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PITTSBURGH, Nov. 11, 2016 – Two Pittsburgh-based artists will receive this year’s Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Awards. A shared commitment of The Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments, the awards recognize exemplary artistic achievement by an established artist and an emerging artist each year. The two recipients are each awarded $15,000.

As important as the $5.9 million raised this year is the culture of philanthropy that the events foster regionally among donors, nonprofits and the public. To date, Pittsburgh Foundation-sponsored Days of Giving have raised more than $43 million for regional nonprofits.

A new $2 million research effort at the University of Pittsburgh will oversee one of the most intensive investigative efforts in the country against amyloidosis and other diseases that lead to heart failure.

When added to the $1.2 million raised on the partially completed May 3 giving day, the $1.5 million in pledged matching funds, $200,000 in incentives and $60,000 in matching funds, this year’s giving days generated about $5.1 million for regional nonprofits. 

Kaufman philanthropy awards $1.8 million to faculty at four Pa. universities.

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.

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.