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Nonprofit 路 University Southwest
A Philadelphia nonprofit that offers community services, including immigration and legal help, health checks, workforce and construction training, digital skills classes, and youth workshops.
Last seen active: October 2026
Nonprofit 路 Lower North
An Arab arts and language group in Philadelphia. It runs after-school art and drumming for students, Arabic classes for kids and adults, and gallery shows on the second Thursday of each month.
Last seen active: October 2026
Nonprofit 路 Central
The French cultural center in Philadelphia. It teaches adults French from A1 (beginner) to C1 (advanced), and it runs French conversation meals and book clubs for adults and teens.
Last seen active: September 2026
Student group
Penn's Asian-interest sorority. The Penn chapter was founded in 1994. It offers sisterhood and support for women, and it does awareness work on Asian American issues at Penn and in Philadelphia.
Last seen active: September 2026
Nonprofit 路 Central
A nonprofit that links Philadelphia with Italy through Italian language courses, conversation classes, film nights, concerts and an Italian book club.
Last seen active: October 2026
Student group 路 Lower North
A nonprofit that supports Asian American students on college campuses with career fairs, cultural events and networking. Its events have been held in Philadelphia, though the site does not list a local office or chapter.
Last seen active: April 2025
Nonprofit 路 South
A museum in South Philadelphia that shares Scandinavian history and culture through exhibits, events, classes, and volunteer work.
Last seen active: October 2026
Club
A Philadelphia division of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, a Catholic fraternal group for men of Irish birth or descent. The national directory lists it, but its listed website did not open.
Last active date not known yet
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A Philadelphia division of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, a Catholic fraternal group for men of Irish birth or descent. The national directory lists it and mentions a division hall, but its listed website did not respond.
Last active date not known yet
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A Philadelphia division of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, a Catholic fraternal group for men of Irish birth or descent. The national directory lists it, but no page we could open describes its meetings or activities.
Last active date not known yet
Club
A Philadelphia division of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, a Catholic fraternal group for men of Irish birth or descent. The national directory lists it, but its own page could not be opened.
Last active date not known yet
Club
A Philadelphia division of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, a Catholic fraternal group for men of Irish birth or descent. The national directory lists a clubhouse for it, but its listed website no longer shows division content.
Last active date not known yet
Club
A Philadelphia division of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, a Catholic fraternal group for men of Irish birth or descent. The national directory lists it with no website or meeting details.
Last active date not known yet
Club
A Philadelphia division of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, a Catholic fraternal group for men of Irish birth or descent. The national directory lists it under the Port Richmond name, with no website or meeting details.
Last active date not known yet
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A Philadelphia division of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, a Catholic fraternal group for men of Irish birth or descent. The national directory lists it with no website or meeting details.
Last active date not known yet
Student group
A Penn group that shares Andean culture through cultural, academic, and social events. It works with the Quechua at Penn language program.
Last active date not known yet
Faith community 路 Central
A Catholic parish at 10th and Dickinson streets with Masses in English and Spanish, a Hispanic ministry and an adult faith formation program. It also runs religious education for children and hosts parish events such as a St. Nicholas Italian Festival.
Last active date not known yet
Nonprofit 路 Central
A Philadelphia nonprofit, founded in 1985, that builds leadership in Asian American communities. It runs youth leadership programs, a yearly Mid-Autumn Festival in Chinatown, culture and storytelling projects, and civic and immigrant rights work.
Last seen active: October 2026
Nonprofit 路 Central
An arts center on Vine Street with a free gallery, exhibitions, performances and community nights. It also runs youth arts programs for middle and high school students, and takes volunteer sign ups and gallery tour requests through forms on its site.
Last seen active: October 2026
Student group
A student group at Penn Carey Law for students interested in Asian American and Pacific American legal issues. It helps members grow in their studies, careers, and personal lives, and it hosts programs and a yearly conference.
Last active date not known yet
Student group
A student coalition that brings together Asian and Pacific Islander student groups at Penn, speaks to the university on their shared interests, and promotes API culture.
Last seen active: March 2025
Student group
A Penn program that runs identity and current-issues discussions for Philadelphia high school students, with Penn students as facilitators.
