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Shared Interest

Shared Interest

Shared Interest mobilizes the resources for Southern Africa’s economically disenfranchised communities to sustain themselves and build equitable nations. Shared Interest envisions just and vibrant Southern African nations that eliminate disparities, uphold their peoples’ basic human rights and serve as models of economic justice.

Radiant Hall

Radiant Hall

Radiant Hall provides a vibrant, sustainable support network for artists, centered around safe, functional, and affordable studio space. They enable a diverse community of artists specializing in a variety of disciplines to work alongside each other in a forward-thinking environment that fosters professional growth, experimentation, collaboration, and inspiration. Their work serves the Pittsburgh region in its aspiration to become a welcoming, inclusive, and viable community for all artists.

Quantum Theatre

Quantum Theatre

Quantum Theatre is a company of progressive, professional artists dedicated to producing intimate and sophisticated theatrical experiences in uncommon settings, exploring universal themes of truth, beauty, and human relationships in unexpected ways.

Prime Stage Theatre

Prime Stage Theatre

The mission of Prime Stage is to entertain, inspire and enrich audiences through professional theatre by bringing literature and relevant topics to life with programs that deliver quantifiable results and benefits to the region.

Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company

Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company

Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company  is committed to developing and showcasing the works of local playwrights; from accomplished masters like August Wilson and George S. Kaufman to promising new talents. They seek to nurture a racially and culturally diverse community of playwrights, directors, actors, and technical specialists to hone their craft and to network creative opportunities.

Pittsburgh Glass Center

Pittsburgh Glass Center

Pittsburgh Glass Center is a nonprofit, public access school, gallery and state-of-the-art glass studio dedicated to teaching, creating and promoting glass art. World-renowned artists come to the Glass Center to make studio glass art. People interested in learning more about glass come to take a class, explore the contemporary gallery and watch live hot glass demonstrations.

Off the Wall Productions

Off the Wall Productions

Off the Wall Productions aims to create a more conscious and compassionate community, while providing a living wage for all artists. They provide a home in which live theater, dance, music, and comedy can be presented, while nurturing and empowering women theater artists to collaborate as playwrights, directors, technicians, and actors. As a production company, Off the Wall is committed to amplifying voices that are not always heard. They consistently work to produce pieces by female and LGBTQIA artists.

New Israel Fund

New Israel Fund

The New Israel Fund was founded 40 years ago to actualize the vision of Israel’s founders—of a Jewish and democratic state that, in the words of the Declaration of Independence, “ensures complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race, or sex.” Through their founding, funding, and advocacy of more than 900 organizations that constitute Israel’s progressive civil society, they have become the leading organization advancing democracy and equality in Israel. NIF and its partners work to safeguard democracy, human rights, social/economic justice, religious freedom, shared society, and equality for all of Israel’s citizens.