Stories

The Pittsburgh Foundation’s 100 Percent Pittsburgh organizing principle is working to address the risk of poverty facing single women with children by funding nonprofits such as Jeremiah’s Place, the region's only emergency child care center.

The Pittsburgh Foundation’s Programming Fund for the Center was launched to support independent productions at the rejuvenated arts and cultural space.

The Community Foundation of Westmoreland County is spurring nonprofit leaders to leverage their collective knowledge and resources for big quality-of-life gains.

The Pittsburgh Foundation’s new organizing principle, 100 Percent Pittsburgh, will provide access opportunities for the 30 percent of residents who have been left out of the region’s vibrant new economy. The Motivating Young Citizens Project goes to the core of this multiyear effort by teaching young people affected by gun violence to become courageous advocates for change in their communities.

Siblings and their scholarship fund support Pittsburgh’s future doctors.

The Pittsburgh Foundation partners with the renowned StoryCorps program to explore the past, present and future of Pittsburgh philanthropy.

A summer internship program helps students build their résumés and get on track toward brighter futures.

The Community Foundation of Westmoreland County’s Revitalizing Westmoreland initiative has helped spur community development through moderate-scale, innovative projects.

Through their seven funds, Kevin and Tracy Walsh have memorialized their friends and family members by donating to a broad spectrum of community issues.

Last year, Cambridge, Massachusetts, residents Richard and Priscilla Hunt bestowed $15 million to The Pittsburgh Foundation, the philanthropy’s largest-ever gift from living donors.