Topic: Citizen of the Week

Five years after collecting her first donations, Penn student Natasha Agarwal is celebrating 250,000 books distributed to young readers.

Is Port Richmond the coolest library in Philadelphia? If so, it’s thanks to a clever, kind, and innovative worker bee living three blocks away (and actual bees who dwell there)

The 2025 finalist for the Be Well Philly Health Hero Challenge, presented by IBX, carried on her son’s legacy after his death from lymphoma, helping nearly 40,000 cancer patients find free lodging during their own treatments

When her husband Anthony was diagnosed with younger-onset Alzheimer’s, a Doylestown woman chose to speak out and create a national community of support

His Center City shop offers shaves, haircuts — and health care

Even before she experienced cancer herself, the retired Penn English professor had a knack for “magical” prompts to help patients write through their illness at the Abramson Cancer Center

For more than 20 years, the co-founder of Philly AIDS Thrift has done good by selling people’s old, unwanted stuff — resulting in more than $5 million of good

Leona Davis wanted to repurpose the flowers from her daughter’s wedding. Now she’s created a circle of giving that brings joy, purpose, and sustainability across the region

Parenting infants and little children can be incredibly lonely. Hannah Fenlon, Linda Joy and Hannah Newman have a solution in a co-op that already includes 80 families

How a tattooed, middle-aged hairstylist made The Philadelphia Cycling Classic the sporting surprise of America’s 250th