The Heinz Endowments support efforts to make southwestern Pennsylvania a premier place to live and work, a center for learning and educational excellence, and a region that embraces diversity and inclusion.
We are so very proud to call The Heinz Endowments our ally, supporter and partner as we work together to help the region thrive as a whole community, economically, ecologically, educationally and culturally. Our work would not be possible with out the tremendous support of long-time, core funders like Heinz, who has been supporting Neighborhood Allies since the very beginning. In fact, Heinz was very instrumental in the formation and launch of Neighborhood Allies and has helped shape our organization into the entity we are today! We’d like to take this opportunity to showcase and thank The Heinz Endowments for their continued commitment and support of our mission to support the people, organizations and partnerships committed to creating and maintaining thriving neighborhoods. .
Support from Heinz enables Neighborhood Allies to run and deploy numerous successful and impactful programs including, but not limited to our Community Development Fellowship Program, which was launched in 2014 with a grant from the Endowments. Since the launch of that program, we have been able to leverage Heinz funding with grants from three other foundation partners and host 3 diverse, passionate and extremely bright fellows working in the areas of leadership, placemaking, research, outcome and impact evaluation, policy and other challenges facing the community development system in Pittsburgh! Learn more about our Community Development Fellowship Program here.
The Neighborhood Allies Fellow Squad (from left to right): Armando Yanez, Doni Crawford, Mary Taylor and Shikha Jerath
About the Heinz Endowments: The Heinz Endowments’ mission is to promote progress in Western Pennsylvania through their five program areas: Arts & Culture; Children, Youth & Families; Community & Economic Development; Education; and Environment. They accomplish this by supporting organizations, like Neighborhood Allies, that meet these program areas’ strategies for grant making.
