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In February, students and community residents bought enough supplies to help more than 150 K-12 students in need. The last 50 backpacks were filled after an anonymous $2,500 check from a Pittsburgh Foundation trust.

Though mammals adapted on land, a new study by Maria Chikina and Nathan Clark has shown that during three major independent evolutionary events, a number of mammals harkened back to the sea. The study was supported by a Charles E. Kaufman New Investigator Award from The Pittsburgh Foundation, an NIH grant from the NHGRI, and a Research Experience for Undergraduates grant funded by NSF and the DOD.  

As signs throughout the crowd of about 200 pointed out, passage of last year's state budget was delayed by 267 days, causing funding problems for municipalities, schools and social service programs.

Mila Sanina, deputy managing editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and a digital media innovator, has been named the new executive director of PublicSource, the Pittsburgh investigative reporting website, the PublicSource Board of Directors announced Wednesday. PublicSource is a nonprofit organization founded in 2011. Supporters include The Pittsburgh Foundation.   

What do you do when you see your community is in trouble? Do you stand up and fight for what’s right? [Article includes photos of  Pittsburgh Foundation board member Evan Frasier.]  

The August Wilson Center for African American Culture is poised to make a comeback. Eighteen months after narrowly escaping foreclosure, the debt-free center is on track to finish 2016 in the black.

Education activists such as Point Breeze parent Ali Patterson worry that taking foundation money could “reduce the power of an elected school board to hire and evaluate the superintendent.” “We’re really not doing anything behind the scenes,” countered Pittsburgh Foundation president and CEO Maxwell King. “People may perceive us to be meddling, but we’re active because we care so much about education.”

“The Old Settler was funded in part by The Heinz Endowments, Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The Pittsburgh Foundation and Chris Moore Communications, Inc.

The number of donor-advised funds at The Pittsburgh Foundation — Western Pennsylvania's largest community foundation — more than doubled from 445 in 2006 to 892 in 2015, and are valued at a combined $260 million, foundation records show. The funds range in value from just over $10,000 to more than $10 million.

Carol Kinkela is good friends with onetime Oakmont resident Carol Massaro, whose husband, Joe, died in 2015 after years of living with Alzheimer’s. All too familiar with the physical and emotional demands of caring for someone with the disease, Mrs. Massaro also is passionate about finding a cure. In 2014, with help from The Pittsburgh Foundation, she held her first fundraising event for the Joseph A. Massaro Alzheimer’s Research Fund.