The Fund is a source of new ideas and new solutions for the challenges that my fellow governors and I face managing 20% of the world’s freshwater. As a private corporation, the Fund can explore solutions beyond the reach of our state agencies and public institutions. It has deployed hundreds of multi-sector collaborations that have reshaped how we manage our Lakes. Quietly, those collaborative teams have pioneered new technologies, practices, and financing strategies that restore and protect the waters of the Great Lakes.