Business for Good

Growing More Wealth With WealthMore

A new financial planning app aims to advise non-affluent investors — especially women and people of color, like its founder, Mical Jeanlys-White

By Courtney DuChene
Business for Good

Nido Turns Renters Into Homeowners

A new app lets Philadelphia landlords help their renters save for a home of their own. The system is not perverse: It’s a perk

By Courtney DuChene
Book Excerpt

Build It Boldly by Kimberly McGlonn

Read an excerpt from the entrepreneur / civic activist’s book about building a business with social impact. Then, join her and Citizen Co-founder Larry Platt on February 3

By Kimberly McGlonn
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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 Pompilio
Business for Good Update

Mom Your Business

Tanya Morris’s incubator for women entrepreneurs is thriving in its new brick-and-mortar home — for now

By Raymond Jones and Lauren McCutcheon
Business for Good

Carbon Reform

Could a Philadelphia company’s clever carbon capture capsule transform how buildings breathe — and impact climate change?

By Courtney DuChene
Business for Good Update

Glitter Grows Up

The three-year-old “Lyft for litter” is an essential, ethical solution to Philadelphia’s ongoing trash problem on 700 blocks. If only the City would hire them to expand everywhere

By Courtney DuChene
Business for Good

BioPhy Uses AI to Predict Life-Saving Medicines

The Philly company supported by Chelsea Clinton's venture capital firm offers a “GPS for Drug Development” that can boost the success rate of clinical trials and get treatments in the hands of patients who need them faster

By Malcolm Burnley
Business for Good

Winx Health

While women’s reproductive health is under attack across the country, a Philly company supported by actress Kerry Washington aims to destigmatize and demystify women’s sexual health products

By Courtney DuChene
Business for Good

M.M.LaFleur

The New York-based retailer’s new Center City shop brings stylish slow fashion to working women — just in time for city workers to return to the office. The company is also helping women run for office, get jobs and save the planet

By Courtney DuChene