Stories

In response to the Pennsylvania budget impasse, a statewide coalition of community foundations and United Way organizations was created in order to demonstrate the funding community’s unified stance against budgetary abuse of the human services sector.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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