LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR

DEAR FRIENDS,

I am honored to present PennPAC’s special edition 10th Anniversary Annual Report (2020-2021). Putting this together for you was a walk down memory lane. Within these pages, you will learn of our impact on the nonprofit community, meet some of our dedicated alumni volunteers, and celebrate our many achievements along the way. PennPAC has reached this milestone because of you and your unwavering support of our mission: to harness the intellectual talents and professional skills of Penn Alumni in a meaningful and socially beneficial way.

PennPAC had a busy start to 2021 as we prepared for our inaugural virtual Town Hall in January. The Town Hall was an incredible success and brought together more than 100 new and seasoned supporters from across the country and world who shared their PennPAC experiences. Coming together in community, after a year like no other, reaffirmed our purpose and left everyone enthusiastic and energized. Over the course of the evening, we highlighted our four programs (Consulting Projects, Mini Consulting Projects, ImPACt events, and Coaching Calls), introduced new initiatives like our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA) Task Force, discussed the need for the growing roles in our internal Core, and detailed our spring consulting engagements. New volunteers joined a cadre of over 1,000 alumni who are eager to come together with their Penn classmates in service to their communities.

Despite ongoing challenges stemming from the COVID-19 crisis, PennPAC completed 19 consulting engagements in 2020— an organizational record! We continue to receive record numbers of applications from nonprofits each year, and we are constantly evolving to meet the complex needs of a rapidly changing sector. We have worked with more than 150 organizations over the past decade, including those that work to strengthen their communities like Flatbush Development Corps, to those dedicated to the arts like Flex Dance Program and Casita Maria, and those working to create opportunity for young people like Mission Bit and Philadelphia Futures. They are all diverse in mission, size, and constituency.

In the coming year, PennPAC will grow our programs in Philadelphia and the Bay Area, leverage technology to become an operationally hybrid (virtual/in-person) organization, and cultivate strategic partnerships with the University, community foundations, and corporate donors. As we expand our reach, PennPAC will continue to pursue ways to drive impact at nonprofits across the country.

I look forward to celebrating throughout 2022 and I can’t wait to see you all at our 10th anniversary gala next spring. Together, we will toast the last 10 years of PennPAC and of course, the next ten to come!

Thank you and best regards,

Jackie Einstein Astrof PennPAC Founder, Executive Director and Chair