Stories

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

Understanding through science.

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.

How one family’s medical crisis led to an endowment for the trailblazing Supportive Care Program