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More than 3,000 Allegheny County youth, most low-income and of color, are in confinement for nonviolent offenses. Through 100 Percent Pittsburgh and the Youth Voices Initiaitve, The Pittsburgh Foundation is are documenting lived experiences and advocating for policy change  

Two Pittsburgh-based artists will receive this year’s Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Awards. A shared commitment of The Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments, the awards recognize exemplary artistic achievement by an established artist and an emerging artist each year. The two recipients are each awarded $15,000.

Winners of the Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh grants program were announced this morning. The partnership between The Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments awarded $308,000 to 18 artists and arts foundations.

Winners of the Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh grants program were announced this morning. The partnership between The Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments awarded $308,000 to 18 artists and arts foundations.

Last year, the Forbes Funds created the UpPrize competition to find tech solutions that benefit nonprofits. Now one of the finalists, the East Pittsburgh-based software company Application Verification, has partnered with the United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania to find a more efficient way to connect volunteers with vulnerable populations.

As Director of Entrepreneurship Programming for Urban Innovation21, Marteen Garay implements a wide range of community-based support programs, including spearheading the creation of the newly formed Homewood-Brushton Business Association. She's also applying for Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh funding.

For more than 40 years, Kate Dewey has worked for or with nonprofit organizations, foundations and public agencies. Now president of The Forbes Funds, an affiliate of The Pittsburgh Foundation that provides management assistance and technical expertise to nonprofit organizations, the Yardley, Pa., native describes herself as a social entrepreneur who is best at connecting the dots

Artist Ron Donoughe devoted a year to setting up his easel outdoors and painting each of Pittsburgh’s 90 neighborhoods. After his work was exhibited at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and published in a book, “Pittsburgh: 90 Neighborhoods,” he faced the unpleasant prospect of selling each scene separately. Now the collection is on permanent exhibition at the Heinz History Center because three local foundations (led by Maxwell King) purchased the paintings and gave them to the Strip District museum.  

Americans should work harder at breaking out of comfort zones, traveling to unfamiliar neighborhoods and being open to listening to opinions that differ from their own, several speakers emphasized Friday during Greater Pittsburgh Nonprofit Partnership's annual meeting.

Maxwell King writes that "if Trump does want to turn his concern from campaign caricature into something real that actually helps the poor and the dispossessed - the large percentage of our population left out of American prosperity for decades - then he must dedicate his presidency to this goal."