The Philly Fellows program is based primarily on the research of the Pennsylvania Economy League  and Knowledge Industry Partnership, and encouraged by a
variety of other supporting sources and best practices. The following links will connect you to professional studies and articles which have guided the planning of Philly Fellows.

Knowledge Industry Partnership

Should I Stay or Should I Go?
-Survey of Recent College Graduates (Philadelphia
Area)

The Young and the Restless
-How Philadelphia Competes for Talent

Pennsylvania Economy League

Greater Philadelphia's Knowledge Industry: Driving the Region's Economic Competitiveness
-Greater Philadelphia Regional Review, Spring 2003

The Fight for Metropolitan Philadelphia: An Agenda
-April 2003

Fight or Flight: Metropolitan Philadelphia and its Future
-October 2001

Greater Philadelphia's Knowledge Industry: Leveraging the Region's Colleges and Universities in the New Economy
-Fall 2000

Other Articles and Research

The Nonprofit Sector's Leadership Deficit
-The Bridgespan Group, March 2006

Nonprofits' Job Engine Transforms Pa. Economy
-Philadelphia Inquirer, August 2005

Putting Students to Work
-Philadelphia Business Journal, June 2004

Brain Drain? Not so Fast (link)
-Philadelphia Inquirer, June 2004

Cities Launch Programs to Lure College Graduates
-Wall Street Journal, June 2004

The Brain Drain
-Philadelphia Inquirer, April 2003

Region Faltering in Talent Race
-Philadelphia Inquirer, July 2002

What Else is There Besides Money?
Richard Florida, Information Week, April 2000