PHILADELPHIA — Maybe this is the beginning of something even greater.
Mike Tollin and Bill Bedrossian couldn’t help but imagine the possibilities on Thursday night at Citizens Bank Park. It was a clear, crisp night in South Philadelphia. Hundreds of people had gathered to spend the night sleeping in the ballpark’s outfield as part of the Covenant House’s Sleep Out event. It raised $1 million for Covenant House, which is the largest nonprofit in North America across five countries, providing shelter and services to homeless and trafficked youth.
Tollin is a filmmaker. Bedrossian is president and CEO of Covenant House International. They have known each other for years in Los Angeles. They participated in a Sleep Out outside Covenant House’s offices in L.A in 2016. They discovered there that they both grew up outside Philly and loved the Phillies…