From June 14-20, over 200 paddlers, took part in the 30th annual Delaware River Sojourn. Starting in Balls Eddy, PA, the group paddled over 70 miles, ending the Sojourn in Phillipsburg, NJ. Over the course of the Sojourn, the paddlers got to camp, kayak through class 1 and 2 rapids, and engage in programming, like water quality testing and trivia, that taught them more about the science and history in the region.
The Pineland Preservation Alliance (PPA), the New Jersey Division of Disability Services of the New Jersey Department of Human Services (DDS), the Edward J. Bloustein School, and Duke Farms have come together to lead a statewide effort to make recreating in nature a part of the lives of everyone in our state regardless of disability. The inspiration for this came from The Pinelands is for Everyone project, which has evolved into the new statewide Nature: Accessible for All initiative that brings in new activists and partners to the cause. PPA received critical funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to facilitate this campaign.
PHILADELPHIA, PA — Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership (TTF) has named Justin DiBerardinis as its new executive director. DiBerardinis will sustain the nonprofit’s award-winning work protecting and improving its namesake 30-square-mile urban creek system, and he will grow efforts to create culturally resonant outdoor experiences through community and business partnerships in North, Northeast, and Northwest Philadelphia and eastern Montgomery County.
Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership (TTF) is proud to announce that maps for Tacony Creek Park, the city’s 300-acre watershed park that was created in 1915 to protect Tacony Creek, are now available in seven languages: English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Mandarin, Haitian Creole, Arabic, and Khmer. These are the languages spoken the most by residents living in the neighborhoods surrounding the park.
Promise Neighborhoods is an anti-violence and anti-poverty organization. We are black led, anti-racist, women centered, liberation based grassroots organization focused on community health and well-being. We take an epidemiology-based approach to address the systemic issues most affecting marginalized communities of the Lehigh Valley, including environmental health and justice.
It is no surprise that the power of the Coalition comes from our 180 member organizations. More specifically the many talented, passionate, and dedicated individuals who work at those organizations and are making an immense difference in improving the health of the Delaware River Watershed - from the headwaters down to the Delaware Bay.
Philadelphia, PA ( January 20, 2023)- Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership, Inc. (TTF) is proud to announce it was awarded a $260,788 2022 Growing Greener grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PA DEP) for a stormwater retrofit project at Congregation Adath Jeshurun (AJ) in Elkins Park, Montgomery County. This watershed improvement project is one of ten Growing Greener projects in the Southeast Region that were awarded a total of $2,119,504 to aid in protecting waterways and watersheds.
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