THE HABITHÈQUE BLUE AND GREEN FUND
A 501(c)(3) nonprofit supporting water-centered storytelling, education, access, and stewardship
The Habithèque Blue & Green Fund supports education-focused storytelling, public experiences, and real-world engagement that help people understand, care for, and act on behalf of water — the world’s most essential resource.
We are weaving experiences that sit at the intersection of:
Learning through play—Environmental consciousness— Emotional connection to nature— Water justice and public health — Ecosystem restoration and climate resilience
Led by Victoria A. Prizzia, the Fund was created to help people learn and make informed decisions as citizens of a dynamic planet. Our work uses art, science, storytelling, innovation, public experience, and play to deepen understanding of water in all its forms: drinking water, bathing and swimming water, rivers and streams, ocean systems, stormwater, agricultural water, and the water that sustains every living ecosystem.
At its heart, the Fund asks a simple question: How can storytelling and experience design help people feel connected enough to care, participate, and act?
Why water?Water connects all life.
It is ecological, emotional, cultural, and civic. It shapes public health, food systems, climate resilience, environmental justice, recreation, memory, belonging, and access. Yet many people do not fully see the systems that bring water to us, protect it, threaten it, or connect our daily lives to rivers, streams, oceans, and watersheds.
The story of water is also a story of justice. Access to clean water, safe swimming, aquatic education, healthy waterways, and restorative blue-green spaces is not evenly shared. Historic and contemporary exclusions continue to shape who feels welcome, safe, represented, and connected in aquatic spaces.
The Blue & Green Fund exists to help make these relationships visible, understandable, and actionable.
We believe people are more likely to protect what they feel connected to. That is why our work invites the public into water issues through beauty, wonder, joy, play, and innovation — not through fear alone.
What the Fund Supports
The Habithèque Blue & Green Fund supports the development of education-focused storytelling assets, public engagement tools, and experiential learning projects that build awareness and action around water, nature, and the living systems that sustain life. This may include:
museum exhibitions and interpretive experiences;
public art installations and community engagement projects;
digital media, storytelling tools, and educational resources;
learning-through-play experiences for children and families;
programs that improve awareness of aquatic access, public health, water safety, and environmental justice;
public experiences focused on ecosystem restoration, renewable energy, water conservation, and nature-based solutions;
real-world water protection, revitalization, and stewardship efforts.
The Fund also helps promote awareness of emerging technologies, design strategies, and restoration practices that can support healthier water systems and more resilient communities.
How We Work
The Fund works through project-based, multidisciplinary collaborations with artists, designers, scientists, educators, environmental organizations, cultural institutions, technologists, community leaders, and mission-driven partners.
Together, we create bridges between the built, digital, and natural worlds.
Our projects are designed to help people better understand that what happens on land affects the quality of our waterways — and that each of us can play a meaningful role in protecting and revitalizing the water systems that sustain us.
We bring this work to the public through exhibitions, installations, digital media, learning tools, public events, environmental storytelling, and other engagement experiences at the intersection of nature, art, science, innovation, and play.
A Blue Revolution
The Blue & Green Fund is part of Victoria Prizzia’s broader water-centered body of work across Habithèque Inc. and Blue Revolution Games.
Together, these efforts form what Victoria calls the Blue Revolution: a growing movement of awareness, belonging, and action through water.
The Blue Revolution is rooted in the belief that public change begins with felt connection. When people experience water as something they belong to — not something outside themselves — they begin to see the living world differently.
They become more curious. More informed. More connected. More willing to act.
Current and Emerging Focus Areas
Water literacy
Helping people understand watersheds, freshwater systems, stormwater, ecosystem health, and the daily choices that affect water quality.
Aquatic access and public health
Building awareness around swimming access, water safety, blue-space well-being, and the contemporary impacts of historic exclusion from aquatic spaces.
Environmental justice
Exploring how water connects to race, health, infrastructure, public space, memory, and belonging.
Ecosystem restoration
Supporting storytelling and public engagement around rivers, wetlands, freshwater mussels, urban wildlife, and nature-based solutions.
Learning through play
Creating child- and family-centered experiences that make environmental learning joyful, embodied, and emotionally meaningful.
Climate resilience and renewable energy
Helping people understand emerging technologies and regenerative approaches that can support a more just and sustainable future.
Meet Our Board
Angela Beale-Tawfeeq
Dr. Angela K. Beale-Tawfeeq is an Associate Professor and chair of the Department of Science, Technology, Education, Arts, Mathematics, and Movement, in the College of Education at Rowan University. Dr. Beale-Tawfeeq currently serves as a member of the American Red Cross, Scientific Advisory Council, Aquatic Sub Council, and serves as the director of education and research for diversity in aquatics, a non-profit 501 4c organization, whose mission is to save lives and reduce the incidence of drowning through global efforts. Her research interests, grant writing, and academic pursuits have been in the areas of physical activity behavior change, program development and evaluation for minority communities, drowning prevention and aquatic safety among African American and Hispanic/Latino populations, youth development and culturally responsive teaching. Dr. Beale-Tawfeeq has been recognized with several national awards and honors, presented on the international, national, regional, and local levels, and has been published in several refereed journals. She strives to engage students, parents, and communities, in relevant and inspiring experiences that enable them to take control of their lives.
