About the GPN

The Global Possibility Network (GPN) is an initiative based in the Human Development and Quantitative Methods Division of the Penn GSE. The GPN is both a research consultancy for youth development organizations worldwide and a community of youth development stakeholders convening through projects, events, and media productions to share knowledge and collaborate.

The impetus for the GPN was a 2018 three-volume series entitled Adolescent Psychology in Today’s World: Global Perspectives on Risk, Relationships, and Development, edited by Michael Nakkula and Andrew Schneider-Munoz. The series features over forty chapters on possibility development from practitioners, policymakers, and scholars from around the world. A number of authors from that series began partnerships, which have formed the foundation of the GPN. The overarching aim of the GPN is to create and study possibility development practices within local contexts and share helpful strategies across the network and beyond.