Community Foundation of the Lowcountry Grant Funds New Explorer Series

The Community Foundation of the Lowcountry awarded the Port Royal Sound Foundation a Program Grant to fund a new Explorer Program for school children in Beaufort County.  We are proud to announce that we have completed designing and constructing the new Explorer Program which will be offered to all 8 middle schools in Beaufort County in the winter and spring of 2014. 

 

The Explorer Program includes a complete curriculum resource on the Port Royal Sound - what it is, why it is unique, and what you can do to help protect and conserve it - and a teaching kit with large instructional banners about the Sound, an EnviroScape which is a model of a town that teaches about the effects of pollution in area waters, nautical charts from NOAA for the classroom, maps from the University of South Carolina on area waters, a water quality testing kit, and other exciting teaching tools for middle schoolers to help them learn about the Port Royal Sound.

 

The Port Royal Sound Foundation will also conduct a training for all interested schools in the fall.  A big THANK YOU to the Community Foundation of the Lowcountry for funding this exciting, hands-on project for middle school students in Beaufort County!

Renovations Begin!

It is an exciting time for the Port Royal Sound Foundation!  We have started selected demolition of the marina, and the renovations are beginning for our Maritime Center!  We will update you as time goes on but are excited about this important phase for building our state-of-the-art Center for Beaufort County and visitors alike!  Thank you to all of our donors and corporate funders for their generous gifts to help us begin renovations!

PRSF awarded $100,000 from the Community Foundation of Lowcountry

We are so proud to announce our recent grant awarded by the Community Foundation of the Lowcountry!

$100,000! 

$75,000 will go to our Capital Campaign for the building of our new Maritime Center and $25,000 will go toward our Explorer Educational Series - please see article below ~

A HUGE thank you to the Community Foundation of the Lowcountry !!

http://www.islandpacket.com/2012/07/26/2147056/local-nonprofits-groups-get-240000.html#storylink=misearch

Stories of the Sound

Would you like to hear exciting stories about your local river or creek and how they connect to the greater Port Royal Sound Area? Want to know more about oysters, sharks, fish, otters, and even living off these great waters from our fellow locals? Please visit the Port Royal Sound Area Local Watershed module, open a creek or river and enjoy a youtube video there for you! 

Many thank yous to the talented JJ Keyser and Dr. Chris Marsh for bringing these stories to us !

We hope you enjoy. 

Update on Wednesday, May 2, 2012 at 4:52PM by Editor

"Stories of the Sound"

Beekman Webb tells us his accounts of growing up, fishing, camping on Port Royal Sound http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GO5C28zyzQ&feature=relmfu

Recent news articles about Port Royal Sound Foundation

Wendy Nilsen Pollitzer with The Lowcountry Weekly published an series of articles on the past and present times of Port Royal Sound. Wendy included Port Royal Sound Foundation in her article, "The Town of Port Royal has Reason to Thanks" at http://www.lcweekly.com/local-color/2398-the-town-of-port-royal-has-reason-for-thanks 

Please see Beaufort Tribune's, Roy Flannagan and his wonderful summary of the Port Royal Sound Foundation official launch and announcement of our plans for a new Maritime Center. 

http://beauforttribune.com/archives/67594

Our name change change from Friends of the Rivers to the Port Royal Sound Foundation at http://www.islandpacket.com/2011/06/01/1675615_friends-changes-to-port-royal.html