Calling All Nonprofit Leaders!

The Fitler Club Foundation’s new impact residency offers a year of membership, wellness and mentoring for the most worthy Philadelphians — those on the frontlines of helping others

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
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More Worker-Owned Businesses

How about a workplace where you share the wealth with your co-workers — including your boss? Pittsburgh, Boston and other cities are helping local businesses become employee-owned, with benefits for all

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
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Ideas We Should Steal Festival

Looking for a way to turn post-election blues into healing, inspiration and action? Join us this week at The Citizen’s 7th annual event celebrating heroic thinkers and problem-solvers

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
Ideas We Should Steal Festival 2024

The YIMBYS Have Won

San Francisco pro-housing activist and Philly native Sonja Trauss will return to her hometown on November 15 to herald a solution to our housing crisis. Here, she reflects on how to avoid the pitfalls of Bay Area unaffordability

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

How to Support Veterans

More than a dozen ways to give back to those who fought to keep you free

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Ideas We Should Steal Festival 2024

When Will We Start Listening to Working Class Voters?

Author Batya Ungar-Sargon and former PA Congressman Patrick Murphy will talk about the underappreciated voters who may have decided the 2024 election at our festival on November 15

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Choose Democracy

The 2024 election was the beginning, not the end, of saving our democracy. Here's what else you can do

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Ideas We Should Steal Festival 2024

A 24-Hour Marathon of Giving Local

The director of Austin’s annual event that raised $10 million for 700 local nonprofits — in one single day — talks about how it works at The Citizen’s 7th annual event on November 15

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

Vote Like Mount Airy Votes

Voting divisions in Northwest Philly have among the most engaged voters in the city — including, in one division, 90 percent turnout. The reason is not what you might think

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Ideas We Should Steal Festival 2024

Debra Winger on Overturning Citizens United

Wondering what the actor has been up to lately? Find out about her political activism at The Citizen’s Ideas We Should Steal Festival on November 15

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy