
Jun. 18, 2025 7:21 am
Community Development Financial Institutions: Agents of Change
The Transformative Impact of CDFIs Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) have fundamentally shaped the landscape of community investment and support. Over the past 40 years, Jim Burnett, Executive Director of VestedIn noted, “CDFIs have had a major impact on the communities that they serve, whether they be urban, rural, or native populations. We have made […]

Jun. 4, 2025 8:00 am
Parents Step Up As Advocates For Underfunded Schools
Pennsylvania’s Chronic Underfunding of Public Schools Children being educated in closets. Students who had to wear coats in their classrooms during winter. Exposure to lead and asbestos. Crumbling infrastructure. One reading specialist per 1,000 children and one guidance counselor per hundreds of students. These were some of the testimonies given by students, parents, and school […]

May 7, 2025 8:00 am
Beyond Books: A Social Infrastructure In Need Of Support
Headline photo credit: Human City Creative As they face similar challenges, nonprofits in the Philadelphia and the Pittsburgh regions can learn from the differences in each other’s institutional ecosystems. This article, the first in a series, focuses on the challenges of building and maintaining social infrastructure like libraries in the aftermath of the recent struggles […]

Apr. 18, 2023 6:14 am
Gentrification and affordable housing: What’s the remedy to a sick situation?
How local organizations are hoping policies and financing can impact the intersection between long-term affordability and gentrification.

Feb. 22, 2023 6:13 am
From Disenfranchisement To Empowerment: Uplifting Neighborhoods
How local organizations are overcoming 50 years of overlooked legislation to reinvest in communities.

Oct. 14, 2021 9:15 am
Village of the Arts seeks to deepen and scale its impact as it reflects on its legacy
The Fairhill-Hartranft organization is growing its team and expanding its programs.

Oct. 12, 2021 8:44 am
How Temple’s Small Business Development Center is working to bridge the digital divide
With the new PA Digital Transformation eCommerce Program, the SBDC wants to help entrepreneurs thrive in the digital economy. It's also expanding to locations outside of North Philadelphia.

Apr. 12, 2021 12:41 pm
Black-led BanksGiving and Empify are focused on changing financial futures
Chris Banks and Ashley Fox talk to Generocity contributor Lisa Bryant about their financial education efforts in Philly. Not only what people need to learn, but what they need to unlearn.

Mar. 5, 2021 10:48 am
‘If you start to address the affordable housing issue, you will begin to address the poverty issue’
The Philadelphia Coalition for Affordable Communities tackles the city’s housing crisis with its Land Justice Campaign.

Jan. 29, 2021 11:00 am
5 principles of community driven development — and how to actualize them
"We have to have a clear theory of change, a set of guiding values and a way to operationalize them," says guest columnist Dr. Bill McKinney.