Posted September 10, 2009 // 0 Comments // add yours
By The Pittsburgh Foundation
The Pittsburgh Foundation was proud and honored to have played a role in supporting the Flight 93 Memorial campaign, and we congratulate State Senator Jane Orie (R-Allegheny) for her tireless work to help keep alive the memory of those who gave their lives on United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in Somerset County, Pa. during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The following news release was issued by the Pennsylvania Senate Republican Communications honoring all those who contributed to the Hearts of Steel Fund, created by Senator Orie.
Posted September 9, 2009 // 0 Comments // add yours
The Pittsburgh Foundations is pleased to announce the launch of PittsburghGives. PittsburghGives is an online directory of our area’s nonprofits. Visitors to the site can search for a specific nonprofit, browse by interest, inform and educate, as well as securely donate to their favorite charities.
And on Wednesday, October 28, your gift will go 50% further. To celebrate the launch of PittsburghGives, The Pittsburgh Foundation is announcing the first Match Day celebrating Pittsburgh’s Day of Giving. Starting at 10 AM on October 28, the Foundation will match your gift of $50 or more .50 to the $1 up to a $2,500 per individual. Log on from your computer to PittsburghGives. org or join us for a public celebration at the PPG Wintergarden.
Posted September 3, 2009 // 3 Comments // add yours
Introduction by Grant Oliphant, CEO and President The Pittsburgh Foundation:
The Pittsburgh Foundation Senior Vice President of Programs Jeanne Pearlman, whose recent blog entry appears below, initially didn’t want to be published here – or anywhere else, for that matter. “I just wrote it to vent,” she said expressing concern that the opinions it voiced could prove offensive to some, especially the policy makers she so adroitly takes to task.
That is a risk I’m willing to take. The Pittsburgh Foundation enjoys good relationships with political leaders at all levels of government and both sides of the aisle, and I want to keep it that way. But that does not mean we should muzzle ourselves when their actions prove harmful to the people, organizations and values we exist to serve.
I recently attended a roundtablediscussion among nonprofit leaders to hear from some Harrisburg analyst about the prospect for a resolution to the state budget impasse that is wreaking so much havoc on nonprofits in our community. “Hold rallies, not protests,” they cautioned “you don’t want to be negative. They don’t like it when people go negative.”
Excuse me? Since when did fear of reprisal become a guiding principle of representative democracy? Since when did shutting up become a cardinal good?
We know our political leaders often have a tough job to do, never more so than now, with resources so constrained. But when their actions exact a damaging toll on communities like ours, a little righteous indignation is an appropriate response.
Which is why I am proud to share Jeanne’s message. Besides, it really applies to all of us. Using human suffering as the coin of change is unacceptable, no matter what our ideology.
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