Celebrating the Philadelphia2035 Plan This week Philadelphia took a moment to celebrate the progress made over the last year in the ongoing Philadelphia2035 planning process. Plan Philly reflects on these developments. [Plan Philly]   Center City District Releases Job Report The Center City District has a role outside keeping downtown Philadelphia clean and safe. […]

“Philadelphia may be one of very few cities that can really mobilize around social [good] as a defining agenda for the social enterprise and business community.” - Garrett Melby

"We are really trying to shift how the leadership of nonprofit organizations perceives the fundraising exercise. To be donor-centric is a major mind-shift, especially for organizations that are older and grew up doing things the same way year in and year out." — Bob Evans

City Council Member Bill Green has proposed two bills that would impact the nonprofit sector. One would require nonprofits to file an annual report outlining their benefit to the community. The other would tax commercial activity by nonprofits that is outside of their stated mission, a classic example being a gift shop located inside a […]

Entrepreneurial friends Jay Coen Gilbert, Bart Houlahan and Andrew Kassoy have always been passionate about creating a better world through business. In the early aughts, when Jay and Bart were running AND1, their $250 million basketball footwear and apparel business, and Andrew was deep into a private equity investment career, they came up with a way […]