Business for Good

The Merchants Fund

The 150-year-old organization gives help to small businesses when they need it, $10,000 at a time, writes Patrick Bilow

Ideas We Should Steal

Neighbor-powered realty co-ops

In Minneapolis, neighbors joined together to develop property in their community. Jessica Press wonders if that approach could ensure Philly residents benefit from their changing neighborhoods too?

Hahnemann Hypocrisy

Despite the rhetoric of Mayor Kenney, Helen Gym, and Bernie Sanders, the hospital’s fiscal woes are not new. Larry Platt wants to know: what did they know and when did they know it?

Megan Rapinoe for President?

Larry Platt writes that the Democratic candidates ought to get beyond their bubble of consultants and learn from the soccer star and her “love more, hate less” message

Reality Check with Abbe Stern

Charles Ellison and Abbe Stern, hospitality manager at the Rittenhouse Hotel, discuss how she started a food rescue operation to bring restaurant excess to food banks and other organizations that could use it.

By Charles D. Ellison
Ideas We Should Steal

College Thrift Stores

An upstate New York college helps reduce its community’s carbon footprint by giving students a way to recycle used clothes and textiles. Nick Fiorellini thinks it could be huge in Philly

Seriously? Busing?

Larry Platt thinks the flare-up between Joe Biden—Philly’s third senator—and Kamala Harris is a window into why people hate politics

Reality Check with David Bradley, Founding Director of LiveConnections

Charles Ellison and David Bradley, Founding Director of LiveConnections, sit down to discuss the music program at Hill-Freedman World Academy. Its students recorded an album inspired by the Sound of Philadelphia (including a cover of "Wake Up Everybody").

By Charles D. Ellison

To Grow Or Not To Grow

Helen Gym, Allan Domb, the Chamber and other stakeholders are all talking about “inclusive growth.” Larry Platt asks: what might that look like here?

Reality Check

Philadelphia’s Really Bad Gas Problem

The PES refinery fire, WURD’s Charles Ellison argues, proves our embrace of gas plants doesn’t square with Mayor Kenney’s green rhetoric