by talia piazza | Nov 7, 2023 | Advance Equity, Front Page, Hill District, Revitalize Neighborhoods
Partners: PHDC’s Rich Snipe and Neighborhood Allies’ Shad Henderson “Good housing projects are only possible when there is good collaboration among housing partners.” -Rich Snipe, Pittsburgh Housing Development Corporation (PHDC) Through the...
by Chelsea Contino | Oct 31, 2023 | Advance Equity, Front Page, Homewood, Revitalize Neighborhoods
Tina Daniels pictured at an active job site. In 2022, Tina Daniels, founder of Concrete Rose Construction, embarked on her first multi-unit, multi-phase redevelopment project – sixteen units of affordable housing in Homewood. Phase 1 of the project, which will...
by Chelsea Contino | Oct 24, 2023 | Advance Equity, Front Page, Homewood
Pittsburgh Today Live visited the new Verizon Community Forward Adult Learning Center at CCAC Homewood-Brushton Center during their annual STEAMfest! This is the second of two centers to open as part of the Verizon Community Forward Initiative, in partnership with...
by Chelsea Contino | Oct 24, 2023 | Advance Equity, Front Page, Larimer
Steel Smiling is proud to share that our third cohort, BTB3, has graduated from the Beams to Bridges program! – our Black-centered mental health and wellness education and training program. Throughout the six-month long, once-weekly classes, BTB3 cohort members...
by talia piazza | Oct 23, 2023 | Advance Equity, Build Capacity, Front Page, Grantee Spotlight
Last month, we announced two new RISE HIGH Growth Grant Partners, Awaken Pittsburgh (AP) and Northside Partnership Project (NPP). With this funding and partnership, we are helping to build the capacity of these organizations to scale and deepen their work and...
by Chelsea Contino | Oct 13, 2023 | Advance Equity, Build Capacity, Front Page
Steel Smiling is proud to announce that we are changing the name of the “Black Mental Health Fund” program to “Steel Healing”! We are taking this step to recenter the true intentions of the program: for Black community members to have access to a variety of clinical...
