The Center for Environmental Transformation was awarded a National Coastal Resilience Fund (NCRF) Community Capacity-Building Grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) to support this planning effort.

The Center for Environmental Transformation is an environmental justice organization based in South Camden. We work to empower communities through environmental education and by fostering sustainable, community-driven solutions to local challenges. Many of our board members are long-time residents who have been active in building the social fabric of the city and envisioning its future. We were founded in 2007 by parishioners at Sacred Heart Church to address environmental and social challenges facing the city. Our emphasis has always been on grounded efforts, beginning with urban farming and youth engagement, evolving to take on a larger scale and scope of environmental work.

To assist us with this coastal resilience planning effort, the Center for Environmental Transformation (CFET) engaged a public interest consulting team of engineers, landscape architects, planners, ecologists, hydrologists, and policy experts at PennPraxis, eDesign Dynamics, and the Water Center at Penn. Our planning team has over 25 years of experience working with communities and governments to solve resilience problems, and they bring expertise from many past projects, including infrastructure planning in Camden.