Topic: Ideas We Should Steal

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?

Can increasing civic engagement keep people out of jail and off the streets in Philly as it has in New Haven?

Britain appointed the world’s first official to combat an epidemic of loneliness. A similar post here could save lives

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has a 10-point plan for increasing civic engagement across the city. We need the same in Philly

Philly 3.0’s engagement director looks west for ways to fix our antiquated political system

A French requirement that groceries donate surplus food has provided millions of healthy meals. Would it work here?

The Fruitvale Transit Village in Oakland has brought many of the benefits associated with gentrification—but few of the negatives

The 29-year-old organization sends promising high school grads in groups to 56 colleges across the nation. How about getting Philly in on that pipeline?

The best way to stop a school shooting has nothing to do with guns, or locks, or school police. It’s to prevent them from happening beforehand