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Check out this series from News One featuring Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh grantees. Filmmaker Gregory Scott Williams, Jr.'s "Still Blooming in the Whirlwind" showcases a new generation building and maintaining Pittsburgh's reputation as a center of Black Art. Williams is an Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh grantee, a program managed by The Pittsburgh Foundation with funding from The Heinz Endowments.

KDKA-TV's Pittsburgh Today Live is helping to kick off our annual Critical Needs Alert online fundraising campaign by profiling several of our regional nonprofits that benefit from your charitable giving. Today, get to know Tech25 with help from Foundation Director of Grantmaking Traci Johnson, MPM. And mark your calendars for the one-day campaign on Tuesday, Aug. 6. #ONEDAY

Check out this series from News One featuring Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh grantees. This week, Evangeline Mensah-Agyekum: Filmmaker Discusses Black Women, Aging And ‘Internal Cracking’ You Don’t See. This story dives into Mensah-Agyekum’s new documentary called “No Age to Beauty," which highlights the experiences of aging among Black women.   The Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh program is managed by our Foundation with funding from The Heinz Endowments.  

"Heritage Community Initiatives’s bus service currently consists of three main routes covering just over 81 miles with 81 stops, serving several municipalities in the Mon Valley, spanning from Swissvale, Liberty, Wilkins, Monroeville and many places in between." Learn more about this Foundation grantee and its new, exciting service enhancements.

Artist Tina Williams Brewer and a group of Wilkinsburg residents are working on a history project. Instead of writing a book or mounting a museum exhibition, their undertaking involves piecing together a community quilt. The Wilkinsburg Untold Stories project combines old-fashioned craft, oral history and high-tech to tell stories about the Black experience in the Pittsburgh suburb, one 16-by-16-inch quilt square at a time. Brewer, a teaching artist for the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, describes herself as a “diasporic storyteller.” She recently received $50,000 as The Pittsburgh Foundation’s Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Award winner in the Established Artist category.

Check out this series from News One featuring Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh grantees. First up is Blooming In The Whirlwind: Pittsburgh As A Black Cultural Mecca. Artists, scholars and philanthropic leaders reflect on Smoketown’s legacy and continuing tradition. The Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh program is managed by The Pittsburgh Foundation with funding from The Heinz Endowments. 

KDKA-TV's Pittsburgh Today Live is helping to kick off our annual Critical Needs Alert online fundraising campaign by profiling several of our regional nonprofits that benefit from your charitable giving. Today, get to know Healthy Start, Inc. Pittsburgh. And mark your calendars for the one-day campaign on Tuesday, Aug. 6. #ONEDAY

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Our Foundation was proud to have advocated for the passage of this legislation with our partners in Harrisburg to ensure that quality medical care can reach thousands more Pennsylvanians, easily and affordably. The law would not been possible without a statewide coalition of partners of both parties -- too many to list here -- but a special thanks to the bill's prime sponsor Sen. Elder Vogel, the Senate Banking and Insurance Committee, Senate Appropriate Committee, House Insurance Committee, House Appropriations Committee, along with Senate leadership, House leadership and Gov. Josh Shapiro for their partnership in this effort. The Foundation's Phil Koch, Michael Yonas and Maura Jacob, MPH, MSW thank all of you for your dedication and determination.