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.
Western Pennsylvania Fund for Choice and the Allegheny Reproductive Health Center (ARHC)
ARHC has provided reproductive health care since 1975. The center was first established as an abortion clinic, and through the years they have added gynecological care, prenatal care, contraception services, and STD testing to their offerings. ARHC is committed to delivering fearless healthcare that is imbued with empathy, respect, and nonjudgment. As one of only two abortion clinics in Allegheny County, part of their mission is to destigmatize abortion and provide abortion care to all people seeking it, no matter their situation. The Western PA Fund for Choice is a local non-profit organization that provides supplemental funding for people who cannot afford their abortions. All proceeds from this fund are used to care for people at Allegheny Reproductive Health Center.
Mwanakuche Farm is a volunteer run, Somali-Bantu-led and serving organization that operates the Mwanakuche Community Garden in Pittsburgh’s Perry South neighborhood. The organization focuses its programs and services on supporting Somali-Bantu community unification, self-sufficiency and integration, while upholding cultural heritage. Produce from the garden is donated to community members and sold at a farm stand.
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.
RealTime Arts is a community-fueled, performance-based arts company that creates theatrical experiences and public events that celebrate real stories of real people and real places. RealTime seeks to generate connection, curiosity and wonder, and help audiences see the world around them in new and unexpected ways.
The Anthropology of Motherhood project, fiscally sponsored by New Sun Rising, is an ongoing curation of artwork and design that engages in the complex visual, material, emotional, corporeal and lived experiences of motherhood, care-giving, parenting, nurturing and maternal labor.
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.
Feed the Hood’s (fiscally sponsored by The Pittsburgh Contingency) 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. Learn more.
POORLAW (People of Origin Rightfully Loved and Wanted) 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.
New Sun Rising, with a mission to build vibrant communities through culture, sustainability, and opportunity, is the fiscal sponsor for Tabitha’s Daughters. The mission of Tabitha’s Daughters is to bring health equity and health justice to the women of Pittsburgh, and in particular to impact the lives of African-American women throughout the city of Pittsburgh.