Gulf Coast Innovation Challenge

Coconut Telegraph

Submissions are now open for the Gulf Coast Innovation Challenge, a community-wide competitive-grant challenge designed to inspire and fund innovative ideas to grow our region's Blue Economy. Gulf Coast Community Foundation is offering up to $500,000 in incentive grants for teams to propose and develop solutions for saving our seas and feeding our communities while helping to transform our region into a marine innovation hub. The Innovation Challenge is open to entrepreneurs, educators, conservationists, scientists -- anyone with an idea that can advance the marine sciences while providing a public benefit in our region. Teams can include members from the nonprofit, for-profit, and public sectors. All teams must have at least one nonprofit partner and one member (organization or individual) based in the Gulf Coast region from Boca Grande to Manatee County.

Gulf Coast Innovation Challenge

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