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A gift to the SP2 Annual Fund gives us the flexibility to provide financial aid to our students, attract and retain the world’s best faculty, and invest in important campus and technology improvements that are vital to ensuring our students’ success.

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Your Impact

Thanks to donor support, thousands of our students, alumni, and faculty working alongside vulnerable populations to design solutions to complex social problems. Here are stories from just some of the SP2 changemakers committed to advancing social good.

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Ways to Give

Whether supporting students through our SP2 Scholars Program or driving innovation at one of our many research centers, SP2 students, alumni, and faculty are focused on designing solutions to complex social problems.

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Penn Dental Clinic at Cedar in West Philly.

A new role for dental providers? Rethinking where vaccines are given

An interdisciplinary team of Penn researchers, including SP2’s Dr. Tamara Cadet, used statistical analysis and focus-group feedback to validate a survey that assesses patient perceptions around the role of dental providers in HPV and COVID-19 vaccination.

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New book by SP2’s Yoosun Park explores social work’s role in shaping American identity

 “Social Work, the Americanization Movement, and the Construction of Americans, 1874-1930” offers the first comprehensive study of social work’s involvement in the Americanization movement.

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SP2 students gain hands-on experience through integrated behavioral health fellowship at CHOP

Master of Social Work (MSW) students at Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) are helping strengthen integrated behavioral health services for children and families across Philadelphia through a new partnership with Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).