By Bruce Trachtenberg
Just a couple days after bemoaning the difficulty foundations have in getting media coverage, I’ve just listened to a replay of an excellent piece on NPR this morning – The Art of Doling Out Stimulus Dollars — that features interviews with representatives of the Gates and Pittsburgh Foundations, and other philanthropy observers, about [...]

Welcome to Community E-Forum, The Pittsburgh Foundation’s new blog. If you are someone who shares our mission to make this community a better place for us all, we hope you will visit – and comment – here often.
I was privileged to be hired as The Pittsburgh Foundation’s President and CEO almost a year ago. I [...]

By Grant Oliphant
At a meeting I was privileged to attend in Washington, D.C. recently to discuss the effects on our community of the economic crisis, a senior White House staffer aptly described our troubling climate as a “perfect storm” for the philanthropic sector. The phrase may be trite at this point, but it was not [...]

The admonition to tighten your belt means little for most arts nonprofits.  For small arts organizations in particular, the idea of eliminating nonessentials and operational waste to weather hard times ignores the realities of a meager existence. However, it is also undeniable that the current global financial crisis poses a complex threat to the region’s [...]

On Thanksgiving Eve last year, Saleem Ghubril, Executive Director of The Pittsburgh Promise, visited the family homes of some of the 2008 Pittsburgh Public School graduates who received Promise scholarship grants and who had supported initiatives to help promote the program. The individuals he met and spoke with that evening inspired him to write the [...]