
May 13, 2019 2:27 pm
Power moves: Dena Driscoll joins Public Interest Law Center
Plus, a high-profile hire at The Barnes Foundation, and awards and honors for young professionals, journalists, business and nonprofit leaders.

Apr. 18, 2019 10:51 am
Knight Foundation releases report assessing Civic Commons efforts in 5 cities, including Philly
The initiative was piloted in Philadelphia in 2015 with $11 million in support from Knight and the William Penn Foundation.

Apr. 16, 2019 12:24 pm
Another community garden is losing land to development
A developer recently purchased one of César Andreu Iglesias Community Garden's parcels in Kensington for $2,500.

Apr. 2, 2019 3:07 pm
Power Moves: Remembrance, justice and paradigms in the spotlight
An astonishing range of power women made their moves in March — fittingly, the month in which we stop to honor women's history and achievements.

Jun. 29, 2017 3:30 pm
On the Market: 10 comms + development jobs open right now in Philly social impact
Check out these positions from Delaware River Waterfront Corporation, Milkcrate, Technically Media (hey, that's us!) and more.

Jan. 27, 2017 7:34 am
LISC and Barra Foundation are helping build out Ken Weinstein’s Jumpstart program
What started as the developer's bootstrapped effort to revitalize Germantown has become a scalable program other neighborhoods are coveting.

Nov. 22, 2016 12:57 pm
North Philly Peace Park is crowdfunding to build a school
If the $20K comes through, the Sala Nkrumah Institute for Creative Labor will be one more step toward the park becoming what it once was before being forced to relocate.

Sep. 2, 2016 12:42 pm
Moving On: Norris Square Neighborhood Project’s Amanda Morales Pratt
The development and marketing manager on what funders get wrong about grassroots nonprofits, and what organizational sustainability actually looks like.

Jul. 19, 2016 2:33 pm
Gregory Heller believes social impact real estate is ‘critical to the future of our cities’
The former American Communities Trust CEO now heads up the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority. Heller explains social impact real estate in his TEDxPhiladelphia talk.

Jun. 17, 2016 10:55 am
Rasheedah Phillips’s Community Futures Lab in Sharswood is underway
The Community Legal Services attorney and Afrofuturist has launched the project to document the effects of redevelopment in her neighborhood.
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