$5,000 to support the Urgent Need Program in Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia which provides financial assistance for blood cancer patients with acute non-medical expenses.
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society‘s mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.
$10,000 to support Civic Stages, a mobile, pop-up, youth-led ‘civic incubator,’ arming students with the programmatic framework, leadership skills and support to advocate for policies and programs that will strengthen their communities, benefit the region as a whole, and provide a physical and virtual platform to mobilize community action.
NextGen:Pgh is a community development organization that enhances the quality of life in Pittsburgh. They grow economies, increase social interaction, and enhance culture, by delivering creative solutions for better urban living.
Center of Life ensures that youth and families receive the skills, education, training, and resources to be strong and to make their communities strong through a core family of programs. COL was established to empower the underserved community of Hazelwood by addressing the economic and educational gaps through programs focused on self-empowerment, cultural enrichment, life skills, and education.
$5,000 to support Women’s Work, an incubator for women-owned businesses, within a feminist makerspace and an emphasis on engaging low-income women.
Prototype PGH‘s mission is to build gender and racial equity in tech and entrepreneurship by providing affordable access to high tech tools and equipment, offering workshops that prioritize the experiences of marginalized communities, and cultivating a professional support network.
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.
$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.
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.