Danielle Griffin, a visitor from Houston, Texas, interned at Generocity.org for the month of July. As a college student, we asked her to write about her perspective on how nonprofits can better work millennials as social impact leaders. Millennials are getting a lot of press lately. But what are they (or rather we) really thinking? […]

[metaslider id=30058] Images courtesy of JJ Tiziou Photography After a brief hiatus, JJ Tiziou Photography‘s project, How Philly Moves, is coming back with a new round of photo sessions open to everyone and anyone in Philadelphia who loves to dance. “At its root, How Philly Moves is a photographic project, that is grounded in the […]

The nation’s first Behavioral Health Screening Kiosk is launching at QCare at the ShopRite of Fox Street on August 5. The screening kiosk was developed through the 2014 Scattergood Design Challenge, which asked individuals and organizations to create an intervention (an idea paired with a plan of action) that included an education, access or service component for behavioral […]

Abandoned Red Bell Brewery in Brewerytown. Image via Flickr user Matt Bevilacqua. The Housing Alliance of Pennsylvania, an advocacy organization for safe, decent and affordable housing in the state, released a “comprehensive toolkit” for reducing blight last week. Blight is often defined as the physical decay of a home, neighborhood or city that is caused […]

Front entrance to The Navy Yard, where CBEI is located.  The Consortium for Building Energy Innovation (CBEI) is a federally-funded initiative to research and implement energy efficiency retrofits for small and medium-sized buildings located in the Greater Philadelphia region. It does this by developing customized plans for building owners to reduce their energy use. CBEI is […]

Ernel Martinez and Keir Johnston at the Piazza with their Corner Store project Asian Arts Initiative‘s latest gallery installation, Corner Store (Take-Out Stories), is a collaboration between Amber Art and Design artists Keir Johnston and Ernel Martinez to use the city corner store as a focal point to explore cross-cultural interactions among Philadelphia’s pan-ethnic black […]

This story was originally published in the Philadelphia Business Journal Many people are unaware of the significant role our region has played in building the foundation of the national nonprofit infrastructure. Of course the University of Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia Free Library, the Philadelphia Zoo, Pennsylvania Hospital and the Philadelphia Museum of Art are well known – not only as among the […]