Sponsor the Peter Benchley Ocean Awards™
Partnering with the Peter Benchley Ocean Awards™ Awards offers a unique opportunity to meet with exceptional awardees both past and present, connect with leaders in ocean conservation, enhance your brand’s visibility, and celebrate with the ocean community!
The Peter Benchley Ocean Awards™ is the world’s preeminent ocean honors. Created to honor the marine community’s most important and influential ocean figures, the Peter Benchley Ocean Awards™ shines a spotlight on individuals who take action to protect our ocean and the communities that depend on them.
“The efforts of individuals who have committed their lives to researching, protecting, and restoring our oceans too often go unrecognized.” - Peter Benchley
Often referred to as the “Academy Awards” for the ocean, the Benchley Awards recognizes ocean excellence across a broad array of expertise: national stewardship, science, policy, media, solutions, exploration, grassroots heroes, youth, and lifetime achievement. The Benchley Awards events provide a unique blend of visibility and convening power. By sponsoring the Awards, you will have an opportunity to meet our exceptional awardees past and present, gather with the ocean community in celebration of the awardees, and support the work that aquariums are doing across the country to protect ocean ecosystems and wildlife, combat climate change, advance equity and ocean justice, reduce the sources of plastic pollution, and promote sustainable fisheries and aquaculture.
Sponsorship Levels
Sponsorship Pledge
Interested in sponsoring the Peter Benchley Ocean Awards? Please fill out this sponsorship pledge form to select the sponsorship package you would prefer. Once submitted our team will be in touch to arrange payment and collect any other additional materials. If you are unsure on how to proceed or have any questions, please contact Kim McIntyre, kmcintyre@mbayaq.org.
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Supporting the Awards - and the Ocean
Sponsor the Peter Benchley Ocean Awards™ and help the Aquarium Conservation Partnership Celebrate 10 Years in 2026!
By sponsoring the Peter Benchley Ocean Awards™, you not only help honor ocean champions, but you also advance the Aquarium Conservation Partnership’s mission to safeguard ocean and freshwater ecosystems by aligning and supporting the conservation efforts of aquariums for greater collective and individual impact.
To learn more about ACP and our powerful role in protecting the ocean, visit our website below.
Your support strengthens our mission-critical work to:
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ACP drives conservation progress at the local, state, federal, and international levels through coordinated advocacy and direct access to key decision makers. Our unified voice elevates aquariums as essential conservation leaders. This month, we launched our first-ever policy fellowship—bringing on 10 multigenerational fellows from across both red and blue states to help shape the future of aquatic conservation.
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Aquariums are among the most trusted science-backed institutions in the country, uniquely positioned to inspire hope and action. Together, our 35 member aquariums engage more than 40 million in-person visitors each year, empowering the public to participate in meaningful conservation solutions.
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ACP members “walk the talk” by setting ambitious, sector-wide sustainability goals including achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, eliminating single-use plastic across operations, and sourcing sustainable seafood for the animals in our care. Collectively, our members have eliminated millions of pieces of single-use plastic from entering the waste stream over the past 8 years, demonstrating what is possible when an entire industry commits to change.
Join Us in Celebrating the Peter Benchley Ocean Awards™
For in-kind contributions or sponsorship inquiries, please contact Kim McIntyre, Executive Director of the Aquarium Conservation Partnership.