A new fund to boost support for social justice activists and advocates working in Pittsburgh has been launched at The Pittsburgh Foundation and has made eight grants, totaling $158,000 to local organizations. The goal of the Social Justice Fund is to reduce barriers to funding, increase engagement and influence of community members and challenge systems that perpetuate racial and economic inequity.
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The Pittsburgh Foundation has created a new fund that will disperse money to nonprofits that address issues of economic and racial disparities. The foundation launched the Social Justice Fund last year with initial funding of $250,000. On Tuesday, it announced its first eight grant recipients, which together will receive a total $158,000.
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A new fund to boost support for social justice activists and advocates working in Pittsburgh has been launched at The Pittsburgh Foundation and has made eight grants totaling $158,000 to local organizations.
More than half of the grants support medical research PITTSBURGH, Aug. 22, 2018 – In service to its mission of improving quality of life in the region, The Program & Policy Committee of The Pittsburgh Foundation Board of Directors has approved 26 grants totaling $5.5 million to a range of organizations that support a vibrant democracy, healthy communities and self-sufficient individuals and families.
The Senator John Heinz History Center in the Strip District will welcome author and Pittsburgh Foundation CEO Maxwell King to its neighborhood for the book launch of “The Good Neighbor: The Life and Works of Fred Rogers” (Adams Press), the first full-length biography of Mister Rogers at 7 p.m. Sept. 4.
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The Investing in Professional Artists program -- the shared commitment of The Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments -- has awarded $215,000 to 15 Pittsburgh-based artists and organizations.
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President and CEO of The Pittsburgh Foundation Maxwell King provides closing remarks at The First Amendment for the Twenty-First Century conference. Ken Gormley invites attendees to a second conference in October.
The Heinz Endowments and The Pittsburgh Foundation have awarded grants to advance arts and culture in the Pittsburgh region and to support Pittsburgh-based artists from varied disciplines.