Nella Bloom
As outside general counsel, Nella Bloom helps small and new businesses throughout their business life cycle, from startup to shut-down. Ms. Bloom specializes in helping clients buy and sell businesses, representing an eclectic mix of industries and sectors. As a business owner herself, Ms. Bloom understands the mindset of an entrepreneur, and the personal aspect of being a business owner. Ms. Bloom is licensed to practice in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, and is a frequent presenter on issues relating to small and emerging business and corporate bankruptcy. She was a Pennsylvania Rising Star in 2018 and 2019 according to SuperLawyers Magazine.
JOHN HARPER
John Harper is Managing Director of Greenbriar Capital, a leading Philly-area company that provides commercial mortgages and commercial loans in the mid-market. John is also a real estate developer with a focus on sustainable & regenerative projects that have renewable energy components. He specializes in impact investments, social responsible investments (SRI) and revitalizing blighted and underserved urban communities. John is a board member and treasurer of The Heart of Jazz and Regenerative Nexus. John is on the advisory board for the Obsidian Collection, which aims to digitize the Black experience and help build generational wealth for the photographers and estates of artists and journalists that it works with.
Nancy Becker
Nancy Becker is Co-founder & President of “15 Minutes” Inc. marketing agency. Nancy’s professional background spans event and experiential marketing, media and public relations, brand and consumer advertising. A graduate and Lew Klein Alumni honoree of Temple University, she began her career in music and the arts, and in 1987 co-founded (with Pam Derderian) “15 Minutes”, a women-owned-and-operated certified corporation focusing on niche and cause marketing. LGBTQ+ and environmental issues have been an ongoing part of the agency’s ethos, having helped tennis icon and equality activist Billie Jean King introduce sustainability best-practices at the U.S. Open Tennis Center while creating “green collar” job opportunities, as well as showcasing innovative green-build materials at events across the U.S. “15 Minutes” currently manages marketing campaigns for several non-profits including the Alliance for Watershed Education of the Delaware River/National Wildlife Foundation, the Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center/Fund for the Water Works/Philadelphia Water Department, and The Free Library of Philadelphia. The agency served as consultants to Subaru of America on Corporate Social Responsibility and niche marketing to the LGBTQ+ community for over two decades.
AndREW Carnell
Andrew Carnell is an Aerospace Systems Engineer who works for NASA providing strategic guidance across the entire NASA mission portfolio covering aeronautics, space, and Earth science. He has engineering degrees from MIT and George Washington University, and prior to joining NASA, he flew fighter aircraft for the US Navy and consulted for the Department of Defense. He currently lives in Virginia Beach with his wife and two sons, and likes to connect with the environment through Scouting adventures with his boys. Fun fact: While in the Navy, Mr. Carnell served one tour as a TOPGUN Instructor.
Victoria Prizzia
As President of the Board of Directors, Victoria Prizzia leads the Blue & Green Fund’s efforts to promote and further societal awareness of emerging technologies and techniques for water conservation, ecosystem restoration and renewable energy, while also providing a vision for scaling these advancements for global impact. With decades of experience designing emotionally and intellectually resonant experiences, Victoria and Habithèque Inc. are innovating new approaches to environmental awareness that will help grow new generations of activists, thought-leaders, and committed, caring citizens who can tackle the challenges of our shared world.
Greg Belew
Greg Belew is the Principal-in-Charge of Hands On! Studio, an award-winning exhibition design firm with projects around the world. As a project manager and exhibit designer for decades, Greg has experience leading every phase of exhibition development from start to finish. He has a comprehensive knowledge of the management of the critical juncture between content, design, and fabrication/installation coordination. He takes a collaborative approach to management and design that has resulted in successful and sustainable projects around the world. As a licensed architect, he also coordinates between clients, their architects, and contractors to advise on effective building programs to create beautifully designed projects that work for visitors and staff alike. In addition, he has decades of experience developing comprehensive plans, budgets and schedules that are realistic, reflect of each client’s particular needs, and support long‐term sustainability.
Craig Johnson
Craig Johnson, founder of Interpret Green, has produced and directed more than 45 award-winning videos, films, exhibits, and art installations. These projects integrate engaging storytelling, creative design, and innovative media. Craig’s studio, Interpret Green, develops programs that advocate for social justice, environment literacy, public health, and programs that connect children with nature.
Please email us at victoria@habitheque.com for more information and ways to donate.
Protecting our rivers, streams, oceans, and watersheds is vital to a healthy and sustainable future for all living things. We are all deeply connected to the water that surrounds us. Everything we do — from planting trees to cleaning our homes, from how we build to how we play — affects our freshwater systems. The Blue & Green Fund helps people see those connections.
Through beauty, storytelling, science, public experience, and play, we invite people to remember what water teaches:
Nothing exists alone.
Everything is connected.
And every small ripple matters.
Your donation helps the Habithèque Blue & Green Fund create and support public-facing educational experiences that make water more visible, more meaningful, and more actionable. With your support, we can continue developing storytelling assets, learning tools, public experiences, and partnerships that help children, families, educators, communities, and cultural institutions connect with water and the living world.
A gift to the Fund helps support a future where more people can understand water, access water, protect water, and feel a sense of belonging within the blue-green systems that sustain life.
Please consider making a donation today.
The Habithèque Blue & Green Fund is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Contributions may be tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.