North Philadelphia : Featured Stories

Small businesses and startups in the City of Brotherly Love now have a powerful new tool: Kiva Zip provides crowdfunded, zero-interest loans to entrepreneurs that engage with their communities. Become a lender on October 15 and double your impact.

After the shuttering of a much-touted media hub, what's next for Temple University's Center for Public Interest Journalism and Philadelphia media as a whole?

Flying Kite continues our look at the fate of the city's shuttered schools. In North Philadelphia, a valuable neighborhood institution is caught between community interests and an ascendent university.

From Seattle to Washington D.C. to Philadelphia, forgotten alleys are being reinvented. Often perceived as dirty and dangerous, these narrow gems are moving beyond garbage and garages to become havens for pedestrians, public art and small businesses.

This century-old neighborhood institution closed its doors last year. As with other schools shuttered by the district, its future is in limbo. Could it become a vocational school? A community space? A mixed-use hub? Time will tell.

Friday's showcase of 'ideas worth sharing' made an argument for Philadelphia as 'The New Workshop of the World.' Speakers touched on education, development, access and modern manufacturing.

This local project looks to craft a meaningful post-script for a vacant home in Mantua. A team from Temple is capturing the neighborhood's collective memory, and planning for the lot's post-demolition future.

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According to the National Science Foundation, female fifth-graders demonstrate the same level of interest and ability in STEM subjects as their male counterparts. By ninth grade, they fall behind. This Breadboard program looks to close that gap.

While local schools continue to slash arts programming, the Village of Arts and Humanities produces a print magazine by youth for youth -- even finding the funds to pay their contributors.

A couple of Tyler grads are using a spruced-up truck to bring stellar brew to the Temple campus, and creating an innovative community art practice in the process.

While Philly might be playing catch-up in the sustainable building movement, here are three exciting projects that bode well for the future.

Thanks to an emboldened CDC spearheading unique campaigns, Frankford Avenue might just be back on track.

Flying Kite is profiling some of Philadelphia's under-the-radar revolutionaries. In this issue, a Southwest Philly urban gardener and activist.

Palmetto state-native Thomas Green, Temple University's latest Homecoming King, is committed to engaging area youth through theater and the arts.