Neighborhood Allies’ Social Impact Design Team to Help Millvale Community Library Write its Next Chapter

by Chelsea Contino | Mar 17, 2025 | Build Capacity, Front Page, Millvale, Revitalize Neighborhoods

The Millvale Community Library (MCL) is well known as “more than a library – an agent of positive change.” They envision a happy, informed, and engaged community….and serve as a hub of local involvement to enact that vision by sharing values...

Neighborhood Allies and ULI Pittsburgh participate in Women’s Leadership Initiative Satellite Breakfast Club

by Chelsea Contino | Feb 25, 2025 | Advance Equity, Build Capacity, Front Page, Revitalize Neighborhoods

In December 2024, Neighborhood Allies and the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Pittsburgh participated in a virtual satellite meeting of the quarterly Women’s Leadership Initiative BUILD UP Breakfast Club, bringing together women leaders in Pittsburgh for discussion,...

Guest Blog | RISE HIGH: A Journey of Advocacy, Growth, and Change 

by talia piazza | Jan 14, 2025 | Advance Equity, Build Capacity, Front Page, Path to Equity, Thought Leadership

Authored by: DeOndra Parker DeOndra is the Senior Program Manager of Fund Development & Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Neighborhood Allies. Get to know her a little better in this Get To Know Your Allies segment. RISE HIGH: Resilient and Inclusive Solutions...

Neighborhood Allies supports the De’Avry Thomas Community Center with $15,000 “first in” investment, jumpstarting the revitalization of a youth community center in Penn Hills

by Chelsea Contino | Dec 9, 2024 | Advance Equity, Build Capacity, Front Page, Revitalize Neighborhoods

After his family was devastated by gun violence in 2013, pre-teen Kahlil Darden began to dream about changing his community for the better. Now, years later, his organization Young Black Motivated Kings & Queens (YBMKQ) brings together “young men and women...

From Gray Space to Green Space: CEA Breaks Ground on Community Plaza

by Chelsea Contino | Nov 26, 2024 | Advance Equity, Build Capacity, Front Page

Rashad D. Byrdsong, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Community Empowerment Association (CEA), has dreamed of turning the parking lot beside his building into a community gathering and event space for quite some time. Last month, after years of fundraising,...

Jordan Swartz, Neighborhood Allies Social Impact Designer, Selected to AIA Pittsburgh’s Leadership Institute

by Chelsea Contino | Sep 13, 2024 | Build Capacity, Front Page

Jordan is one of 20 young professionals in architecture to be selected for the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Pittsburgh’s Leadership Institute! A program of the Pittsburgh Architecture Foundation, the institute’s purpose is to “explore and...