Anyone who knew Rebecca Nicole Sefscik will never forget her. On August 31, 2015, the world lost Becky to suicide. She was more than a solider or statistic. Becky was a daughter, sister, niece, cousin and friend to so many. She was a successful businesswoman and a Crossfit trainer. She was a sweet, generous and strong woman and put a smile on everyone’s face.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Aldwyth, a South Carolina-based visual artist based on Hilton Head, is the recipient of the annual award bestowed by the Eben Demarest Fund, a Pittsburgh Foundation fund. Aldwyth, who makes large murals, assemblage sculptures and more, received the 2015 South Carolina Elizabeth O’Neill Verner Governor’s Award for the Arts, and her work was exhibited at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in 2009. Aldwyth said she will use the $20,000 grant that comes with the award to hire workshop assistants to help finish a series of three collages.
The Post and Courier (S.C.)
The following is a joint statement from Maxwell King, president and CEO of The Pittsburgh Foundation, and Grant Oliphant, president of The Heinz Endowments, in response to the Michael Rosfeld trial verdict.
Pittsburgh Business Times
The Investment Performance Update Call for fund holders invested in the Legacy Fund features Executive Vice President Yvonne Maher and Vice President of Finance and Investments Jonathan Brelsford will be joined by Cori Trautvetter and David Thompson of Pavilion Advisory Group Inc., the consulting and advisory firm hired to work with the Foundation on overseeing the Legacy fund’s perpetual, intermediate and grantmaking components.
PITTSBURGH, March 26, 2019 – Aldwyth, a South Carolina-based visual artist, is the recipient of the annual award bestowed by the Eben Demarest Fund, a Pittsburgh Foundation fund.
On Saturday, Maxwell King, president and CEO of The Pittsburgh Foundation, and Grant Oliphant, president of The Heinz Endowments, released a joint statement saying, “We have asked the question, ‘Would Antwon Rose be alive today if he had been white?’ We, his family and African American community leaders believe that more than likely he would be.”
NEXT Pittsburgh
THE SENSE OF SHOCK AND OUTRAGE at the acquittal of former police officer, Michael Rosfeld, for the criminal homicide of 17-year-old Antwon Rose is understandable, and we share it. All of us need to pay close attention.
Two of the region's most influential philanthropies on Saturday morning joined forces to say that there are "questions that must be urgently addressed, locally and nationally, concerning police behavior, law enforcement recruitment and police officer training," in the wake of Friday's acquittal of former officer Michael Rosfeld in the killing of 17-year-old Antwon Rose II. In a joint statement, Pittsburgh Foundation president and CEO Maxwell King and Heinz Endowments president Grant Oliphant wrote that a "sense of shock and outrage" at the acquittal "is understandable, and we share it."
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
