Penn’s Way

Each year, we see the outpouring of kindness and generosity from Penn’s faculty and staff in supporting the many worthy causes represented by the Penn’s Way campaign. Our partner organizations (The United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey, Philadelphia Alliance for Change and Penn Medicine) work closely with us to ensure that the Penn community’s contributions are used to address needs across our region.
This year is a time of unprecedented hardship at every level: families, nonprofits, and local businesses are struggling to stay afloat. Community organizations and foundations, are being called upon to help people who have lost their jobs, health care, homes, etc., and the charitable organizations that used to assist people, are themselves struggling. The Penn community has demonstrated year after year that we can, and will, rise to meet the challenge.
The theme for this year’s campaign is Caring for Our Community. We encourage the Penn community to bring home the message of caring, in this very challenging year, by contributing to organizations that support the three “Pillars of Need” identified by the Penn’s Way Campaign:
- Health Care Disparity
- Food Insecurity
- Social Justice
This week we are highlighting organizations that focus on Food Insecurity:
- Food for All https://foodforall.com/ (02300)
- Sunday Breakfast Rescue Mission https://sundaybreakfast.org/ (C1075)
- MANNA https://mannapa.org/ (C1102)
- SHARE Food Program https://www.sharefoodprogram.org/ (C1019)
- Rise Against Hunger https://www.riseagainsthunger.org/ (C0921)
- Feed the Children https://www.feedthechildren.org/ (C0718)
- Caring for Friends (formerly Aid for Friends) https://caringforfriends.org/ (C1072)
- Share Our Strength (No Kid Hungry) https://www.nokidhungry.org/ (C0792)
- Feeding America https://www.feedingamerica.org/ (C0780)
- Food Bank of South Jersey https://foodbanksj.org/ (06529)
- Philadelphia Orchard Project https://www.phillyorchards.org/ (C0417)
If you have an organization within the campaign that you would like to support, whatever their mission, you can be sure that they need your contribution this year more than ever.
Login at www.pennsway.upenn.edu to care for your community.
