Every year, we host a Community Service Get-Together to share the many ways in which volunteers can get involved with TTF, and to share ideas amongst peers. On Thursday, February […]
We are all glad that 2020 is over. We’ve been through a lot together and we so appreciate our watershed community. This past year pushed us to step out of […]
On Valentine’s Day, we shared some love by hosting volunteer coordinators and teachers at our Volunteer Coordinator Breakfast at our office at Globe Dye Works. Attendees were brought together for […]
By Nagiarry Porcena-Meneus, Community Organizer To honor the environmental justice teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., community members, volunteer organizations, and schools came together in both of the Montgomery […]
Blog by Nagiarry Porcena-Meneus, TTF Community Organizer Volunteers are critical to our mission to improve the health of our 30 square mile watershed. On February 21, volunteer coordinators from across the […]
Blog by Mensa Corinaldi from Sankofa Freedom Academy During our senior year at Sankofa Freedom Academy, we are required to find an internship that relates to a topic we have to […]
Blog by Bryan Porten-Willson, TTF intern Protecting and maintaining our waterways is an important responsibility. Humans and animals alike depend on clean water to stay healthy. Fortunately, there are several […]
This year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service was a busy day for TTF! Our team was in two places at once: Downstream in Tacony Creek Park: Over 30 volunteers […]
By: Klavdiya Vasylenko, Temple University student I found out about TTF by searching for volunteer and internship opportunities in the Philadelphia area that had to do with my major, environmental […]
Vernon Park got a lot of love on October 17, as 55 employees from four insurance companies came together in celebration of The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF) Week of […]
Over 30 volunteer coordinators from local colleges and community organizations met at the Awbury Arboretum for the second annual Community Service Networking Breakfast hosted by TTF and the Awbury Arboretum. […]
In the fall, a squad of volunteers joined TTF at Tacony Creek Park (TCP) at Friends Hospital for a LOVE Your Park Day Cleanup. LOVE Your Park is a partnership among the Fairmount Park Conservancy (FPC), Philadelphia Parks […]
Patrick Kerkstra, freelance journalist, wrote Simplest, cheapest route to a greener city in Insights, his urban affairs column in last Friday’s Philadelphia Inquirer. He applauds the City of Philadelphia’s goal […]
Who was tree surveying this time? After a hearty breakfast of donated bagels, cream cheese and OJ, volunteers from Philadelphia’s Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church and Central High School hit the […]
Welcome, Ariel! TTF’s new intern, Ariel Murphy, jumped right in and got her feet wet at a freshwater mussel surveying event in Tacony Creek Park. Ariel joins us from Arcadia […]
Volunteers ready to go! (At the Adams Ave. bridge in Tacony Creek Park) As part of our commitment to clean water, TTF continues to survey local creeks for freshwater mussels. […]
Who are those handsome volunteers with clipboards in West Oak Lane? These volunteers are working with the Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership as part of the Philadelphia Parks and Recreation Department (PPR) TreePhilly […]
On a beautiful breezy Tuesday, a group from the Hunting Park branch of ASPIRA came out to West Oak Lane to help TTF survey neighborhoods where the Philadelphia Parks and […]
Who is that in the Tookany Creek? These happy volunteers include Glenside residents, Arcadia University Biology Department members, and Drexel University students working at the Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center! […]
Recently, volunteers met at Arcadia University to survey a section of the Tookany/Tacony-Frankford creek for freshwater mussels. While we didn’t find any freshwater mussels, we did find oyster shells, tennis […]
Over the next year, our new VISTA Abby will be working with TTF and the Germantown Tree Tenders group to plant and tend trees in Philadelphia. We are pleased and […]
Did you know that freshwater mussels are a critical component of healthy streams? Here at TTF, we’re all about clean water and healthy streams, so we’re teaming up with the […]
Working with Philadelphia Parks & Recreation, TTF and students from Arcadia University’s Social Action and Social Change course recently surveyed streets in West Oak Lane. Students noted conditions along the sidewalks […]
TTF recently led fifteen Arcadia University students in marking over twenty storm drains in Wyncote in Cheltenham Township. These storm drain markers serve to remind people that our storm drains […]
