neighborhood that is constantly maintained by the good actions of people in the community and local business community.

Ocean Friendly Gardens

Ocean Friendly Gardens is program designed to encourage the incorporation of conservation, permeability and retention using native vegetation, smart irrigation techniques, and natural elements into our landscape in order to reduce urban runoff and the pollutants that go with it. Surfrider Foundation is partnering with local water agencies and others to launch the program.