Today finishes our intern stories.  We asked them to tell us about their experience during the program, and thought it might be interesting if you heard it from them.  Today’s post is from  Benjamin Rubino, who will attend DePaul University.
Everyday I would pass the same teacher in the hall and everyday she would encourage me to sign up [...]

The local arts organizations convened to discuss the upcoming G20 summit in Pittsburgh.  In an effort to highlight how important the arts are to Pittsburgh, the following document was produced.  We’d like to share it with the community in this space.
Art transforms Pittsburgh:
The arts are a key strategy in transforming the region, with shining examples [...]

Today continues our intern stories.  We asked them to tell us about their experience during the program, and thought it might be interesting if you heard it from them.  Today’s post is from  Felicia Brown, who will attend Penn State University, Beaver.
This year I had the privilege to be a Heinz Endowments Summer Youth Intern at The Pittsburgh Foundation. [...]

Today continues our intern stories.  We asked them to tell us about their experience during the program, and thought it might be interesting if you heard it from them.  Today’s post is from  Elizabeth Moody, who will attend Ohio state University.
It was only by purest chance that I heard about the Heinz Endowments Summer Youth Philanthropy Program.  [...]

 
Bravo to Superintendent Mark Roosevelt, teachers’ union head John Tarka, and the entire Pittsburgh Public Schools team for their big win in qualifying for a Gates grant to support teacher excellence. This is HUGE news not just because of the potential size of the Gates funding (we’re talking tens of millions here), but also because [...]

It is back to school time, and our interns have completed their summer program.  The team selected two great projects to fund, centering around environmental youth education.  We asked them to tell us about their experience during the program, and thought it might be interesting if you heard it from them.  As such, we turn [...]

The Pittsburgh Foundation’s team of Heinz Endowment Interns completed their nine week program, which culminated on the selection of two projects for grants.  Here is their final post for the ECommunity Forum.
July 31 rolled quickly around the corner, and we began the evaluation of each possible grantee.  The nonprofits that applied included GTECH, Gwen’s Girls, [...]

The Pittsburgh Foundation hosted a team of Heinz Endowment interns. The team spent some time with Pittsburgh Filmmakers. Their assignment was to make a four-minute film pertaining to their RFP for educating youth about environmental issues. The film was part narrative and part documentary, conveying the final message that media projects can inspire youth to [...]

Santonio Holmes, Super Bowl XLIII MVP and Wide Receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers, will host the 1st Annual Celebrity Bowl-A-Thon benefitting the III & Long Foundation, A Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation, which he established in March to support charities doing work in the area of Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) along with assisting families that [...]

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 [...]