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Delivering diapers – and opportunity
A "diaper bank" in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, is fulfilling a crucial unmet need for low-income families.
Going It Alone: For many single women with children, poverty is just around the corner
Most of the women who trust their children to Jamie Tabb’s cottage childcare business in Turtle Creek are struggling to get by under circumstances she knows well. She’s a single woman raising children on her own, as they are. She’s been employed and poor at the same time. She’s had…
Wilson Center buoyed by $500K RAD grant
The August Wilson Center for African American Culture received another hefty taxpayer boost to buoy its comeback two years after narrowly avoiding foreclosure.
Obituary: William J. Copeland / WWII vet, longtime PNC employee was 'take charge kind of guy'
A “take charge kind of guy” who could always be found chomping a premium cigar, William J. Copeland personified the Greatest Generation.
August Wilson Center names new board chair
Michael Polite, who has been on the board of the August Wilson Center since August 2015, will take over as board chair from Maxwell King.
Philanthropic oddities: Rogue Pittsburgh Fdn. asks people what they think
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has correctly put its finger on a bit of rogue activity on the part of the Pittsburgh Foundation, which actually decided to consult the sentient beings residing in their communities about what they need.
Juveniles and justice: A Pittsburgh Foundation report sheds light
Philanthropists and large foundations sometimes approach their grantmaking with an agenda of their own. They have occasionally tried to impose solutions on communities that don’t agree with or want those solutions. So it’s refreshing to learn about the methodology behind a new report from The Pittsburgh Foundation, titled “A Qualitative Study of Youth and the Juvenile Justice System.”
UpPrize finalists try to solve social problems
Ten finalists have been selected for UpPrize, a competition that challenges organizations to come up with technologies and solutions to help the needy in the Pittsburgh region. All 10 will receive a $10,000 grant and will compete for final awards of up to $300,000.
10 finalists named in UpPrize Social Innovation Challenge
Organized by the Forbes Funds, the competition engages the community in producing innovative solutions to critical issues facing the region and the world. It kicked off last year by finding ways to help the visually impaired, victims of human trafficking, and other vulnerable populations.
Finalists named in $1M UpPrize social innovation challenge
Ten proposals seeking to improve the lives of greater Pittsburgh's most vulnerable people through food access or technology just clinched $10,000 apiece in prize money in the second annual UpPrize social innovation challenge.