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Tim Swift, Professor of Management, St. Joseph's University

How business students learn to make ethical decisions by studying a soup kitchen in one of America’s toughest neighborhoods

Guests line up for a hot meal at St. Francis Inn on Kensington Avenue in North Philadelphia. Timothy Swift, CC BY-SA

For the past decade I have volunteered at St. Francis Inn, a soup kitchen in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia.

Kensington, for those not from Philly, has long had a reputation for potent but affordable street drugs. Interstate 95 and the Market-Frankford elevated commuter train line provide easy access to the neighborhood for buyers and sellers, and abandoned buildings offer havens for drug use and other illicit activity.

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