Last active date not known yet
Student group
A Penn student group for students from around the world, offering orientation, mentoring, social events, and advocacy for international students.
Last active date not known yet
Nonprofit 路 Central
A member supported library, archive and talk space focused on Philadelphia's books, buildings and history. Members can borrow books, and visitors can join small discussion groups and attend talks.
Last seen active: October 2026
Student group
A Penn community for students of Bangladeshi and Bengali heritage. It hosts game nights and cultural events, and it recruits volunteers and performers for its fundraisers.
Last active date not known yet
Nonprofit 路 Central
A Philadelphia nonprofit that uses global education and travel to build independence and a sense of adventure in teenage girls.
Last active date not known yet
Student group
Supports graduate and professional students with roots in the African Diaspora at Penn. It helps with academic, social, political and cultural needs, and helps newcomers settle in. Allies from any background are welcome too.
Last seen active: December 2024
Nonprofit 路 West
A nonprofit that sends young Black artists abroad for cultural exchange trips. Each traveler makes an art project about the experience.
Last seen active: June 2024
Nonprofit 路 North Delaware
Neighbors and community leaders who run a weekly food pantry and shower service, hold block cleanups, ran a holiday toy drive, and offer mental health first aid training. Their work on violence prevention and job readiness is still mostly in planning.
Last seen active: October 2026
Club 路 University Southwest
A twice-monthly ASL club at uCity Square in University City, run with Breakthrough: Deaf Advocacy. Members learn the basics of sign language and practice talking with Deaf community members.
Last active date not known yet
Student group
A student group for Penn students who care about Bulgarian culture, history, traditions and language. It holds social, educational and cultural events and aims to share Bulgaria with the wider Penn community.
Last active date not known yet
Nonprofit
A Philadelphia group that puts on Caribbean heritage events, including Caribbean Heritage Day, a film screening and a children's storytime.
Last seen active: June 2026
Nonprofit 路 Central
Runs a free, family festival each August celebrating Caribbean culture with music, food, fashion and vendors, staffed by volunteers.
Last seen active: August 2026
Nonprofit 路 Central
Supports under-served artists, especially immigrant, Indigenous and LGBTQI+ artists, through exhibitions, a bilingual English and Spanish press, and performances.
Last seen active: March 2026
Nonprofit 路 Central
A nonprofit built around Venezuelan culture. Its Miranda Program offers culture and education events, professional workshops and networking, and health information for immigrants and refugees.
Last active date not known yet
Student group
A student group for people with mixed heritage. Members talk about how mixed backgrounds shape identity and share food tastings, cultural demonstrations, and cultural outings.
Last active date not known yet
Nonprofit 路 Central
A nonprofit that a third-party directory describes as a group supporting and empowering Chinese American women in Philadelphia. We found no website of its own and no recent activity.
Last active date not known yet
Student group
A weekly practice group for traditional Chinese brush calligraphy and painting. Members practice together and hear talks about the people, history, and best-known pieces of Chinese brush art.
Last active date not known yet
Student group
A Penn student group for anyone curious about China and Chinese American life. It runs an annual cultural show, holiday festivals, food events, and trips.
Last active date not known yet
Student group 路 University Southwest
A Christian community at Penn, open to students, staff and neighbors. It offers a weekly Wednesday dinner and discussion, a free online English class, a mentoring program for West Philadelphia high school students, and a monthly Night Church gathering.
Last seen active: September 2026
Club 路 Central
A club for Spaniards and friends of Spain in the Philadelphia area, founded in 1976. Members gather for holiday dinners, members' meetings, and Spanish cultural events, and the club says it helps newcomers settle into life here.
Last seen active: May 2026
Nonprofit 路 Lower Southwest
A Philadelphia nonprofit working with African and Caribbean immigrants and refugees on health connections, immigration and legal help, education and culture programs, and community organizing.
Last active date not known yet
Nonprofit
A center that teaches American Sign Language classes and works for equal communication access across the Philadelphia region. It also holds Deaf community social events, such as a bingo and ASL night.
