Dana Point : Marine Institute Gets $30,000 Matching Grant
The Marine Institute at Dana Point Harbor has received a $30,000 matching grant from the California Community Foundation and a $2,500 grant from the Arco Foundation to fund a pre-campaign study for facility expansion and to support several educational programs.
The California Community Foundation grant will be used to produce a funding prospectus and working model for the proposed expansion of 48,000 square feet at the institute, which plays host to 50,000 students annually.
Dr. Stanley Cummings, executive director of the institute, said the first phase of the expansion would include a “simulated undersea dormitory and additional classrooms.” The Arco grant will be used to develop hands-on educational programs. In one of the proposed programs designed to teach youths about the ocean environment, a traveling van would bring live and dead specimens to youths unable to travel to the Dana Point facility.
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