The Philadelphia-based Stoneleigh Foundation hired a new executive director, Ronnie L. Bloom, who began the position last week. The former executive director, Cathy Weiss, led the foundation for four years. She announced her intention to step down in December 2013. Generocity did a Q&A with Weiss just prior to the announcement, which contains more details […]

FastFWD offices at Impact Hub in South Kensington. The public-private business accelerator FastFWD is now accepting applications for its second 12-week round. In the first round,  FastFWD worked with 10 different companies that addressed public safety and helped them develop their business models and refine their vision. The focus of the second round will again […]

Image via FastFWD website The first 12-week round of the social entrepreneurship accelerator FastFWD came to a close last Friday with a day of investor pitches by 10 companies focused on public safety. The products and services they presented ranged from educational programs for prisoners to new ways to organize evidence for law enforcement agencies. The […]

2012 Ride of Silence via Philly Bicycle Coalition’s Flickr This past Saturday, May 10, NBC Philadelphia reported that a 38-year-old bicyclist was killed near 2nd and Girard in Northern Liberties when he was struck by a car. In the past 11 months, five bicyclists have been killed in accidents with motor vehicle accidents in the Delaware […]

HollaBACKPhilly, a project of Feminist Public Works, launched its new transit ad campaign on Tuesday. It’s a new, expanded transit ad campaign with a total of 25 ads in the interior of subway cars, on the subway platforms, and in bus shelters across the city. “We decided to do the campaign as a transit campaign […]

FastFWD offices at Impact HUB in South Kensington FastFWD, a cross-sector business accelerator designed to address major social problems, is putting city officials in the same room as entrepreneurs for the program’s first 12-week accelerator focused on public safety. The accelerator is a partnership between the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Social Impact Initiative, GoodCompany Group […]

The newly-revitalized Raindow de Colores Park in Eastern North Philadelphia. (Image via LISC) The collaboration between local police and the community members of neighborhoods located on the eastern side of North Philadelphia was one of the main highlights at the “Safe Streets, Strong Communities” symposium, a national crime forum held last week in New York by the Local Initiatives Support […]