Save The Bay director plans to leave position

PROVIDENCE – Curt Spalding, the longtime executive director of Save The Bay, is leaving the nonprofit environmental group.
“In the 20 years I’ve served Save The Bay’s membership and the community, peoples’ understanding of the value of Narragansett Bay has been transformed,” Spalding said in a statement last week announcing his impending departure.
“It is very hard to leave a job you love,” he added. “But it is time to seek new challenges and pass on the responsibility of expanding and deepening the community’s commitment to sustaining a clean and healthy Bay for generations to come.”
Since joining Save The Bay in 1987, Spalding has been a tireless advocate for sewage-treatment and Open Space bonds and other public investments in a cleaner Narragansett Bay.
Alden Anderson, president of the Save the Bay board of directors, praised Spalding’s stewardship of the group.
He said the board of directors “has formed a top-notch search committee [that] will begin a national search immediately to identify a successor.” (READ MORE)