Rebel Ventures After School Group Leader, Netter Center for Community Partnerships

Posted by Netter Center for Community Partnerships on March 4, 2025

Founded in 1992, the Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships is the University’s primary vehicle for advancing civic and community engagement at Penn. It brings together the resources and assets of both the University and the wider community to help solve universal problems such as poverty, health inequities, environmental sustainability, and inadequate, unequal education as they are manifested in the University’s local geographic area of West Philadelphia and Philadelphia at large. The Netter Center develops and helps implement democratic, mutually transformative, place-based partnerships between Penn and West Philadelphia that advance research, teaching, learning, practice, and service and improve the quality of life on campus and in the community. The Netter Center works with and serves as a model for other higher education institutions across the United States and around the world.

The Netter Center’s university-assisted community schools (UACS) is a strategy to educate, engage, empower, and serve all members of the community in which the school is located and engage students (K-16+) in real world, community problem solving.  UACS collaborates with partners to advance teaching, research, learning and service, as well as the civic development of their students.

The Rebel Ventures After School Group Leader will provide direct oversight of the social entrepreneurship project Rebel Ventures within the UACS High school After School Program. Rebel Ventures is a nonprofit food company run by a team of High School Students, Penn Students, Netter staff, and volunteers. The Rebel Ventures Group Leader will provide enthusiastic and educational direct service to students, and participate in leading and implementing activities, participating in reflective practice and assist with management of necessary data collection. The position reports to the UACS Director of Health Partnerships and Social Ventures.

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