image above from PhillyCAM’s Telling Our Stories Panel & Exhibit” photo credit: PhillyCAM In 2025, Philadelphia’s social impact sector faced serious challenges, including growing needs, shifting policies, and a widening gap between where resources are available and where problems exist. Generocity’s most-read stories went beyond our planned stories. They highlighted the people and organizations working […]

Generocity took some time off to plan an ambitious year of impact and coverage. Take a moment to review our 2026 Editorial Calendar. Our theme this year is Democracy & Human Rights. As we enter the 250th anniversary of America, our coverage will examine the promise that was made and how our government and nonprofits […]

image above | Villa Africana Colobó Community Garden in Norris Square. Photo taken by Laura Duarte Bateman “Flourishing” is probably not the word most of us would choose to describe 2025. Yet, over the past year, Generocity explored a wide variety of solutions aimed at helping Philadelphia do just that. Contrary to the idea of […]

This time last year, Philadelphia was debating whether to construct the 76 Place arena in Center City. Though the Sixers would eventually change their plans after community opposition, the debate echoed the experiences of communities throughout the country—and across the state in Pittsburgh. For generations, Pittsburgh’s Hill District, located just outside Downtown Pittsburgh, stood as […]

Community Development Financial Institutions are having to once again prove their value at a time when many neighborhoods can least afford to lose them. In Philadelphia, that pressure is colliding with both the recent near-shutdown of the federal CDFI Fund and a growing wave of locally rooted innovation aimed at small businesses and young people. […]

image above: Dr. Clemencia Rodríguez and Rasheed Z. Ajamu at the People’s Media Camp organized by The People’s Media Record, October 3-5, 2025. Picture courtesy of People’s Media Record, taken by Luiza Barreto. For the first time in a century, the United States is experiencing a sustained decline in press freedom. According to Reporters Without […]

From pandemics to federal cuts, communities across the country have been impacted more than most have ever imagined by misaligned practices and divisive policies.  Michael O’Bryan has long been a bridge-builder – a leader who sees beyond fragmented systems to the whole people caught within them. Through this lens, he launched Humanature, the consulting and […]

image above | A panel of speakers discusses energy equity at the 2025 ECA conference   Helene McGregor is a 77-year-old Neighborhood Energy Center (NEC) worker at Center in the Park in Germantown. Her work consists of helping Philadelphians in the 19139, 19144, and 19150 zip codes obtain financial help with their energy bills.  She […]

Natasha Oglesby speaking at the 2025 Mayday rally. Photo by the author  It’s been six months since thousands of Philadelphians gathered outside City Hall for the annual May Day rally, commemorating International Workers’ Day. Yet one speaker’s testimony still echoes today. “I was recently evicted from my home a day before my birthday,” SEIU 32BJ […]

Dr. Revati Prasad of the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society and Christopher Wink of Technical.ly deliver the Keynote address at the Tech Learning Collaborative’s 2025 conference.   Zabeehullah Yadgar is an Afghan immigrant who moved to the United States in 2023. He is now in the nine-month Digital Bridge Peer Facilitator program at The […]