Business For Good

Aequo Fund

The new program aims to take on the failings of the finance world by providing capital (and more) to promising minority and women developers

By Christine Speer Lejeune
The Virus and the City

What’s Next for Latin-Owned Businesses?

Drexel’s Metro Finance Lab director on lessons learned from three U.S. cities about how minority-owned firms can come back stronger from Covid-19

By Bruce Katz, Victoria Orozco, Domenika Lynch and Colin Higgins
Business for Good

Ray’s Reusables

A Brewerytown resident’s pandemic-era business aims to limit plastic waste and bring sustainability to people where they live

By Courtney DuChene
The Virus and the City

Get Ready for the Biden Stimulus

The Democrats' control of the Senate means trillions of recovery dollars are coming. Drexel’s Metro Finance Lab director explains how cities should plan for the influx of cash.

By Bruce Katz, Colin HIggins, Andrew Petrisin and Michael Saadine
The Virus and the City

Can Philly Perfect PPP?

Drexel’s Metro Finance Lab director and the Enterprise Center's Della Clark on organizing locally to save minority-owned businesses

By Bruce Katz Della Clark and Colin Higgins

What Reopening Plan?

Citing “worldwide best practice,” the City has locked down indoor dining, gyms, youth sports and more across Philly—but, as the Broad + Liberty co-founder notes, it will not share what’s needed to reopen

By Albert Eisenberg and Spencer Landis
Business for Good

Aardvark Mobile Health

The Conshohocken-based business is fighting the spread of Covid-19 by meeting people where they are

By Courtney DuChene

It’s the Capital, Stupid!

Della Clark, CEO of The Enterprise Center, has become the city’s chief evangelist for a recovery that invests in Black and brown entrepreneurs

By Larry Platt
The Virus and the City

Big Ideas for Small Business

Drexel’s Nowak Metro Finance Lab director is out with a Marshall Plan-like report for saving small businesses and investing in equity for Black and Brown entrepreneurs

By Bruce Katz
The Virus and the City

“Small Businesses Are The Engines of Inclusive Growth”

Drexel’s Metro Finance director talks with Charisse Conanan Johnson, of small business advisory firm and B Corp Next Street, about what companies need for post-Covid success

By Bruce Katz