There are more than 2,300 nonprofit organizations in Philadelphia - more than 40 percent operate on margins of zero or less. Neville Vakharia recently developed "ImpactView," a tool to help nonprofits find each other, pursue funding and collaborate.
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Venise Whitaker shares how her background of activism that led her to neighborhood-based historic preservation and the Citizens Planning Institute. Venise Whitaker is a Fishtown resident, community activist and a constituent service representative for City Council President Darrell Clarke in District Five.
Plan Philly: "How diversity saved a historic church in West Philly" →
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Richard Kirk tells the story of how the Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church was able to address issues of attendance decline, building disrepair, and the threat of demolition by embracing community and arts uses, and housing a diversity of faiths.