Many of us want to support groups who are rising up to meet this moment in powerful ways — but don’t know where to look. Or who to trust. Below is a list of Black-led groups who know what this moment demands of us. We encourage you to flow your resources to them as we do.
Please note that some of the entities listed below are 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations, and some are not.
Performing Arts | Multidisciplinary and Visual Arts | Black-led Movement Work
Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Human Rights | Reproductive Freedom | Economic Independence
Healthcare | Housing | Social Services | Tangible Aid | Other
ARTS
PERFORMING ARTS
Afro-American Music Institute, Inc.
Afro-American Music Institute (AAMI) creates community through classes and concerts to instill comprehensive knowledge about the Afro-American contribution to the world. AAMI provides a forum both in performing and recording opportunities for otherwise undiscovered talent in the greater Pittsburgh Community.
Alumni Theater Company (ATC) creates bold theatrical work that gives fresh voice to the experience of young Black artists and highlights their rich contribution to our community. ATC operates a year-round program providing talented Black youth in grades 6-12 with high quality performing arts training and a platform to express their ideas.
Barrels to Beethoven is dedicated to the preservation, education, and innovation of the steelpan, a handmade musical instrument developed by afro-Caribbean people. The organization provides impactful arts education, teaches accurate historical and cultural content, and inspires a new generation of steelpan builders, tuners, players, and teachers.
Founded in 1996 to remedy the under-representation and isolation of African American poets in the literary landscape, Cave Canem is a home for the many voices of Black poetry and is committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of Black poets.
The Corner is a grassroots community outreach program and multi-purpose space connecting neighbors to social service resources and affordable programming centered on the arts, social justice advocacy, education, and community engagement. Born out of the need for a local, safe “third-place” space, The Corner serves as a neighborhood hub where community members can be part of something bigger than themselves and have a voice.
DEMASKUS Theater Collective is a national service-oriented collective of artists and administrators seeking to make known the messages of the marginalized. They achieve this through the production and presentation of quality, compassionate, and inclusive artistic events.
Through the power of the arts, Dreams of Hope provides the region’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, asexual, and allied (LGBTQA+) youth a welcoming environment to grow in confidence, express themselves, and develop as leaders.
Balafon West African Dance Ensemble
Balafon is a performance ensemble driven by the belief that the interconnectedness developed by West African dance makes people and communities stronger. Balafon provides an insightful, woman-centered perspective on West African tradition and culture as a source of healing and balance by providing quality education and entertainment to audiences of all nationalities and walks of life.
The Hill Dance Academy Theatre (HDAT) provides professional level training in Black Dance traditions, history, culture, and aesthetics that engages and empowers students to pursue careers in Black dance.
Kelly Strayhorn Theater is a home for creative experimentation, community dialogue and collective action rooted in the liberation of Black and queer people.
Kente Arts Alliance is an African American arts organization whose mission is to present high-quality art of the African Diaspora. Kente presents art with a purpose by offering programs that entertain, inform and uplift the residents of underserved communities.
Legacy Arts Project unites creativity and wisdom by preserving, promoting, and creating Africana arts that honor the history, heritage, and cultures of Africa diaspora in ways that advance healing and wellness, education, and community empowerment.
New Horizon Theater brings to the greater Pittsburgh area consistent, high-quality cultural events, reflecting the African-American points of view, and to provide an ongoing venue for ethnic writers and performers to further their professional development.
PearlArts is a dance-focused arts organization that exists to celebrate and explore the full range of Blackness and Culture through dynamic performances and experiences. PearlArts facilitates innovative collaborations, artistic residencies, and a broad range of creative dance and sound educational opportunities.
Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company
Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company (PPTCO) is rooted in the African American community, with a mission to produce the works of local racially and culturally diverse playwrights, provide a nurturing environment for all who work on and off the stage, and build and serve a culturally diverse audience that can strengthen our civic community.
