Benefits Data Trust

[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” custom_class=” admin_preview_bg=”] Benefits Data Trust (BDT) was founded by Warren Kantor in 2005 as a response to a challenging and common experience – confusion and frustration faced when applying for public benefits. As he sat down with his widowed mother to help her complete a lengthy application for

A Message from PIDC About Current Events

To our PIDC clients, partners, and friends, In the past few days, millions of people have raised a massive collective response to the ongoing issues of unequal justice and racism sparked by the recent killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and countless others over years of injustice. At PIDC, we are keenly aware

PIDC Welcomes a New Chairperson & New Board Members

[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” custom_class=” admin_preview_bg=”] Sal Patti PIDC and PIDC Community Capital Chairperson We are thrilled to announce that longtime PIDC Board of Directors and Executive Committee member, Salvatore J. Patti, has been elected by the Board to serve as the new PIDC and PIDC Community Capital chairperson.  He has also

PIDC HONORS LONGTIME CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF PIDC, M. WALTER D’ALESSIO, AS HE RETIRES

After 48 years of service to PIDC, M. Walter D’Alessio retired and chaired his last Board of PIDC meeting on April 21. Read our full Board Resolution here. You Can’t Say “PIDC” Without “WALT” Walt arrived in Philadelphia in 1960, beginning an unprecedented 60 year career in planning, developing, financing, and managing major economic development

Congratulations Class of 2020!

[av_image src=’https://pidcphilablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/pidc-congrats-class-2020-1100×430-1.jpg’ attachment=’8490′ attachment_size=’full’ align=’center’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=” overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’ animation=’no-animation’ custom_class=” admin_preview_bg=”][/av_image] [av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” custom_class=” admin_preview_bg=”] PIDC would like to congratulate our 2020 interns on their recent graduation.  These talented interns joined PIDC to learn and assist us in driving growth to every corner

City & PIDC announce COVID-19 Small Business Relief Fund recipients

City of Philadelphia and PIDC Announce Awards from the Philadelphia COVID-19 Small Business Relief Fund Over 2,000 businesses receive a total of $13.3 million PHILADELPHIA — The City of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC) today announced that a total of 2,083 small businesses have been selected to receive $13.3 million from the

A Message from Our President About COVID-19

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Like the entrepreneurs, business and nonprofit leaders, and members of our community who started this year with a vision for what they hoped to accomplish and contribute in 2020, this is not the letter that I expected to write for my first quarterly update as president of PIDC. Philadelphians, and people around the globe, are

Eatible Delights Catering

[av_image src=’https://pidcphilablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/eatible-delights-spread-1000×400-1.jpg’ attachment=’8324′ attachment_size=’full’ align=’center’ styling=” hover=” link=” target=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=” overlay_opacity=’0.4′ overlay_color=’#000000′ overlay_text_color=’#ffffff’ animation=’no-animation’ custom_class=” admin_preview_bg=”][/av_image] [av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” custom_class=” admin_preview_bg=”] Whether you’re in need of catering for a business luncheon, corporate banquet, wedding, repast service, dinner party, corporate event, social gathering, or themed event, Eatible Delights Catering has

Applications are Open for the 2020 PIDC-D’Alessio Scholarship for Urban Development

[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” custom_class=” admin_preview_bg=”] PIDC is excited to announce the second round of the PIDC-D’Alessio Scholarship for Urban Development. The scholarship was launched in 2019 to support graduate students at Philadelphia schools seeking to pursue a career in urban development and finance. The scholarship was created by PIDC in recognition

Distillers in PA Create Sanitizer for Frontline Workers

[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” custom_class=” admin_preview_bg=”] PIDC client, New Liberty Distillery, has joined forces with members of the Pennsylvania Distillers Guild, health departments, plastic suppliers, financial donors, and other entities to create and distribute at least 1.3 million bottles of sanitizer to the hands of front-line workers across Pennsylvania in a steady