Last seen active: October 2026
Nonprofit 路 University Southwest
The Community Education Center is an arts space on Lancaster Avenue where artists rehearse, teach and perform. It runs dance classes open to the public, a regular open mic and a jazz night, and it rents space to artists and tenant groups.
Last seen active: October 2026
Nonprofit 路 University Southwest
A history and genealogy society for people whose African ancestry DNA results link them to the Djola family. It shares Djola history, oral histories, and research on DNA, places, and language.
Last seen active: August 2021
Nonprofit 路 Lower Northeast
El Concilio is a nonprofit that runs education, workforce and family services in Philadelphia. It also organizes the annual Puerto Rican Day Parade on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway each fall.
Last seen active: July 2026
Nonprofit 路 North
The Latino arts and culture center in North Philadelphia. It presents music, dance, theater, film and art from Latin America and the Caribbean, with family and community events.
Last seen active: October 2026
Nonprofit 路 University Southwest
Community association for Ethiopians in Greater Philadelphia that shares health and mental health resources, runs a young adults program, and works to keep Ethiopian culture alive for children.
Last seen active: May 2026
Nonprofit 路 North
Runs seminars, workshops and rites of passage programs, and has a curriculum project for state correctional facilities. Its website shows no dated events, so ask the office what is running.
Last active date not known yet
Club
An Irish heritage society founded in Philadelphia in 1771. Members gather for quarterly dinner meetings with Irish music and a guest speaker, and the society supports charitable causes.
Last seen active: February 2026
Student group
A student music group at Penn that explores Latinx culture through performance. Latinx and non-Latinx students can take part.
Last active date not known yet
Nonprofit 路 South
A nonprofit that helps Indonesian families in the Philadelphia area with paperwork, banking, and City ID, and keeps Indonesian culture alive through music, a youth group, and a children's summer camp.
Last seen active: August 2026
Nonprofit 路 South
A nonprofit that runs its own programs for immigrants, including English classes, digital skills, free medical and dental care days, and a dental care program. It says it keeps enrolling new students in its English classes.
Last seen active: October 2026
Nonprofit 路 Central
A heritage society founded in 1764 to help German immigrants. It now runs German classes, a public library, and monthly conversation evenings, film nights and book clubs for anyone who wants to learn German or enjoy German culture.
Last seen active: October 2026
Student group
A Penn student group for Ghanaian students and others who want to learn about Ghana. It holds discussions and talks about Ghanaian identity and leadership, and it runs cultural exchanges.
Last active date not known yet
Nonprofit 路 Central
A nonprofit that brings together Philadelphia's international community. It runs a World Heritage City project, a global directory, a program for emerging international journalists, and a young professionals network.
Last seen active: October 2026
Student group
A student group at Penn for Dominican and Haitian students, plus anyone who wants to learn about those two cultures. Students run it and use it to build community on campus.
Last active date not known yet
Student group
Penn students who work on health in Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala, with the Hospitalito Atitlan team. They raise funds, plan trips, and run projects and research that fit the local community.
Last seen active: August 2026
Nonprofit 路 North Delaware
A Philadelphia nonprofit that helps new immigrants, especially Haitian Americans, with English instruction, job search and business startup help, and immigration referrals.
Last active date not known yet
Student group
A Penn undergraduate club that keeps Hawaiian culture, history, and traditions alive through community and shared learning. Students from Hawaii and anyone curious about the culture are welcome.
Last active date not known yet
Nonprofit 路 Lower Northeast
An adult literacy center that supports immigrants' inclusion in American society. It teaches English and basic computer use, and it takes volunteer tutors and new students through a phone line and online forms.
Last seen active: September 2025
Nonprofit 路 West
Shares the history of North America's original peoples, with a focus on the Southeast, through videos, online courses and books. It also runs Pathways to Peace and Purpose, a West Philadelphia program with workshops, clean-ups, bike rides and fire circles.
Last seen active: March 2026
Nonprofit
A Philadelphia nonprofit working to make Indigenous Peoples' Day a permanent city holiday. It holds a public celebration each October and runs cultural, educational and community-building programs.
Last seen active: October 2026
Club 路 North Delaware
A Philadelphia group that keeps Irish heritage alive through banquets, meetups and other events. Members and friends gather for the calendar of events, including a yearly Christmas party.
