HISTORY

Established in 1976, the California Conservation Corps (CCC) is the oldest and largest conservation corps in the nation. Each year the CCC provides more than three million hours of public service conservation work and disaster assistance in all regions of California - urban, suburban and rural - for projects that include emergency response (flood, fires and earthquakes), energy conservation and retrofitting, irrigation system installment, landscape management, boardwalk construction, trail building, tree planting and wildlife habitat restoration. Corpsmembers are California citizens from diverse backgrounds age 18 to 25 years old. 55% of Corpsmembers arrive without a high school diploma, making education, vocational training and personal development high priorities during their service in the Corps. A cost effective State department, the CCC generates half its funding through project work throughout the state and the remainder is allocated in the general budget.

Created in 1988, the California Conservation Corps Foundation (CCCF) is a non-profit public benefit organization that supports the programs and crewmembers of the California Conservation Corps. The Foundation supplements funding of CCC programs with priorities including; Workforce Development, Education, Leadership Training, Conservation, Veterans and Emergency Response.

THIRTY FIVE YEARS OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS: