News Releases

PITTSBURGH, Dec.18, 2019 – The Small and Mighty grants program, a special initiative of The Pittsburgh Foundation’s 100 Percent Pittsburgh organizing principle, has awarded grants totaling $371,000 to 23 small, community-based nonprofits. This fourth round of grants brings the total awarded through the Small and Mighty program since its inception in 2016 to $1.25 million.

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 12, 2019 - The Pittsburgh Foundation is accepting grant applications for The Dietrich Foundation Greenville, Pa. Fund. Selection of grantees will be made by the nine-member committee of The Dietrich Foundation and awards will be announced in early summer.

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 12, 2019 - The Pittsburgh Foundation is accepting grant applications for The Dietrich Foundation Conneaut Lake, Pa. Fund. Selection of grantees will be made by the nine-member committee of The Dietrich Foundation and awards will be announced in early summer.

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 11, 2019 – A fund established last year at The Pittsburgh Foundation to honor the legacy of rapper Mac Miller has awarded $100,000 to music programs for teenagers and young adults at the Homewood-Brushton YMCA. The Mac Miller Fund was established at the Foundation by the family of the recording artist after his death at age 26 in September 2018.

After reporter Sally Kalson’s death in 2014 from ovarian cancer, family and friends established the Sally Kalson Courage in Journalism Award Program at The Pittsburgh Foundation. The award will reach statewide to identify a broadcast, print or online media journalist annually, whose work embodies what Kalson was known for: “fearlessness, fortitude and excellence in taking on issues of our time.”

Celebration of the arts on Dec. 9 will include awards ceremony, performances by Bernice Johnson Reagon and Toshi Reagon

PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 28, 2019 – Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh, a joint program of The Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments, has awarded $388,000 to individual artists and art programs for the initiative’s fall 2019 grant-making cycle. Among the projects funded are an audio book and video series reinterpreting a book by Pittsburgh’s first African American medical doctor, an artist residency at the Pittsburgh Glass Center exploring plasma and neon light in glass, a community healing event honoring a young artist who died after a battle with depression, and a graphic novel about the experiences of growing up as a Black girl.

NEW YORK, Sept. 23, 2019 – A forum during the 74th United Nations General Assembly today featured Pittsburgh Mayor William Peduto and leaders from Carnegie Mellon University, Chatham University, the University of Pittsburgh and The Pittsburgh Foundation.

A proposed rule change to the SNAP food stamp program would result in 34,000 people in our seven-county region losing food stamp benefits. The changes would affect the most vulnerable: seniors, children, single mothers and people with disabilities. The rule change could also affect free school lunch eligibility. Read public comments submitted by The Pittsburgh Foundation and learn how you can comment by the Sept. 23 deadline.

Funded research ranges from “Dancing of the Stars” to “Eavesdropping on Ants”