Our Corporate Partners and Community Sponsors help drive operations and support core campaigns, benefiting in turn from widespread recognition and involvement at a grassroots level.

The Marine Mammal Center rescued Lapawi (left). Normally found around Guadalupe Island and the Channel Islands, rescuers knew something was wrong when they saw this threatened species on the mainland, far from home.

Covered in tar and oil, this Guadalupe fur seal was severely underweight and desperately needed our help.

Removing the oil was quite a process. Lapawi had to be carefully cleaned with the only thing we know that can cut through the oil and is safe - Dawn dishwashing liquid, by our largest corporate partner, Proctor & Gamble. After six weeks of the Center’s constant monitoring and TLC, Lapawi was healthy and strong enough to go back to the wild where he belonged.

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The Marine Mammal Center Corporate Partners Program

Together, with our corporate partners, we recognize the fundamental relationship that binds humans, animals, and the ocean. Covering more than 70% of our planet, the ocean is Earth's primary life-support system – and these animals are critical bellwethers of its health. By caring for them, we care for all of life.

We rescue marine mammals for many different reasons, including malnourishment, separation, entanglements, and diseases, but nearly 10% of the animals we rescue have been impacted by human interaction and hazards like net and fishing line entanglements, gun shots, illegal pick-ups, and boat strikes – making their rescue our responsibility as a community.

Corporate support directly impacts the heart of our mission: to expand knowledge about marine mammals—their health and that of their ocean environment—and to inspire their global conservation.

With this critical corporate support, we help build a sense of connection to the marine environment and marine mammals, and to inspire action to protect the oceans. This sounds a call for education of the stewards of tomorrow. Together we can inspire a new generation of ocean ambassadors.

How can corporate partners help?

Corporate partners can become overall Center sponsors or individual event sponsors. Specific events include: Run for the Seals, our annual Gala, Open Houses, patient releases, Meet the Scientist talks, Earth Day and World Oceans Day celebrations, Members-Only Nights, Marine Science Sundays, special exhibits, corporate volunteer days, and more.

Benefits of Being a Corporate Partner:

We strive to meet the needs of our corporate partners in a variety of creative ways. Standard benefits of being a corporate partnership might include but are not limited to:

Corporate volunteer day with a behind the scenes tour and hands on work
Series of private releases of patients at the beach
Recognition on Center website, e-newsletters and social media
Event for your company, clients or customers at the Center
Networking events at the Center and other Bay Area venues
Participation in the annual Gala
Use of the ocean view boardroom
Opportunity to name a pup patient
If suitable on long term strategic level, co-branding and joint marketing campaigns and initiatives

For more information, please contact:

Cheryl Reiss | Corporate and Community Partnerships Officer | reissc@tmmc.org | T: (415) 754-4052 l C: (415) 640-5431