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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 exploring and addressing axes of inequality. 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 fighting for change and positive impact.
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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 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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Faculty & Research
07/26
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Q&A with PCIIT innovation competition winner Jonathan Muruako
As a new graduate of the Master of Science in Nonprofit Leadership Program at SP2, Jonathan Muruako, CAS’17, NPL’24, has completed his collegiate career while working to help others navigate education as founder and CEO of Fitalyst.
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Faculty & Research
06/25
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Study by SP2 examines potential of direct cash for cancer patients from low-income households
The three-year randomized controlled trial by SP2 is examining the potential of direct cash assistance for patients from low-income households receiving care in Philadelphia, along with their families. The study is supported by funding from actor Bradley Cooper’s One Family Foundation and a grant awarded through the Independence Blue Cross Foundation Institute for Health Equity.
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Faculty & Research
06/21
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DeMarcus Jenkins to explore links between housing policies and school integration and desegregation
SP2 Assistant Professor DeMarcus A. Jenkins will serve as co-principal investigator of a $442,340 grant from the American Institutes for Research Equity Initiative in the Behavioral Sciences for the project “Moving in Motown: Examining Promise of Integrated Neighborhoods and Schools Through Detroit’s Choice Neighborhood Initiative.”
Contact Us
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