Golf 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 Pompilio

A 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 Pompilio

Her 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 Pompilio

The Citizen Recommends: Embracing 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 Pompilio

CITIZEN OF THE YEAR AWARDS: Sister 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

The Citizen Recommends: “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 Pompilio

Citizen of the Year 2023 Awards: Michelle 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 Pompilio

Partnering 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