Last seen active: October 2026
Nonprofit 路 Upper North
A Philadelphia nonprofit on the IRS rolls with a name that points to Islamic heritage. We found no working website or public page, so its programs are not confirmed.
Last active date not known yet
Student group
A student group for people who have roots in Central America or care about the region. Members talk, share, and spend time together.
Last active date not known yet
Student group
A Penn student group that celebrates Japanese culture and helps newcomers, including freshmen, transfers, and exchange students, settle in. It also points members toward study and work in Japan.
Last active date not known yet
Nonprofit
Juneteenth Philly organizes the Juneteenth parade and festival each June, with a music festival, a youth pavilion and a scholarship pageant. Adults volunteer through an online form, and groups can apply to march in the parade.
Last seen active: June 2026
Nonprofit 路 Online
A community nonprofit that teaches Khmer (Cambodian) language, dance, and music for free, based at the Preah Buddha Rangsey Temples. It also hosts family events open to the public.
Last seen active: October 2026
Program 路 Upper Far Northeast
A Russian-speaking lunch site run by KleinLife at its Northeast Philadelphia address. Adults 60 and up can eat a weekday lunch here at no cost.
Last seen active: August 2024
Student group
A Penn student group for engineering and science students with Korean ties. It offers a place for cultural and academic community. Students join through the membership form for the 2026 to 2027 year.
Last active date not known yet
Nonprofit 路 Upper North
A Philadelphia nonprofit in the Olney area that helps new immigrants and low-income families with housing, naturalization help and benefit enrollment, and runs an early learning center.
Last active date not known yet
Student group
A Penn student group for social, mentoring, and cultural activities around Korea. Anyone interested in Korea can take part.
Last active date not known yet
Club 路 West Park
A community taiko drumming group that teaches classes to beginners and experienced players and performs at festivals and fundraisers.
Last seen active: October 2026
Program 路 Lower North
A multi-year arts residency at Taller Puertorrique帽o that helps neighbors shape La Guagua 47, a bilingual Puerto Rican musical about migration and belonging in Philadelphia. Workshops in storytelling, music, dance and visual art invite neighbors, youth, elders and families, and the group also presents concerts and street performances.
Last seen active: September 2026
Nonprofit 路 Central
A nonprofit that uses storytelling and the arts to bring together Lao and Laotian Americans. It has run a summer camp for children that covers Lao music, dance, customs and cooking, keeps a volunteer sign-up form, and invites people to share their own stories.
Last seen active: August 2025
Student group
A social group for Penn students who want to share Malaysian culture and make friends. Malaysian students and anyone who wants to make new friends are both welcome.
Last active date not known yet
Nonprofit 路 Upper Northwest
A Philadelphia arts foundation that teaches and performs the music, dance and culture of Bahia, Brazil. Its ensembles perform, it runs adult community classes and youth education programs, and it leads trips to Bahia.
Last seen active: October 2026
Club
An Irish heritage association named as a Dougherty Award winner on the St. Patrick's Day Parade website. Its own page was not found, so its activities are not yet known.
Last active date not known yet
Student group
A multilingual Penn group that trains students as cultural advocates and interpreters, then places them at Philadelphia clinics. The goal is fair access to health care for patients who need language help.
Last active date not known yet
Student group
A student society at Penn for undergraduates interested in law and the Middle East and North Africa. It offers pre-law mentorship, networking, and discussion of regional affairs.
Last active date not known yet
Nonprofit 路 Central
A nonprofit that shares Mexican heritage with Philadelphians through festivals, Day of the Dead events, programs and workshops. Many events are open to the public, and volunteers can sign up through a form.
Last seen active: October 2026
Nonprofit 路 Central
A business council that links Mid-Atlantic companies with partners in Eurasia, mostly through trade events, seminars and delegations. It also holds public cultural and remembrance events, including programs about people who rescued Jews during the Holocaust.
Last seen active: October 2026
Student group
A student group in Penn's School of Nursing that promotes cultural awareness in the school and the wider university. It runs faculty talks, potlucks, study sessions, service projects, and social events.
