Stories Archive

Young woman wearing glasses and long braided hair in a red shirt.
Stories

The difference that knowing can make

Financial Opportunity Centers help low- and moderate-income families build their assets while attaining financial stability and upward mobility.

Pittsburgh’s rapidly changing Larimer neighborhood as seen from above.
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Catalyzing change

Modern-day settlement houses are evolving once again as catalysts for change to transform and sustain communities.

Older man with white hair, wearing glasses clips paper with the word Community printed on to a red string as part of a training exercise.
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Coaching for self-confidence

Executive in Residence program provides expertise to nonprofit organizations as they face a multitude of challenges.

Three men standing in a hallway talking wearing business attire.
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Front-porch philanthropy

Financial advisor Sam Spanos believes that excess wealth is truly best used for making memories and for giving to worthy causes.

Artist Vanessa German’s mixed-media piece, “Untitled (Charleston Church Killing Series),” accompanies the chapbook’s poetry.
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Pushing back against "comfortable silence"

A poetry project honors the victims of the July 2015 church massacre in Charleston, South Carolina, while igniting local dialogue about race relations and violence.

Two smiling young men wearing suits and ties standing with their arms around a smiling young woman in the middle with braces. She is wearing a tan cardigan with her arms folded.
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Living up to the Promise

The Pittsburgh Promise continues to empower Pittsburgh’s families and turn today’s students into tomorrow’s leaders.

Two groups of three people are talking while sitting at small, round, white tables in front of a white board with sketches and writing in marker. In background, two people are standing and writing on whiteboard, facing away from the camera.
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Philanthropy by design

The Pittsburgh Foundation’s Center for Philanthropy has a new home.

Two men and a woman smile and talk while standing indoors. From left to right, man on left has short, dark hair, is smiling and is wearing a dark blue business suit. In the middle, a woman is smiling, has medium-length wavy dark hair and is wearing a sleeveless blue dress. The man on the right has short, dark hair and is wearing glasses and a gray business suit.
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The August Wilson Center reborn

Named for Pittsburgh’s most celebrated playwright, the August Wilson Center has been resurrected and reopened as a showcase for African American art and theater.

On left, a seated woman is laughing and throwing her head back. She has medium-length dark hair and is wearing glasses and a white shirt. Seated in the middle is a toddler-aged girl with shaggy dark hair and is eating a banana while wearing a yellow and green dress with a cartoon character on the front. On the right, a man with short, dark hair and wearing a blue shirt and white shorts, smiles.
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Next-generation giving

A young couple decided to give back to their adopted home—and to encourage the “New Pittsburgh” to do the same.

Artistic notes on a white board has colorful notations with infographic elements, capturing a discussion on the juvenile justice system with youth.
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Voices for justice

Project uses stories and experiences of young people to shape the Foundation’s related grantmaking, policy and advocacy work around juvenile justice.