The Pride Youth Theater Alliance is a growing network that advances the practice of Queer Youth Theater by providing emerging and established leaders in the field with resources and opportunities to exchange, collaborate, and learn.
MULTIDISCIPLINARY AND VISUAL ARTS
ALMA|LEWIS (A|L) is an experimental contemporary art platform for critical thinking, constructive dialogue, and creative expression dedicated to Black culture. A|L creates supportive residencies in the A|L art space that encourages the rigorous artistic practice of visual and literary artists; curates world-class exhibitions to present exciting, provocative work from emerging and mid-career artists; and provides access to the Black Archive.
August Wilson House fosters and promotes greater appreciation for and understanding of African-American literature, the performing arts and the literary and social legacy of August Wilson by exploring the cultural narrative of August Wilson’s writings through seminars, readings, exhibits and performances. August Wilson House is an arts center in this great artist’s childhood home, in Pittsburgh’s historic Hill District.
BOOM Concepts is a creative hub dedicated to the development of artist and creative entrepreneurs representing marginalized voices. It is a community space for field building, knowledge sharing, mentorship, and storytelling.
FashionAFRICANA advances the cultural equity of the African diaspora through the lens of quality artistic programming that illuminates our art and cultural history, and cultivates a more life-giving and globally aware approach to African-inspired art and culture.
Sabira Cole Film Festival (SCFF) screens a curated selection of new and old films from the African Diaspora. SCFF presents an annual juried film festival that highlights issues & representation of people from global indigenous communities.
Sibyls Shrine is an arts collective and residency program rooted in radical care, rest and support for Black women, womxn, trans women, and femmes who are m/others and identify as artists, creatives and activists in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania— and beyond. The Sibyls Shrine residency program uplifts Black creative m/others to further develop their craft and presence in the art world.
Ujamaa Collective is a catalyst to advance Africana Women by providing a fair trade marketplace for cultural, artistic and entrepreneurial exchange through cooperative economics in Pittsburgh’s Historic Hill District and beyond. Ujamaa accomplishes this through its artisan boutique, pop-up marketplace events, arts and entrepreneurship programming, and through advocacy on health and wealth, including their passion for cooperatives, rooted in values of meaningful work, creativity, community and wellness.
Women of Visions is the longest-running collective of Black women visual artists in the United States. Women of Visions exists to promote the arts, culture, and history of women of African descent, by helping each other to excel as artists and to grow professionally through exhibitions, community collaboration, educational programming, and other progressive opportunities.
Social & Economic Justice
BLACK-LED MOVEMENT WORK
1Hood is a collective of artists and activists who use media, art and activism to challenge inequity, raise awareness, and unify humanity.
Alliance for Police Accountability
The Alliance for Police Accountability (APA) is a grassroots organization dedicated to criminal justice reconstruction, specializing in community/police relations. Through advocacy, education, policy, and community participation, APA is dismantling an unfair and unjust system to create a safer community for us all. APA is committed to making neighborhoods safer, ending mass incarceration, and transforming our world through the eyes of youth.
Atasa Solar will co-create renewable energy public structures and wearable solar garments in collaboration with Indigenous communities to overcome environmental and economic injustice, design racism, and misogyny. Community-led design solutions will incorporate Indigenous innovation and the latest in solar and battery technology to provide design solutions supporting environmental injustice.
The Black Unicorn Library and Archives Project
The Black Unicorn Library is a Black queer feminist library and archive that celebrates libraries as sites of possibility and freedom. Black Unicorn explores the relationship between literacy and liberation and brings a unique experience and lens to material collection, information sharing, and community building.
Black, Young, & Educated (B.Y.E.) is a youth-led organization that aims to amplify Black voices through community and media. Founded through the work of high school students who felt underrepresented in their school systems, B.Y.E educates Black youth and young adults on topics that affect their everyday lives, to give them better/more accessible opportunities, more productive things to attend in Pittsburgh, and support for anything they will need.
