Lipman Family Prize
University of Pennsylvania — The Wharton School
An annual global prize run out of the Wharton School that celebrates leadership and innovation in the social sector with an emphasis on impact and the transferability of practices. Beyond cash, winners receive engagement with Penn faculty and students, which is the feature that makes it relevant to a research database: the prize routinely pairs awarded organisations with university analytic capacity to document and transfer what works. Focus areas visible on the site include economic development, environmental sustainability, poverty alleviation, gender equality and food security, and 2026 win
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (total award)The site states cash prizes are awarded but the amount fields on the page rendered as placeholders with no published figure, so no dollar value is asserted here.
- Timing
- Annual cycleNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Annual cycle, currently closed — the page states 'The 2027 Lipman Family Prize application is closed.' No opening date for the following cycle is published, so no deadline or month window is recorded.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation
- Eligibility
- The applicant is a social-sector organisation, not a university — Penn runs the prize and cannot be its own recipient, so a social work researcher participates by supporting a partner organisation's application and by joining the Penn engagement that follows an award. Organisations worldwide are eligible; the emphasis on transferability means an applicant must be able to show practices others could adopt, which functions as a real selection gate alongside demonstrated impact.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- social sector leadership · transferable practice · impact measurement · global nonprofits
- Apply at
- https://lipmanfamilyprize.wharton.upenn.edu/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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