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Donating to relief efforts in Turkey and Syria
Learn how to support relief efforts after the Feb. 6 earthquake impacting Syria and Turkey.
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Learn how to support relief efforts after the Feb. 6 earthquake impacting Syria and Turkey.
The Colorado Healing Fund, an initiative of the Pikes Peak Community Foundation, has been activated to accept donations and serve as a single point for the collection of public donations.
The Foundation encourages those who wish to support the efforts of recovery and healing to donate to a few organizations/funds serving the affected areas.
The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania and The Pittsburgh Foundation encourages donors to support United Way International’s response to the humanitarian crisis that is now facing the people of Ukraine.
As emergency response efforts build, The Pittsburgh Foundation joins with other foundations as it has in past natural disasters to offer assistance and direct donors to giving opportunities.
As a philanthropic first responder after last year’s mass shooting at Tree of Life Synagogue, The Pittsburgh Foundation gained expertise it never wanted. Now, as the one-year anniversary is marked, the Foundation’s new leader commits to long-range work countering white supremacist, fear-of-the-Other ideology that has led to carnage across the country.
Category 5 Hurricane Dorian was one of the most powerful hurricanes ever to make landfall in the Bahamas.
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.