Nonprofit Leadership Program at Penn

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NPL equips leaders with the tools, network, and mindset to drive real, lasting impact.

Karly Cohen (NPL 2021), Founder and Executive Director of Raise the Bar Family Services () , comments: "NPL has helped me achieve my goals in a lot of different ways. First, I would say the network it provides is really incredible... I found myself revisiting books that were assigned or different assignments that we did."

Real-world relevance is at the core of the NPL experience at SP2.
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“Everything that you learn in (NPL) classes is directly applicable to the real world. That is something that I found very valuable.” – Albert Rosas, MSW/NPL ’25

We design our programs to meet the needs of future changemakers even beyond the classroom.