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Penn alum looks to raise $750K, tap into AI to scale social impact investing analytics platform

Penn alum Catherine Griffin has created ImpactableX, an analytics platform to help social impact startups quantify their impact.

Top row, left to right: Camilla Z. Charles, Ali Shapiro Cudby, and Judith Browne Dianis. Bottom row, left to right: Richard David Feintuch, Stanley H. Greene, and Brett Andrew Perlmutter.

Nine honored at Alumni Award of Merit Gala

At the 2023 Alumni Award of Merit Gala, eight distinguished alumni will receive Awards of Merit, the Creative Spirit Award, and the inaugural Penn Alumni Social Impact Award, and Camille Z. Charles will receive the Faculty Award of Merit.

An article about the 1973 Penn vs. Brown game on the front page of the sports section in the Sunday, Oct. 7, 1973, edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Milestone Penn versus Brown matchup marks 50 years

The 1973 Penn vs. Brown football game at Franklin Field was the first in Ivy League history to feature two African American starting quarterbacks.

Penn alums changing grocery game for Philadelphians in food deserts with Community Grocer program

Penn alums Alex Imbot and Eli Moraru have co-founded the Community Grocer to supply grab-and-go meal kits and hot, fresh meals for Philadelphia residents.

Philadelphia lawyer connects at risk youth to at risk animals, together they help each other

Penny Ellison of Penn Carey Law leads Hand2Paw, a Philadelphia nonprofit founded by Penn alum Rachel Cohen that connects youth experiencing homeless or in foster care to animals in need.

Penn grads’ nonprofit grocery proposing hot food for SNAP recipients raises ‘hullabaloo’

Recent Penn graduates Alex Imbot and Eli Moraru are creating a first-of-its-kind system to legally circumvent federal rules about food stamps in order to present hot, healthy food at their nonprofit, The Community Grocer.

SNAP recipients are denied hot food. These Penn grads found a hack with a new kind of corner store

Two recent graduates of the School of Arts & Sciences, Alex Imbot and Eli Moraru will be legally skirting federal rules that guide food stamps to offer healthy, hot food in a nonprofit corner store.

A degree from this Ivy League university can add over $80,000 to your salary—it’s not Harvard or Yale

A Penn degree can add an estimated $80,000 a year to a graduate’s salary, with commentary from alumna Emma Morgenstern.

The independent email service she helped start in a Penn dorm almost 30 years ago now has 400,000 users

Alumna Helen Horstmann-Allen is profiled for her foundation, as a Penn undergraduate, of independent email service Fastmail.

This is public housing. Just don’t call it that

Bianca Serbin, a 2022 graduate of the College of Arts and Sciences, is noted for her honors thesis on the Moderately Priced Dwelling Unit program in Montgomery County, Maryland.

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