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Pasted to the wall of Department of City Planning is a large, colorful map of Pittsburgh. It’s divided into seven shades, denoting city planning sectors and parks, and a light red line squiggles throughout the jagged map.

According to a 2017 report from the National Urban League, Pittsburgh ranks 65th in black-white income inequality for large metro communities. Within the city, predominantly black neighborhoods lack thriving business districts and other basic services found in other neighborhoods. 

The Pittsburgh Foundation is tackling issues of suburban poverty - particularly affecting youth and families around Sewickley - with a recent endowment of $37 million. Learn more from Jeanne Pearlman, senior VP for program and policy, and Sarah Heres, president of Quaker Valley School Board.

They are the sons of wealth, brought up in families accustomed to power. They were raised to show and demand respect, and they were raised to lead.

It was announced that a San Antonio couple, art collectors Steven Alan Bennett and Dr. Elaine Melotti Schmidt, will begin its inaugural Bennett Prize, the largest prize offered solely to women painters (painting in the figurative realist style).

The Pittsburgh Foundation has established The Bennett Prize to recognize and encourage emerging women artists who paint in the figurative realist style.

The Shaler North Hills Library earned about $4,400 in grant money for its “1,000 Books Before Kindergarten” program, courtesy of donations made through inclusion in The Pittsburgh Foundation's 2017 Wish Book. Bob's Discount Furniture also recently donated $1,000.

Continually adapting to changing circumstances, The Promise continues to lift up Pittsburgh’s young people.  

Delmont Councilman David Piper is making the most of his work on the borough's grants committee, seeking funding that could potentially go toward electrical upgrades and drainage work at the Shields Farm property where several major events take place each year. "The Community Foundation of Westmoreland County is making grants available from $2,000 to $40,000, and they don't require a formal plan as part of the application," Piper said. 

When the creation of the Pittsburgh Promise scholarship was announced in 2006, it had two goals: to provide graduates of the city schools with money for a post-secondary education, and to attract middle-class families to Pittsburgh.