What is Soak It Up Adoption?

Soak It Up Adoption is an innovative grant program through PWD, PIDC, and PEC used to beautify and engage residents around green stormwater infrastructure.

If you are a civic or nonprofit consider joining us to work with your community to implement, maintain, and share knowledge about these green tools. Adoption partners receive grant money based on how many sites they adopt and their chosen methods of engagement.

Frequently Asked Questions

Current Partners

TTF Watershed Partnership (logo features a square illustration of a stream, surrounded by greenery, with the Philadelphia skyline in the background - to the right of the illustration, Tookany/Tacony-Frankford is written in bold blue, with Watershed Partnership, Inc. written below in lighter weight grey text.)
APM (logo features two stylized figures in motion, perhaps dancing, below and to the left of the initials APM. To the right of the figures, it says ...for everyone - the full name, Asociación Puertorriqueños en Marcha, is written across the top.)
Centennial Parkside Community Development Corporation (logo features a large C, with a leaf covering the bottom half, wrapping around the beginning of the word Centennial)
the North10 logo says "NORTH10 Philadelphia" in the center in blue capital letters, with the words separated by a gray horizontal line. That is surrounded by a blue ring with white text that says "Hunting Park - East Tioga" around the top half, and "strength" and "promise" around the bottom, separated by a star.
Roxborough Manayunk Conservancy
Hunting Park Community Garden - logo features the letters H and P in the center styled as tree trunks with green tops above the letters, and the rest of the words "Hunting Park" spelled out below in brown. This is surrounded by an oval formed in 4 parts - an arch of produce and garden tools outlined in brown across the top, the words "Community Garden" written in brown along the bottom curve, and green lines completing the sides of the oval.
South Kensington Community Partners
Frankford Community Development Corporation (logo features the words FRANKFORD COMMUNITY slightly staggered, aligned with the horizontal lines of a graphic resembling a simple weaving of semi-transparent stripes - above/right of the name, the stripes are hot pink, below/left they are blue. The words DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION are nestled into the bottom right corner)
Make The World Better (logo features a circular mark divided into colorful rectangles next to the lowercase acronym mtwb, with MAKE THE WORLD BETTER written small underneath, in increasingly bolder letters)
Southwest CDC (logo shows the text in the southwest quadrant of a compass rose)
Friends of Vernon Park (logo shows the name in the lower half of a rectangle, with the upper half dominated by vines)

Discover more about our awesome partners on the Community page.

Partner Gallery

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