Topic: returning citizens
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Business for Good: Solar States
The Kensington-based solar panel installer has always had a mission to grow jobs for Philadelphians while helping the planet. Now, it’s training a new cohort of workers who’ve been through the justice system
By Courtney DuChene![](https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Wharton_WORKS-791x400.jpg)
Business for Good: Wharton WORKS
Penn business school’s new program teaches incarcerated men and women valuable skills — and future MBAs about the value of employing people who have been released from prison.
By Courtney DuChene![](https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/UliftU-1-791x400.jpeg)
Liberation through Fitness
Philly nonprofit UliftU provides training and jobs for recently incarcerated Philadelphians while tackling chronic diseases in under resourced communities
By Christina Griffith![](https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/IMG_6467-1-791x400.jpg)
Business For Good: Bungee Oblečení
Darrell Alston has walked many paths — athlete, rapper, inmate. All of them have led to the role he’s filling now, as CEO and lead designer of a new Philly-based high-end sneaker line
By Jessica Blatt Press![](https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/TerraVida-cannabis-jobs-791x400.jpg)
Unlikely Bedfellows
A chain of local medical marijuana dispensaries has teamed up with the Urban League to secure rights—and jobs—for would-be workers denied employment due to previous cannabis-related convictions
By Courtney DuChene![](https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Untitled-3-791x400.png)
The Most Woke Billionaire On Earth
Main Line entrepreneur and 76ers co-owner Michael Rubin’s eyes were opened to the criminal injustice system through his friend Meek Mill. Now he’s on the case.
By Larry Platt