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.
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.
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.
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.
Wellness at Penn
The Wellness at Penn initiative affirms wellness as a core priority and necessary driver of life on campus. It offers opportunities to reflect and engage on issues of wellness, stress, mental health, resilience, happiness, personal and academic goals, and the meaning of success. And it defines wellness as an ongoing holistic process with multiple dimensions.
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.
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.
The Latest From Our Partners

Penn’s pre-professional culture is the enemy of passion

The Future of Conservatism

Making Hope Actionable

A conversation with Stacey Abrams

In Search of Political Wellness: Thinking About Individual and Community Healing Across Political Difference

Penn event explores structural causes of racism in policing

GOP politician, media figures bash Trump at Penn event on the future of conservatism

Can We Talk? Student Forum
“Racism and Anti-Racism in Contemporary America” panel discussions
“Racism and Anti-Racism in Contemporary America” is a preceptorial designed to provide a broad overview of the causes and consequences of racism in the United States, as well as ways in which this deep-seated “stain” on American society has been and might better be addressed. While racism and other forms of discrimination affect people of various identities, and exist in different forms across the globe, the focus of this preceptorial is specifically on racism towards African Americans in the United States. We hope to develop future preceptorials addressing other forms and locations of discrimination and structural inequality in the future.