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A grant is given to the University of Pittsburgh School of Law for curriculum in juvenile justice.
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1970s: Henry C. and Belle Doyle McEldowney Fund

A distinguished banker’s family’s landmark bequest.

Pittsburgh Coal Co. barges stuck in ice floes on the Ohio River, 1950. Photograph by Paul Slantis courtesy Archives & Special Collections, University of Pittsburgh Library System and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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1940s: Brewer Fuel Fund

A lasting legacy of warmth.

Brandi Lee and her two sons enjoy time on the swings at the playground.
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Grants benefiting nonprofits serving single women with children

A direct outcome of The Pittsburgh Foundation’s 100 Percent Pittsburgh organizing principle has been increasing our grantmaking to organizations that improve conditions for single women raising children. Read about recent grants to nonprofits serving these hardworking women and their families.

Ceramicist Dick Wukich on his farm near Slippery Rock. He travels the world teaching people in developing countries who get their water from rivers and creeks to make filters from a mix of sawdust and clay that is then fired.
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Living waters

PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION FUND HOLDER DICK WUKICH says everyone should make pottery. They would feel the clay in their hands, and they would have a sense of accomplishment. The effect of it, he says, would help mend a fractured world. The Slippery Rock artist taught pottery classes at Slippery Rock University for 43 years and has been a potter since he attended North Braddock Scott High School until 1961.

Steelers’ Jim Clack, #50, and Ray Mansfield, #56, lift Head Coach Chuck Noll onto their shoulders. Terry Bradshaw, #12, and John Fuqua, #33, are also pictured. Image circa 1972.
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Concussion repercussions

WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA IS, arguably, the center of the football universe. Now, with a grant from The Pittsburgh Foundation and the Chuck Noll Foundation for Brain Injury Research, the region is poised to become a world leader in the study of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a neurodegenerative disease. Scientists hope that the athlete-focused brain bank will help researchers understand if and how traumatic brain injuries on the field may affect dementia, Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.

Skylar Palmer, left, shows his older brother, Zekeil, photographs taken during a McKeesport Community Newsroom–sponsored photo safari in conjunction with the Riverfront Concert Series in McKeesport. Image by Martha Rial, 2019.
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Lifting community voices

ON DEC. 31, 2015, The Daily News rolled off the presses for the final time, and its home city, McKeesport, along with other Mon Valley communities that had been served by the newspaper for 131 years, became a news desert, deprived even of basic obituaries of local residents.