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Archive: February 2015

DVGBC’s Tri-State Sustainability Symposium Convenes Local Leaders on March 6 purpose

Feb. 27, 2015 1:00 pm

DVGBC’s Tri-State Sustainability Symposium Convenes Local Leaders on March 6

Each year, the Delaware Valley Green Building Council hosts its Tri-State Sustainability Symposium to bring together industry, academic and community leaders to share best practices, ask challenging questions, and provide cutting edge information about sustainability in the PA/DE/NJ Tri-State region. This year’s symposium is taking place at Temple University’s Performing Arts Center on March 6. […]
What Philly’s Urban Farmers are Up to This Winter method

Feb. 27, 2015 11:30 am

What Philly’s Urban Farmers are Up to This Winter

[metaslider id=35110] Sure, freezing temperatures and icy winds can be inconvenient. For those of us fortunate enough to have a roof over our heads, winter is nothing but a few months of enduring discomfort and lethargy. But what if your business depends on warmer climates? This is the dilemma faced by Philly’s urban farms. Whereas […]
LadyHacks Aims to Increase Women’s Participation in the Philadelphia Tech Scene purpose

Feb. 26, 2015 12:30 pm

LadyHacks Aims to Increase Women’s Participation in the Philadelphia Tech Scene

Girl Develop It, Girl Geek Dinners, and TechGirlz are organizing LadyHacks, Philadelphia’s women-only* hackathon, to address the gender gap in computer technology and related fields. This year’s event will be held at First Round Capital on March 6 and 7. Last year’s event had 80 participants. The goals of LadyHacks include increasing women’s participation in the Philadelphia tech […]
Councilman Kenyatta Johnson Introduces Bill Creating Tax Credit for Workforce Development method

Feb. 26, 2015 11:44 am

Councilman Kenyatta Johnson Introduces Bill Creating Tax Credit for Workforce Development

Councilman Kenyatta Johnson introduced a bill today that would create a dollar-for-dollar tax credit for businesses that contribute to workforce development. “This tax credit will make skilled labor positions more available by encouraging businesses to invest in low-cost skill certification programs,” Johnson said. “This will employ folks with higher paying jobs, increase our tax base […]
#PhillyChanger Chats: Ethan Blades of ActionAIDS people

Feb. 25, 2015 3:31 pm

#PhillyChanger Chats: Ethan Blades of ActionAIDS

Editor’s note: This video was filmed in December of 2014. Ethan Blades no longer works for ActionAIDS and is now Development Manager at Community Design Collaborative. #PhillyChanger Chats is a video series aimed at making Philly leaders more accessible. We’ll be featuring leaders of nonprofits, social enterprises, local government, and community organizers who are active […]
Calling Social Service Leaders: Take This Community Support Survey results

Feb. 25, 2015 12:33 pm

Calling Social Service Leaders: Take This Community Support Survey

The Philadelphia African American Leadership Forum, a collaborative of African American leaders in Philadelphia committed to improving the quality of life for the African American community, is collecting research on African American-led nonprofit organizations in Philadelphia. Urban Affairs Coalition, on behalf of the Philadelphia African American Leadership Forum, received funding from the United Way of […]
Biz Journal: Local duo creates Internet company to compete with Comcast, Verizon method

Feb. 25, 2015 11:35 am

Biz Journal: Local duo creates Internet company to compete with Comcast, Verizon

This article originally appeared in the Philadelphia Business Journal here. A startup duo wants to give Internet users in Philadelphia a more affordable, versatile and practical alternative to the Comcasts and Verizons of the world. David Platt, 43, and James Gregory, 35, have been spearheading Bamboowifi, a wireless Internet service provider, since last year. (If […]
Media Mobilizing Project: Untold Stories of Parents Fighting For Philly Public Schools purpose

Feb. 24, 2015 1:30 pm

Media Mobilizing Project: Untold Stories of Parents Fighting For Philly Public Schools

These videos originally appeared on Media Mobilizing Project here and here.  Media Mobilizing Project reached out to parents across Philadelphia in the summer of 2014 in search of powerful untold stories. The goal of the series was to get a sense of how families have been affected by the education budget cuts in recent years as […]
Social Impact Across the US: Solutions From the Bottom-Up results

Feb. 24, 2015 12:59 pm

Social Impact Across the US: Solutions From the Bottom-Up

This week in Social Impact Across the US: unexpected, bottom-up solutions to social problems, from co-ops that buy property to improve their communities to using a sugary byproduct of beer brewing to clean wastewater. [listly id=”b6r” layout=”magazine” show_header=”false” show_author=”false” show_sharing=”false” show_tools=”false” per_page=”25″] What do you think about what’s happening in social impact across the U.S.? How […]
From Detroit to Philly: Q&A with Maud Lyon, New President of the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance people

Feb. 24, 2015 11:30 am

From Detroit to Philly: Q&A with Maud Lyon, New President of the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance

In early January, Maud Lyon took over as president of the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance after serving as the executive director of Culture Source (a similar organization in Detroit) since 2008. Generocity.org sat down with Lyon last month to discuss why she came to Philadelphia and what her plans are for the Cultural Alliance over the first […]