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A 67-year marriage and a lifetime of giving to others.

Advisor profile: When a client family asked for help giving away wealth instead of building more, a financial advisor changed culture of his firm to embrace community foundation philanthropy.

In Westmoreland County, the community foundation is leading giving circles that realize the philanthropic potential of donors and the self-sufficiency potential of those in need.

Annual online giving event invigorates essential organizations.

In response to the August 2019 mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, the El Paso Community Foundation and The Dayton Foundation, are responding to meet community needs.

On the evening of May 22, 2019, scores of foundation heads, elected officials and others across the community’s leadership landscape, joined The Pittsburgh Foundation’s Board and staff at the Manchester Craftsman's Guild to celebrate Maxwell King's five years as president and CEO. The crowd also welcome his successor, Lisa Schroeder, as the sixth president.

Moved to act by a brother lost in childhood, financial advisor James “Jim” Beck embraces medical research philanthropy.

Passed over by large research funders due to their small numbers, Sickle Cell Anemia patients are front-of-mind in a Pittsburgh Foundation grant to speed development of breakthrough therapies.

Carol Massaro always expected that her family's philanthropy would speed research to cure Alzheimer's Disease.

Pittsburgh Foundation donors are the early investors at Hillman Cancer Center where immunology research is producing new tools to fight cancer.