While the main efforts of DRBC staff are focused on managing and protecting the shared interstate waters of the Delaware River Basin, they also care about helping out in our local communities. DRBC staff have volunteered their time for a variety of public service projects. Below are links to summaries and photos of these efforts; more will be added as they occur.

2025:

• DRBC Cares for Its Communities: Staff Volunteer to Clean Up Palmyra Cove

2024:

• DRBC Cares for Its Communities: Staff Helps Send Hunger Packing with Mercer Street Friends 
  
  
• Staff volunteered with several partner groups this year:
  
  
  • In February, staff volunteered with the Friends of the Abbott Marshlands cleanup
    
    
  • In September, staff volunteered with the Delaware River Greenway Partnership's 7th Annual Delaware River Cleanup
    
    
  • In November, staff volunteered to plant trees with the New Jersey Tree Foundation

2023:

• DRBC Cares for Its Communities: Staff Cleans Up Palmyra Cove
  
  
• DRBC Cares for Its Communities: Staff Helps Send Hunger Packing with Mercer Street Friends 
  
  
• Staff also volunteered this year with the Delaware River Greenway Partnership and the Wildlands Conservancy, volunteering for a river cleanup and educational programs.

2022:

• DRBC Cares for Its Communities: Staff Volunteers at Frankford Boat Launch Cleanup
  
  
• DRBC Cares for Its Communities: Staff Volunteers at Mercer Street Friends Food Bank

2021:

• Caring for Its Communities: DRBC Targets Two Plastic Pollution Hotspots for Cleanups
  
  
• DRBC Cares for Its Communities: Staff Preps Over 1,700 Meals at Mercer St. Friends Food Bank

2020:

• DRBC Cares for Its Communities: Staff & TTF Team Up to Clean Tacony Creek Park
  
  
• DRBC Cares for Its Communities: Staff Volunteer at Mercer St. Friends Food Bank

2019:

• DRBC Cares for Its Communities: Staff Volunteers for a Steamboat SPLASH Painting Day
  
  
• DRBC Cares for Its Communities: Another Successful Palmyra Cove Cleanup
  
  
• DRBC Cares for Its Communities: Staff Volunteer, Donate to Two Local Organizations

2018:

• DRBC Cares for Its Communities: Staff Volunteers to Clean Up Bartrams Garden
  
  
• DRBC Cares for Its Communities: Staff Volunteeers Their Time to Spruce Up the Steamboat SPLASH
  
  
• DRBC Cares for Its Communities: Staff Clean Up Palmyra Cove
  
  
• DRBC Cares for Its Communities: Staff Volunteers at Mercer Street Friends Food Bank

2017:

• DRBC Cares for Its Communities: Staff Volunteers to Help Spring Clean the Steamboat SPLASH
  
  
• DRBC Cares for Its Communities: Staff Volunteers Assist Mercer County Children and City Park Tree Maintenance Along the Delaware
  
  
• DRBC Cares for Its Communities: Staff Returns to Mercer Street Friends Food Bank
  
  
• DRBC's Winter Coat Drive and Angel Tree Gifts Help Those in Need this Season

2016:

• DRBC Cares for Its Communities: Staff Volunteers to Clean Up Palmyra Cove Nature Park
  
  
• DRBC Cares for Its Communities: Staff Volunteers to Clean-Up Little Tinicum Island
  
  
• DRBC Cares for Its Communities: Staff Volunteers Return to the Mercer Street Friends Food Bank

2015:

• DRBC Cares for Its Communities: Staff Volunteers at the Rescue Mission of Trenton
  
  
• DRBC Cares for Its Communities: Staff Volunteers to Clean-Up Miry Run
  
  
• DRBC Cares for Its Communities: Staff Volunteers to Clean-up Delaware River
  
  
• DRBC Cares for Its Communities: Staff Volunteers to Clean-up the Delaware River Shoreline in Pennsauken, N.J.
  
  
• DRBC Cares for Its Communities: Staff Volunteers at the Mercer Street Friends Food Bank