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Celebrate Healthy Neighborhoods, Explore Art Exhibits, Enjoy Some Jazz on November 16th

Oct 1, 2018

Neighborhood Allies exists to to support the people, organizations and partnerships committed to creating and maintaining healthy neighborhoods in Pittsburgh. We invite you to join us on November 16th, to honor those who are doing exemplary work to help us achieve this mission including our 2018 Awardees!

Photo credit: Haggerty Media | The URA is creating market confidence in neighborhoods across the City of Pittsburgh through their comprehensive program offerings that address everything from utilizing small MWDBE-owned businesses to maintain vacant lots, to offering easy access to small business micro loans paired with technical assistance like the loan they provided to Floriated Interpretation in Hazelwood.
Photo Credit: Talia DePasquale | The Trade Institute of Pittsburgh is improving the quality of life for so many, by providing job training and job placement to individuals who are coming from impoverished backgrounds, positioning them not only to provide for themselves and their families, but also their communities.
Photo Credit: Haggerty Media | The Riverside Center for Innovation is achieving equitable development by continuously providing a consistent, growth culture for equity for small business ownership, development and support structures, assisting those at risk of being left behind. They work past neighborhood boundaries providing stable programs, specifically targeting populations to serve, and developing programming to support their needs.
Photo Credit: AAMI | The Afro American Music Institute has been celebrating the image and culture of Homewood for over 35 years. The Johnson’s, who lead the institute, have made it their lives’ mission to preserve and promote music in the Afro American tradition. They are an inter-generational school, with students as young as three years and our most senior student is ninety two. Many students of AAMI go on to tour professionally all over the world, and each one carries the legacy of Homewood and Pittsburgh jazz with them.
Photo Credit: Brashear Facebook Page| ALEC is creating genuine community ownership with Allentown youth through Project HAND (Helping Allentown Neighbors Dream) which guides students to learn about their neighborhood and actively change it. The kids dreamed up a service project that would reduce and prevent litter and successfully raised funds to purchase and install trash cans and recycling bins along Warrington Avenue.
Photo Credit: Buzzy Torek | Henry embodies what it means to be a “neighborhood ally” by genuinely partnering and collaborating with Neighborhood Allies and community organizations across the City of Pittsburgh to help advance our missions and make Pittsburgh Neighborhoods healthier, safer and stronger!

The 2nd Annual Healthy Neighborhoods Celebration will include:

Welcome and healthy neighborhood highlights from our 2017 Ally of the Year, Office of Public Art.
Award Ceremony featuring short films showcasing our 2018 Healthy Neighborhood Awardees
Networking with allies from the Grassroots and Grasstops, and everywhere in between
Real Estate Co-Powerment Series Graduation Ceremony
FREE admission to the Carnegie Museum of Art on Friday, November 16th (10am – 5pm)
Music by the Center of Life Jazz Band
Hors d’oeuvres, and refreshments

Tickets are still available! Get yours today!

Discounted Sponsorship Opportunities are now available!

*Free and discounted tickets to this event are available for residents living in Neighborhood Allies’ focus neighborhoods and on an as needed basis. Contact talia@neighborhoodallies.org for details.

2nd Annual Healthy Neighborhoods Celebration Event Agenda:

2:00 – 3:00

Hors d’oeuvres, Entertainment, Networking

3:00 – 5:00

Welcome and Healthy Neighborhood Highlights, Real Estate Co-Powerment Series Graduation Ceremony, Presentation of the 2018 Healthy Neighborhood Awards & Video Viewing Party!

Top Header Image Photo Credit: Prototyping Larimer Stories by artist John Peña, photo by OPA

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