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Penn Connects > Campus Master Plan
A Vision for the FuturePenn Nursing: Care to Change the World -- Next Door
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CONNECTING THE BEST OF ACADEMIC NURSING WITH POPULATIONS IN NEED It’s a commitment that infuses Penn Nursing, galvanizing its dean, faculty, and students, and challenging them to re-imagine healthcare for underserved communities. The result has been innovative programs — from West Philadelphia; to Pearlington, Mississippi; to Gaborone, Botswana — and countless lives improved. With success has come recognition, and now, a new challenge for Penn Nursing: The Kresge Challenge. [see announcement, "Where Science Leads"] Awarded by The Kresge Foundation to a select group of nonprofits that are making a strategic difference in disadvantaged communities, The Kresge Challenge asks all who love Penn Nursing to help meet its $75 million campaign goal by December 31, 2009. For Penn Nursing and the communities it is bolstering, the reward is significant: $1.5 million in additional funds from Kresge — vital fuel for a School that cares to change the world. |
| Penn Nursing in Philadelphia |
| Living Independently For Elders (LIFE): a model of care for frail and vulnerable elders with limited financial means who want to remain at home rather than enter a nursing home. |
| Healthy in Philadelphia: a collection of outreach activities designed to help improve the health of adults and children in West Philadelphia with substantial rates of childhood obesity, diabetes, smoking, drug use, and violence. |
| CityStep: student-led research relating dance as a form of exercise to tackle obesity |
| United Community Clinics: helping local residents address their healthcare needs |
| photo: Penn Nursing Dean Afaf Meleis (right) with Frederica Loague, a member of Living Independently for Elders (LIFE). |
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