PHILADELPHIA — The Center for High Impact Philanthropy at the University of Pennsylvania has released an investment guide identifying where donors can make the greatest difference helping those suffering in the current economic crisis.

 

 

 PHILADELPHIA — Two professors from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education are teaming up with the Urban Youth Association at the Marian Anderson Recreation Center in South Philadelphia to help adolescents manage personal conflicts through interactive basketball games, starting in October.

 PHILADELPHIA — The University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice is launching a program in working with older adults, with the help of a two-year, $10,000 grant from the John A. Hartford Foundation and a matching $10,000 contribution from a donor.

 PHILADELPHIA — Two University of Pennsylvania professors received a three-year, $1.4 million MacArthur Foundation grant to expand the use of integrated-data systems, which have emerged as a new tool for measuring how public agencies are serving their clients and how multiple agencies may be working with the same clients collaboratively or redundantly.

PHILADELPHIA — Eight undergraduate students from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing raised more than $20,000 in medical supplies for clinics in Botswana, where they will work this summer to provide care as part of a Penn Nursing course.

PHILADELPHIA — A group of students from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing who worked to prevent childhood obesity and diabetes in elementary school children from West Philadelphia has been commended by Mayor Michael Nutter.