News Releases

PITTSBURGH, April 25, 2016 – The Pittsburgh Foundation’s phenomenally successful Day of Giving program which has raised more than $40 million for worthy nonprofits through a combination of individual donations and a generous match pool, will resume May 3 under a new model for Allegheny County. The day-long event also will include Westmoreland and Butler counties.

PITTSBURGH, March 7, 2016 – The Pittsburgh Foundation will host the seventh annual Day of Giving for Allegheny, Butler and Westmoreland counties’ nonprofits May 3. The date is in conjunction with the national Give Local America event, in which 180 community foundations participate in a 24-hour crowdfunding process designed to empower every person to give back to their local communities by supporting organizations they trust to tackle today’s most critical issues.

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 28, 2016 – This June, a member of the Class of 2016 of Franklin Regional School District will be awarded a college scholarship of up to $1,300 from the We Are FR Scholarship Fund. The scholarship will be awarded to a graduating senior who has a commitment to serving the community and is in need of financial assistance. Applications are due March 31. A volunteer committee appointed by the Community Foundation of Westmoreland County will meet in late April to review applications. The award will be announced in June.

The Pittsburgh Foundation raised a record-setting $24.5 million from individual donors last year, up from the previous $21.4 million record set in 2014.

GREENSBURG, Feb. 15, 2016 – Board members of The Community Foundation of Westmoreland County (CFWC) have elected Gail Malloy their chair, making her the first woman to head the governing body in its 20-year history. Malloy, a local entrepreneur and business owner who has been on the CFWC board since 2010, served the past two years as vice-chair.  She succeeds Regis Synan, president of F. Tinker and Sons, who will remain on the board.  Malloy will serve a two-year term.

Through his fund at The Pittsburgh Foundation, philanthropist and McMurray resident Joseph Fairbanks, Jr. has funded the lion’s share of the first full-time paid position at Hire Our Heroes, a nonprofit providing veterans nationwide with networking and career-building services.

Pushing back Against “Comfortable Silence”  Poetry project confronts racism, remembers victims of Charleston, S.C. massacre PITTSBURGH, Jan. 19, 2015 – The Pittsburgh Foundation has commissioned nine local poets to create new works for “Psalms for Mother Emanuel: an Elegy from Pittsburgh to Charleston,” a chapbook reflecting on racial issues and last year’s shootings at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C.

Largest one-time gift by living donor A lifetime away, but a desire to “do good for Pittsburgh and the world”  PITTSBURGH, Dec. 27, 2015 – Dr. Richard and Priscilla Hunt have established a $15 million fund at The Pittsburgh Foundation, making the donation the largest of its kind by a living donor in the philanthropy’s 70-year history.

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 22, 2015 –Congress has approved and President Obama has signed the PATH Act making the Individual Retirement Account Charitable Rollover and two other charitable giving incentives permanent law. The tax package did not expand the permanency to donor advised funds, but giving the Charitable Rollover that designation is a tremendous victory for community foundation philanthropy and for our individual donors. The Pittsburgh Foundation's staff members were very involved in advocacy efforts to bring about passage.

Unified behind passage of Senate- and Governor-approved plan PITTSBURGH, Dec. 11, 2015 – Leaders from across the Pittsburgh region’s business, religious, cultural, nonprofit and foundation sectors today decried the harm done to the state’s most vulnerable residents and many facets of its economy due to a nearly six-month stall in the passage of Pennsylvania’s budget.