Atif Bostic

CEO and President, Uplift Solutions

Always ready for a challenge and to make a difference in the lives of justice-impacted individuals, Atif joined Uplift Solutions in May of 2015 to lead the organization through supermarket development programs to include finance and operations consulting, placed-based healthcare interventions, and development of its Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI). In 2017, Atif steered the organization into workforce development for justice impacted individuals to obtain retail training for supermarket work.

In 2021, Atif repositioned the organization to focus exclusively on its justice-impacted citizens work by divesting its last-mile food distribution program, Philly Food Rescue, to Share Food Program. Philly Food Rescue was an innovative and disruptive solution to reducing food waste, increasing the volume of food in the hunger relief system, as well as increasing the system’s ability to reach hard-to-reach populations. Understanding the importance of this innovation and the unwillingness of larger market actors, Atif incubated the idea, de-risked it, and ultimately transferred it to an organization positioned to grow it. These efforts spurred the need for a strategic realignment to which Atif led the way. Uplift now adopted a new mission: “Reducing barriers for justice involved individuals and at-risk youth, helping them find pathways to longer term success.”

Atif is an active community leader in the workforce and nonprofit ecosystem, having won such awards as the Philadelphia Foundation’s Black Leadership Award. He has served as chair of the board for the Philadelphia OIC for over a decade, treasurer for Urban League of Philadelphia and Pathways PA, and has been a board member of the Allegheny West Foundation, Main Line Chamber of Commerce, American Heart Association, and more. He willingly offers his time and expertise by serving on such prestigious government committees as the City of Philadelphia’s Professional Workforce Alliance and the State’s Reentry Committee.