PILOTs has become something of a buzz word at Penn following the protest at Penn President Amy Gutmann’s annual holiday party last December. The Student Labor Action Project About 30 people attended the Houston Hall event hosted by SLAP along with Penn Education Society, Penn National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and Penn Democrats PILOTs are contributions that nonprofit organizations can voluntarily make to local governments to cover costs of essential services like fire protection and road construction.