The Netter Center is currently operating remotely.  Please contact nettercenter@upenn.edu for general inquiries.

View the latest "Letter from Netter": Information & Virtual Enrichment Activities for University-Assisted Community Schools families. For previous issues, click here. 

Penn coronavirus website: https://coronavirus.upenn.edu/
School District coronavirus website: https://www.philasd.org/coronavirus/

Staff, Faculty, and Alumni Volunteer Opportunities

Penn Volunteers in Public Service (Penn VIPS) provides volunteer activities for faculty, staff, and alumni. For more information, please contact: Isabel Sampson-Mapp, Associate Director/ Director Penn VIPS, 215-898-2020 sammapp@pobox.upenn.edu. 

Penn alumni, please also visit our page for alumni engagement.

Penn students, please visit our student employment and volunteer opportunities.

Penn faculty interested in resources to develop and implement Academically Based Community Service, please visit our page for faculty resources.

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Workplace Mentoring Program Staff Volunteers and Mastery-Shoemaker Students

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"Democracy must begin at home, and its home is the neighborly community."

John Dewey (1927)