The Pittsburgh Foundation would like to thank you for your incredible response to PittsburghGives and today’s ‘Match Day’.  Your efforts are to thank for raising over $1M for area nonprofits today.
With all new innovations, there are growing pains.  We want to also thank you for your patience today.  We are currently looking into the issues [...]

2009 Genesis Awards Reception Held During National Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Month to Raise Awareness about the Nation’s Leading Cause of Death
High school hero, Mike Piccione, was honored at the 2009 Genesis Awards Reception hosted by the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation, on October 15 at Hyde Park in Pittsburgh. Mike, a physical education teacher and [...]

By Kevin Jenkins
Senior Program Officer
The Pittsburgh Foundation
As I hunched inside my umbrella and trudged through a cold, windy rain-swept Downtown one evening recently my thoughts were of home, warm comforts and family.  Then a measure of guilt and remorse kicked in as I remembered that I was headed to an event to support our community’s valiant [...]

Two of the lessons that life teaches most of us are that decisions have consequences and that you can only stretch a dollar so far. I was reminded of those lessons by today’s terrible news that funding shortfalls are forcing the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh to close several branches, merge others, and make major cuts [...]

I ran into my friend Joe Lagana at Starbucks early this morning. Joe runs an outfit called the Homeless Children’s Education Fund a nonprofit that works to keep homeless children from falling through the educational cracks and missing out on school. He was poring over this morning’s Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and he had already cut out [...]

By Grant Oliphant
The kudos accorded to Pittsburgh by President Barack Obama at the close of the G-20 Summit perfectly embodied the spirit of our city’s renaissance: that Pittsburgh is no longer a relic of the past; it is a beacon for the future, not only locally but nationally.
That our transition and continuing transformation is held [...]

The Pittsburgh Foundation in partnership with the Center for Inclusion in Health Care and UPMC Health Plan launched the Dignity and Respect Campaign and Pledge Drive today.  Inclusion begins with a core belief that everyone deserves dignity and respect.
You can support inclusion by taking the pledge at dignityandrespectcampaign.com.  October has been declared Dignity and Respect [...]