School of Social Policy & Practice

Anne Holton, who has devoted her career to serving as an advocate for families and children, will deliver the opening keynote address at the University of Pennsylvania Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice and Research’s sixth biennial conference, “

As a new American president takes office, a massive open online learning course at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice aims to empower citizens to set priorities of their own for the new administration.

A weapon, whether a body part such as hands, fists and feet or an external instrument like a gun, often accompanies intimate-partner violence. Susan B.

Three years ago, when, as a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania, Winfred Rembert III promised himself that he’d make time to volunteer, he had no idea that promise would lead to him to marketing breakfast bars.

Rachel Townzen embarked on a reporting project abroad this past summer that took her into the world of Syrian refugees living in Jordan. 

The Fels Policy Research Initiative in the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania has announced eight collaborative grant recipients.

Rachel Townzen embarked on a reporting project abroad this past summer that took her into the world of Syrian refugees living in Jordan. 

Three master’s students at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice are among 40 recipients of the Council on Social Work Education Minority Fellowship Program Youth Master’s Student award.Alexandria Okeke, Pablo David Rodriguez and Kira White have been selected to join the third cohort of CSWE “Now is the Time” students.

The holiday season is a time when many people pause to give thanks and to give to charity. The University of Pennsylvania Center for High Impact Philanthropy has released an online guide filled with “handpicked opportunities” for donors to make a bigger difference with their charitable giving. The 32-page “2016 High Impact  Giving Guide” is available at http://www.impact.upenn.edu/.

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