News Releases
We update this section often with current news about The Pittsburgh Foundation. For more information, please contact Matt Minczeski, at 412-391-5151 or minczeskim@pghfdn.org.
$2.1 million awarded to scientific research based at Pa. universities
The Charles E. Kaufman Foundation has funded innovative and interdisciplinary scientific research at Pennsylvania universities. Studies include understanding interbacterial competition that leads to bacterial colonization and trying to crack the code human embryos use to communicate.
Choreographer Staycee R. Pearl, musician INEZ named Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Award honorees
The Heinz Endowments, The Pittsburgh Foundation and Opportunity Fund PITTSBURGH, DEC. 13, 2021- The Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Awards honored six artists at tonight’s virtual ceremony, including choreographer and visual artist Staycee R. Pearl, named Established Artist, and multi-faceted musician Danielle “INEZ” Walker, named Emerging Artist.
Two artists to be named Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Award honorees at Dec. 13 virtual event
Established and Emerging Artists will each receive $20,000
Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh awards $836,450 in latest slate of grants
PITTSBURGH, NOV. 1, 2021- Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh, a joint program of The Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments, has awarded 127 grants totaling $836,450 in the initiative’s 2021 grant-making cycle, including $440,000 in operating support for individual artists and art programs.
Announcing the BIPOC Artist Micro-Grant program awardees
Seventy-five artists from the region who are Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) have received micro-grants of $1,000 each from The Pittsburgh Foundation’s Center for Philanthropy. The awards were funded through the Foundation’s Mac Miller Fund.
Announcing the latest Demarest Fund prize awardees
Three artists will receive awards of $18,000 each from the Eben Demarest Fund. The awards were announced by The Pittsburgh Foundation, which has overseen the Demarest awards since 2010. Typically, one awardee is selected every other year but last year, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the selection committee was unable to meet. Funds unawarded last year carried forward and grew, making awards possible for three artists this cycle. The awardees are Pittsburgh-based visual artist Gavin Benjamin, Evanston, Illinois-based figurative realist painter Daniela Kovačić, and Brooklyn-based sculptor Kennedy Yanko.
#ONEDAY Critical Needs Alert raises $1.23 million from public
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 12, 2021 – Nonprofits providing basic needs are $1.83 million ahead in getting much-needed operating support thanks to the #ONEDAY Critical Needs Alert online giving event that orchestrated a 16-hour marathon of public giving on Aug. 3.
Introducing Exposure: An Artists Program
As part of ongoing efforts to support a diverse array of artists and advocate for racial justice in the arts community, The Pittsburgh Foundation has launched Exposure: An Artists Program that will provide approximately $395,000 in funding this year.
Critical Needs donor-incentive campaign is Aug. 3
#ONEDAY giving event for nonprofits on frontlines of COVID recovery
BIPOC Artist Micro-Grant program established through Mac Miller Fund
A new arts funding initiative created by The Pittsburgh Foundation’s Center for Philanthropy will award 75 micro-grants of $1,000 to Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) artists to assist them in their work. Applications are open through July 23. Funding for the program is provided by The Pittsburgh Foundation’s Mac Miller Fund.