Development
By “development”, we mean creation, and our team’s focus is on designing and building new programs or services and creating new stories.
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Drawing upon the resources and networks available to our team at Penn, as well as the decades of experience our team brings to the process, we design programs for supporting human flourishing, with a focus on youth, and then, build them. Research is often, but not always, part of this process, developing a virtuous-cyclical and iterative relationship, between theory and practice.
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By helping you create stories about your organization that help you communicate key meanings to the public, we advance possibility development. Narrative research for example can provide data about the major story or stories of your organization, which may lead to the production of communications about the organization, or, the collaborative publication of academic papers and for fuller projects, books.
Partner Spotlight
Seeds for Progress
Seeds for Progress is a Nicaragua-based nonprofit committed to transforming lives through quality education in rural Central American communities. Our work complements the generational handover of knowledge and know-how. Local teams help facilitate skill development and create opportunities for improvement. Since 2009, GPN affiliate and Penn GSE Professor of Practice Sharon Ravitch, with the participation of GPN Founder Mike Nakkula, has worked with Seeds for Progress to improve schooling for coffee farming communities in rural Nicaragua, as well as parallel efforts to cultivate transferable skills among the community’s adolescents and young adults.