Black in Appalachia: Research, Education & Support is a non-profit that works in collaboration with public media, residents, university departments, libraries, archives and community organizations to highlight the history and contributions of African-Americans in the development of the Mountain South and broader Appalachian region and its culture. This is accomplished through research, local narratives, public engagement and exhibition.
Black Dream Escape is a therapeutic practice that focuses on Black and Indigenous rest/sleep/dreams. Black Dream Escape educates, guides, and soothes. Using original music and original meditation scripts, we guide people into a rested state. Our practices soothe the parts of the self that struggle with stillness, boredom, and self-worth. We educate individuals and the wider ethos about the overdue sleep and rest debt that Black and Indigenous people have been forced to accumulate.
Our mission is to educate, inspire, and equip the community with the knowledge and skills needed to achieve success through music, media, and mental health focused programs. We are giving the people a voice!
Black Political Empowerment Project
The Black Political Empowerment Project (B-PEP) is a non-partisan community collaborative that seeks to build economic and social power and influence in and for the Pittsburgh region’s African American community. B-PEP was launched in 1986 to ensure that the Pittsburgh African-American community votes in every single election.
The Black Urban Gardeners and Farmers of Pittsburgh Co-op
The mission of The Black Urban Gardeners and Farmers of Pittsburgh Co-op is to establish, educate and assist black people for sustainability and food sovereignty.
The Black Women’s Policy Center aims to be the leading source for Black women’s voices through shaping policy, shaping the narrative, and advocacy in the Greater Pittsburgh region and beyond. The Black Women’s Policy Center’s mission is to improve the lives of Black women by providing a place of refuge and support through advocacy, navigating systems, accessing resources, training, education as well as policy development and change.
Brown Mamas exists to provide positive socialization for black mothers and connect them with the resources and information they need to raise happy, healthy adults and thrive beyond motherhood. We believe that by helping Black moms enjoy their motherhood journey, we hope to help them unlock the door to uplifting Black communities.
To create enjoyable and enriching opportunities and a safe environment for children to learn and value and appreciate their cultural heritage in order to preserve this heritage, encourage artistic expression, and increase each child’s possibility of cultural, spiritual, intellectual, and social wealth. Cash App: $Hetepu
The Embodiment Institute is a training and research entity serving our embodied transformation. We are focused on bringing about relational transformation in our communities through embodied healing towards justice.
The Hill District Consensus Group’s mission is to create effective pathways for intergenerational residents to overcome economic, social, and housing disparities.
Landless People’s Alliance/Pittsburgh Union of Regional Renters
To assist the Black community in achieving self-sustaining practices, through strategic leadership, collective giving, grantmaking and advocacy. To increase the supply and habitability of homes affordable to families while improving the quality of the lives of those who reside in these communities.
Milwaukee Inner-City Congregations Allied for Hope (MICAH)
MICAH is a multi-racial, interfaith organization committed to addressing social justice issues that have an impact on the community and on the members of MICAH congregations. MICAH’s goal is to empower people to act together in pursuit of justice and to organize so that people of many traditions can come together with one voice for justice.
Ohio Families Unite Against Police Brutality
OFUAPB is a 501c3 non-profit organization whose mission is to fight against police brutality and to support our extended families – who, while not related by blood, are bonded to us through the needless bloodshed of our loved ones.
POORLAW encourages community, leadership, ownership, and friendship. POORLAW is invested in the future of our children, and to Pittsburgh’s Greater Hazelwood community’s growth into a thriving, safe and enjoyable place to live and raise families. POORLAW aims to address racial and ethnic disparities by addressing the lack of diversity, equity, and inclusion in all aspects of our residents’ lives and community development. This includes economic development, housing development, and social service deliveries.
The Radical Youth Collective’s main program is a youth fellowship. We Build capacity for Black organizations by training up young Black organizers who help those orgs. We are focusing our efforts to create & lift up self-determination & solidarity infrastructure in Black communities & to destroy any points of access white supremacy has to exploit & criminalize us.
