Ideas We Should Steal

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

Colby for a Cause

Philly hunger nonprofit Philabundance has launched an innovative program to benefit farmers, retailers, the environment, and the hungry. Its secret weapon? Cheese.

By Jill Harkins
Ideas We Should Steal

The Citizens Project

Can increasing civic engagement keep people out of jail and off the streets in Philly as it has in New Haven?

By Jill Harkins

Giving Well

Geneva Global, a certified B Corp, brings a business mindset to big money philanthropy to spread change around the globe

By Jill Harkins
Meet the Disruptor

Gridless

The NJ-based startup makes getting power easier and greener in the areas where it matters most: disaster sites, high risk situations and, of course, food trucks

By Jill Harkins

Landing on Your Feet

Local nonprofit PAR-Recycle Works teaches those recently released from prison to break down electronics—and sells the resulting scrap metal

By Jill Harkins
Meet the Disruptors

Lia Diagnostics

Founders Bethany Edwards and Anna Couturier-Simpson have created the first FDA-approved, biodegradable pregnancy test that protects the environment and women’s privacy

By Jill Harkins

Simon’s Heart—and Ryan’s

Dad Darren Sudman and coach Gabe Infante are both intimately familiar with the pain of losing a young person to heart failure. Now they’re teaming up to support coaches across the country who share their common bond

By Jill Harkins

The Power of Coaching

Women’s Way is bringing an innovative Delaware financial literacy model here to give economic tools to the poorest—and potentially most powerful—population in the city: Women

By Jill Harkins
Citizen of the Week

Scott Blunk

The volunteer at W.B. Saul High School’s on-campus farm is taking what was once seen as troublesome and expensive animal waste and transforming it from poo to profit

By Jill Harkins