News Releases
We update this section often with current news about The Pittsburgh Foundation. For more information, please contact Matt Minczeski, at 412-391-5151 or minczeskim@pghfdn.org.
Inaugural grants from Mac Miller Fund benefit arts and recovery
Awards go to Hope Academy of Music and MusiCares®
#ONEDAY crowd-funding event raises record $1.67 million
190 nonprofits get generous matching in Critical Needs program
First $50,000 Bennett Prize goes to Tampa artist Aneka Ingold
Prestigious prize raises profile of women figurative realist painters
Pittsburgh Foundation approves $2.9 million in grants in the first quarter
PITTSBURGH, April 15, 2019 – The Program & Policy Committee of The Pittsburgh Foundation Board of Directors approved $2.9 million for 51 grants in the first-quarter grant-making cycle.
May 7 Critical Needs campaign backed by record incentives
PITTSBURGH, March 27, 2019 – With at least one-third of the regional population living at or on the verge of poverty and struggling to meet basic needs, The Pittsburgh Foundation is organizing a Critical Needs Alert online fundraising event this year with its largest-ever incentive pool of $788,000 to help bolster giving from the public.
Demarest Fund award goes to 83-year-old South Carolina artist
PITTSBURGH, March 26, 2019 – Aldwyth, a South Carolina-based visual artist, is the recipient of the annual award bestowed by the Eben Demarest Fund, a Pittsburgh Foundation fund.
Civic leader Lisa Schroeder named Foundation president
A record of turning nonprofits into transformative forces for community good
Foundation raises record-breaking $68 million in 2018
New revenue will increase grantmaking in the region
Nearly $6 million in grants approved at year-end meeting
Four community leaders join Board this month as new directors
Statement on public health response to coke works fire
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 24, 2019 – The following statement is issued by Pittsburgh Foundation President and CEO Maxwell King in support of Allegheny County Health Department staff’s increased monitoring and enforcement action against air polluters in the region: