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Denzel Washington returns to the Hill District to bestow $5 million on August Wilson House
“I love August Wilson. He touches my soul in a way that no one else ever has,” the actor said. “This is just like coming home to me. I feel so comfortable here and its like seeing old friends and reconnecting from when we were filming here. And so I thank you in advance for keeping him alive.” Paul Ellis, Wilson's nephew, pitched the August Wilson House as a performance space in 2006 meeting with the Pittsburgh Foundation. Ellis was awarded a $35,000 feasibility study from the Pittsburgh Foundation.
The Pittsburgh Foundation's strategy to achieving 'Idiosyncratic Returns'
Jonathan Brelsford, SVP Of Finance And Investments | Q&A
Pennsylvania’s retro policy on driver’s license suspensions
Suspending licenses for minor offenses hurts the most vulnerable among us and is bad for the state and for business A guest editorial written by Maxwell King. president and CEO of The Pittsburgh Foundation and Matt Smith, president of the Greater Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce, an affiliate of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development.
Physicist theorizes that dark matter is a superfluid
A hypothesis by Justin Khoury, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania, stands to shake up how scientists consider dark matter. The work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, the Université de Strasbourg, the National Science Foundation, NASA, and the Charles E. Kaufman Foundation of the Pittsburgh Foundation.
Behind the Creation of the New Social Justice Fund at the Pittsburgh Foundation
In July 2018, the Pittsburgh Foundation awarded its first round of grants through its newly created Social Justice Fund. The fund was co-designed in partnership with nine social justice leaders to support those working on social justice issues in the Pittsburgh region.
New fund to honor crusading journalists
The Sally Kalson Courage in Journalism Award was announced Wednesday during a presentation about her life and career at the Heinz History Center. Ed Feinstein, the late Post-Gazette writer’s husband, announced that a $3,000 award would be made in an annual cycle to a deserving journalist in Western Pennsylvania. The fund will be seeded by grants of $12,500 each from the Pittsburgh Foundation -- where it will be housed -- and the Heinz Endowments.
New fund to honor crusading journalists
A fund has been established that will award $3,000 in an annual cycle to a deserving journalist in Western Pennsylvania.
Fred Rogers: The Ssimple lessons of a complex man
Rogers’ life is now the focus of a new Maxwell King biography -- aptly titled The Good Neighbor. Connecticut Public Radio (WNPR) sits down with King for a special preview of the book.
The Pittsburgh Foundation goes directly to the community to fight for social justice
“People who are closest to the center of the issue should be at the center of creating solutions," says Michelle McMurray, senior program officer at The Pittsburgh Foundation.
New social justice fund to combat racial, economic inequity
A new fund to boost support for social justice activists and advocates working in Pittsburgh has been launched at The Pittsburgh Foundation and has made eight grants, totaling $158,000 to local organizations. The goal of the Social Justice Fund is to reduce barriers to funding, increase engagement and influence of community members and challenge systems that perpetuate racial and economic inequity.