Voice: Christine Speer Lejeune
Business for Good: Coffee With a (Updated) Mission
Saxbys has been training young, socially-conscious entrepreneurs and uplifting local communities for years. Now, it’s “walking the talk” with its new B Corp status
By Christine Speer Lejeune
Business for Good: Truth & Consequences
In an industry known for high levels of burnout, one local ad agency has a different blueprint for success: taking care—great care—of its employees
By Christine Speer Lejeune
Rats on the Parkway!
A Fairmount resident’s encounter with rodents—in broad daylight!—sent her on an odyssey to get city action. Here’s what happened … and what you can do about Philly pests, too.
By Christine Speer Lejeune
Business For Good: Aequo Fund
The new program aims to take on the failings of the finance world by providing capital (and more) to promising minority and women developers
By Christine Speer Lejeune
The Bok Evolution
Six years ago, developer Lindsey Scannapieco set out to turn an old South Philly school building into a space for Philly’s creative class. She overcame neighborhood skeptics to become so much more.
By Christine Speer Lejeune
The Citizen Recommends: Beethoven in Beijing
A soaring new documentary from Sam Katz's History Making Productions explores the Philadelphia Orchestra’s role in the revival of classical music in China almost 50 years ago ... and the lasting global impact today
By Christine Speer Lejeune
The Ultimate 2020 Ideas We Should Steal Festival Reading List
Want to hear more from our Festival speakers? Check out their books.
By Christine Speer Lejeune
Ideas We Should Steal Festival 2020: Changing Police Culture
A retired police sergeant on abuse of power, systemic reform and the deadly problem with “Contempt of Cop”
By Christine Speer Lejeune