Philadelphia Citizens Planning Institute is hosting free workshops on June 3 and June 20 for members of Registered Community Organizations (RCOs), and for groups interested in the designation. RCOs are community organizations officially recognized by the city for zoning purposes. Their main benefit is that developers must individually notify local RCOs of projects in their […]

The creation of the Pennsylvania Housing Trust Fund in 2010 came after years of effort by affordable housing and homeless advocates to get the state more involved in housing services for low- and moderate-income households. This is exactly what the trust fund was designed to do. It created a framework for investing money in households […]

greenSTEM Network, an initiative of the Philadelphia Water Department, has been working hard to get the project moving after selecting the winner’s of its student challenge on April 11. The greenSTEM challenge was a student design competition in three Philadelphia schools to create artistic, original garden enclosures to protect low-cost, DIY sensor kits (named Root Kits) that display […]

Summer of Open Source Kickoff & Workshop Girl Develop It Philly will be kicking off their summer of open code this evening in partnership with Code for Philly. The Girl Develop It team and former Chief Data Officer Mark Headd will walk you through what open source is, give an overview of open source projects, and […]

The Enterprise Center, a West Philadelphia-based community development corporation (CDC), is seeking applicants for a year-long accelerator program called ELevate, which offers local business owners peer support, credit repair, expert advice and access to low-cost financing. The program is named for its location inside the Enterprise Center’s headquarters, which sits directly next to the elevated […]

.@wolfforpa @governorcorbett we ask that you keep the youngest citizens at the center of your campaign @PreK4PA http://t.co/TkiO4Gk32j — United Way GPSNJ (@PhillySJUnited) May 23, 2014 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey, a member of Pre-K for PA, tweets the letter at gubernatorial candidates Tom Wolf and Tom Corbett Last week, […]