Participation Row at Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival

Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival has made giving back to the community an impactful and immersive priority since their debut in 2016. Participation Row is a social activism area featured in Chobeewobee Village that aims to bring awareness to local nonprofits. Since 2016, HeadCount has overseen all of the local nonprofits at Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival. Okeechobee Music Festival has donated over $300,000 to local nonprofits and hopes for that number to be $1,000,000 by their tenth year. This year, HeadCount partnered with Tony’s Chocolonely, by donating hundreds of chocolate bars as part of an incentive for attendees to complete four positive actions as well as a chance to win a signed D’Angelico guitar from artists like Megan, Thee Stallion, Griz, Earthgang, Loveleo, Jaiwolf and Gary Clark Jr.

A Different Kind of Spring Cleaning: Surfrider South Jersey’s Bay Clean-Up

Living along the coast, beach and bay clean-ups are a part of the norm. Sporadically throughout the year groups like Surfrider mobilize locals to help clean and preserve areas that are at the most risk to pollution. In the past month, the organization's two New Jersey chapters put together a handful of clean-up all along the coast. This past weekend was Surfrider South Jersey’s monthly clean-up along the bay just south of Atlantic City in Vetnor.