Riverbends Development, Inc.
Riverbends Development, Inc. provides an accessible do-it-yourself introduction to genealogy and history designed specifically to meet the needs of African-American amateur genealogists and historians. It’s vital for people to have a sense of where we come from. The trans-Atlantic slave trade made that impossible for those who identify as African descendants, Black, Black Indigenous, African American, Caribbean, etc. Genealogy research gives a sense of connection as we gather the pieces that were scattered, building our narratives, supporting our ongoing healing, returning to self, moving toward wholeness.
SisTers PGH is a Black and Trans led non-profit organization that serves QTBIPOC (Queer Trans Black Indigenous People of Color) trans, and nonbinary people within Southwestern PA. SisTers provides housing services, as well as a community space, for trans and nonbinary people to amplify the voices of trans people within conversations around housing access, government leadership, mental health, medical care, employment, and education.
Soil Sisters eradicates food apartheid in historically excluded Black neighborhoods in Pittsburgh by empowering residents to create their own paths to food security. We do this through education and practical garden experience, along with distributing garden supplies throughout the community.
Tabitha’s Daughters provides processes and practices that positively impact the health and wellness of Black women, primarily within the city of Pittsburgh. Tabitha’s Daughters, as an African-American women’s organization, is seeking to be the solution to our own challenges.
Take Action Mon Valley (TAMV) is a social justice organization that unapologetically combats ALL forms of community violence through activism and organizing. TAMV equips communities with the necessary knowledge to leverage local grassroots community organizing, to gain power and influence over decisions that directly affect the community, thus creating sustainable change and increasing the conscious level of residents. TAMV is focused on addressing social justice issues in small communities.
TransYOUniting is a mutual aid non-profit, providing resources to Pittsburgh’s Trans Community. We are Trans, Non-binary and Gender Expansive people working to better our community’s lives here in Pittsburgh. To uplift transgender folks by assisting with employment, health access, housing and mentorship and mutual aid.
Celebrates queer people of color through creative art, community health, and social activism. Rooted in Pittsburgh’s underground Ball community, True T provides meaningful resources through community outreach and safe space making. The Option-U Residence provides LGBTQIA+ short-term & emergency housing programs, prioritizing people of trans experience.
West End P.O.W.E.R. (WEP) is a community organization committed to strengthening communities through activism, advocacy, education, equity, and promoting unity. WEP works with decision makers, community leaders and stakeholders, policy makers and others to bring about the positive outcomes we seek, particularly in communities of color and other represented communities.
Young Black Motivated Kings & Queens
Young Black Motivated Kings & Queens (YBMKQ) is a leading youth organization in the greater Pittsburgh area – inspiring youth to embrace their true excellence while unleashing their inner potential. YBMKQ’s programs help young adults shape their own values while providing them with all the tools, resources and support they need in order to evolve into confident leaders tomorrow.
CIVIL LIBERTIES, CIVIL RIGHTS, and HUMAN RIGHTS
Abolitionist Law Center exists to promote the rights of prisoners and the wrongly convicted by educating the public about injustices in the criminal legal system, and about abusive conditions in the prison system; To provide pro bono legal services to prisoners in order to right injustices and errors committed in the court, and to litigate prisoner claims for violation of their civil rights; To advocate for the abolition of the prison system.
America’s Black Holocaust Museum
To be intentional about acknowledging, understanding, and sharing the story of the African American experience from pre-captivity to present day. We envision a humane and peaceful world where all individuals and communities thrive.
Coalition to Abolish Death By Incarceration – West
The Coalition to Abolish Death By Incarceration – West (CADBI-West), based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, organizes for an end to life-without-parole sentences, which we refer to as “Death By Incarceration” (DBI). We believe that death by incarceration is a human rights violation and an affront to the humanity of us all. The group is made up of family and friends of those serving DBI and other prison sentences; formerly incarcerated people; currently incarcerated people; and others who recognize that ending DBI is an important part of the fight against mass incarceration and for social justice. Twitter: @cadbiwest, Facebook: CADBI PITTSBURGH West
Pittsburgh Community Services, Inc.
