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Who Is Philly’s Integrity Icon?

BY JESSICA BLATT PRESS Remember March? Before the world imploded, back on March 2nd, The Citizen announced the launch of Integrity Icon, a contest in partnership SEAMAAC, WURD Radio, United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey, and D.C.-based Accountability Lab to name the publicly-paid workers in Philly who show the highest amount of integrity in their jobs. We called for citizens to submit their nominations. Then, we asked a panel of judges to review them, and narrow down the candidates to just five. DO SOMETHING Vote The judges were appointed based on their own levels of integrity. There was Michael O’Bryan, an expert in community [...]

2021-03-31T11:46:08+00:0020th January 2021|

Who’s Your Philly Hero?

Philly has some serious challenges. Let’s celebrate those public servants rising to meet them. By Blair Glencorse & Sara Hoenes t’s tough in Philadelphia right now. Covid-19 is spreading, with well over 20,000 cases in the city and with effects that are exacerbating existing inequalities: Racial injustices continue while free speech in response seems to be under threat, and even professional sports remains on hold. Meanwhile, President Trump’s re-election campaign and the Republican Party are suing Pennsylvania to force changes in how the state collects and counts mail-in ballots ahead of the presidential election in November. But amid the chaos, there are some incredible individuals who are doing [...]

2020-07-08T13:37:52+00:008th July 2020|

Who Is Philly’s Integrity Icon?

We're running Integrity Icon Philadelphia in partnership with a number of Philly-based organizations including The Philadelphia Citizen, an innovative non-profit media outlet that combines solutions-oriented journalism with specific calls for civic action. The Citizen’s Executive Editor Roxanne Patel Shepelavy lays out our shared vision for how Integrity Icon can celebrate and encourage the best of Philadelphia’s public service below. Talk to anyone who has dealings with the City, and you’ll hear a lot about city workers. Bureaucrats, inefficient, tied by unnecessary rules, political appointees who clock in, do the minimum needed, and then clock out. You know, city workers. But you’ll also, [...]

2020-06-01T08:49:51+00:0013th March 2020|

LOVE A TEACHER?

If you know an exemplary teacher in Philadelphia, help us and our partners The Philadelphia Citizen, SEAMAAC, WURD Radio and United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey give them the recognition they deserve by nominating them for Integrity Icon Philadelphia. Talk to any parent in Philadelphia, and you’re bound, eventually, to get to the topic that’s always top of mind for those raising children in the city: schools. Talk to them long enough to get past the usual worries and you’ll likely find yourself hearing something beautiful and perhaps (to those looking on from the outside) surprising: That [...]

2020-07-07T19:54:15+00:0013th March 2020|
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