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Have Your Say in the City Budget

It’s budget season, time for Philadelphians to comment on how the City should spend their money in the coming year. Mural Arts helps you do it

By Natalie Pompilio
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We Are America March

From Independence Hall to the Capitol steps, 100 people trek 160 miles to prove that solidarity isn’t just a word — it’s a journey

By Autumn Demberger

How to Celebrate Local News Day

The Philadelphia Citizen and Philadelphia magazine invite you to take part in this first-ever day of action. (But you can also celebrate tomorrow, and the day after that … )

By The Philadelphia Citizen Staff
Citizen Of The Week

Christina Kallas-Saritsoglou, Quiet Champion

For more than 20 years, the co-founder of Philly AIDS Thrift has done good by selling people’s old, unwanted stuff — resulting in more than $5 million of good

By Natalie Pompilio
Ideas We Should Steal

Give Every Kid a Bed

Three percent of all children in the U.S. are bedless. An Idaho-based nonprofit working to give them a safe, comfortable place to sleep now has a chapter in NJ. Is Philly next?

By Courtney DuChene

​​A Eulogy For Jesse Jackson

In the wake of last month’s death of the civil rights icon, his one-time collaborator and former Penn professor pens an intimate — and urgent — remembrance.

By Michael Eric Dyson
Citizen of the Year Awards

Youth Citizen Yuvaraj R. Gambhir

For his advocacy, fundraising, mentorship and more, the Philly native and University of Pennsylvania senior is this year’s Youth Citizen of the Year

By Christina Griffith

How to Help Immigrants

Immigrants in the United States — and Philadelphia — are in perilous times.

By Diemmy Dang, Bayleh Alexander and Lauren McCutcheon
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215 Day of Giving

Two-thirds of Philadelphia nonprofits operate on shoestring budgets. A new fundraiser aims to give them the financial and morale boost they need

By Natalie Pompilio
Citizen of the Week

Klean Kensington’s Jeremy Chen

Philadelphia wants residents to imagine the future. In Kensington, one resident is helping teens just achieve more than surviving the present

By Emilia Maia