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Make-up date set to help nonprofits recover from disrupted May 3 event

Support artist projects and organizations presenting and producing in the fields of dance, film, music and other disciplines.

The Pittsburgh Foundation to fund theater productions, summer camps and more.

Tracey McCants Lewis to serve a three-year term with the center for African-American culture.

We condemn discrimination in any of its forms.

The Pittsburgh Foundation’s Center for Philanthropy, which has for the past three years been the engine driving novel collaboration among individual donors, the organization’s grantmaking and nonprofits in the region, now has its own meeting space inside the Foundation’s offices in the PPG Place complex Downtown.

PITTSBURGH, May 18, 2016 –The Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments have awarded $153,000 in grants to 12 artists and one nonprofit organization hosting an artist residency in the fifth funding cycle of Investing in Professional Artists, a program jointly sponsored by the two philanthropies.

PITTSBURGH, May 13, 2016 – The 965 southwestern Pennsylvania nonprofits whose participation in last week’s national Day of Giving had to be suspended due to technical failures will be surveyed by The Pittsburgh Foundation to determine the best assistance options for recovery.

Sol Crespo named an Eben Demarest Fund awardee PITTSBURGH, May 5, 2016 – Sol Crespo, a New York-based actor, writer, director and producer, has been named this year’s Eben Demarest Fund grantee by The Pittsburgh Foundation. The Demarest Fund, which is administered by the Foundation, supports the work of independent creative artists and archeologists across the United States.

PITTSBURGH, May 3, 2016 – The following statement was released this afternoon by Maxwell King, president and CEO of the Foundation: