Children’s Scholarship Fund Philadelphia is a private program that offers scholarships to private schools for parents who want to send their kids to one but can’t afford it. From the article: CSFP is about school choice … CSFP exists to…
Author: Natalie
What’s a parklet?
It’s the summer of The Philadelphia Citizen for me! The pandemic changes our lives in multiple ways, including the ways we interact with outdoor space and each other. In Philadelphia, dozens of newly licensed “streeteries” have brought dining outside. There’s…
Development for good — It’s a real thing
U3 Advisors is a development company that works unlike most others. It aims to respect a place’s history while helping it move towards a better future. Read the article here.
Another Generation Change profile
This one is about Chris Cera, a local tech entrepreneur who tries to help local businesses. From the article: Philadelphia’s business tax laws are complex, confusing, and controversial, particularly its high wage tax and practice of double-taxing commercial entities. When…
Helping kids with asthma by improving their home environments.
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Community Asthma Prevention Program (CAPP+) was launched in 2018. Its mission: Improve the health and overall well-being of the one in four children in West Philadelphia i diagnosed with the condition.It does this by making…
Ideas we should steal — from thephiladelphiacitizen
It’s mind-blowing that the federal minimum wage is STILL $7.25/hour. This article I wrote for The Philadelphia Citizen talks about a program using government funds to help small businesses pay their employees a higher hourly wage. Your thoughts?
Have you watched Abbott Elementary yet?
Abbott Elementary is a funny, thoughtful sitcom about the teachers and students (and a fabulous principal and a scene-stealing janitor) teaching and learning in a Philadelphia public school and the challenges they face. It just wrapped its second season and…
Generation Change and a health care program that’s working
Generation Change is a partnership between The Philadelphia Citizen and Keepers of the Commons to highlight and bring together future leaders in the city. In this piece, I write about Dr. Shreya Kangovi and IMPact, the Community Health Worker program…
The Philadelphia Citizen
The Philadelphia Citizen is a web-only publication that focuses on solutions journalism. I started writing for them about a year ago and every story is interesting and important. (Seriously.) I thought I’d finally share: First up, this one about the…
For GoodRX: What I eat as a chemo patient
Chemotherapy can change the way foods taste or smell, and stimulate an appetite or suppress it. (It’s a misconception that people receiving chemotherapy lose weight. Some do; some don’t.) Favorite foods can become repulsive, enjoyable smells can be intolerable, and…