On November 17th 2017, the Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships celebrated its 25th anniversary. Venture onto Penn’s campus even for a little and you are bound to interact with some part of Netter, its community service branding, or some of its supposed impacts. Despite its increasingly engrained presence on campus, made possible by an annual million-dollar grant by the Penn administration, radical transformations to its organizational structure and philosophical mission are absolutely needed to realize its true institutional potential. My question, quite simply: what are we waiting for?

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