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Financial support enables the School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) to offer a unique, world-class education that brings together rigorous academics, meaningful field experiences, and a deep commitment to supporting communities in need. With your gift, we can provide our students and faculty with all the resources and support they need to learn, teach, practice – and dedicate their careers to change and positive impact.
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.
Giving
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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Student Life
08/26
Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice launches nation’s first practice doctorate in nonprofit administration
Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) is proud to announce the launch of the Doctorate in Nonprofit Administration (DNPA), the first practice-based doctoral program in the nation focused exclusively on leadership for nonprofit administrators.
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Student Life
08/18
SP2 announces “The Anxious Generation” as One Book, One SP2 selection
Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) has announced the selection of “The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness” by Jonathan Haidt as its 2025 – 2026 One Book, One SP2 choice.
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Alumni
07/25
Alumni Q&A | Ayesha Amin, MSSP’18
SP2 alumna Ayesha Amin, MSSP’18, is a feminist activist, gender expert, and founder of Baithak – Challenging Taboos, a women-led grassroots organization advancing gender justice, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and climate justice across Pakistan. We reached out to her to learn more about her time at SP2 and the transformative work she’s leading.
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To give by mail:
University of Pennsylvania
Office of the Treasurer
PO Box 71332
Philadelphia, PA 19176-9913
To give by overnight mail:
Trustees of University of Pennsylvania
Attn: Lockbox 824949
525 Fellowship Road, Suite 330
Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054