$5,000 to New Sun Rising, providing general operating support to Start with Art: Pittsburgh.

Start with Art: Pittsburgh seeks to create a city of culture in the City of Champions. They accomplish this by gifting original, signed, and numbered photographic prints from a different artist each month to ever baby born at three hospitals in Pittsburgh. This grant allows Start with Art to increase the honoraria for 12 artists and 1 poet. The slate of artists includes a Pulitzer Prize winner, two Emerging Artists of the Year in Pittsburgh, to Artists of the Year in Pittsburgh, and a museum director. Each artist is responsible for creating a photographic print that is given to almost 275 babies each month, while the poet creates written descriptions of each work for the benefit of individuals with vision impairments. Since 2015, more than 5,000 babies and their families have received one of these gifts.

New Sun Rising is an organization striving to find and support fresh, creative solutions to social problems that are more effective, efficient and sustainable than what currently exists. They build programs and new models to progress your concept from idea to impact, whether they are your fiscal sponsor, your mentor or your community connector. New Sun Rising believes that catalyzing social impact can activate your authentic vision and potential. They’re building an engaged, diverse, and cooperative ecosystem which results in solutions that improve your community and that can improve communities around the world.