2004 - 2005 Grants
| New Grants | |
| Animal Rescue League | $25,000 |
| Pilot program to promote and place healthy, well-matched pets with senior residents and provide support to new and existing senior pet owners. | |
| Caring Habits | $25,000 |
| Create positive community change by engaging school, businesses and community members in a community-wide Caring Habits Initiative under the leadership of Mount Washington CDC. | |
| Center for Victims of Violence & Crime | $29,000 |
| Establish a comprehensive school and community based violence prevention program that provides structured opportunities for youths to participate in peace building and violence prevention activities with their peers and in partnership with adults and community members. | |
| Children's Sickle Cell Foundation | $6,000 |
| Enhance the capability of the organization to expand services and support by completing a business plan, board assessment and training, executive coaching and professional development. | |
| City Theatre | $25,000 |
| Improve access and participation in local contemporary theatre for South Pittsburgh residents with disabilities through building and technology enhancements. | |
| CORO Center | $10,000 |
| Leverage high quality fellows to assist South Pittsburgh nonprofits, including the foundation toward improved quality and capability. | |
| Goodwill Industries of Pittsburgh | $50,000 |
| Promote, guide and facilitate non-custodial fathers in developing and maintaining active, positive, responsible and respectful parenting relationships with their families and children. | |
| Goodwill Industries of Pittsburgh | $9,000 |
| Restructure and further develop the youth council to effectively equip youth to engage the community and the workforce. | |
| Grantmakers in Health | $2,500 |
| Continue to serve as a funding partner in supporting and receiving benefits from this national resource for health philanthropy. | |
| Greater Pittsburgh Food Bank | $35,000 |
| Increase the capacity of local food pantries and feeding programs to meet the needs of families through lines of credit at the food bank. | |
| Health Policy Institute / Univ. of Pittsburgh | $3,000 |
| Support the health policy initiatives of the institute through its educational activities and publications and participate in its Advisory council. | |
| Just Harvest | $25,000 |
| Increase the ability of 350 low-income workers/families in South Pittsburgh to benefit from tax credits through comprehensive community outreach, free tax preparation and filing and new partnerships for related services. | |
| Living at Home/UPMC | $6,500 for 1st year |
| Enable the Living-at-Home program to expand health education and outreach to senior residence programs in the South Pittsburgh area. | |
| Mercy Children's Hospital/Voices Against Violence | $56,000 |
| Provide a safe and structured program for 100 youth aged 9-18 residing within the South Side communities of Pittsburgh. | |
| Nazareth Housing Services | $30,000 |
| Assist low-income seniors to age in place by addressing critical home repairs and provide home ownership education and opportunities for low-income families in South Pittsburgh. | |
| Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape (PCAR) | $4,000 |
| Strengthen the capacity of local participants to address abuse and violence prevention issues at a community level. | |
| Pittsburgh Action Against Rape (PAAR) | $32,000 |
| Deliver trauma based empowerment counseling to South Pittsburgh communities. | |
| Pittsburgh Project | $25,000 for 1st year
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| Increase the project's capacity to provide home repairs to local homeowners in need and support involvements of local youth in summer service camps. | |
| Prevention Point Pittsburgh | $25,000 for 1st year
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| Increase public health outreach efforts to reduce the risks for vulnerable populations of South Pittsburgh drug users through expanding partnerships with local agencies, offering needle exchange program sites, health screenings, case management, referrals, and education. | |
| Reading Is Fundamental | $12,500 |
| Encourage reading and increase reading skills of students with a structured afterschool tutoring program and enhancement of a book distribution program. | |
| Rebuilding Together Pittsburgh | $10,000 |
| Enhance community-supported home rebuilding effort for cluster of senior and low-income homeowners in Mount Oliver through funding for roof repairs. | |
| Saltworks Theatre | $5,000 |
| Change student attitudes with school-based performances of interactive prevention play addressing social issues and risky behaviors. | |
| Youthplaces | $30,000 |
| Engage high-risk youth in leadership and career development activities that will decrease their vulnerability to involvement in violence. | |
| Youthworks | $50,000 |
| Provide services for youth employment, using partnerships with youth, employers, schools, public sector, and nonprofit organizations to serve at-risk youth. | |
| YWCA of Greater Pittsburgh | $30,000 |
| Improve financial knowledge of South Pittsburgh residents, through improved access to education, to become financially stable and self-sufficient. | |
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