The Gulf Alliance recognizes that citizen input is critical for identifying priority issues and affecting meaningful change on a local level. It is at this local level that the effects of a healthy Gulf are most clearly realized in day-to-day life. In fact, the six Priority Issues listed above were chosen during a series of Community Input Workshops held around the Gulf Coast.

Below is an overview of the Initial Gulf Alliance Community Input Workshops, held around the Gulf Coast in 2005-2006. For more information on the second round of Community Input Workshops, designed to gather feedback on the Draft Governors' Action Plan II in 2008-2009, click here.