Christian Immigration Advocacy Center offers family-based immigration related legal services to immigrants and refugees of limited means in the Pittsburgh area and beyond. CIAC desires that every immigrant receive high-quality and compassionate legal representation for immigration applications. As such, CIAC scales its legal fees to the client’s ability to pay and raises funds from the general public. CIAC is a Department of Justice Recognized Organization, so it primarily serves low-income immigrants and refugees.
UHIMWE Pittsburgh (fiscally sponsored by the Afro American Music Institute) offers safe spaces, community and connection to all of their brothers and sisters through programs, mentors, pedagogy, and annual the Bayard Rustin festival. UHIMWE particularly connects with to those brothers who continue to be marginalized because of their sexuality, and presently are living double lives in this region which further threatens and reduces the quality of life that all should experience as human beings-especially black and brown and queer brothers.
$10,000 to Beaver County Foundation to support Paramount Enterprises’ Inclusive Entrepreneurship Program that assists aspiring entrepreneurs facing barriers to entrepreneurship through one-on-one mentoring, seminars, networking, workshops, and assistance in building strategic partnerships and creating business plans.
Construction Junction acting as fiscal sponsorship for The Pillow Project. The Pillow Project (est. 2004) is a postmodern-dance company creating improvisational, and choreographed multimedia performances and happenings. Our two decades is the evidence to our continued success and cache of artistic credibility. Our impact is twenty-years in duration, and thriving through long-running events and consistently successful and acclaimed performances.
Since 2006, The Space Upstairs (located above Construction Junction) has been our self-designed, permanent artistic residence for hosting curated jazz dance and music events in Pittsburgh. The Space Upstairs is the laboratory in which we innovate high-quality audience experiences, and our studio for improving ourselves through continued learning. We perform without the formal division of a traditional stage, to give our audiences the most close-up, candid view into our play of the moment.
NAT 28 strives to champion the work that will shape the next phase of musical and artistic evolution. To that end, NAT 28 seeks to:
– Amplify the voices of Pittsburgh artists
– Reflect Pittsburgh’s innovation and diversity through the creation of internationally competitive works of art
– Perform music by a diverse body of composers
– Present contemporary classical music at the highest level of craftsmanship and artistry
$10,000 to support general operations and program/service areas that foster clear, accessible communication with the ultimate goal of helping clients achieve greater independence.
Center for Hearing & Deaf Services‘ mission is to provide a diverse and affordable spectrum of quality diagnostic, rehabilitative, and supportive services to meet the unique challenges of children and adults who are Deaf, Deaf-Blind, Hard of Hearing, or have other communication needs including spoken language interpretation; to provide access to communication in order to increase independence and enhance quality of life for those individuals; and to serve as an information and referral source for those individuals and the general public.
Let’s Get Free: The Women and Trans Prisoner Defense Committee is a group in Western Pennsylvania working to end perpetual punishment, build a pathway out of the prisons back to our communities through commutation reform, support successful possibilities for people formerly and currently incarcerated, and shift to a culture of transformative justice.
The Industrial Arts Workshop is an artist and education work space in Hazelwood. It is the mission of the Industrial Arts Workshop to inspire artistic literacy in the city of Pittsburgh and beyond by offering enrichment opportunities that advance the understanding and process of metal sculpture-making artists and their work.
$7,500 to support general operations and staff capacity for year-round programming, including the Reel Q Film Festival, the Pittsburgh Underground Film Festival, and the Reel Youth screening program.
Pittsburgh Lesbian & Gay Film Society began in 1982 with the goal of providing opportunities for viewing media by and about lesbian, trans, gay, and queer people and their experiences.
Alliance for Refugee Youth Support and Education (ARYSE) supports immigrant and refugee youth in becoming engaged, confident, and celebrated members of our communities. A core program of ARYSE is Pittsburgh Refugee Youth Summer Enrichment (PRYSE) Academy, a one-of-a-kind summer program designed to immigrant and refugee youth in middle and high school.
