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MIO Culture

As B Lab holds its annual retreat this week, the local designer and sustainability consultant talks about running—and encouraging others to run—a socially-conscious business

By Todd Snider
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Locus Partners

The Center City architecture firm links design with social good. Their mission? Making communities stronger.

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
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VoteCastr

Finally, a company—with local roots—is set to give voters the same election day play by play the media and political elite have kept hidden from us

By Larry Platt
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Stacey Mosley

The city data scientist-turned-entrepreneur is taking on blight … because someone’s gotta do it

By Larry Platt
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Ivy Advantage Academy & 12+

The intertwined for-profit and non-profit college prep companies bridge the gap between privilege and poverty

By Syreeta Martin
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StreetChange

A local psychiatrist’s app helps users help the homeless—and provides certainty about where their money goes

By Josh Middleton
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Skyless Games

People spend three billion hours online gaming. A local company asks: Why not repurpose those hours for the greater good?

By Rana Fayez
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‘Techno Rebels’ Jarvus Innovations

They’ve spent $600,000 on social impact ventures—and they’re growing. Ultimately, they want to build a spaceship ... while making the world better

By Larry Platt
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‘SheCanic’ Patrice Banks

The former “auto airhead” learned to fix her own car. Now she teaches other women, and is set to open a woman-friendly repair shop

By Emma Copley Eisenberg
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Jeri Lynne Johnson

The founder of Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra takes the elite out of symphonic music

By Rana Fayez