As filed – without edits – for last Friday’s edition of the Philadelphia Business Journal. IF PHILANTHROPY ALWAYS HAD this much to do with meatballs, everyone would get involved. Looking for a new way to raise money for Susan G. Komen Philadelphia Race for the Cure, Linda Rosanio enlisted her mother “Mama” Nancy Catelli to [...]

As filed – without edits – for today’s edition of the Philadelphia Business Journal. BRINGING A PROFESSIONAL SOCCER TEAM to Chester may have little to do with bringing professional soccer to Chester. In February, Philadelphia was officially granted Major League Soccer’s 16th franchise, to be played in a 20,000-seat, soccer-specific stadium that is leading a [...]

As filed – without edits – for last Friday’s of the Philadelphia Business Journal. THE SPIRIT OF PHILADELPHIA partnered with the Kelly Anne Dolan Memorial Fund on April 20 to benefit families in the region with seriously ill or disabled children. Four hundred patients and their loved ones were aboard the Spirit of Philadelphia, along [...]

As filed – without editing – last week for yesterday’s edition of the Philadelphia Business Journal. SCA Americas has gone green with its educational advocacy. The Swedish consumer goods and paper company with U.S. headquarters in Philadelphia celebrated Earth Day last week by donating a book with a message to elementary schools in Philadelphia. “For [...]

As filed – without edits – for last Friday’s edition of the Philadelphia Business Journal. IT IS DISTURBING JUST HOW often you think you have heard the story. How an 18-year-old finds a drive after the prom to be her last. Last year Lacey Gallagher was a senior at Little Flower Catholic High School for [...]

As filed – without editing – last week for yesterday’s edition of the Philadelphia Business Journal. Dan Soskin, the owner of Pinot, a wine and accessories store in Old City, wants you to give a home to needy animals. “I have four pets of my own,” he said. “With the exception of the iguana, they [...]

As filed last week for tomorrow’s edition of the Philadelphia Business Journal. Bowlers just might be the real test of the economy. Organizers of the 14th annual charity bowling tournament sponsored Remington & Vernick Engineers and Affiliates, a consulting agency in Haddonfield, N.J., were worried if they could top their total last year, roughly $69,000, [...]

As filed last week for the Philadelphia Business Journal, to run in last Friday’s edition. There are those who seek out an opportunity to swim in a frigid lake in March. “Honestly, it’s something I’ve always wanted to do,” said Gary Frisch, company president of Swordfish, a public relations agency in Voorhees, N.J. “I’ve been [...]

Never posted this, thought it as good as time as any, at this point, to celebrate the marketability of professional athletes giving back. -cgw Interview and article prepared for the Philadelphia Business Journal, as filed, without edits, to run in the Jan. 11, 2008 edition. Two Eagles lent their significant star power to brighten the [...]

Interview and article prepared for the Philadelphia Business Journal, as filed, without edits, to run in a previous edition. On. Oct. 15, 1974, the world’s first Ronald McDonald House opened on Spruce Street, before moving to Chestnut near 39th Street. More than 30 years later, Philadelphia’s second, a 15 room, 27,000 square foot home for [...]