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“I think he felt if he could build upon a strong base in the core city and the suburban ring around it, he could not only be competitive from a news gathering standpoint but commercially,” said Maxwell King, president and CEO of the Pittsburgh Foundation. “The newspaper business didn’t look as dire in financial terms as it does today. It’s hard to say how good his strategy might have proven to be if the economics for newspapers stayed strong. But the Internet flipped the business upside down in terms of revenue and profitability.

Chrystal Walsh, development manager at Family Services of Western Pennsylvania and a fundraising professional with 15 years of nonprofit experience, has been named the development director of PublicSource. PublicSource is a nonprofit organization founded in 2011 and currently supported by The Pittsburgh Foundation, The Heinz Endowments, Hillman Family Foundations, Richard King Mellon Foundation, Colcom Foundation and Ethics and Excellence in Journalism.

Got an opinion about those left behind in the new wave of prosperity in Pittsburgh? The Pittsburgh Foundation wants to hear from you. As part of their 100 Percent Pittsburgh—an initiative to devote more resources to the 30% of the population in this region that has been left behind in the latest wave of prosperity—the foundation is conducting extensive research to find out how the community feels about such matters.

Have a grand idea and want to take it to the next level? UpPrize, the social innovation challenge created by The Forbes Funds with partners BNY Mellon and Bridgeway Capital, is back after its stellar debut last year.

Over the past two years, the fraternity’s charity run has raised more than $200,000 for the Live Like Lou Center for ALS Research at the University of Pittsburgh Brain Institute. The center is named for the patient advocacy organization LiveLikeLou.org started by Neil and Suzanne Alexander. The nonprofit, administered through the Pittsburgh Foundation, is dedicated to raising money to fund patient care and research to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

While voting is a right of every U.S. citizen, the process isn’t easy for those faced with strict registration deadlines, voter ID laws and limited access to polling places. That’s why the Greater Pittsburgh Nonprofit Partnership (GPNP), a part of The Forbes Funds, is committed to getting everyone to the polls this election season. The GPNP, a coalition of over 420 nonprofits and community partners from a 12-county region in southwestern PA, assembled 17 cohorts to participate in the nonpartisan Nonprofit Vote voter engagement program.

The Pittsburgh Foundation’s Day of Giving generated $2.1 million during 16 hours on Wednesday, pushing the total to more than $5.1 million raised across two days – about four months apart.

Four Penn State researchers have been awarded a total of $450,000 by the Charles E. Kaufman Foundation to carry out basic science research over the next two years.

The development that is rapidly transforming some areas of the city could actually be part of the solution to ensuring everyone benefits from the region’s economic transformation. That’s the premise behind a report from the research institute PolicyLink—Equitable Development: The Path to an All-in Pittsburgh—which provides a roadmap for Pittsburgh to “not just imagine but actually build a different future,” says Sarah Treuhaft, director of equitable growth initiatives at PolicyLink.