Pittsburgh Community Services, Inc. (PCSI) is recognized as the innovative Community Action leader in reducing the impact of poverty in Pittsburgh through direct service, advocacy, mobilization of resources, sustainable economic empowerment, and effective institutional change.
POISE Foundation assists the Black Community in achieving self-sustaining practices through strategic leadership, collective giving, grantmaking and advocacy. Created in the format of a Community Foundation, POISE receives funds from a variety of donors, envisioning a nation in which all Black people are empowered and self-sufficient. With this vision at the core of the Foundation’s philosophical approach to its work, the Mission of
Prisoner Justice & Whistle-Blower Support Campaign
We aim to secure the safety, dignity, and humanity of whistleblowers behind bars in Pennsylvania by championing the cases of prisoners, meeting with government officials, protesting, and movement building with allies intent on destroying the racist, classist system of mass incarceration.
The Uhimwe Alliance is a group of brothers of African descent and their allies working together to make it better for our brothers in pursuit of their Future Selves. Our Vision is to offer safe environments for social, cultural and artistic opportunities that promote and advocate wellness, education and positive visibility for same-gender-loving men and boys.
REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM
Groundswell Fund strengthens U.S. movements for reproductive and social justice by resourcing intersectional grassroots organizing and centering the leadership of women of color – particularly those who are Black, Indigenous, and Transgender.
Healthy Start Inc., Pittsburgh
The mission of Healthy Start is to improve maternal and child health and to reduce poor birth outcomes and infant mortality in Allegheny County. Healthy Start serves a target population of women, infants, fathers, and families, who are at-risk for poor pregnancy outcomes with a focus on the reduction of perinatal health disparities for Black women and babies, including infant mortality, preterm delivery, and low-birth weight births.
Birth Your Way/The Birthing Hut LLC
The Birthing Hut is a maternal health organization that prioritizes the improvement and advancement of Black birth through advocacy, education, resources and support. Birth Your Way raises awareness of Black maternal mortality disparities in Pittsburgh and nationally.
Elephant Song Soula Services increases access to culturally relevant pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, and lactation education for expectant Black mothers and their families.
New Voices for Reproductive Justice
New Voices for Reproductive Justice is dedicated to transforming society for the holistic health and wellbeing of Black women, girls and gender expansive people, nationally and in Pennsylvania and Ohio. New Voices helps to dismantle patriarchal anti-Blackness using the tools community organizing, leadership development, and voter engagement.
Western Pennsylvania Fund For Choice
The Western Pennsylvania Fund for Choice believes that abortion care is essential reproductive healthcare and that lack of funds should never be a barrier to accessing abortion care. The Fund facilitates access to safe, respectful abortion care to anyone who needs it in the Western PA region by directly supporting any individual requiring help affording their abortion care.
SAFETY NET RESOURCES: Economic Independence
100 Black Men of Western PA will endeavor to improve the quality of life of our community and enhance educational opportunities for African-Americans with a particular emphasis on African-American males in 8th-12th grade.
Axiom Advancement Corporation is a financial institution located in Allegheny County with a lending program that provides financial services to small businesses who need access to capital from a non-traditional source. Axiom welcomes applicants who do not have the collateral or equity to secure funding from a commercial bank.
Catapult Greater Pittsburgh engages in emergency resource distribution, peer-to-peer support, wealth building, trauma-informed financial counseling, and policy advocacy to ensure systematically disenfranchised communities can meaningfully achieve economic justice and lead dignified and equitable lives.
C-Clear empowers economically disadvantaged youth and adults by helping them to reach their true potential while serving as a catalyst for economic growth and change in the community. C-Clear gives aspiring entrepreneurs a platform to develop job creation and new community and economic development.
