| New Grants |
| Improving Youth Outcomes: |
Amachi Pittsburgh
Mentoring for Children of Incarcerated parents | $10,000 |
| Locate children and youth in targeted areas and conduct full assessments of their strengths and needs, and identify, train, and match mentors to children in need. |
Big Brothers Big Sisters
One-to-One Youth Mentoring | $20,000 |
| Provide community-based and site-based mentoring programs in South Pittsburgh. In the community-based program, youth are paired with mentors and meet for 3-5 hours twice a month in community settings and engage in activities of interest. In the site-based program, youth and mentors meet once a week during the academic year to participate in structured activities, engage in conversation, play board games, and work on homework. |
Brashear Association
Holiday Assistance Program | $20,000 |
| Holiday assistance for low-income families; will provide food gift certificates from Giant Eagle for holiday distribution and food for food pantries. |
Brashear Association
South Pittsburgh Coalition for Peace | $20,000 |
| To continue the Coalition's work in South Pittsburgh by empowering and unifying residents through community education strategies to deal with the challenges faced by children and adolescents in urban communities, which often lead to violence. The Coalition will provide four trainings throughout the year on topics related to the prevention of violence. |
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Early Literacy Community Outreach Services | $20,000 |
| To support critical early literacy outreach services for children in the Carrick and Knoxville neighborhoods, through an early learning outreach initiative that will focus on linking reading, literacy, and learning with social and emotional learning, and teaching parents how to support their children's early learning experiences. |
CASA of Allegheny County
Advocacy for Abused and Neglected Children | $20,000 |
| Provide CASA advocates to children in the court system in South Pittsburgh. CASA advocates review all medical records, and meet with doctors and mental health professionals to serve as a true advocate for all medical and mental health issues. |
Divine Intervention Ministries
Divine Intervention Ministries Outreach | $10,000 |
| Provide current and formerly incarcerated youth and adults with strong, reliable mentors to facilitate a community re-entry and reintegration process. |
Junior Achievement
South Pittsburgh Impact Initiative | $20,000 |
| Introduce to students in South Pittsburgh Junior Achievement's concepts of work readiness, financial literacy, and entrepreneurship, so students learn the tools that will make them successful in the workplace and in life. |
Lighthouse Cathedral
Lighthouse Youth Enrichment Program | $80,000 |
| Provide a year-round after-school and Saturday program for at-risk students ages 4-14 in South Pittsburgh; will provide after-school tutoring and assistance, violence prevention program, drug and alcohol education, health and nutrition education, and cultural and community development programs. |
Mercy Behavioral Health
Summer Healthy Hope Camp | $1,500 |
| Thomas Brown Alton Fund grant: To support a child from South Pittsburgh to attend the Summer Healthy Hope Camp. |
My Brother's Keeper
Youth Development Program | $40,000 |
| Program to target at-risk youth ages 14-19 and expose them to different trades and enhance their academic backgrounds. Youth are also provided with life skills training such as anger management, how to manage a budget, and job skills and expectations. |
One Vision One Life
Violence Prevention | $50,000 |
| Employ a network of culturally competent community coordinators charged with intervening in and mediating street conflicts as well as proactively identifying the individuals most likely to be involved in incidents of violence, as a perpetrator or victim. |
Pittsburgh Promise
Post-Secondary Education for South Pittsburgh Youth | $150,000 / 3 years |
| The Pittsburgh Promise provides scholarships to help students graduating from the Pittsburgh Public Schools to pursue further education after high school, and to enhance the growth, stability, and economic development of the Pittsburgh region. |
Reading is FUNdamental Pittsburgh
Everybody Wins! And Storymobile | $20,000 |
| Everybody Wins! Is a lunchtime literacy and mentoring program; Storymobile is a library-on-wheels bringing stories, books and parenting resources to housing communities. |
Reading is FUNdamental Pittsburgh
Books for Keeps and Read to Your Family Programs | $35,000 |
| Books for Keeps program will provide more than 10,000 books to more than 3,350 children in South Pittsburgh communities; Read to Your Family program gives parents and caregivers a vehicle to integrate reading into everyday life. |
REAM Recreation Center
REAM Recreation Center Programs | $25,000 |
| Provide arts, sports, recreation and counseling at the REAM Recreation Center. Also, looking to add educational resources, a community garden, and community initiatives to get youth involved in the community. |
Saltworks Theater
Bully Prevention Programs | $10,000 |
| Students in grades 3-5 of Pittsburgh Public School will learn to identify bully behavior, how to react if they become a victim, and, most importantly, bystanders will be encouraged to get involved to stop the incident. |
Strong Women, Strong Girls
South Pittsburgh Program Growth | $20,000 |
| Group mentoring program that engages 10-12 at-risk girls in grades 3-5 with a team of 2-3 college women to study historical and contemporary female role models and skill-building activities. |
Student Conservation Association
Hilltop Community Conservation Crews | $30,000 |
| Engage 20 high school students, ages 15-19, from the Hilltop communities in Community Conservation Crews and perform hands-on conservation service projects. Will provide experiential education opportunities, career and financial literacy training, and positive alternatives to risky behaviors that lead to delinquency, truancy, and youth violence. |
Urban Youth Action, Inc.
