News Release Archive

News Release Sept. 10, 2020

#ONEDAY Critical Needs Alert raises record $1.3 million from public

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 10, 2020 – Nonprofits providing basic needs benefited from record public giving to the #ONEDAY Critical Needs Alert online giving event on Aug. 19. Organized by The Pittsburgh Foundation, the event raised a total of $1.85 million for nonprofits in Allegheny and Westmoreland counties that provide food, housing, physical and mental health care, child care and transportation – directly to vulnerable populations.

News Release Aug. 17, 2020

Announcing the Arts | Equity | Reimagined Fund

The Covid-19 Arts Working Group (CAWG), a collaboration of 15 foundations and a private donor in the Pittsburgh metro area, announces the Arts | Equity | Reimagined Fund, in response to the unprecedented and ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the region’s arts and cultural sector.

News Release Aug. 11, 2020

Dietrich Foundation 2020 grants to Greenville area increase

The Dietrich Foundation Greenville, PA Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation has awarded $45,940 to Greenville area organizations this year.

News Release Aug. 11, 2020

Four Conneaut Lake organizations awarded 2020 Dietrich Foundation grants

The Dietrich Foundation Conneaut Lake, PA Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation has awarded $23,100 to Conneaut Lake area organizations this year.

News Release Aug. 4, 2020

Emergency Action Fund totals $9 million for COVID relief

The Pittsburgh Foundation’s Emergency Action Fund has now raised a total of $9 million for COVID-19 relief, with most of it already in use by 313 nonprofits navigating the economic and health crises of the COVID-19 pandemic.

News Release June 25, 2020

Helen Ubiñas named first Sally Kalson Courage in Journalism awardee

Her columns about the effects of gun violence have galvanized communities into activism

News Release June 23, 2020

Investing in Professional Artists announces $170,000 in grants

Awards include $100,000 for emergency relief, COVID-related projects.

News Release May 5, 2020

$8.3 million in grants going to COVID-19 response

Emergency Action Fund aids operations, essential services

News Release April 16, 2020

Call for entries opens for $50,000 Bennett Prize for women figurative realist painters

PITTSBURGH, April 16, 2020 – Talented women painters looking to take their figurative realist work to the next level are invited to apply for the $50,000 Bennett Prize, the largest offered solely to women painters.

The call for entries runs from April 16 - Oct. 16, 2020. Details are at thebennettprize.org/call-for-entries. Entry is online at www.callforentry.org.

News Release March 16, 2020

Philanthropies respond to COVID-19

$10 million for Emergency Action Fund and related relief