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		<title>Time to begin healing and recovery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Open Letter from Franco Harris
As this crisis continues to unfold at Penn State University and as each day that passes seems to add yet another troubling dimension, we need to begin now the long road towards healing and recovery.  First, we need to focus on the suffering of the victims of this alleged abuse that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.pittsburghfoundation.org/2011/11/23/time-to-begin-healing-and-recovery/</link>
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		<title>Child Abuse: No Compromise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That The Pittsburgh Foundation and our affiliate, The Pittsburgh Promise, supports unreservedly and unequivocally the swift and decisive actions by the Board of Penn State University, should need no further explanation or discussion.
Penn State Board members, including a former Chairman of the Foundation, Jim Broadhurst, and Pittsburgh civic leader John Surma, have responded appropriately in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.pittsburghfoundation.org/2011/11/11/child-abuse-no-compromise/</link>
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		<title>Testimony to Allegheny County Council</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is a testimony delivered by Grant Oliphant, President and CEO of The Pittsburgh Foundation to a public hearing of Allegheny County Council on November 9, 2011 concerning its proposed budget for 2012. This was among more than 50 testimonies from local nonprofits and community leaders addressing proposed cuts in funding for human services [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.pittsburghfoundation.org/2011/11/10/testimony-to-allegheny-county-council/</link>
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		<title>PublicSource goes live</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PublicSource, the new kid on the block in the Western Pennsylvania media landscape, is launching on Sunday. We hope you’ll come to know us well.
Our goal is to become a trusted source of in-depth and enterprise news and investigations. At a time when there’s more information than ever available to you, we want to prove [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.pittsburghfoundation.org/2011/11/04/publicsource-goes-live/</link>
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		<title>Action for the air we breathe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Robert VagtPresidentHeinz Endowments
What better forum could there be than the blog soapbox of the city’s community foundation to  shout-out a heartfelt thank you to all those who braved yesterday’s rain and chill to attend the launch of the Breathe Project at Pittsburgh’s Children’s Museum?
While the weather was less than desirable, the purpose of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.pittsburghfoundation.org/2011/10/31/action-for-the-air-we-breathe/</link>
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		<title>Day of Giving raises nearly $6.5M &#8211; “magnificent achievement”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Grant OliphantPresident and CEO
Pittsburgh, take a bow. Your generous and passionate commitment to local charitable causes in supporting our community’s Day of Giving achieved more than just set new on-line fundraising records. In the immortal words of the actor Michael Caine, “You blew the bloody doors off.”
More than 13,600 individual acts of kindness – [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.pittsburghfoundation.org/2011/10/06/day-of-giving-raises-nearly-6-5m-%e2%80%9cmagnificent-achievement%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<title>Day of Giving already surpasses 2010 event</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Grant OliphantPresident and CEO
You did it.
In raising the bar for The Pittsburgh Foundation’s Day of Giving today, some of us were a little wary that we were asking too much, especially against the background of a bleak economy and all the uncertainty it entails. But the steadfast, generous and big-hearted spirit of our community [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.pittsburghfoundation.org/2011/10/04/day-of-giving-already-surpasses-2010-event/</link>
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		<title>Heinz Endowments provides leadership with Clean Air Fund</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Grant OliphantPresident and CEOThe Pittsburgh Foundation

 Pittsburgh’s civic leaders have long struggled with how best to reverse the tide of environmental damage attributed to our region’s industrial heritage.  Despite the progress that has been made over the past few decades to improve air quality, the fact remains that when it comes to clean air [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.pittsburghfoundation.org/2011/09/29/heinz-endowments-provides-leadership-with-clean-air-fund/</link>
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		<title>Aiming higher for 2011 Day of Giving</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Grant OliphantPresident and CEO
The Pittsburgh Foundation’s 24-hour Day of Giving event on October 4 is more significant than ever in terms of engaging our region’s donors in the critical work of our community’s nonprofit agencies. The after-effects of the economic recession still linger and government spending cuts at local and national levels are taking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.pittsburghfoundation.org/2011/09/16/aiming-higher-for-2011-day-of-giving/</link>
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		<title>Light a Light</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Grant OliphantPresident and CEOThe Pittsburgh Foundation
The death of a child holds a poignancy that truly beggars description and strikes a sympathetic chord with even the most cynical among us. That’s why, while I didn’t watch even a second of the murder trial in the death of Caylee Anthony, I could understand the fascination her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.pittsburghfoundation.org/2011/07/11/light-a-light/</link>
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