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The Pittsburgh Foundation’s new president, Lisa M. Schroeder, is a Baltimore native but insists that she has two hometowns. And Pittsburgh is one of them.

Lisa M. Schroeder will be the first woman to lead one of the region's oldest and most powerful community philanthropies. The nonprofit executive joins the Pittsburgh Foundation from the Parks & People Foundation in Baltimore, where she served as the group's second-ever president and CEO. She is succeeding Max King, who has served as president of the Pittsburgh Foundation since 2014.

Lisa Schroeder will be the first woman to lead the foundation when when she assumes the job in June. She succeeds Maxwell King whose five-year contract with the foundation expires this summer. The foundation’s 17-member board approved Ms. Schroeder’s appointment Friday in a unanimous vote.

Lisa Schroeder, who had been president and CEO of Riverlife for 13 years, is returning to Pittsburgh as the first woman to lead one of the region’s largest foundations. The Pittsburgh Foundation on Monday confirmed Schroeder has been hired as the community foundation’s new president following an eight-month search. She will succeed Maxwell King, who is retiring at the end of the summer after a five-year term.

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.