Topic: Meet the Disruptor

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
Locus Partners
The Center City architecture firm links design with social good. Their mission? Making communities stronger.
By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
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
Stacey Mosley
The city data scientist-turned-entrepreneur is taking on blight … because someone’s gotta do it
By Larry Platt
Ivy Advantage Academy & 12+
The intertwined for-profit and non-profit college prep companies bridge the gap between privilege and poverty
By Syreeta Martin
StreetChange
A local psychiatrist’s app helps users help the homeless—and provides certainty about where their money goes
By Josh Middleton
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
‘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
‘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
Jeri Lynne Johnson
The founder of Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra takes the elite out of symphonic music
By Rana Fayez