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18 Philly Spots to Serve This MLK Day

On Monday, January 20, Philadelphia will come together to serve our community for Martin Luther King Jr Day. Below, you’ll find volunteer opportunities, along with service sites and locations, to engage with in the Greater Philadelphia Area—all curated by and with students. We’ve listed the opportunities in three categories:  

  • See opportunities labeled MLK Day Project for MLK-Day-specific volunteer sites
  • See opportunities labeled Ongoing Service for year-round volunteering
  • See Student Spotlights for sites where other students have served, and learn how you can participate both on MLK Day and throughout the year

Join your community in service this MLK Day, and read on to find a service site near you. Join us!

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How This Drexel Graduate Built His Own Company… and Why He Did it in Philly

At a recent Venture Café Thursday Gathering, the Campus Philly team met a 2019 Drexel University graduate named Adit Gupta. Adit graduated from the College of Computing and Informatics, and while chatting about how awesome it is to go to college in Philly, he casually mentioned that the technology startup he founded while in college, VyB Technologies, LLC., just released an app called VyB, and that he and his team were invited to present their product at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in 2020, making VyB the only Philly-based company at the exclusive Las Vegas event.

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