AboutOur Partners

Our Partners

We love to collaborate.

The civic mission of higher education has been part of Penn’s DNA since its founding by Benjamin Franklin. Today there are numerous centers, programs, and organizations across the University dedicated to various aspects of this mission. The SNF Paideia Program builds on, collaborates with, networks, and leverages these existing entities to make the Penn undergraduate experience greater, and more meaningful, than the sum of its individual parts.

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Netter Center

Through the Netter Center, the University currently engages in three types of activities: academically based community service, direct traditional service, and community development.

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Fox Leadership

Through University-wide programming, Fox Leadership encourages students to consider the lessons in leadership and life articulated and modeled by Robert A. Fox, the leader after whom it is named: finding your passions; putting people first; and succeeding the right way.

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Civic House

Penn’s hub for civic engagement, the Civic House is centered around community organizations and social justice education, promoting mutually beneficial collaborations between Penn and Philadelphia community nonprofit organizations.

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The Andrea Mitchell Center

Global in its outlook, multifaceted in its purposes, the Andrea Mitchell Center seeks to contribute to the ongoing quest for democratic values, ideas, and institutions throughout the world.

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Wellness at Penn

Wellness at Penn is dedicated to caring for students during their academic journey while creating a campus-wide community of care. Our team is committed to offering a wide range of opportunities to access support, clinical resources, and practical tools to meaningfully engage with one’s health and wellbeing. Wellness at Penn is built upon two pillars that operate collaboratively to create a campus community centered on wellness: Student Health and Counseling, offering clinical services to all Penn students, and Public Health and Wellbeing which seeks to create a community of care through advocacy, education, and action.

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Penn in Washington

With programming on campus as well as in Washington, D.C., Penn in Washington (PIW) supports students exploring public service careers. Attend speaker events with leaders in politics, government, and public policy or learn about internship opportunities using the PIW internship database.

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What Our Partners Are Saying

We at Civic House are delighted to partner with SNF Paideia during this Year of Civic Engagement to create an incubator in which Penn undergraduates can fashion an approach to civic engagement that understands service as a path to community and individual wellness.

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Dr. Herman Beavers
Professor of English and Africana Studies, Graduate Chair, Department of Africana Studies, Faculty Director Civic House

The Latest From Our Partners

save the date for March 20-21 symposium on the Scopes Trial with a black and white illustration, a political cartoon of an octopus wrapping its tentacles around buildings

The Scopes Trial at 100: Secularism, Race, and Education

The Scopes Trial of 1925 was an inflection point in US conversations around religion, science, education, and mass media. A century later,… Read More
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Feb 8

Day of Absence: Performance and Post-Show Dialogue

Join us for a post-show dialogue following the acclaimed Negro Ensemble Company's performance of Douglas Turner Ward's Day of… Read More
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Jan 29

ComPITence Project Workshop for Faculty and Graduate Students

Introducing the comPITence project, nine Public Interest Technology learning competencies you can use to create a syllabus, develop… Read More
Photos from the Fair Districts PA Conference on December 7, 2024.
Blog

New Year’s Resolution 2025: More Face-to-Face Conversations

On December 7, Noah Kocher, undergraduate member of the Political Empathy Lab research team, and I spoke at the Fair Districts Pennsylvania… Read More
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The Next Generation of Media Professionals

We were invited to participate in a pop-up newsroom alongside students from 12 universities around the world, creating written and… Read More
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Threads of Identity: Weaving Black Experiences in Global Higher Education

During our time in Greece, we visited the US Embassy, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and various community… Read More
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Penn Today

Event looks at neck-and-neck presidential election

Two weeks out from Election Day, the race for the presidency is neck-and-neck, with Pennsylvania at the center of a somewhat confounding… Read More
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Balancing Wellness and Building Dialogue Skills as a Scientist

Reflecting back on my summer at Penn, I am grateful for the opportunities that I were graciously given to enhance both my career and… Read More

Submit an Opportunity

Do you have an opportunity related to dialogue, wellness, citizenship, or service you would like us to share? Email SNF Paideia at info@snfpaideia.upenn.edu and we will promote your event, internship, course, or other offering to Penn students, faculty, and staff.

 

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