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How do low-income communities learn to advance economically and build wealth? Low-income communities and communities of color, in challenging structural economic and social inequality, have historically grappled with tensions inherent to development. Who participates in, directs, and ultimately owns the economic-development process? In creating and sustaining new, inclusive economic institutions, how do community members cultivate and pass on skills, commitment and knowledge—especially among those who have long faced barriers to education and employment? And how should communities strike an appropriate balance between utilizing local knowledge and accessing outside expertise?
The Forbes Fund hosted UpPrize for the first time in 2015 to fund innovative solutions to better serve vulnerable populations in the region. BNY Mellon served
How do you put into place the tools and processes needed to get clear about and increasingly get stronger impact from your grantmaking program?
After 17 successful years, The Sprout Fund has announced it will sunset in 2018.
Read a candid description of how the fund was created, co-authored by Michelle McMurray and Justin Laing.
In 2015, The United Nations defined a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) intended to alleviate poverty, preserve the planet and promote universal health and well-being by 2030. Read more about how the Bridgespan Group recently compiled data on ‘big bets’ placed by private foundations, corporate foundations and wealthy donors toward the SDGs.
Thanks to funding from The Sampson Foundation and Eden Hall Foundation, the YMCA in Plum opened a teaching kitchen as part of their massive renovation campaign.
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation announced a $1 million capstone grant to Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh.
The Women and Girls Foundation announces the launch of GirlGov Summer Leadership Academy.
As part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the Tribune-Review — with the help of the FISA Foundation — created a video on teen dating violen
The Erie Community Foundation (ECF) announced a $6 million grant to expand the Magee-Womens Research Institute (MWRI) to Erie and create a new biomedical commercialization and translational research lab at Penn State Behrend’s Knowledge Park.
The Pittsburgh Foundation's Small and Mighty Grants program has awarded $1.25 million since it began in 2016.
The Community Foundation for the Alleghenies COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund is helping individuals establish funds to allow them to raise money to help front-line workers.
The Jefferson Regional Foundation released a data analysis focusing on changing demographics, economic mobility and community health in the twenty-six municipality service area.
