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Pittsburgh symphony gets support from local Foundations
Monday, March 27, 2017
... challenges.  The Board of the Heinz Endowments has made a $5 million grant to the orchestra. The funding will be used over a five-year period to support the orchestra's efforts to ... donors at the $5,000 level and above to increase their giving levels." Pittsburgh Symphony management has already ...
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2016 PLACES Fellowship Briefing Call for GWP Members
Tuesday, October 13, 2015 - 2:00pm
The PLACES Fellowship develops tools and provides resources to help funders understand the needs and ... about growth and development. All Fellows go through a competitive application process and are selected based on a variety of factors, especially a commitment to learning ...
Advocacy Funder Collaboratives
For this suite of resources, GrantCraft captured the wisdom of philanthropic ... in multi-party advocacy collaboratives and conducted a literature scan of how foundations talk about ... the appeal and applicability of wisdom derived from a specific collaborative example. The bite-sized articles are ...
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The Village Movement
... are independent nonprofits while others may be operated as a program under a larger, local senior services organization. The word ...
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Scott Izzo To Retire From R.K. Mellon Foundation
Friday, December 14, 2018
... will step down at the end of the year but will stay on as a board trustee and senior adviser at Pittsburgh’s largest ... More than $43 million was dedicated to preserving natural resources, including in the northern Pennsylvania counties of ... 1. Sam joined the foundation in 2014 after working as a program officer with the McCune Foundation and the Forbes ...
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New Member Welcome: Learn About Your GWP Membership
Wednesday, August 28, 2019 - 12:00pm
... Are you new in your job? Or maybe you just need a refresher of what GWP has to offer. We invite you to learn ... learning networks, programming and all of the services and resources available to our members. This program is for new ... how to make the most of your GWP membership! This is a brown bag lunch program. Please feel free to bring your ...
GWP Funder Briefing: Census 2020 Update
Thursday, December 12, 2019 - 9:00am
... county-city Complete Count Committee framework, including a high-level overview of the types of outreach and engagement ... strategies that are being developed – and what resources are still needed – to ensure a complete and accurate count. GWP members will be invited to ...
POSTPONED: New Member Welcome: Learn about your GWP Membership
Wednesday, March 25, 2020 - 12:00pm
**This program is postponed and will be rescheduled at a later date.** Has your organization recently joined ... Are you new in your job? Or maybe you just need a refresher of what GWP has to offer. We invite you to learn ... learning networks, programming and all of the services and resources available to our members. This program is for new ...
Neighborhood Allies Partners with First Commonwealth Bank
Thursday, May 7, 2020
... assistance to small businesses and nonprofits and a dedicated banking partner that would process applications, ... to help our most vulnerable community businesses to access resources offered through the Paycheck Protection Program. ... non-stop hard work, these businesses may not have received a forgivable loan under the Paycheck Protection ...
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Cultivating Emerging Philanthropic Leaders
... younger workers into their grantmaking staff through a number of models. One such model is  through time-limited, ... fellowships with similar  objectives.   According to a recent survey conducted by the Emerging Leaders Working ... perspective and renewed energy. Fellowship programs offer a viable  means of infusing these elements into North ...
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Making the Most of The Pittsburgh Promise: Findings from Two Research Projects
Thursday, March 31, 2016 - 12:00pm
... both at the level of each individual programs and across a network of five similar efforts across the U.S.   At this ... Strategy Director at Lumina Foundation   *This will be a brownbag meeting, so feel free to bring a lunch.  Drinks and cookies will be provided. Making the ...
The Pittsburgh Foundation Calls for Action on Homelessness
Thursday, December 4, 2014
... December 8, The Pittsburgh Foundation is conducting a three-week public campaign to address homelessness in ... stereotypes are outdated and inaccurate.  It could be a child that is attending school each day but then going to a ... wish to contribute may do so by visiting PittsburghGives.org.  The Pittsburgh Foundation Calls for Action on ...
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Pittsburgh Steps Up To Combat Homelessness
Thursday, December 11, 2014
... The Pittsburgh Foundation recently announced a three-week Critical Needs Alert, asking for the public’s ... and matching funds was raised via PIttsburghGives.org.  The funds will provide much-needed support to 36 ...
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Supporting Grantee Capacity: Strengthening Effectiveness Together

In Supporting Grantee Capacity: Strengthening Effectiveness Together, GrantCraft look at how funders approach building capacity with grantees. Through examples from foundations ranging in size, mission, and geography, we explore various strategies for capacity building and the types of awareness that funders can choose to incorporate in decision making to facilitate informed, thoughtful judgments about strengthening organizations.

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Opioid Crisis Learning Session
Monday, September 24, 2018 - 12:00pm
The nation’s opioid crisis did not result overnight. A “perfect storm” has been brewing and sweeping our ... are working diligently to combat this crisis, but resources are limited, data and systems remain fragmented, ... and policies are outdated. Philanthropy can make a significant difference in fighting this epidemic but a ...

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