Business for Good

Paratodo

Francis Young’s groundbreaking menswear line is heading back to Paris Fashion Week — but makes its biggest impact on hyper-local causes

By Courtney DuChene
Guest Commentary

How Nonprofits Can Fight Rising Energy Costs

Local solar energy leaders urge nonprofits to take advantage of federal incentives before they end on July 3

By Emily Schapira and Sharon Pillar
Business for Good

Medical Guardian

The Philadelphia-based medical alert system wants to help seniors live independently for longer — and stave off the need for home health aides. Can it?

By Courtney DuChene
Guest Commentary

It’s Time to Act on Fair-Chance Hiring

Philadelphia companies have outwardly embraced putting returning citizens to work. That’s great, says a decades-long fair-chance employer — provided those employers do some work themselves

By Nic Watson
Business for Good

FiXA, the Home Repair Connector

What if you didn’t have to bug your friends and family for home repair help and contractor references? A Philadelphia based, women-owned company has your back

By Courtney DuChene
The New Urban Order

Subsidizing the Sidewalk

San Francisco’s new incentive program to bring retail back to downtown is an idea Philadelphia should steal

By Diana Lind

Al Dashiell, Barber Plus

His Center City shop offers shaves, haircuts — and health care

By Laura Brzyski
CITIZEN OF THE YEAR

Corporate Citizens Leigh and John Middleton

You know them as the couple who owns the Phillies. You likely know less about their extensive philanthropy, including being the force behind a major new art exhibition — and that’s just fine with them

By Lauren McCutcheon
Guest Commentary

A Powerful Path to Peace?

A local circular economy leader on the fallacy of the scarcity mindset behind Trump’s latest war in the Middle East

By Nicolas Esposito
Guest Commentary

A Region Rises Together — or Not at All

Last in economic mobility among the 50 largest U.S. metros and stagnant in job creation, Greater Philadelphia should, says a chamber of commerce chair and a former U.S. ambassador, unite to succeed

By David L. Cohen and Christopher Franklin