School of Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania

Join #PennSP2 virtually on 12/3 at 12 p.m. EST for the next installment in our Speaker Series, "From Trauma to Human Flourishing - Sustainable Approaches to Mental Health." Details and registration below!

Join #PennSP2 virtually on 12/3 at 12 p.m. EST for the next installment in our Speaker Series, "From Trauma to Human Flourishing - Sustainable Approaches to Mental Health." Details and registration below!

Hear #PennSP2's Desmond Patton speak about Australia's social media ban and why research and collaboration with young people and parents should inform approaches to youth mental health.

A Forbes columnist highlights the success of the National Education Equity Lab, whose partners include #PennSP2. “Introduction to the Social Work/Social Policy Profession,” an SP2-produced pilot course, is part of the Lab’s curriculum of online college credit-bearing courses provided to underserved students in teacher-led high school classrooms.

#GivingTuesday is one week away! A donation of any size to the SP2 Annual Fund helps fund cutting-edge research, benefit the Philadelphia community through field, practica, and internship placements, and ensure that our students and faculty have the tools they need to carry on the School’s legacy. 💙 Give today https://bit.ly/4eORXiZ

With the goal of optimizing implementation and improving outcomes for people with HIV, a team led by #PennSP2 Dean Sara S. Bachman is evaluating a novel approach to HIV medical case management being implemented by the Philadelphia Department of Public Health (PDPH). “We know that care coordination and case management really help,” said Dr. Bachman, who works on the project in partnership with the PDPH’s Division of HIV Health, led by Dr. Kathleen Brady. “But we need to be thinking about how to constantly adapt this core service so that we can make sure that it is maximally effective in engaging and retaining people in care.” Bachman’s remarks were part of her keynote speech at the 2024 Penn Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) Scientific Symposium. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dw7sFT2K City of Philadelphia – Department of Public Health University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Congratulations to the #PennSP2 faculty, staff, students, and alumni at the 2024 APPAM Fall Research Conference in National Harbor, Maryland! #2024APPAM FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2024 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM Panel Paper - New Research on the Effects of Guaranteed Income Programs - The American Guaranteed Income Studies: Mixed Methods Findings from Saint Paul's People's Prosperity Pilot Presenting Author: Kalen Flynn Authors: Amy Castro, Nidhi Tandon, Stacia West, Allison Thompson 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM Panel Paper - New Research on the Effects of Guaranteed Income Programs - Assessing the Impacts of a Guaranteed Income Micro Pilot for Caregivers in Los Angeles County Presenting Author: Mira Philips Authors: Amy Castro, Stacia West 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM Special Events - Undergraduate & Master's Student Seminar Table Topic & Leader: To PhD or not to PhD?: Katherine Stewart 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Panel Paper - Measurement of Poverty and Material Hardship - “Looking for Water Became the Priority”: Lived Experiences of Residential Water Insecurity Presenting Author: Rebecca Pepe SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2024 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Panel Paper - Employment and Career Development - Are Solo-Authored Articles Penalized in Academia?: Exploring the Relationship between Team Size and Citation Counts Presenting Author: Hwiyoung P Lee Authors: Yoosun Park, Ram Cnaan 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM Panel - Insights from Qualitative Research in Scaling Guaranteed Income Programs (Poverty and Income Policy) Panel Chair: Amy Castro 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM Panel Paper - Insights from Qualitative Research in Scaling Guaranteed Income Programs - Policy, Unpaid Care and the Promise of Unconditional Cash Presenting Author: Elizabeth DeYoung Author: Mira Philips Search the conference schedule: https://lnkd.in/dp4_Ks-Z Elizabeth DeYoung, Ram Cnaan, Mira K. Philips, MSc., Allison Thompson, Stacia West, Kalen Flynn, Nidhi Tandon, Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management, Rebecca Pepe, MPH, Hwiyoung P. Lee, Yoosun Park, PhD in Social Welfare at Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice

Congratulations to the #PennSP2 faculty, staff, students, and alumni at the 53rd Annual ARNOVA Conference in Washington, DC! #ARNOVA24 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2024 2:00 PM-3:00 PM What do we mean by collaboration processes? A systematic review of the literature Chao Guo 2:00 PM-3:00 PM Are Diverse Nonprofit Organizations More Favored by Donors? A Survey Experiment Jung Ho Choi ChiaKo Hung Femida Handy FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2024 8:00 AM-9:00 AM Poster Session The Effect of Social Media Capital on Nonprofit Organizational Performance Chao Guo 9:00 AM-10:30 AM Is CSV an implementable strategic management? Femida Handy 9:00 AM-10:30 AM Framing Nonprofit Overhead and Performance: Understanding the Influence of Messaging on Donor Decisions ChiaKo Hung 9:00 AM-10:30 AM Volunteering as a pathway to nonprofit and public employment, an analysis of millennials Tiana Marrese Femida Handy 11:00 AM-12:00 PM Implications of the Pandemic on Recruitment and Retention of Volunteers and Donors in the U.S. Daniel Choi Anna Ferris Tiana Marrese Ram Cnaan Femida Handy 12:00 pm - 1:45 pm Awards luncheon Editors’ Prize for Best Scholarly Paper in Nonprofit Management & Leadership, Volume 33 Congratulations to awardees SP2 Professor Ram Cnaan and SP2 alumni Dan Heist and Megan Farwell, PhD! 2:00 PM-3:30 PM Competing logics and commercialization: A framework for theorizing and assessing nonprofits ChiaKo Hung 2:00 PM-3:30 PM The Reification of Gender in Nonprofit Employment Across One's Lifetime: A Panel Study Tiana Marrese Femida Handy 4:00 PM-5:30 PM What Does AI Tell Us about the field of Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies? Jin Ai Chao Guo 4:00 PM-5:30 PM The Power of Community Foundations: Idle or Emerging Codi Smith 4:00 PM-5:30 PM Opportunity or Crisis? Exploring Revenue Streams and Mission Drift of BIPOC Nonprofits ChiaKo Hung SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2024 11:00 AM-12:30 PM Nonprofit Marketing Communication Tools: Effects of Messaging Strategies and Marketing Channels Peter Frumkin 11:00 AM-12:30 PM Mitigating the Mistreatment of Hong Kong’s Foreign Domestic Helper Codi Smith See the full schedule: https://lnkd.in/d8PQXgvE Peter Frumkin, Codi Smith, MPA, Megan Farwell, PhD, Ram Cnaan, Tiana Marrese, ChiaKo Hung, Jung Ho Choi, Chao Guo, PhD in Social Welfare at Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice, Daniel Choi, Anna Ferris, Femida Handy, Dan Heist, ARNOVA

Watch #PennSP2’s Dr. Amy Castro discuss how guaranteed income can lead to better financial, physical, and mental health and catalyze community-building. Speaking onstage at The Philadelphia Citizen’s 7th Annual Ideas We Should Steal Festival® in the Comcast Technology Center on November 15, Castro appeared alongside Devin Cotten, founder & CEO of Universal Basic Employment & Opportunity, on a panel moderated by Managing Director of the Wharton Coalition for Equity and Opportunity Dr. Fareeda Griffith. Castro, co-founder of SP2’s Center for Guaranteed Income Research, begins speaking at 4:23. https://lnkd.in/gWfGS56b

A student in #PennSP2’s Master of Science in Nonprofit Leadership Program and a horticulturist at Penn’s Morris Arboretum & Gardens, Jen Monico recently traveled to Sweden for a course and to learn about garden design and management. Read her blog post to learn about the gardens and private estates she toured. Master of Science in Nonprofit Leadership https://lnkd.in/e3yGfR8E