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Delaware Valley

Delaware Valley Earth Force is currently working with over 3,000 students and 90 teachers in 50 schools in southeastern Pennsylvania. Some recent projects our Earth Force students have completed include:                                                                                                       

  
    - Starting a school wide recycling program
    - Operating an urban tree farm and promoting tree stewardship in the community
    - Creating a school recycling program for plastic, aluminum and old cell phones
    - Renovating a school greenhouse and growing vegetables for a local charity
    - Developing an outdoor sensory garden for students with visual impairment
    - Planting 180 trees to help improve native plant restoration projects

In addition to providing project support, Delaware Valley Earth Force offers training institutes to teachers and other adult leaders of youth throughout the school year. Check out the training events on our events page for upcoming workshops and our summer institutes.

Our office offers the Earth Force CAPS and GREEN programs to educators in the Delaware Valley, including the five-county region of southeastern Pennsylvania and parts of New Jersey. Click to find out more about our programs, or contact us using the information provided below.

Contact Us

100 Greenwood Avenue
Wyncote, PA 19095
Phone (215) 884-9888
Fax (215) 884-9895
Email delval@earthforce.org  

   

Executive Director
Janet Starwood 

Resource Manager
Corri Gottesman

Program Coordinator
Evelyn Christian

Program Manager
Tom Davidock

Director of Youth Development
Dawn Wales 

Office Manager
Wendy Weber
                                                                      

 
Back: Kate, Colleen, Wendy
Front: Evelyn, Janet, Corri

 

News Items

  • Delaware Valley Earth Force: Executive Director Position Open

    26 Feb 2008 - Earth Force is seeking an experienced non-profit executive as Executive Director for its Delaware Valley Earth Force (DVEF) office located in Wyncote, PA. More...
  • Janet Starwood Resigns As Executive Director

    26 Feb 2008 - Executive Director Janet Starwood says goodbye to Delaware Valley Earth Force. More...
  • 2006-2007 Yearbook now available

    2006-2007 Yearbook now available
    10 Dec 2007 - The Delaware Valley Earth Force 2006-2007 yearbook is now available online. Please feel free to download the yearbook and learn about all of the wonderful projects that Earth Force classrooms completed last year. More...
  • Cheltenham School Sets Sail on Local Watershed Project

    Cheltenham School Sets Sail on Local Watershed Project
    20 Nov 2007 - Karen Shaffran and Debi DiBattista are two 7th grade science teachers at Cedarbrook Middle School who are embarking on an education adventure with over 250 of their students. These teacher and students will be taking part in an Earth Force Watershed Protection Program. The students will connect awareness of watershed issues with action to protect and restore the watershed through community projects. More...
  • Success Stories

  • Pottsgrove Middle holds "Get Green Day" festival

    Pottsgrove Middle holds
    17 Mar 2007 - Pottsgrove Middle School held its first annual Get Green Day Saturday, March 17. This free environmental awareness festival featured face painting, raffles, community yard sale and a recycled art contest. More...
  • Choice Reigns at Upper Dublin

    8 Feb 2007 - Judy Winship at Upper Dublin High School made doing an Earth Force a choice for her environmental science students this year. See what projects these creative students are working on right now. More...
  • Earth Force EAC to the Rescue!

    Earth Force EAC to the Rescue!
    8 Feb 2007 -

    Every Monday after the close of school a group of dedicated 5th graders assemble in Geoffrey Selling’s classroom at Germantown Friends School.  This group of students is called...

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