About Coastal Conversations

Leaders in coastal Alabama have come together to create Coastal Conversations as a platform for increased civic awareness and engagement across our region.

Our goal is simple: to make our region the best place to live, work and play.

With a start-up grant from the J.L. Bedsole Foundation and facilitated by Coastal Alabama Partnership, our mission is to address challenges in our community and to create positive change.

We are only stronger together. What happens on one side of the bay certainly impacts the other.
Casey Gay Williams
Casey Gay WilliamsCEO, Eastern Shore Chamber of Commerce
We as the citizens hold so much more power than we give ourselves credit.
Abe Harper
Abe HarperCEO, Harper Technologies
What was before an underdog in the business community, our smaller cities. Mobile, Fairhope, Gulf Shores, they now have the opportunity to play a really big role.
Susan Shaw
Susan ShawCEO, Immix Strategic
It is necessary for all of us to get involved, to reinvest and to engage so we can be a part of the future.
Robbie McGee
Robbie McGeeVice-Chair, Poarch Band of Creek Indians
I encourage us to not just think of those great ideas, but let’s turn them into action items.
Matt LeMond
Matt LeMondOwner, O'Dalys/Post/Cedar Street

A Platform for Discussion

Working together with members of our community, we host world-class experts on critical issues like diversity and inclusion, social justice, health, education, work force development, housing, the environment, infrastructure, tourism, entrepreneurship and small business.

Coastal Conversations has developed an interactive dashboard of community metrics that includes over twenty metrics including population trends, household income, infant mortality and more. The dashboard will launched in May 2021 and will be updated quarterly. 

Additionally, Coastal Conversations produces a two-county quality of life survey that measures residents feelings about life in coastal Alabama, covering topics including healthcare, education, leadership, jobs and the environment. Coastal Conversations will released the first report in Spring 2021.  

DID YOU KNOW?
% of brain development that occurs before age three 79%
% of students on free and reduced lunch 67%
% growth of Summerdale since 2010 95%

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