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Social Justice Fund awards grants to help eliminate racial and economic inequities
The Pittsburgh Foundation has created a new fund that will disperse money to nonprofits that address issues of economic and racial disparities. The foundation launched the Social Justice Fund last year with initial funding of $250,000. On Tuesday, it announced its first eight grant recipients, which together will receive a total $158,000.
Author of Mister Rogers book to speak at Heinz History Center
The Senator John Heinz History Center in the Strip District will welcome author and Pittsburgh Foundation CEO Maxwell King to its neighborhood for the book launch of “The Good Neighbor: The Life and Works of Fred Rogers” (Adams Press), the first full-length biography of Mister Rogers at 7 p.m. Sept. 4.
Foundations invest $215,000 in Pittsburgh-based professional artists
The Investing in Professional Artists program -- the shared commitment of The Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments -- has awarded $215,000 to 15 Pittsburgh-based artists and organizations.
Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh receives $229,000 grants for black artists, agencies
Thanks to $229,000 in grants, the Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh initiative will be funding a local comic book series, mixed media ceramic work, holistic healing guide, collection of short stories and many more projects.
‘Where are these folks supposed to go?’ Hazelwood renewal comes with fears of displacement
Maxwell King, president and CEO of the Pittsburgh Foundation, led the Heinz Endowments from 1999 to 2008, a period that included the purchase of Hazelwood Green. He said the revitalization effort in East Liberty serves as an important example as the specter of development hovers over Hazelwood. “Gentrification was beyond what the architects of the ELDI [East Liberty Development Inc.] had expected. The strategies weren’t a match for the market forces,” Mr. King said.
Putting the "Place" in Pittsburgh Philanthropy
The Pittsburgh Foundation shows how conducting communications research with the people you serve can make philanthropy more inclusive.
Advertorial: for all of the Antwons....tackling racism--the architect of inequality
The story of this boy’s homicide, the result of 3 bullets to his back as he ran from an East Pittsburgh police officer, has pricked a bubble of simmering pain and its contents are scathing the region.
As protests take place over Antwon Rose’s death, First Amendment conference explores freedom to question
Freedom of speech is too often misunderstood or undervalued, and so is freedom of the press, said The Pittsburgh Foundation’s President and CEO Maxwell King, as he opened the First Amendment for the Twenty-First Century conference yesterday. “Freedom of speech,” he said, “isn’t something that takes place in some ether over the nation. It takes place in communities. City by city, town by town.”
Strickland's vision: Manchester Bidwell is built to last, and grow
Bill Strickland has served as an ambassador for the city, for the underprivileged, for higher education, for the arts and for workforce development. His resume is impressive. More important to him, though, are the thousands of Pittsburghers who bettered their resumes through his programs. Bill Strickland is a Pittsburgh Foundation Board member.
Chronicle: Project Hunger
Project Hunger is a station-wide initiative to bring awareness to food insecurity issues in the greater Pittsburgh area. The hour-long program focuses on what food insecurity really looks like and the army of volunteers and advocates who strive to connect wholesome food with those who need it.