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Small and Mighty: Advance African Development, Inc. (AAD)

Advance African Development, Inc. (AAD) strives to address health disparities, human rights and other social justice issues through intervention programs.

The Pittsburgh Foundation awarded a Small and Mighty grant of $15,000 in 2017 to Advance African Development, Inc. (AAD). Since 2012, AAD has been working to address health disparities, human rights and other social justice issues through intervention programs.

This funding will support the organization’s 2018 youth health literacy programming. The goal is to help reduce health disparities in the African American community. AAD has an annual operating budget of $14,339.

The Small and Mighty grants program, an outcome of the Foundation’s 100 Percent Pittsburgh organizing principle, has, as of Dec. 2019, awarded $1.25 million to nonprofit organizations with budgets of less than $600,000.

Read about the Small and Mighty initiative