Yascha Mounk, executive director of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, discusses how threats to fundamental freedoms guaranteed in the First Amendment can represent a threat to democracy in the United States and around the world.
Thanks to $229,000 in grants, the Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh initiative will be funding a local comic book series, mixed media ceramic work, holistic healing guide, collection of short stories and many more projects.
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Jeanne Pearlman, senior vice president for program and policy at The Pittsburgh Foundation, provides an overview of the conference and introduces the topics to be discussed on the first day of the First Amendment in the 21st Century conference. The conference was held June 21-22, 2018.
A welcome message from Maxwell King, president and CEO of The Pittsburgh Foundation, opening of the first day of The First Amendment for the Twenty-First Century conference. The conference was held June 21-22, 2018 at the August Wilson Center and Pittsburgh CAPA in Pittsburgh.
Lillian Neugebauer stood under five feet tall, but it was her outsized sense of humor and larger-than-life personality that endeared her to family and friends. Born in Stanton Heights in 1926, Neugebauer was a world traveler who still called Pittsburgh home for her entire life. She lived with her sister, Bernyce, for most of her life. In 2003, the sisters left a retirement home and moved to an apartment in Hampton, blaming the poor quality of the food at the retirement home as the reason for the move.
Veteran of Westmoreland nonprofit community to recruit new advisors, donors
Maxwell King, president and CEO of the Pittsburgh Foundation, led the Heinz Endowments from 1999 to 2008, a period that included the purchase of Hazelwood Green. He said the revitalization effort in East Liberty serves as an important example as the specter of development hovers over Hazelwood. “Gentrification was beyond what the architects of the ELDI [East Liberty Development Inc.] had expected. The strategies weren’t a match for the market forces,” Mr. King said.
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A locally produced comic book series, a holistic healing guide coupled with therapeutic workshops for African American youth, and a series of documentaries that highlight the lives of homegrown jazz legends are all projects being funded this spring by the Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh grant-making program, which recently awarded $229,000 to regional artists and art programs.
The Pittsburgh Foundation shows how conducting communications research with the people you serve can make philanthropy more inclusive.
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The Dietrich Foundation Conneaut Lake, PA Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation has awarded $7,934 to Conneaut Lake-area organizations this year. Grantees this year are the Ice House Park, the Conneaut Lake Historical Society and the Girl Scouts of Western Pennsylvania.
