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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 who are fighting to create a more just and equitable world.

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Ways to Give

Whether supporting Black, Indigenous, or (BIPOC) students through our Social Justice Scholars Program or driving innovation at one of our many research centers, SP2 students, alumni, and faculty are working alongside vulnerable populations to design solutions to complex social problems.

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Gianni Morsell posing on campus. Gianni is standing in front of a brick building with a green plant next to her. Her arms are crossed and she is wearing a black shirt and khaki pants.

First graduate of SP2’s Social Justice Scholars Program lands role on Capitol Hill  

“What’s important to me is being in a space where I can help people and I’m constantly in a state of giving back,” says Gianni Morsell, NPL’22. The first graduate […]

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Study: Climate change’s cost includes losses of learning and earnings due to natural disasters

In the wake of natural disasters, survivors’ losses of education and lifetime earnings may be comparable to the cost of property damage, according to a new study in Nature Human Behaviour by Dr. R. Jisung Park, an assistant professor at Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) and coauthors.

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Headshot of Millan AbiNader at the Grand Canyon. Millan is wearing a hat, backpack, and red plaid shirt.

Program improving public health response to intimate partner violence receives second year of funding 

Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) is excited to announce a second year of its Survivor Link + Public Health AmeriCorps program, in partnership with the Office of Gender-Based Violence […]