Last seen active: September 2025
Nonprofit 路 West
Free homework help, English classes for children and adults, and college application help, mainly for Bangladeshi-American families in West Philadelphia.
Last seen active: November 2016
Program
A community dance group founded in 2011 that shares Indonesian culture through dance and immersive public events. Its dancers perform at public festivals and community events, sometimes alongside gamelan music.
Last seen active: November 2024
Nonprofit 路 Central
A more than 100-year-old group that helps immigrants and refugees in Greater Philadelphia with English classes, legal help, health services and youth programs. Volunteers help with classes, the food pantry, events and home setup for newly arrived refugees.
Last seen active: October 2026
Student group
A Penn community for Native American, Native Hawaiian, Alaska Native, and Indigenous students, with room for staff, alumni, and allies. It raises awareness of Indigenous culture and history on campus.
Last seen active: June 2023
Neighborhood or civic group 路 Upper Far Northeast
A neighborhood group in Northeast Philadelphia that runs a town watch and helps residents, including immigrant and limited-English speakers, find local resources. It also holds information meetings on local programs and laws.
Last active date not known yet
Student group
A Penn student group for Nepali students and anyone curious about Nepali culture. It works to build community, and it hosts talks on public life and the economy in Nepal.
Last active date not known yet
Nonprofit 路 University Southwest
An archive and cultural center in West Philadelphia that shares the history of African American Muslims through exhibits, lectures and youth camps.
Last active date not known yet
Nonprofit
A small community nonprofit that works to help Asian American residents of Northeast Philadelphia with culture, education and the local economy. The website lists a team and volunteer page but few current programs.
Last seen active: July 2022
Nonprofit
ODUNDE, Inc. puts on the Odunde Festival, a street festival celebrating African heritage on South Street each June, and runs year-round programs under the ODUNDE 365 name. Several hundred volunteers and a board help make the festival happen.
Last seen active: May 2025
Nonprofit 路 University Southwest
A Philadelphia group founded in 2003 to explore and share Mexicayotl culture, a tradition from Mexico before the Spanish arrived. It runs events, a radio show and an Indigenous Peoples Day celebration.
Last seen active: October 2024
Nonprofit 路 Online
Runs festivals, events, podcasts and partnerships that celebrate the many cultures of the Olney neighborhood in North Philadelphia. It has operated since 2014.
Last seen active: October 2026
Nonprofit 路 Lower Southwest
A nonprofit for Oromo people in Pennsylvania that promotes the Oromo language, culture and wellbeing. It holds a yearly get-together and also supports Oromos affected by hardship in Ethiopia.
Last active date not known yet
Nonprofit 路 North Delaware
A faith-based nonprofit in the Oxford Circle neighborhood. It runs an after-school program at Carnell Elementary, adult English and job training classes, family resource centers at two schools, and a regular food distribution.
Last seen active: September 2026
Student group
A group for Paraguayan undergraduate and graduate students at Penn. Members meet regularly over food and conversation, and new students are welcome to join.
Last active date not known yet
Nonprofit 路 Lower Northwest
A Philadelphia group that brings people of different faiths and cultures together through interfaith dinners, a youth academy, cultural exchange trips, and public awards.
Last seen active: October 2025
Student group
A student group that plays South Asian fusion music, mixing classical Indian traditions with pop, rock and jazz. Members perform in concerts and promote the music on campus.
Last active date not known yet
Nonprofit 路 Central
A volunteer-run Pennsylvania group that supports sign language interpreters and works to improve communication access for Deaf, hard of hearing, and DeafBlind people. It holds regional summits, board meetings, and an annual membership meeting, many of them on Zoom.
Last seen active: October 2026
Student group
Penn's Chinese a cappella group. It bills itself as the first Chinese a cappella group on a US college campus, and its members write many of its arrangements.
Last seen active: March 2026
Student group
A Penn student group run by undocumented young people and their allies. It holds talks and know your rights sessions and works for fair access to college and opportunities for immigrant students.
Last seen active: December 2025
Student group
A student group that shares Persian culture on campus through social events, holiday celebrations and Farsi practice. It also gives Persian students at Penn a place to connect.
