The Citizen Recommends

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
Business for Good

Solar States

The Kensington-based solar panel installer has always had a mission to grow jobs for Philadelphians while helping the planet. Now, it’s training a new cohort of workers who’ve been through the justice system

By Courtney DuChene
Business for Good

American Trench

The Main Line company stocks rugged, classic apparel made in the U.S.A. that’s made to grow jobs — and made to last

By Courtney DuChene
Business For Good

Immortal Vision Studio

CJ Wolfe’s Kensington studio has become a creative hub for anyone who wants to learn photography — thanks to a photographer who taught himself the trade

By Frank Festa