Lighthouse is a strategic facilitation, event and association management company. Our facilitation services help you articulate a more realistic or solve a specific organizational problem with client-centric processes. Association Management allows clients to grow service offerings, often vastly improving their effectiveness by sharing staff, systems and knowledge. Association Management provides clients excess capacity so that they can begin to build new program offerings. Mark is responsible for overseeing his client’s day-to-day operations and oversees the delivery of their offerings, including membership services, global training and certification, conferences and events and legislative activities.Strategic facilitation is the art and practice of helping people communicate and listen more clearly through innovative and always interactive workshop designs and approaches to achieve measurable results. Mark's twenty-plus years experience spans both national and international topics ranging from flounder fishing in Rhode Island to water allocation in Kazakhstan. As a facilitator he has helped hundreds of people clarify their issues and work towards tractable solutions. Recent clients include the Word Bank, Global Partnership for the Ocean, United States Coral Reef Conservation Program, the RI Department of Environmental Management, The Nature Conservancy, National Grid, Center for Tropical Biology and Conservation, and Common Cause Rhode Island.Specialties: Strategic planning, Workshop design and facilitation, Work planning, Trade association management, Business development, Training and certification, Performance monitoring and evaluations, Program and project design, Design and delivery of capacity building initiatives, Design and delivery of stake holder processes

Sail America’s mission is to promote the health and growth of sailing by connecting companies that provide sailing related products and services to sailors, strengthening member businesses and growing the sailing market. Sail America is a non-profit organization that which offers education, outreach, market data and industry news as well as promoting and delivering a strong presence for sailing at boat shows.

AMI is a non-profit membership organization which offers management training, marina information about research and education, as well as legislation and environmental issues affecting the marina industry.AMI is a marina trade organization which encompasses all segments of the marina industry, both within the US and around the world.

Founded in 1943, ABBRA serves to strengthen and to encourage the professionalism of the marine service industry through the sharing of knowledge and the search for solutions to common problems.

The Coastal Resources Center at the Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island is dedicated to advancing coastal management worldwide. In addition to assisting in the development and implementation of coastal management programs in Rhode Island and the United States, the Center is active in countries throughout the world promoting the sustainable use of coastal resources for the benefit of all. Implementing coastal management projects in the field, building capacity through education and training, and sharing lessons learned and information throughout the coastal community are the foundation of the Coastal Resources Center’s work.

The Coastal Resources Center (CRC) mobilizes governments, business and communities around the world to work together as stewards of coastal ecosystems. With our partners we strive to define and achieve the health, equitable allocation of wealth, and sustainable intensities of human activity at the transition between the land and the sea.

The Rhode Island Sea Grant College Program is a federal-state-university partnership based at the University of Rhode Island. The program offers research, education, outreach, legal, and communications programs that address two core themes—Sustainable Coastal Communities & Ecosystems and Sustainable Fisheries.