Voice: Natalie Pompilio
Text Your Friends, Get Out the Vote
Who among your friends is a voter — and who is not? A new tech platform helps you find out, and gives tips on how to nudge them to the polls. What are you waiting for?
By Natalie PompilioHow to Embrace Your Political Enemy
Penn students traveled all over Pennsylvania this summer to prove political empathy isn’t dead. (And find out what they learned at a Citizen event on September 17.)
By Natalie PompilioGolf for Good?
Tiger Woods and the Cobbs Creek Foundation are bringing STEM learning and golf access to the historic course where the “Jackie Robinson of golf” learned to play. Their goal: Use golf as a road to opportunity
By Natalie PompilioA Path to “Jobs That People Love”
PECO’s workforce development initiative is, little by little, making solid middle class careers easier to get for Philadelphians who look like their customers
By Natalie PompilioHer Body, Her (Beautiful) Self
The three-year-old Body Empowerment Project has helped students in 17 Philadelphia schools accept — and embrace — their physical selves this year. Support their work at their year-end party on April 25
By Natalie PompilioEmbracing the Light
Mural Arts Philadelphia and First Person Arts have partnered on a community project that explores the pain of suicide through theater and art. See the performance on March 16
By Natalie PompilioSister Mary Scullion and Joan Dawson McConnon
Join us on January 30 to honor the Project HOME pioneers with a Lifetime Achievement Award
By Natalie Pompilio“Talking” To Your Dead Loved Ones
A Rail Park installation allows a grieving local writer to call her deceased parents and convey thoughts that are “carried by the wind.”
By Natalie PompilioMichelle Belser
The Citizen’s 2023 Block Captain of the Year gets her neighbors to vote in record numbers, and makes sure the block isn’t just clean — it’s beautiful.
By Natalie PompilioPartnering For Better Criminal Justice
“Court doulas” from Partners for Justice have saved more than a million hours of incarceration — and millions of taxpayer dollars — nationwide. Now, they’re bringing their work to Philadelphia
By Natalie Pompilio