Organizations and Programs
- Center for Community Partnerships
- The Center for Community Partnerships is a permanent anchor for university
-based research, teaching, and service focusing on Philadelphia, and
particularly West Philadelphia.
- West Philadelphia
Improvement Corps (WEPIC)
- WEPIC originated in the spring of
1985 from an honors history seminar. WEPIC is now a year-round program
seeking to create comprehensive university- assisted community schools
that are social, service delivery and educational hubs fo the entire
community.
- Student Volunteer
Organizations
- The University of Pennsylvania supports a wide variety of student groups
with varying interests. Here is an index to many with volunteer service focus.
- Program for Student-Community Involvement
- The Program for Student-Community Involvement (PSCI) promotes and supports
community service and service-learning among University of Pennsylvania
students.
- West
Philadelphia Tutoring Project
- The West Philadelphia Tutoring Project (WPTP), provides Penn students the
opportunity to participate in community service on a weekly basis.
- Penn-Edison Partnership
- THE PENN-EDISON PARTNERSHIP is a program putting undergraduate
majors, graduate students and faculty from the English Department
at Penn together with students from the Edison-Fereira High
School in North Philadelphia.
Publications
- Penn's Initiatives in the Public
Schools
- A summary of some of Penn's engagement with the West Philadelphia public
schools. The summary largely focuses on Penn's work with the West Philadelphia
Improvement Corps (WEPIC) and attempts to develop university-assisted
community schools.
- A Resource Guide to the West Philadelphia Community
- The Office of Community Relations of the University of Pennsylvania's
Center for Community Partnerships has created the following directory to
provide the community and university with information regarding West
Philadelphia. The "Community Resource Guide" consists of listings of schools,
health care providers, churches, community organizations, and elected
officials.
- Directory of Research and Data on Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania
- In an effort to foster greater knowledge about research on Philadelphia,
the Center for Community Partnerships and Penn Program for Public Service have
developed a source book on data available about the Philadelphia area.
Information on demographic, economic, housing, health, education and social
services data has been documented.
- University of Pennsylvania Inventory of Student Service Activities
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