Homewood Children’s Village simultaneously improves the lives of Homewood children and reweaves the fabric of the community in which they live.
Operation Better Block strategizes, organizes, and mobilizes, block by block, to benefit Pittsburgh’s Homewood Community. Operation Better Block providing technical and community development assistance to Block Associations, fosters youth development, participates in housing development efforts to construct new housing units, supports public and private investments to stimulate economic development, and builds partnerships with others to promote community sustainability.
The Wellness Collective is a consortium of neighbors helping neighbors through emergencies and onto a path of stability. Currently serving The Greater Pittsburgh Area, this membership collective allows everyday people to access immediate support to necessities such as mental and physical health, housing, transportation, nutrition, education, and the like, in order to create security while we work together to help establish long-term stability.
Team G.R.O.W.’s mission is to provide outreach, resources, and education for low income families and homeowners in the Hill District/Uptown neighborhoods about skills to keep their homes maintained, including simple electrical work, patch work drywalling, pipe repairs, and more.
When She Thrives is dedicated to empowering single mothers to move their families from poverty to prosperity through advocacy, education, personal and professional development.
Providing a bridge over the holes on the road to living better, by working together with existing organizations, to create the change we want to see in the lives of the people we serve.
SAFETY NET RESOURCES: Healthcare
Royally Fit is a holistic health and wellness brand providing solution based products and programming supporting whole body health. We use organically grown herbs to small batch blend teas, aromatherapy products and other wellness products using the profits to provide health screenings, wellness workshops, food, formula and Narcan distributions in communities that lack equitable access.
Steel Smiling’s mission is to bridge the gap between Black people and mental health support through education, advocacy and awareness.
SAFETY NET RESOURCES: Housing
Amani Christian Community Development Corporation
Amani facilitates healthy and safe communities by creating programs that educate Pittsburgh’s Hill District community residents and nurture youth, encourage community and economic development and promote a livable quality of life. Amani focuses on developing human capital in the Greater Hill District and understands the need for a shared vision and responsibility for the revitalization of the Hill District, its residents, and its youth.
Penn Plaza Support & Action Coalition (PPSA)
Housing is a human right. PPSA is committed to change the way that housing is developed for low-to-moderate-income residents of Pittsburgh region. PPSA believes that authentic change comes from residents supporting each other and connecting our experiences, hearts, and minds. PPSA creates public-facing actions to educate the community about housing and development. We demand dignity and respect for people and communities of color, and advocate against discrimination and displacement.
Serenity Living Transitional Home (SLTH)
SLTH offers a safe place to live and learn to young women between the ages of 18 and 23 that are aging out of foster care or suffering from homelessness. These young women are provided housing, driver’s lessons, life skills, and job placement for up to two years.
Willissae’s Agency For Vision And Empowerment (WAVE)
WAVE creates housing and economic stability for at-risk individuals in low-income communities through personal empowerment, skill set development, problem solving and wealth building.
Za’kiyah House provides support services to persons experiencing homelessness, drug addiction, and re-entry in Pittsburgh. Za’kiyah’s mission is to reduce homelessness, recidivism, and addiction, coordinating partnerships and resources to address these needs.
SAFETY NET RESOURCES: Social Services
Autism Urban Connections provide support, education, advocacy, and empowerment, with an emphasis on self-care to families of those with Autism, with priority placed in the African American, minority, and economically disadvantaged communities.
Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective: BEAM
BEAM is a national training, movement building, and grant making institution that is dedicated to the healing, wellness, and liberation of Black and marginalized communities. BEAM’s mission is to remove the barriers that Black people experience getting access to or staying connected with emotional health care and healing.
Center of Life’s (COL) mission is to provide families and youth with the life-skills, education, training, and resources necessary to be strong and to make their communities strong. At COL, we believe “everything is about people.” Our vision is to empower and equip families to bring economic revitalization their communities.
