Voice: Jill Harkins

One Step Forward
First Step Staffing connects vulnerable people with jobs. Then, it ensures they keep them
By Jill Harkins
Triple Bottom Brewing
The local brewery wants to prove that a business can be profitable and still do good by its employees, the people it serves and the environment
By Jill Harkins
Choose Tap (Wooder)
Can the water department convince Philadelphians that what comes out of their sinks is safe, and convenient? A year-long project is trying to do just that
By Jill Harkins
Plastic with a Purpose
Philadelphia-based rePurpose is trying to reduce plastic consumption and bring fair pay to the global workers tasked with recycling it. Will more Philadelphians join them in going #PlasticNeutral?
By Jill Harkins
Men’s Sheds
A global nonprofit making its way across the U.S. is fighting loneliness and depression in older men by bringing them together to build things. Could the next shed be here in Philly?
By Jill Harkins
Security Deposit Alternatives
An option for a security deposit insurance program is helping landlords and tenants fill 400,000 apartments nationwide, including some in Philly. Should it become law here, as it is in Cincinnati?
By Jill Harkins
StationSoccer
Atlanta nonprofit Soccer in the Streets combines soccer and public transit to bring the sport to neighborhoods that don’t always get to play. Could Philly do something similar?
By Jill Harkins
Community Centered Development
A Portland B Corp is pushing a more inclusive process for building up a neighborhood. Can Philly learn a lesson from the most gentrified city in America?
By Jill Harkins
Pedal to Porch
The Detroit group tempers the effects of gentrification by connecting newer and older residents through the power of storytelling
By Jill Harkins
Democratizing Food
For the last decade, the Common Market has spread affordable access to locally-sourced nutrient-dense food to the city’s neediest. Now its mission is spreading nationwide
By Jill Harkins