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WASHINGTON, D.C.— Institute for Organization Management, the professional development program of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is pleased to announce that Katy Acheson, Executive Director of Cape Cod Blue Economy Foundation for the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce, has recently completed her third year at Institute for Organization Management, a four-year nonprofit leadership training program at Villanova University in Villanova, PA.

Early this year, Blue Economy Foundation staff reached out to Pat and his team at Cape Clasp after learning about the Tides Custome Project. Cape Clasp's library of collaboration had one big theme in common... they're all blue economy businesses, organizations, and events. It made perfect sense for the Cape Cod Blue Economy Foundation to get in on the creative action.

The Cape Cod Blue Economy Foundation has been awarded $60,000 from the Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation for its Entrepreneurs Forever peer-support and education program. The Blue Economy Foundation is a regional initiative to promote and sustain a maritime-focused economy on Cape Cod, the islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. The Entrepreneurs Forever program is designed to strengthen cohorts of small businesses past the start-up stage.

WaterWORKS 2024 invites high school students to a half-day program on the Cape Cod Community College to learn more about the region’s blue economy.

WaterWORKS 2023 invites high school students to a half-day program on the Cape Cod Community College to learn more about the region’s blue economy.

A social science survey delved into human perceptions of that watery wilderness and the growing numbers of seals and sharks that live there.

Expedition Blue was the topic of last week's Policy Podcast with Matt Pitta.

Bert Jackson, Director of Community Engagement, was interviewed live on the air for Boston Bloomberg radio.

A network of permanent exhibits designed to showcase the past, present and future of the region’s blue economy is underway in 10 Cape Cod towns.

Since 1976, I have been the shellfish biologist and director of the Martha’s Vineyard Shellfish Group Inc.

As a native Cape Codder, born and educated on Cape Cod and then farther afield, I feel that small marine technology companies such as McLane Research.

When Nick Muto heads out from the pier, he and the other fishermen who use the port are part of lineage that extends back hundreds of years.