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Total Impact Conference

ImpactPHL’s latest event wants to help investors do good with their money

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

Now Comes The Hard Part

By appointing his first school board, Mayor Kenney has taken responsibility for schools. How can we know if he’s succeeded?

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
Business for Good

Kensington Avenue Storefront Challenge

Shift Capital launched a contest to bring nine new businesses to the neighborhood’s main strip. Is this what smart development looks like?

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
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Mouthful

Season two of the Philly Young Playwrights podcast starts today. You don’t want to miss it

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
Ideas We Should Steal

Threat Assessment Teams

The best way to stop a school shooting has nothing to do with guns, or locks, or school police. It’s to prevent them from happening beforehand

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
Ideas We Should Steal

Children’s Cabinet

Mayors around the country are launching city-wide efforts to get all stakeholders thinking about what’s best for kids. Can it work here?

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
CitizenCast

Good Neighbors

A Citizen and Free Library event on Monday explored the perennial urban question: How do we make communities everyone can live in?

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

Champions of the Vote

A group of Fairhill residents are launching an effort to bring voters to the polls in May. Turns out, they’re the change they’ve been waiting for

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

Saving The Future, One Kid At A Time

An innovative Juvenile Justice Hub proposed by two Philly cops is a finalist for a Bloomberg Philanthropies grant. It’s time, they say, for smarter policing

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

Judy Wicks’ Not-Shark Tank

The legendary Philly restaurateur and activist has coralled her baby boomer friends to help new entrepreneurs get ahead. It’s her way of creating the city she wants to live in

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy