Delaware Canal 21 is a catalyst that cooperates and collaborates with many other organizations who all have a shared goal of a fully watered canal. While several organizations contribute to the “bottom up” approach of improving the canal, no other organization is playing the unique role that Delaware Canal 21 has taken on by working with all of these organizations from the “top down” to re-imagine the Delaware Canal with a sustainable business model. The following are the organizations that Delaware Canal 21 has collaborated with in the past three years.

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The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources is the state agency that stewards the Delaware Canal and all other state parks. Delaware Canal 21 works closely with DCNR on every project.

The Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor is a public-private partnership established by Congress to conserve the cultural and natural treasurers stretching 165 miles from the mountains of northeast Pennsylvania through the Lehigh Valley and includes as its final 60 miles the Delaware Canal. The D&L has worked with Delaware Canal 21 on the Vision Study and many of our Water and Access projects.

The William Penn Foundation is one of greater Philadelphia’s most important philanthropic foundations. Its broad mission emphasizes enhancing civic life and ensuring a sustainable environment – especially watersheds. This generous foundation has provided funding for the Vision Study and many other Water and Access projects.

The Friends of the Delaware Canal is a grass-roots non-profit organization that seeks to restore, preserve, and improve the Delaware Canal. The organization does vital work in raising public awareness of the Canal, organizing events to draw the public to the Canal, interpreting the Canal’s history, and linking the community to the Canal’s legacy by providing educational and recreational activities. It was a key partner in the Vision Study.

The Heritage Conservancy works to protect and conserve open space, natural resources, historical properties and structures. Delaware Canal 21 partnered with the Heritage Conservancy to study the effect of storm-water on the canal.