Due to scheduled maintenance work, our online donation forms and access to the donor portal will be unavailable from 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 19 until 5 p.m. on Sunday, May 20. We apologize for any inconvenience.
On September 30, 2017, Ryan A. McCutcheon, 19, was killed in a tragic automobile accident while returning to his college campus after a long day assisting high school drum students at a local band festival. The Rhythm19 Fund was established by his family through The Pittsburgh Foundation to keep his spirit alive through music.
People experiencing food insecurity in Western Pennsylvania got a major boost last week when their neighbors donated $522,500 over a 16-hour period to The Pittsburgh Foundation’s #FeedPGH Critical Needs Alert. The May 1 online giving event, which was fortified with a $600,000 incentive pool from the Foundation and its donors, raised $1.1 million for Allegheny and Westmoreland Counties’ food pantries and the organizations that supply them.
WHEN: Thursday, June 7, 2018 at Noon WHERE: The Pittsburgh Foundation By invitation
On May 1, a million-dollar effort to raise money for Pittsburgh-area food banks and food pantries will get underway. The Critical Needs Alert, which was put together by The Pittsburgh Foundation, will run from 8 a.m. until midnight, with donors able to make their donations at pittsburghgives.org and pittsburghfoundation.org.
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Neighbor-Aid came together in early 2009, shortly after a federal report spelled out just how devastating the nationwide recession was and after it became evident that the community’s need for services would overwhelm the budgets of local nonprofits. “I think we didn’t believe this could happen to us as a nation,” said Jeanne Pearlman, senior vice president for Program and Policy at the Pittsburgh Foundation, who was the foundation’s education grants officer in 2008.
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Briefly Noted from Spring 2018 issue of Philanthropy magazine
The Philanthropy Roundtable
Behind the scenes with Pittsburgh's medical pioneers When: Thursday, May 17, 2018 from 3:30 to 7 p.m. Where: UPMC Hillman Cancer Center By Invitation
On May 1, The Pittsburgh Foundation will be holding 16 hours of giving as part of what it is calling a critical needs alert. It’s an urgent effort to raise money to help more than 170 food pantries in the Pittsburgh region. The goal is to raise $1 million, with $600,000 being seeded by The Pittsburgh Foundation and its key donors.
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