Pew invests $7.34M in Philly nonprofits, including Tech Impact, YouthBuild
Technology training nonprofits Tech Impact and YouthBuild Philadelphia are among the 45 Philadelphia nonprofits receiving $7.34 million in grants over the next three years from the Pew Charitable...
View ArticlePhilly game devs take over IndieGameStand.com, for a cause
Philly’s indie game developers are taking over game retailer IndieGameStand for the month of July. All month long, gamers can pay what they want for featured local releases. Ten percent of the proceeds...
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What founders can learn from middle school girls: TechGirlz summer camp
On Friday, the last day of the TechGirlz Summer Entrepreneur Camp, five groups of middle school girls presented their startups to the “Dolphin Tank,” a panel of judges who would choose which startup to...
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‘The Data Wearhouse’: RJMetrics is now selling swag
If you were searching everywhere for that “Friends Don’t Let Friends Build Their Own Data Warehouses” poster, your long nightmare is finally over. RJMetrics, the Center City business analytics startup,...
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Sign up to donate blood with N3rd Street
N3rd Street is hosting its first blood drive on Aug. 24. You can donate blood at Devnuts or at Indy Hall National Mechanics. #meetup_oembed .mu_clearfix:after { visibility: hidden; display: block;...
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Philly tech companies are donating school supplies, thanks to this woman’s...
Anittah Patrick has been wheeling a little red wagon around to Philly tech companies to pick up school supplies for two South Philly public schools. Patrick used to work at Leadnomics and now runs her...
View ArticleLeadnomics is having a blood drive Monday and they’re giving away pie, too
This Monday, donate blood, eat pie from Kermit’s Bake Shoppe and check out Leadnomics’ new-ish office. Leadnomics, the University City lead generation company, is having a blood drive from 10 a.m. to 3...
View ArticlePhilly Game Forge is collecting gifts for kids at CHOP again
It’s time for the Philly Game Forge’s Holiday Social, version 2.0. For the second year, the shared workspace for game developers (and other makers now, too) is having a holiday party and charity toy...
View ArticleLooking for volunteer opportunities? Join Think Brownstone at Broad Street...
At Think Brownstone, the agency where I’m executive vice president, we believe that design and technology fundamentally exist to improve life for everyone. One of the founding principles of our company...
View ArticleHere’s a new program where devs can inspire Philly kids to code
As CEO of Coded by Kids, an education program for inner-city youth, I talk to a lot of people — potential partners, budding entrepreneurs, devs looking to volunteer. Often, when I speak with...
View ArticleDonate gifts for kids and play locally made games at the Philly Dev Night...
Yes, Philly Game Forge is gone, but don’t count its annual toy drive out just yet: say hello to the Philly Dev Night Holiday Social V3. On Friday, Dec. 16, at the Microsoft Reactor Philadelphia, the...
View ArticleA silent auction called Collective Action rallied 100 Philly artists through...
Some 100 Philly-based artists have pledged work for Collective Action, described as “a silent art auction for social justice under Trump,” and they did it through social media. The event, happening on...
View ArticleHere’s what Philly tech was up to during MLK Day
While some view Martin Luther King Day as a straight-up holiday, a few Philly technologists honored the day’s spirit by taking on impact projects across town on Monday. We saw Code for Philly partner...
View ArticleHere’s how you can help Philly girls see ‘Hidden Figures’ for free
Following a national trend, Philly nonprofit Camp Sojourner is raising money for girls to see Hidden Figures this week. The movie tells the story of three Black women who helped send a man into space....
View ArticleMicrosoft gave out 50 tablets to these Philly nonprofits
The Microsoft Reactor Philadelphia, through the software maker’s Microsoft Philanthropies division, donated 50 Surface tablets — plus peripherals like keyboards and mice — to seven Philadelphia-based...
View ArticleHere are 5 places in Philly to donate your old electronics
When Nonprofit Technology Resources closed up shop in 2015 it left a void in Philly. The Spring Garden-based nonprofit, which had been taking in donated computers, fixed them up and giving them to...
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