Giving Opportunities
Every gift to the School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) provides us with the tools and resources we need to strengthen our community. From renovating and maintaining our facilities to providing scholarship and financial aid to our students.
Explore some of the many different giving opportunities available to donors (including using your DAF) or contact the Office of Institutional Advancement to discuss how you can support SP2 through a customized giving opportunity.
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.
For International Donors
Penn’s international giving site lets you support SP2 from outside the United States. Your gift may also qualify for tax benefits in your home country.
SP2 Scholars Program
The SP2 Scholars Program is a competitive scholarship program with the aim of enhancing SP2’s ongoing commitment to the recruitment and retention of students with a particular interest in and demonstrated capacity for leadership in social good.
The Program awards full-tuition scholarships and creates uniquely focused, rigorous academic programming. The endowed fund for this program ensures the sustainability of the program by providing funding that is available in perpetuity.
SP2 Student Financial Aid Fund
Gifts to this term fund help students afford an SP2 education and allow the School to enroll the strongest class possible. Financial aid removes a barrier for students preparing for careers in social work, social policy, and nonprofit leadership.
Estate and Planned Gifts
Planned gifts are especially helpful to the School and enable donors to make a substantial gift that aligns with their personal financial strategy. Planned gifts generate lifelong income, convert low-yielding assets into higher income streams at a reduced capital gain cost, provide significant income tax deduction, and reduce or eliminate estate taxes.
Penn’s Office of Gift Planning can help you to find the right asset, at the right time, structured to maximize the tax benefits of your support of the University’s educational mission.
Supporting Research Centers
Gifts to SP2’s research centers support the day-to-day work that keeps programs running. Explore SP2 areas of research to find the work that matters most to you. Gifts of any size make a difference, and larger commitments can include naming opportunities.
Naming Term or Endowed Scholarships/ Fellowships
Tuition assistance in the form of named term and endowed scholarships/fellowships* is a major SP2 priority. These gifts may be designated for students of merit in any of the School’s three master’s degree programs or the Doctor of Clinical Social Work (the PhD in Social Welfare has a separate financial support structure). Donors may name scholarships/fellowships in perpetuity for a minimum investment of $150,000. Term scholarships may be established with a minimum investment of $25,000.
* “scholarship/fellowship” may be used interchangeably
Named Term or Endowed Professorships
Establishing term and/or endowed professorships in targeted areas such as economic opportunity, climate, and social impact is crucial to recruiting and retaining star faculty. A minimum investment of $3 million is required to name a professorship.
Naming SP2’s Research Building
SP2’s research building, located at 3815 Walnut Street, houses SP2’s research entities, including the Field Center for Children’s Policy Practice & Research(opens in a new tab), the Center for Social Impact Strategy, the Evelyn Jacobs Ortner Center on Family Violence, and the Center for High Impact Philanthropy(opens in a new tab). This renovated building offers an excellent naming opportunity for a donor seeking high-profile recognition.
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Bart Miltenberger
Office of Institutional Advancement
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