The Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College, in Collegeville, has been named a major recipient of work from Francoise Gilot. The French-born artist will donate a number of portraits of artistic, political and literary leaders. Since the museum was founded in 1987, Gilot’s work has been a large part of its permanent collection. The gift includes her [...]

Interview and article prepared for the Philadelphia Business Journal, as filed last week, without edits, to run in tomorrow’s edition. Mayor Michael Nutter was on hand to watch Bank of America award a $1 million grant to the National Constitution Center earlier this month. “As the leader of our city, it’s very appropriate,” said Tom [...]

Interview and article prepared for the Philadelphia Business Journal, as filed last week, without edits, to run in yesterday’s edition. Dr. Carrie Jacobs works with kids who happen to be gay, and it seems to affect her fundraising. “In 1993, no one was serving these kids,” said Jacobs, the executive director and co-founder of the [...]

Interview and article prepared for the Philadelphia Business Journal, as filed last week, without edits, to run in tomorrow’s edition. Heroes aren’t born.They’re made, at places like the Montgomery County Tactical Response Training Center. The 23,000-square foot weapons and anti-terrorism building in Conshohocken was built at a cost of $10.8 million with the help of more than [...]

Text as submitted to the Philadelphia Business Journal last week for tomorrow’s edition. Just because a business is getting started, doesn’t mean it can’t show some heart. Last year, Morristown, N.J.-based Office Furniture Partnership, with a new Philadelphia location, sent nearly 1,000 care packages to U.S. military personnel serving abroad as part of its ‘Hugs [...]

Article prepared for the Philadelphia Business Journal, as filed last week, without edits, to run in next Friday’s edition. The unique relationship between Save Second Base, which sells tee-shirts and other apparel with its logo, and the Kelly Rooney Foundation, which raises funds for local cancer foundations, is a story of philanthropy born in the [...]

As filed last week for today’s edition of the Philadelphia Business Journal. You just have to protect those teeth. Temple University’s Kornberg School of Dentistry, in conjunction with Henry Schein Inc., a Melville, N.Y.-based distributor of medical, dental and veterinary supplies based, did just that last week. “Poor dental care is the most prevalent disease [...]

As submitted last week, unedited, to the Philadelphia Business Journal for today’s edition. For Jack Simes, it’s all about the smiles. The executive director of the Cadence Cycling Foundation, housed at the Cadence Cycling & Multisport Center in Manayunk, is helping to introduce youth from Philadelphia’s underserved neighborhoods to the cycling world. “There was a [...]