The Covering empowers and transforms the lives of Black women who have encountered domestic violence and are still dealing with remnants of trauma. The Covering provides Black women with healing strategies and techniques needed on their holistic healing journey through art, fashion, and design.
Divine Intervention Ministries
Divine Intervention Ministries is dedicated to providing currently and formerly incarcerated adults and at-risk youth with coordinated resources that will connect them to supportive services and job training opportunities focusing on restoring and realizing their maximum potential spiritually, physically, and economically.
Foster Love Project provides love in action to foster children as well as support to the families who are providing care for them.
The Foundation of HOPE is an interfaith non-profit organization with the mission to empower incarcerated and released individuals to restore their relationship with their God, rebuild their lives, and reconcile to their communities.
Homeless Children’s Education Fund
Homeless Children’s Education Fund advances the education of children and youth experiencing homelessness, guiding them to be productive, empowered citizens.
JADA House International is dedicated to bringing educational and social opportunities to Pittsburgh’s Hazelwood community for both youth and adult groups struggling to find access to positive and supportive programs. The Hazelwood community has suffered extensively over the years due to the steel mills closing down, the deterioration of businesses and schools, lack of job opportunities, and increasing crime rate. Every action JADA House takes helps to build a stable and more inclusive Hazelwood community.
Macedonia FACE is a faith-based non-profit community outreach organization. We are committed to living out our mission by addressing disparities that impact African American families and other vulnerable populations within the community. Macedonia FACE’s mission is to encourage the development of healthy families.
Mwanukache Farm offers reliable, healthy, culturally-appropriate foods and land-based educational experiences to the Somali Bantu community in Western Pennsylvania, so that members of the community are supported in their successful acclimatization and transition to self-sufficient life in American society.
Reimagine Reentry exists to reduce recidivism in Allegheny County by providing opportunities, reducing barriers, and supporting formerly incarcerated people in a holistic way. Reimagine Reentry meets people where they are at by providing trauma-informed, wrap-around services to returning citizens.
United Somali Bantu Of Greater Pittsburgh (USBGP)
USBGP builds community amidst the Somali Bantu of Greater Pittsburgh through enabling individuals and families to successfully acclimate and transition to self-sufficient lives in American society, particularly from a socio-economic and civic perspective, by both providing direct practical assistance and connecting people to other resources and opportunities.
SAFETY NET RESOURCES: Tangible Aid
The Allignment Chapter Corporation
The Allignment Chapter was created to provide same day emergency support to low income mothers in need. Our mission is to decrease mental illness and child neglect in low income communities. We also will be decreasing low income numbers as well by providing 6 week required financially fit webinar training. We currently service women in 7 different states which are ran by our life saving volunteers.
Feed the Hood’s mission is to expand the culinary workforce by providing students with peer to peer mentorship, culinary training, and real world experience to prepare them for employment in the restaurant and hospitality industry.
Western Pennsylvania Diaper Bank
The Western Pennsylvania Diaper Bank ensures that babies in need are clean, healthy, and dry, and envisions a community where all families have an equal opportunity to thrive.
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Cultivating Resilient Youth empowers, educates and mentors youth for success in life through program development and academic preparation, while creating and providing opportunities for social change to build a strong foundation for a successful future.
Gwen’s Girls empowers girls and young women to have productive lives through holistic, gender-specific programs, education, and experiences.
H.O.P.E. For Tomorrow develops youth, in partnership with their families, to compete in the global community by addressing academic, socio-economic and relational risk factors.
Manchester Youth Development Center
Manchester Youth Development Center is committed to nurturing the development of children by meeting their academic, social and emotional needs within a constructive, wholesome and safe learning environment, which places value on making positive choices as a foundation for building a productive life.
Program To Aid Citizen Enterprise (PACE)
PACE advances a more equitable community by increasing the capacity of individuals, groups, and organizations that challenge injustice.
