Topic: Ideas We Should Steal

A Portland B Corp is pushing a more inclusive process for building up a neighborhood. Can Philly learn a lesson from the most gentrified city in America?

Chuck Mingo, a Philly native and pastor of an evangelical Cincinnati megachurch, on the groundbreaking program he’ll discuss at November’s Ideas We Should Steal Festival

New York is the only big American city that has cut its poverty rate. Mayor Bloomberg’s former anti-poverty czar talks about making it happen by taking risks

At next month’s Ideas We Should Steal Festival, the CEO of Brooklyn’s Ascend Charter Schools will talk about turning away from “No Excuses” and toward what may be the key to education: Joy

High schoolers from around the city answered the call for solutions to Philly’s problems. One team takes their project—to halt the schools to prison pipeline—to Aspen

The Detroit group tempers the effects of gentrification by connecting newer and older residents through the power of storytelling

Could a Michigan experiment to bring medical school-like training to the teaching of teachers make for better-prepared educators—and more successful students?

Author Anand Giridharadas discusses his provocative new book, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, see him at The Citizen's Ideas Fest November 30th

In St. Paul—where voter turnout is already an enviable 75 percent—landlords must give new tenants voter registration info. Could something similar help get more residents to the polls in Philly too?

A Portland B Corp is pushing a more inclusive process for building up a neighborhood. Can Philly learn a lesson from the most gentrified city in America?