Capital Campaign
Packard Challenge Update - We Did It!
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Why We are Rebuilding The Marine Mammal Center
Since 1975, the Center has rescued more than 12,000 animals and has made tremendous advances in marine mammal care. Such success has not come without a cost however, and the 32-year old Center is rapidly decaying. Five out of seven buildings are modified shipping freight containers, and most are more than 20 years old. Our animal care filtration systems are currently exposed to direct sunlight, where above-ground polyvinyl pipes erode, resulting in water loss. In addition, due to lack of adequate facilities, our education programs for schoolchildren are held outdoors in the wind and cold, and lack public amenities.
Our outmoded facilities can no longer support the Center’s work, and compromise our ability to further advance knowledge of the health of marine mammals and the ocean ecosystem. Furthermore, maintaining outdated equipment and temporary structures long past their usable life span diverts financial resources, staff, and volunteer time from the important work of saving the lives of marine mammals and learning about the threats to their health that exist in the environment.
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Packard Challenge for the Capital Campaign is Completed!
 We are proud to announce that we have completed a $1 million Packard Foundation challenge grant and by doing so, have completed the Capital Campaign to rebuild our facility. The Center embarked on meeting the goal of this challenge grant in September last year. In order to receive this $1 million grant, the Center needed to raise $6.5 million by January 15, 2008. That deadline was extended to January 31 and was met thanks to the generosity of so many
It is an honor to have our capital campaign bolstered by the generosity and support of the Packard Foundation, one of the largest foundations in the nation. The Packard Foundation had made a previous grant of $1 million to our capital campaign in 2005, and we are both humbled and extremely excited about its new commitment to us.
While our previous $500,000 challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation was focused on inspiring broad-based support from donors, the focus of the Packard challenge is on securing major gifts of $100,000 and higher that can help us meet our goal. Since we received the Packard challenge, we have also received a grant of $1.3 million from the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund to help us meet the challenge! This brings the Goldman Fund’s total commitment to the capital campaign to $1.5 million.
Next Steps
With the Capital Campaign completed, we are now shifting our attention to raising funds to support the increased operational needs of the new Marine Mammal Center. We value all of your support in helping us continue our dream of providing a humanitarian response to marine mammals in need and to uncovering marine mammal health issues. You can get involved today and make a difference simply by becoming a member and making a gift to our operating fund.
Below is a list of the major institutional donors that supported us in our quest:
Major Institutional Donors to the Capital Campaign
The Center is proud to recognize the following foundations, corporations and government agencies that have made commitments of at least $100,000 to its capital campaign (list current as of February 4, 2008)
3,000,000+
- The Geoffrey C. Hughes Foundation
- The William and Gretchen Kimball Fund
1,000,000+
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
- The David & Lucile Packard Foundation
- The Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund
- Anonymous Foundation
- The Firedoll Foundation
- The Marin Community Foundation
- The Roberts Foundation
$250,000 to $999,999
- Anonymous Foundation
- The Kresge Foundation
- Thelma Doelger Trust for Animals
- The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- DMARLOU Foundation
- William Randolph Hearst Foundation
- The Koret Foundation
- LSP Moss Landing, LLC
$100,000 to $249,999
- Bernice Barbour Foundation, Inc.
- Dawn Detergent
- Thelma Doelger Charitable Trust
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How the Center will be Physically Transformed
The Center’s rebuilding project will for the first time integrate all functions at one location, improve animal care, create a more efficient, effective and safe work environment for staff and volunteers, and provide new opportunities for education and collaborative research. The following three new buildings are under construction:
- New pens and pools designed to meet the different needs of seals, sea lions, sea otters and other marine mammal species
- Intensive care and quarantine areas for the most sensitive patients
- An on-site lab that will reduce time for diagnosis and initiating treatment
- A ‘transparent’ design, so visitors can see the real behind-the-scenes work of the Center’s hospital
- Classrooms and meeting space for our visiting students and public
The Marine Mammal Medical Center will bring together all of the necessary functions for marine mammal diagnosis, treatment and husbandry: animal food preparation, the pharmacy, chart room, laboratory, and necropsy, which will have space to house the post-mortem tissue and serum bank and research activities. As part of enhancing the visitor experience to the new Center, glass windows will allow visitors to observe these functions.
The Veterinary Science and Research Center will house the veterinary science and research staff offices, The Commons for staff and volunteers, education staff offices, and a mechanical room. Visiting scholars, Ph.D. fellowship students, and externs from around the world will have workspace for research, access to the Center’s database, tissue bank and archived records spanning our 32 years of operation.
The Community Education Building will be the primary visitor entry point and will include a marine science discovery area with interpretive exhibits, a classroom, and retail store on the ground level, and an observation deck looking over the animal pens and pools on the second level. The multi-use classroom and discovery area are expandable to accommodate formal and informal educational activities for both students and the public.
In addition, a new Life Support System will expand capacity from 47,000 to 207,000 gallons of water, while overall water consumption will be the same or less due to efficiencies of the new system. In a wonderful example of adaptive re-use, the new Life Support System will be housed in one of the two former Nike missile silos on the Center’s grounds. The animal pens and pools will be upgraded as well, replacing existing structures with new pens and pools with species-specific design.
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Green Aspects of the New Facility
The Center has worked hard to incorporate green elements into the design and functions of the new facility. While we decided against pursuing LEED Certification due to budget constraints, our project does meet the LEED Silver Rating standards.
Following are some of the major green elements of the project:
- 20kW’s of photovoltaic panels on pen shade structures
- High efficiency radiant floor heating
- Use of skylights and windows for natural light and ventilation (no forced ventilation in offices)
- Landscaping with native plantings that require no irrigation
- 50% of the lumber certified by the Forest Stewardship Council
- Concrete contains 5% fly ash, a residue generated from the combustion of coal
- Structural steel and wall framing systems ranging from 30% to 95% recycled content
- Structural steel and wall framing systems ranging from 30% to 95% recycled content
- All project casework is fabricated from recycled and/or sustainable materials
- All furniture is manufacture from recycled and/or sustainable materials
- All paint and epoxy coatings are of low volatile organic compounds (VOC)
- Building insulation is minimum 10% recycled glass
- Cement board siding made from recycled paper
- Gypsum board with 5% recycled content and 100% recycled paper
- Acoustic ceiling panels are made from seaweed
- All fixtures and faucets are efficient, low water consumption
- Restrooms include water free urinals and dual flush toilets
- High pressure wash down system in pens/pool area to reduce water consumption
- Backwash recovery systems on life support systems to reduce water consumption
- Variable speed pumps on life support systems to reduce electrical use
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