Community Matters
“Bring the hoses?”
In Arnold, a long road to recovery after a mayor’s terrible comment, and across Westmoreland, a hard lesson about choices for its future
Community Matters
Families belong together
“We have taken refugees and undocumented children for years. . . including those unaccompanied by their parents. . . but this situation of taking in children being separated at the border, this is the first time we have ever experienced this. I can’t answer basic questions: What does this mean? When will they be reunited? How are these separations going to affect these children, their parents and this country? This is unprecedented.”
Event
Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh roundtable and brunch
HOW DID THEY DO THAT?! The Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments invite you to an informal brunch and artist-led roundtable discussions featuring current and former grantees from the Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh program.
Event
Explore Series: providing pathways to quality education
Thursday, July 19, 2018 from 5 to 7 p.m. at Repair the World By invitation only Can a community put a price on what a higher education means for a young adult? On average, college graduates received the following benefits in comparison to high school graduates never attending college:*
Stories
Philanthropy and The First Amendment
The foundations’ two presidents cited the conference as a public response to alarming signs that First Amendment basic freedoms – of religion, expression, the press, public assembly and government petition – are being eroded, and that the country’s democratic institutions could be threatened.
In The News
Advertorial: for all of the Antwons....tackling racism--the architect of inequality
The story of this boy’s homicide, the result of 3 bullets to his back as he ran from an East Pittsburgh police officer, has pricked a bubble of simmering pain and its contents are scathing the region.
Pittsburgh Courier
In The News
As protests take place over Antwon Rose’s death, First Amendment conference explores freedom to question
Freedom of speech is too often misunderstood or undervalued, and so is freedom of the press, said The Pittsburgh Foundation’s President and CEO Maxwell King, as he opened the First Amendment for the Twenty-First Century conference yesterday. “Freedom of speech,” he said, “isn’t something that takes place in some ether over the nation. It takes place in communities. City by city, town by town.”
NEXTPittsburgh
In The News
Strickland's vision: Manchester Bidwell is built to last, and grow
Bill Strickland has served as an ambassador for the city, for the underprivileged, for higher education, for the arts and for workforce development. His resume is impressive. More important to him, though, are the thousands of Pittsburghers who bettered their resumes through his programs. Bill Strickland is a Pittsburgh Foundation Board member.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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John M. Russell Fund
In 1778, a missionary preacher led the first service held in the Raccoon Presbyterian Church of Candor, a farming village in Washington County, Pa. Since then, three new churches have been built on the site of that first meeting house, the most recent constructed in 1872. The adjoining cemetery attests to the long history of the church. Weathered markers cover the hillside, and church historians tell of six unmarked graves of early settlers who were killed by Native American tribes.
In The News
Chronicle: Project Hunger
Project Hunger is a station-wide initiative to bring awareness to food insecurity issues in the greater Pittsburgh area. The hour-long program focuses on what food insecurity really looks like and the army of volunteers and advocates who strive to connect wholesome food with those who need it.
WTAE-TV