Last active date not known yet
Student group
Shares Peruvian traditions and culture with students from Peru, people of Peruvian descent, and anyone who wants to learn about the country's history.
Last active date not known yet
Nonprofit 路 Lower North
A nonprofit that runs a yearly film festival and year-round screenings and talks about Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander stories. Volunteers help run the festival and the year-round work.
Last seen active: October 2026
Club 路 Upper Northwest
An Irish music and dance group in Philadelphia, founded in 1958. It runs a free monthly ceili for young people and adults, a first-Friday Irish music session, and an annual Irish music and dance festival.
Last seen active: October 2026
Nonprofit 路 Online
A nonprofit based in Chinatown that teaches and performs Chinese opera. It has given free and public shows at libraries, museums and festivals.
Last seen active: January 2023
Nonprofit 路 University Southwest
A nonprofit founded in 1987 that documents, presents and supports folk and traditional arts in the Philadelphia area. Its events page lists workshops and exhibits from 2026, but it shows no upcoming dates yet.
Last seen active: June 2026
Program
A community film and arts festival that shows Latino films and runs a weekly screening club in Center City.
Last seen active: September 2026
Neighborhood or civic group 路 Central
The City of Philadelphia office that creates programs for immigrant residents and helps them connect to city services and civic life. Each September it runs Welcoming Week, a set of public events.
Last seen active: October 2026
Neighborhood or civic group
The St. Patrick's Day Observance Association puts on the Philadelphia St. Patrick's Day Parade each March. The route runs from John F. Kennedy Boulevard down Market Street to Penn's Landing. Marching groups apply online, and volunteers can serve as marshals.
Last seen active: March 2026
Student group
A Penn student group that shares Filipino culture with anyone who wants to learn about it, through cultural dance, potlucks, cooking sessions, and social hangouts.
Last seen active: April 2024
Program 路 Central
A free conversation club for Japanese and English speakers of every level, run by the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia. Members practice by joining live online discussions led by society staff.
Last seen active: July 2020
Nonprofit 路 Online
A Philadelphia youth development group. It runs a youth program with self-care, book club discussions and leadership, a monthly virtual book club, a feature that shares young people's stories, and trips abroad for teens.
Last seen active: April 2026
Program 路 Lower Far Northeast
A Philadelphia nonprofit that has offered free lectures on Polish history, culture and tradition for more than 100 years. Anyone can attend the monthly talks from October to April at the Associated Polish Home, and some talks are also offered on Zoom.
Last seen active: October 2026
Neighborhood or civic group
The Pulaski Day Parade is a Polish American parade on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway each October. The Polish American Congress's Eastern Pennsylvania Division sponsored it in 2017, and the Polish American Cultural Center helped host the 2024 edition.
Last seen active: October 2024
Student group 路 University Southwest
Penn's South Asian Association. It brings students together around South Asian culture and community on campus.
Last active date not known yet
Nonprofit 路 Lower Northwest
A nonprofit advocacy group that aims to unite Cambodians around the world and push for accountability and reform in Cambodia, through volunteer reporting, campaigns and advocacy at the United Nations.
Last seen active: August 2026
Nonprofit 路 South
A nonprofit that has helped immigrant and refugee families in Greater Philadelphia since 1984. Young people can join an afternoon arts program at Furness High School, and adults can volunteer by phone.
Last active date not known yet
Garden 路 South
Two community gardens on Emily and Mercy Streets in South Philadelphia, run by SEAMAAC, an immigrant and refugee services nonprofit, with the Neighborhood Gardens Trust. Mostly immigrant and refugee gardeners grow vegetables and familiar foods here. We could not confirm current activity.
Last seen active: October 2026
Club
An Irish society we know from a parade listing. We could not find its own public page, so what it does and how to join are not confirmed.
Last active date not known yet
Student group
A student group at Penn that shares Sikh heritage and culture on campus and in Philadelphia through social, cultural, and service events.
Last active date not known yet
Nonprofit 路 Lower North
A Philadelphia nonprofit that collects and shares the stories of the city's Puerto Rican community through films and recorded conversations. Anyone can watch, listen, or add a story of their own.
