William Penn Foundation is giving $1.65 million to create a new Delaware River Climate Corps

The William Penn Foundation announced it has given $1.65 million to establish a Delaware River Climate Corps, the region’s first climate resiliency program that would hire workers from underserved communities and train them in conservation and other green careers.

Organizers hope to have the corps up and running by early 2022 in 10 communities: Philadelphia, Chester, Reading, and Allentown in Pennsylvania; Camden, Bridgeton, Trenton, and Phillipsburg in New Jersey; Wilmington in Delaware; and Hancock in New York.