Youth Development Program Operation | $50,000 |
| Funding for the overall operation of the Youth Development Program. Urban Youth Action provides youth workforce development, academic enrichment, financial literacy/entrepreneurship, youth leadership and community service. |
Youthplaces
Trade and Educational Mentoring Program | $30,000 |
| Program aims to provide South Pittsburgh youth, especially ex-offenders, ex-drug dealers, ex-drug users, and ex-gang members ages 18-30 with a quality trade and education program which will prepare them for business and industry occupations. |
Youthplaces
Together As One | $30,000 |
| A comprehensive violence prevention strategy for youth and young adults, ages 16-24. Will target youth most at risk for escalating violence and will address issues contributing to youth violence, provide resources for career and leadership development, and implement community service projects in their neighborhoods. |
Youthplaces
Voices Against Violence In-School Programs | $50,000 |
| The Voices Against Violence program assists at-risk youth attending Brashear and Carrick high schools through in-class assistance, mentoring, parent-teacher conferences, conflict resolution, mediation, and home visits. |
Youthplaces
Voices Against Violence Summer Program | $90,000 |
| A free, safe, and structured summer program at the McKinley Recreation Center for youth ages 6-17, to decrease unsupervised time over the summer months. Breakfast, lunch, and snack provided, as well as sports, activities and field trips |
YouthWorks, Inc
Ready to Work Internship Program | $37,500 |
| Will provide paid summer internships to Youth Works participants in South Pittsburgh as part of YouthWorks' programming to provide career exploration, internships, and year-round mentorship. |
| Improving Health Care Outcomes: |
Catholic Charities Free Health Care Center
Catholic Charities Free Health Care Center | $30,000 |
| Funding for the Free Health Care Center, which offers medical and dental care to uninsured individuals from South Side, Mt. Oliver, and Mt. Washington. |
Familylinks
Wellness Program at Allentown Family Treatment Center | $10,000 |
| Provide a wellness program for women with substance abuse issues at the Family Treatment Center in Allentown. Participants will learn good nutrition, how to cook healthy meals, and will have access to physical fitness facilities. |
Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank
Pantry Credit and Fresh Produce Programs | $50,000 |
| Support grocery and fresh produce lines of credit for food assistance agencies in neighborhoods south of Pittsburgh, as well as purchase and distribute additional fresh produce into the community through the Produce to People program. |
Mission Vision, Inc.
Vision of Hope Mobile Eye Clinic | $10,000 |
| Funding to provide a mobile eye care clinic, which provides free vision screenings and eyewear at Birmingham Clinic and Hilltop Community Health Care Center. |
Pittsburgh Action Against Rape
Continuation of Core Services and Programs | $20,000 |
| Help support comprehensive services to sexual assault survivors and their families, and prevention programs for the residents of the South Pittsburgh community. |
SIDS of PA
SIDS and Sleep Beliefs | $35,000 |
| Continue to explore why the rate of sleep-related infant death is higher in South Pittsburgh communities than in any other Pittsburgh community, and research on the knowledge, values, and beliefs about safe sleep of infants will yield an intervention specific to South Pittsburgh in order to better serve those families and communities. |
Venture Outdoors
Youth and Family Programs | $15,000 |
| Provide families and young people from neighborhoods in South Pittsburgh with healthy outdoor activities, increase family involvement in and support of outdoor activities, and to develop the region's next generation of environmental stewards, civic leaders, and compassionate citizens. |
| Strategy for Neighborhood Development: |
Brashear Association
Minority Emergency Preparedness Task Force | $3,000 |
| Support activities in Arlington Heights in September including, trainings, survey implementation, analysis and project evaluation, Red Cross Ready Kits, CPR kits, CERT kits, and neighborhood Block Watch implementation. |
Brashear Association
Comprehensive Community Services | $100,000 |
| Support for comprehensive community services provided to low income residents in South Pittsburgh communities. Programs include the Family Assistance Program, which includes food, holiday, and utility assistance services, the Neighborhood Employment Center, and the Children's Education Program, which provides school-year and summer programs to children enrolled in elementary schools in South Pittsburgh. |
Hilltop Alliance
Wireless Neighborhoods Computer Lab Renovations | $6,000 |
| Renovations to the computer lab located at 500 Brownsville Road. Renovations include office renovations, access accommodations, and accessible restrooms. |
NeighborWorks Western PA
Early Action for Communities in the Hilltop (EACH) | $25,000 |
| Support to build organizational staff and marketing capacity to meet the challenges associated with foreclosure and the larger housing crisis affecting the Hilltop communities and Mt. Oliver. |
Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy
McKinley Park Restoration Project | $25,000 |
| Restore stone wall and stairway, improve a portion of connected walkway, new plantings and grading and drainage improvements, and install park entry signage, bike rack, and trash receptacle. |
