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For Chinese, lessons in Philanthropy 101 at Penn
Philadelphia Inquirer, May 5, 2012
SP2 has hosted groups of Chinese officials eager to learn Philanthropy 101 - U.S. style. Organizing the visits was Tianxue Qiu, of Beijing, a graduate of Penn's Master of Science in Nonprofit/NGO Leadership program.
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The Afterlife: As Philly struggles with violent crime, programs proven to set ex-offenders straight are starving for support
Philadelphia Inquirer, May 3, 2012
Dr. Ram Cnaan is quoted regarding ex-offender re-entry programs and their scarce resources.
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Richard J. Gelles discusses his book, The Third Lie, on The Big Think. 

 

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Penn’s Center for High Impact Philanthropy Launches Development of Child-Survival Tool Kit for Donors
Penn Press Release, May 3, 2012
Researchers are cultivating a series of online investment guides for donors who are interested in improving child-survival rates in the developing world.
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Gelles: Children's safety must be priority
Arizona Republic, May 1, 2012
Dean Richard Gelles shares his perspective on children's safety being paramount and preserving families.
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SP2 proudly upholds Penn's commitment to engage locally and globally. Our faculty are thought leaders in social change, social policy and social justice and impart these important precepts to our diverse and devoted student community. Our graduates are true leaders of social change.

Field Placement

Field Placement is an integral part of the curriculum at SP2. The Field Department works with over 590 agencies across 5 states to provide optimal learning experiences for students. Areas of practice include both clinical and macro opportunities for students to gain practical skills working in a wide variety of practice settings. Generally, students complete two field placements in different agencies in their foundation and advanced year.

Full-time students are in field placement 3 days per week both years, for 30 weeks. Part-time students are in field 16 hours/week for 39 weeks the second year, and 36 weeks the third year.

 

DID YOU KNOW?

SP2 is 1 of only 2 Ivy League Universities offering an MSW degree

96% of survey respondents from the class of '08 had acquired full-time employment or continured their graduate studies within 3 months of graduation

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FUN FACT

Simon Patten, an economist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Finance coined the term “Social Work”
(Austin, D.M. (1986). A history of social work education. Austin: University of Texas)

 

 

 


Research Centers

The Cartographic Modeling Lab

The Center for High Impact Philanthropy

Field Center for Children's Policy, Practice & Research

The Evelyn Jacobs Ortner Center on Family Violence

The Out-of-School Time Resource Center (OSTRC)

Program for Religion and Social Policy Research

 

Special Projects

The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico

Penn Aging Concentration (PAC)

Social Impact of the Arts Project (SIAP)

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