The Ocean is our shared inheritance.
Since 2021, our community has raised over $5 million — powered by love, friendship and a shared belief in protecting what is precious.
15 organisations supported
1,800+ in-person supporters
3 cities: Sydney, Singapore, and New York
The ocean reminds us that what is precious is never ours to own, only ours to protect - with love, humility and courage.
Unite, Educate and Inspire:
Community becomes powerful when purpose becomes action.
Sapphire brings together people who care deeply about the ocean and connects their generosity with credible, high-potential conservation work. We create the conditions for science, storytelling and philanthropy to move together.
UNITE: We bring philanthropists, scientists, creatives, businesses and advocates together around a shared responsibility to the ocean.
FUND: Through our partnership with the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, we support carefully selected initiatives with the potential for meaningful and accountable impact.
AMPLIFY: We translate specialised work into stories, experiences and conversations that help more people understand, care and act.
“Sapphire has never been just about raising funds - it has always been about raising each other. At Sapphire Dinner 2025, it felt less like a gala and more like a family table: a gathering of friends, bound not by obligation but by love, trust, and the belief that together we can protect what is precious.
Raising over $5 million in the last five years is far beyond what we imagined, and we hold it with immense gratitude to our friends. But what moves us most is knowing it was achieved not through grand institutions, but through people who showed up with love and stood shoulder to shoulder for the oceans. This is the essence of Sapphire: proof that when community leads, transformation follows.
Thank you to our partners, our friends, and everyone who stood with us this year. Thank you for believing, for showing up, and for making this family what it is.”
Hayley Baillie & Ryan Gollan
Co-Chairs of The Sapphire Project
What if restoring just 3% of coral reefs could protect 50% of the entire ecosystem?
Watch Theresa Fyffe, Executive Director of Impact at the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, deliver a powerful TED Talk, a call to action for the future of coral reefs and the communities that depend on them. With breakthrough technologies, local leadership, and a bold plan to restore reefs at scale - we have a lifeline.
Sapphire Dinner 2025 at the Carriageworks
Sapphire Dinner 2024 at the Tank, Art Gallery of NSW
“Sapphire’s work is vital for Australia and the world. The culture that Sapphire has built on collaborative impact, building support, and generating funds for the best and brightest initiatives coming out of Australia gives hope for our oceans and our common future. Thank you to the Sapphire committee, who my husband David and I had the pleasure of meeting last year. A special thanks to all our supporters, whose unwavering support since our inception has been instrumental. You are ocean heroes and For The Oceans!”
Susan Rockefeller
Honorary Chair of The Sapphire Project
Founder of Protect What is Precious®
Tiffany & Co. Foundation & Earth Day
Young Sapphires
“The greatest danger to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.”
Robert Swan