Character Lab

Setting The Table — For Success

The latest installment in our partnership with Character Lab, co-founded by MacArthur Award-winner Angela Duckworth, highlights a study that found one solution to encouraging kids to eat healthy foods. Could the secret to positive decision-making at the dinner table — and beyond — lie in human connection?

“Standing in Solidarity with Small Businesses”

Comcast RISE has awarded over $110 million to 13,000 small companies around the country since 2020. There are two more weeks to apply for a 2023 grant

By Natalie Pompilio

LGBTQ-Owned Shops, Restaurants, More in Philadelphia

Brick-and-mortar LGBTQ-owned businesses span all of Philly. Here, some that strive not just to sell, but also to do good in and beyond our city

By The Philadelphia Citizen Staff
The Citizen Recommends

WURD’s Empowerment Experience

The event on Saturday launches Pennsylvania’s only Black-owned radio station’s 20th anniversary year with shopping, cooking, hope — and dancing

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

15 Ways Philadelphians Can Give Back this Thanksgiving

However you feel about the holiday — its lore, its food, its super-spreader potential — you can still use it as a chance to do good. Here, some simple, impactful tips to get started.

By Ethan Young
Generation Change Philly

The Activist Chef

South Philly Barbacoa’s Cristina Martínez has earned the highest honors for chefs in America. But that’s just the start of her most important work

By Katherine Rapin
Guest Commentary

Come Celebrate Our “Cosmopolitan Canopy”

A lifelong Philadelphian invites Reading Terminal Market lovers to share memories and stories about the city’s old world marketplace at a special event Wednesday

By Thomas Devaney

How to Fight Food Insecurity in Philly

Donate peanut butter! Organize a food drive! Sort cans! Here are 15 simple things you can do now to help food insecure citizens of Philadelphia.

By Christine Speer Lejeune
Generation Change Philly

The Urban Farmer

An irrepressible leader of today’s urban farming movement in Philadelphia, Christa Barfield builds individual and community health from the ground up

By Christina Griffith

How Philly Invented Ice Cream (As We Know It)

It was African American chefs who created the summertime treat we consume by the gallons, right here in the city where America was born

By Tonya Hopkins