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Support the SP2 Annual Fund

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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SP2 at SSWR 2026: Leading for Transformative Change

Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) is proud to participate in the 30th Annual Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) Conference, taking place January 14 –18, 2026, in Washington, D.C. 

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Centering joy in AI development and implementation

PIK Professor Desmond Upton Patton and collaborators introduce a joy-informed framework designed to initiate conversations among engineers, designers, and researchers.

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SP2 faculty, students, and alumni recognized at ARNOVA 2025 Annual Conference

SP2 celebrates the achievements of its faculty, students, and alumni recognized at the 2025 Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) Annual Conference, held November 20 – 23 in Indianapolis, IN.