Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corporation, parent organization of 90.5 WESA, Pittsburgh’s NPR news station, and 91.3 WYEP, elected a new slate of officers and welcomed eight new Directors to the Board at its December, 2020 meeting, including the election of Maxwell King as Board Chair and Dina Clark as Vice Chair.
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Professor of Psychiatry, Epidemiology and Psychology Rebecca Thurston has seen an increase in her clinical case load recently. “These are very stressful times for so many of us.
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STYX have been linked with the Steelers for a number of years. With the song ‘Renegade’ an adopted team song, the band have also played the National Anthem at numerous match days over the years. The band filmed a new socially distanced video for the track ‘Too Much Time On My Hands’, which you can see below, and they are asking fans for donations to the Pittsburgh Foundation Emergency Action Fund.
Metal Talk
Su Su, a Pittsburgh artist who grew up in China, is among 10 women nominated for The Bennett Prize. Inaugurated in 2018, the $50,000 biannual award is the largest art prize offered solely to women figurative realist painters. The 10 finalists were selected from 674 entries.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
As a program officer for education at The Pittsburgh Foundation, Jamillia Kamara focuses on funding the out-of-school programs and providers that have always been crucial in filling the gaps for working parents.
Pittsburgh Magazine
As protests erupted worldwide in May after George Floyd’s death in the custody of Minneapolis police officers, the PPG Foundation moved swiftly to donate to organizations that address racial inequities.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Just over 10,000 local high school graduates have received the Pittsburgh Promise scholarship, a milestone that the organization touts as a sign of success in keeping young people in the region. The scholarship fund picks up the tuition, fees, and room and board bills, up to $5,000 per year after all other scholarships and grants have been exhausted, for eligible Pittsburgh Public Schools graduates who attend college or trade school in Pennsylvania.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Officials at the Community Foundation of Westmoreland County are launching a search for a new executive director, following the announcement Tuesday that Phil Koch is moving into a new post at The Pittsburgh Foundation. Koch will maintain his post with the Community Foundation of Westmoreland County, where he served for five years, while officials seek a successor. Koch will transition into the role of vice president for Policy and Community Impact at The Pittsburgh Foundation.
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A Chronicle of Philanthropy report found charitable giving in the first half of 2020 exceeded the same period in 2019 by 7.5%. Experts said much of that was driven by a 19.2% increase in the number of contributions of $250 or less.
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As the Rev. Glenn Grayson looks back at the decadelong “journey without Jeron,” he recalls some of the final words of his son. Jeron X. Grayson had just survived a serious auto accident on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in October 2010 on a weekend trip home to Pittsburgh from college. "He came home and said, ‘I'm gonna take CARES global and to another level,’” said Rev. Grayson, founder of the social service organization Center that CARES. “I couldn't understand what that meant. Thirty-six hours later, he was gone. I can't believe 10 years have come and gone.” Rev.
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