News Releases

Anyone who knows me also knows that I love a great story.The one that I’ve been telling and re-telling to illustrate what The Pittsburgh Foundation does for our community is centered on a public appeal we launched during last year’s holiday period to address homelessness and housing insecurity in Allegheny County. It was a classic fundraising campaign with a modern twist: the Foundation promised to match every contribution dollar for dollar – up to $100,000.Read more in Community Matters

Selection ramps up effort to increase donors and impact GREENSBURG, Pa., June 3, 2015 – Phil A. Koch, whose five-year tenure leading a national youth empowerment organization has resulted in life-development opportunities for some 50,000 youth across the country, has been appointed the next executive director of the Community Foundation of Westmoreland County, an affiliate of The Pittsburgh Foundation. 

Pittsburgh nonprofit leader selected fornational Independent Sector Program to develop organizational innovationPITTSBURGH, Pa., June 1, 2015 A Pittsburgh organization dedicated to increasing the impact of regional nonprofits is itself getting support to increase its impact after being selected for a prestigious fellowship project of Independent Sector, the national leadership network for organizations committed to advancing the common good.

In The Pittsburgh Foundation’s blog, Maxwell King poses some uncomfortable questions for Pittsburgh in response to Baltimore’s struggles over the death of a young black man in a police van, the ensuing riots and the decades of escalating poverty and isolation of that city’s African American community.

PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 7, 2015 – The Heinz Endowments and The Pittsburgh Foundation have awarded grants totaling $204,800 to 13 artists and organizations during the fourth funding cycle of Investing in Professional Artists, a program jointly sponsored by the foundations.

$500,000 raised in 16 hours for 163 area nonprofit organizations            PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 6, 2015 – Nonprofit organizations in Butler and Westmoreland County benefitted from a strong turnout for the 2015 Day of Giving, surpassing last year’s results.

Our thoughts are with the people of Nepal, India and Bangladesh after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck the region.  More than 5,000 people are confirmed dead from Saturday's earthquake just outside Kathmandu, Nepal. Nearly 11,000 more were injured, according to Nepal's National Emergency Operation Center. You can support the relief organizations that are responding to the disaster.

Continued strong growth in foundation asset baseNumbers reflect donor trust and commitmentGifts to The Pittsburgh Foundation’s individual and family donors’ funds nearly doubled last year, setting a record and opening up the prospect of more robust giving to a broad range of charitable organizations this year.

For the past several years, Neil and Suzanne Alexander, along with their children, Abby and Patrick, have been among the brightest lights in The Pittsburgh Foundation’s constellation of donors. While we at the Foundation are saddened at the announcement of Neil’s death on March 24, 2015 at age 49 from complications connected to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or ALS, we celebrate his incredible accomplishment as an authentic community philanthropist in the creation of the highly renowned LiveLikeLou Fund here. 

Below you will find web banners and electronic postcards that you may use to promote the ButlerGives 2016 Day of Giving. For assistance with marketing materials, please contact Christopher Whitlatch at whitlatchc@pghfdn.org. The .zip file at the top contains all images, as well as fonts and Illustrator files.