Last active date not known yet
Student group
A Penn student group that shares South Asian culture with the wider campus. It runs a membership for each school year, group chats for new students, and social events such as a cultural show and a formal.
Last active date not known yet
Student group
Penn undergraduates who learn about Southeast Asian business and culture. They hold cultural events, run learning sessions on the region's markets, and do volunteer and consulting work for Southeast Asian communities.
Last active date not known yet
Nonprofit
A Philadelphia association for firefighters and EMS workers that promotes Hispanic and Latino representation in emergency services. It also gives out free smoke detectors, teaches CPR and first aid, and hosts family events for neighbors.
Last seen active: October 2026
Faith community 路 Central
A Lithuanian heritage parish at 19th and Wallace streets, with a Sunday Mass in Lithuanian and a Lithuanian school for children. Its parish hall can be rented through a contact on the site.
Last seen active: April 2024
Student group 路 University Southwest
A Penn student group that shares Sudanese culture and heritage and helps students connect with one another.
Last active date not known yet
Student group
A group for Penn students who care about Taiwanese culture and affairs. It holds dinners, social nights, and cultural events that are also open to the wider Penn community.
Last active date not known yet
Student group
A graduate and professional student group at Penn. It builds community and cultural ties around Taiwanese affairs through social, cultural, learning, and career events.
Last active date not known yet
Nonprofit 路 Lower North
A Puerto Rican arts and culture center in North Philadelphia that shows art, runs youth and family art programs, and keeps an archive on Puerto Rican history in the city.
Last seen active: October 2026
Nonprofit 路 Upper Far Northeast
A dance group that teaches and performs Bharatanatyam, an Indian classical dance style. Its site lists a beginner class and past productions, but the newest dated item is from 2018.
Last seen active: April 2018
Nonprofit 路 Central
A gallery in Old City that shows contemporary art connected to South Asia and its diaspora. It holds exhibition openings, public talks, screenings and a residency for emerging artists.
Last seen active: October 2026
Student group
A student group at Penn for Ukrainian students and anyone curious about Ukrainian culture. It holds monthly social and cultural events, hosts discussions on current events and history, and links students with the wider Ukrainian community in Philadelphia.
Last active date not known yet
Nonprofit 路 University Southwest
The nonprofit behind the Philadelphia Caribbean Carnival. Its costumed mas band, Philly Mas United, is taking interest sign-ups for the 2027 Carnival.
Last seen active: June 2026
Nonprofit
A membership trade group that links businesses in the United States and Ghana. It runs trade missions, business summits and open community gatherings, and a youth volunteer program for high school students.
Last seen active: May 2026
Nonprofit 路 River Wards
A Philadelphia nonprofit that teaches Bharatanatyam, a classical Indian dance, and makes and performs its own dance productions. It offers classes at three levels and workshops for children, families and adults.
Last seen active: September 2026
Student group
A Penn student group that shares Vietnamese and Vietnamese-American culture through volunteer work, cultural performances, and social nights. It also runs a mentorship program.
Last active date not known yet
Nonprofit
A Native-led Philadelphia project that shares and teaches Indigenous arts and cultures. It runs the Seeds Philly weekend, a podcast, and an Indigenous listening garden in West Philadelphia.
Last seen active: September 2026
Nonprofit 路 Central
A Philadelphia nonprofit that helps immigrants build jobs, businesses, and English and digital skills. Its programs include English and digital skills classes, work readiness tracks, business courses and the Immigrant Leadership Institute, and it offers translation and interpretation help.
Last active date not known yet
Student group
A pre-professional group for Penn undergraduates interested in business in Asia. It offers business skills training, speaker events, and small groups for mentoring and socials.
Last active date not known yet
Student group
A community for Wharton MBA students who want to celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander identities while building careers and friendships. Students of any background and allies are welcome.
Last active date not known yet
Student group
A Wharton recognized student group that builds a Korea focused business community at Penn and beyond. Its committees cover consulting, finance recruiting prep, marketing, and career treks, with monthly socials.
Last active date not known yet
Includes: language exchange and practice, english classes and conversation, heritage clubs and hometown associations, heritage language and culture schools, welcoming immigrants and refugees, sign language and deaf community, cultural exchange and international friends.