Stories Archive

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Policy to prevent eviction

As COVID-19 closed businesses and caused layoffs, The Pittsburgh Foundation and its partners ramped up their direct lobbying work to extend moratoriums and to secure funding to prevent evictions.

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Historic legacy

Life’s work of Black abolitionist endures through field-of-interest fund.

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Exponential Impact

Planned gifts seed support for decades.

Two students standing at a table painting an underwater robot made of pipes. Child on left is wearing a blue zipped jacket. The boy on the right is wearing a grey t-shirt.
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Foundational supports

Children’s programs recovering after COVID crisis years.

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Promoting progress

Pittsburgh Foundation advocates move communities forward.

Six members of the Foundation's Public Health, Research and Learning staff are standing on the sidewalk of Fourth Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh.
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Investing for healthy communities

A new vision for the Foundation's public health-related grants.

Lee B. Foster II is sitting on a desk, slightly smiling to the camera. Wearing a dark blue sport coat with light blue, button-down shirt and has short, gray hair. Wooded area is seen behind him outside the window.
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Many happy returns

Board member Lee Foster’s guidance generates marked growth.

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Preparing for liftoff

Westmoreland County foundation helps launch human services department.

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From Buffalo to Uvalde to Highland Park

Back on May 16, we posted this message as part of our outreach to Buffalo community foundation colleagues and residents reeling from a horrific mass shooting that left 10 people dead and three others wounded. Most of the victims were Black, targeted by the accused gunman who police say was steeped in white supremacist ideology.