A problem my community faces is housing. Not everyone has a safe and stable place to live, and many people struggle daily to find a home they can afford. I believe everyone should have a fair chance to own a home. Housing should not be treated as something only for people with high incomes. It […]

About three years ago, Mekia Elizabeth Matthews was gifted a community space by a neighbor. She decided to turn it into an afterschool space for the children in her neighborhood.  She lives in Harmony Hill, the neighborhood surrounding Fernhill park in Southwest Germantown and the after school program is called the Harmony Home Team. The […]

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 […]