In the News
Our team and our story have been covered on TV, in newspapers and magazines, and on film. In 2025, CBS Philadelphia chose GET Café as its Hometown Heartbeat Award winner, with a $50,000 prize and $25,000 in advertising.
“To be honest, I don’t think many people believed that this was possible.” Brooke Goodspeed, CBS Philadelphia, 2025
Honors & grants
NBCUniversal Local Impact Grant: $20,000 from NBC10, Telemundo62 and Comcast NBCUniversal, 2026
Comcast NBCUniversal unrestricted grant: one of 80 nonprofits chosen, 2026
Trenton Film Festival: Brewing Possibilities screened May 2, 2026
CBS Philadelphia Hometown Heartbeat Award: 2025 winner, $50,000 plus $25,000 in advertising
Main Line Today Power Women: Brooke Goodspeed, 2020
For reporters
We’re happy to help with stories about inclusive employment, neurodiversity, disability and community. We can arrange interviews with our founder and, with their consent, members of our team.
Press contact: info@getincluded.org. Founder: Brooke Goodspeed, PhD, Executive Director. Founded: GETincluded 2015, GET Café 2019. Location: Narberth, PA (Main Line, Philadelphia).
[TO FILL IN: A media kit (logos, approved photos, fact sheet, Brooke’s bio) doesn’t exist yet. Want one?]
Every story
Here is every story we’ve found, 43 so far, newest first. [TO FILL IN: Did we miss a story? Anything from before 2019, or local papers like the Main Line Times?]
- Feeling Disconnected? These 12 Montco Third Places Are Made for Lingering
MONTCO.Today · 2026 - Comcast NBCUniversal Announces $2.5 Million in Unrestricted Grants to 80 Nonprofits
Comcast NBCUniversal (press release) · 2026 - NBC10, Telemundo62 and Comcast NBCUniversal award more than $227,000 to eight local nonprofits in the Greater Philadelphia region
NBC10 Philadelphia · 2026 - 12 Independent Coffee Shops to Visit in Montgomery County This National Coffee Day
MONTCO.Today · 2026 - Narberth Coffee Shop Focused on Inclusion Plans Major Expansion
MONTCO.Today · 2026 - Get Cafe Packs Up, Moves Down the Block to Brew More Jobs in Narberth
Hoodline · 2026 - Get Cafe unveils new location, expanding opportunities for neurodivergent workers
CBS News Philadelphia · 2026 - Montgomery County coffee shop unveils new location, expanding opportunities for neurodivergent workers
CBS News Philadelphia · 2026 - Celebrating Documentary Films, Finding Community at 20th Trenton Film Festival
Town Topics (Princeton, NJ) · 2026 - Trenton Film Society presents a Regional Documentary Film Festival
New Jersey Stage · 2026 - GET Cafe in Narberth, Pennsylvania wins CBS Philadelphia's 2025 Hometown Heartbeat Award
CBS News Philadelphia · 2025 - GET Cafe in Narberth, Pennsylvania wins CBS Philadelphia's 2025 Hometown Heartbeat Award
YouTube (CBS Philadelphia) · 2025 - Red (Carpet) Alert! New film focuses on GET Café, Narberth's uniquely welcoming coffee shop
Savvy Main Line · 2025 - Neurodivergent Community Support At Narberth Café Subject Of New Film
Patch (Bryn Mawr) · 2025 - GET Café is Brewing Inclusive Employment and Learning Opportunities on the Main Line
Main Line Parent · 2025 - 8 Pennsylvania businesses that hire adults with IDD
Keystone Newsroom · 2025 - Amplify Nursing Season 10: Episode 03: Brooke Goodspeed
Amplify Nursing (Penn Nursing podcast) · 2025 - Blind filmmaker David Y. Block is finally telling his own story
Broad Street Review · 2025 - For People with Disabilities GET Cafe is Community
Patch (Ardmore) · 2024 - Dr. Brooke Goodspeed: Pioneering Inclusive Employment and Community Building
Main Line Parent · 2024 - Get Cafe Celebrates Its Fifth Anniversary
FOX 29 Philadelphia (Good Day) · 2024 - Ariana Bucciarelli: GET Cafe Employee of the Month
Patch (Ardmore) · 2024 - Profiling Recent GET Cafe Employee of the Month Dillon Shea
Patch (Ardmore) · 2024 - For People with Disabilities, the GET Cafe Is Community: A Place with No Stares or Glares
The Ability Toolbox · 2024 - Montgomery County café helps provide employment opportunities for people with disabilities
6abc Philadelphia · 2023 - Narberth's GET Café Is a Coffee Shop Where All Abilities Are Welcome
MONTCO.Today · 2023 - Profiling Two Outstanding GET Cafe Employees
Patch (Ardmore) · 2023 - Your Real Champion®: "Brooke Goodspeed and The GET Café"
Your Radio Doctor (Your Real Champion) · 2023 - Meet Three Philadelphia-Area Cafés Serving Up Coffee with a Side of Opportunity
Edible Philly · 2023 - GET Café Employs Disabled Community Members in Narberth
Main Line Today · 2023 - Brooke Goodspeed, Founder at GETincluded: inclusion of neurodivergent individuals
Minority Report Podcast · 2022 - Everyone Deserves A Bright Future: Celebrating Milestones With GETIncluded.org's CEO
Main Line Parent · 2021 - Meet Local Business Owners
Valley Forge Tourism & Convention Board (Make It Main Street) · 2021 - GET Café in Narberth fosters an accepting environment
The Hawk News (Saint Joseph's University) · 2020 - This Main Line Today's Power Women 2020 Founded the Narberth Nonprofit GETincluded
MONTCO.Today · 2020 - Power Women 2020: Brooke Goodspeed
Main Line Today · 2020 - GET Celebrates Its One-Year Anniversary this Friday
Patch (Ardmore) · 2020 - Going Dickens: Annual Dickens Event Gives Narberth 19th Century Look
Patch (Ardmore) · 2019 - These cafes are breaking new grounds for employees with developmental disabilities
The Philadelphia Inquirer · 2019 - GET Cafe Serves Up Espresso, Elusive Jobs For Disabled People
Patch (Narberth-Bala Cynwyd) · 2019 - Cafe in Narberth lifts up and gives back to people with disabilities
MONTCO.Today · 2019 - Narberth cafe inspires by employing, giving back to people with disabilities
The Philadelphia Inquirer · 2019 - GET Café: A Narberth Community Space for All Abilities
Special Needs Collective
Brewing Possibilities
Brewing Possibilities is a short documentary by David Block, an award-winning filmmaker, journalist and GET Café team member. David is autistic and has been legally blind since birth. He has written more than 1,500 published articles, including six bylines in The New York Times.
The film premiered to a sold-out crowd at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute on December 11, 2025, and screened at the Trenton Film Festival on May 2, 2026.
[TO FILL IN: Is the full film online anywhere we can link? For now the button goes to the trailer.]
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Donations fund the ongoing supports, training, and staff that make employment possible. We keep overhead low: 91 cents of every dollar goes straight to the mission.
