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Small communities are big winners in Revitalizing Westmoreland grants
A community-focused program that encourages new, creative ways to revitalize communities in Westmoreland County has made $143,000 in new grants to small communities. The grants will fund nine small-to-medium sized innovative, capital projects. To spur local investment in the projects, communities that receive Revitalizing Westmoreland grants must also raise additional dollars on their own to fully fund the projects.
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Notice of outage: donation forms and donor portal unavailable
Due to scheduled maintenance work, our online donation forms and access to the donor portal will be unavailable from 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 19 until 5 p.m. on Sunday, May 20. We apologize for any inconvenience.
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Ryan McCutcheon Rhythm19 Fund
On September 30, 2017, Ryan A. McCutcheon, 19, was killed in a tragic automobile accident while returning to his college campus after a long day assisting high school drum students at a local band festival. The Rhythm19 Fund was established by his family through The Pittsburgh Foundation to keep his spirit alive through music.
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Critical Needs Alert raises $1.1 million to #FeedPGH
People experiencing food insecurity in Western Pennsylvania got a major boost last week when their neighbors donated $522,500 over a 16-hour period to The Pittsburgh Foundation’s #FeedPGH Critical Needs Alert. The May 1 online giving event, which was fortified with a $600,000 incentive pool from the Foundation and its donors, raised $1.1 million for Allegheny and Westmoreland Counties’ food pantries and the organizations that supply them.
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Explore Series: social change through policy and advocacy
WHEN: Thursday, June 7, 2018 at Noon WHERE: The Pittsburgh Foundation By invitation
In The News
Food pantry in Monroeville looks toward the future; hopes for help from Critical Needs Alert
On May 1, a million-dollar effort to raise money for Pittsburgh-area food banks and food pantries will get underway. The Critical Needs Alert, which was put together by The Pittsburgh Foundation, will run from 8 a.m. until midnight, with donors able to make their donations at pittsburghgives.org and pittsburghfoundation.org.
WTAE-TV
In The News
You may not recall Neighbor-Aid, but foundations teamed up to help families in trouble
Neighbor-Aid came together in early 2009, shortly after a federal report spelled out just how devastating the nationwide recession was and after it became evident that the community’s need for services would overwhelm the budgets of local nonprofits. “I think we didn’t believe this could happen to us as a nation,” said Jeanne Pearlman, senior vice president for Program and Policy at the Pittsburgh Foundation, who was the foundation’s education grants officer in 2008.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
In The News
Briefly Noted: The Millionaire Next Door
Briefly Noted from Spring 2018 issue of Philanthropy magazine
The Philanthropy Roundtable