Every year The Heinz Endowments organizes an internship program designed to help students entering college gain an understanding of philanthropy, foundations, non-profits and the Greater Pittsburgh Region. As part of The Heinz Endowments Summer Youth Philanthropy Program, each team of interns is allocated $25,000, which they will grant out to non-profits they feel most fit with the Request for Proposals (RFP) they create and address a need they see in the community. This year the internship has an environmental/ecological focus and includes twenty-four recent graduates divided into seven teams dispersed throughout different Pittsburgh foundations and non-profits. The Pittsburgh Foundation is hosting a team. Periodically they will publish their experiences in this space and keep you up to date on their grant making activities.
The ATHENA Award is recognized internationally as the premier honor for excellence in leadership among business, professional and community leaders.
The 19th Annual Greater Pittsburgh ATHENA Award Program will take place on Monday, September 21 from Noon – 1:30 p.m. at the Westin Convention Center hotel. . (Read more…)
The recent Post Gazette article on East Liberty’s renewal (East Liberty becomes a vibrant community, PG 6/8/09) is a welcome notice to the larger Pittsburgh community about the transformation and continuing innovation of the area. This transformation is a model of public private partnership which has been the hallmark of so much of Pittsburgh’s progress over the last several decades.
The forward-looking collaboration between ELDI and East Liberty Presbyterian Church in developing East Liberty Town Square is another example of how the spirit and culture of a neighborhood, decimated by an ill-conceived sixties renewal effort, can be recaptured, recreated and realized in new forms, based on neighborhood need and sound planning ideas. . (Read more…)
We are pleased to bring you the slide show below detailing The Pittsburgh Promise first year report card to the community. A video of the presentation will be available shortly. For more information on the Promise, please visit http://www.pittsburghpromise.org Thank you again Pittsburgh for helping us meet our first year goal.
The Pittsburgh Promise exceeds annual $15 million fundraising goal in its first year
Foundations, businesses, families
and individuals rally to support scholarship program in
“worst fundraising environment for a generation”
PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 1, 2009 – The Pittsburgh Promise today announced that it has exceeded its annual $15 million fundraising goal in its first year. For the 12-month period ending June 30, 2009, the scholarship program received contributions totaling $15,168,226 and additional donations received this week are still being processed.
Saleem Ghubril, Executive Director of The Pittsburgh Promise, heralded the completion of the Promise’s first fundraising year as “an historic milestone for this vital program.” He added: “It is cause for great celebration. I am honored, thankful and deeply moved that our fundraising effort has inspired our broad community to unite in support of the Promise, especially in such difficult economic times.”
The success of the Promise’s first year was especially significant since it was achieved “during the worst fundraising environment for a generation,” said Grant Oliphant, President and CEO of The Pittsburgh Foundation, which oversees The Pittsburgh Promise.
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