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Cornerstone Care has been awarded a $200,000 grant from the Guy V. and Alma Ida Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation. The grant supports a special project to target the health needs the residents of the McDonald area.

Just after sweeping federal tax reform was passed in December 2017, the Pittsburgh Foundation and other leading charitable groups issued a dire warning about how the new law might impact donations in 2018.

The requirements of social service programs often are not aligned with the realities of the lives of single mothers who need those services, A Qualitative Study of Single Mothers in Allegheny County: A 100 Percent Pittsburgh Project report from the Pittsburgh Foundation finds. 

The Pittsburgh Foundation on Thursday said its board’s Program & Policy committee approved $5.9 million for 53 grants in its fourth-quarter grant-making cycle.

A recent video shown to local residents aimed to inspire donors to support the construction of a second Guardian Angels Medical Service Dogs, Inc. training facility just a few miles away in Robinson, Washington County. The facility’s price is projected at $15 million to $20 million and the chief fundraiser is Jack Wagner, a former Pittsburgh City Council member, former state auditor general and a Vietnam veteran.

Small grants, big impact: Charitable groups are among 24 nonprofits serving Allegheny County that will share in a newly announced round of grants totaling $341,000 through The Pittsburgh Foundation’s “Small and Mighty” program — a funding mechanism available to small to mid-sized nonprofits that demonstrate community-impact bang for their charitable buck.

Single moms, their strengths and the challenges they face, are the focus of a new report, released by The Pittsburgh Foundation.

Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh has awarded grants totaling more than $427,000 to advance individual and institutional projects and help with organizations with operating costs during 2019.

A charitable fund created in honor of Mac Miller — the late Pittsburgh-born rapper who sought to invest in youth programs and safe playgrounds in his hometown — has raised more than $370,000 in donations, fund managers confirmed Sunday. Miller’s family established the Mac Miller Circles Fund at The Pittsburgh Foundation “to provide programming, resources and opportunities to youth from underserved communities, helping them recognize their full potential through exploration in the arts and community-building.”

“It’s an instrument that works really well for the donor, said Maxwell King, CEO of The Pittsburgh Foundation, which manages about 1,000 DAFs valued at $330 million — up from about 500 accounts totaling $111 million in 2009. “I have no reason to think that it won’t continue in popularity,” said Yvonne Maher, the foundation’s executive vice president for development and donor services. “This year, we’ve already raised $40 million in new money, and I think that we’ll continue to grow.”