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...
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...
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,...
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...
by Chelsea Contino | Sep 6, 2024 | Advance Equity, Build Capacity, Front Page, Revitalize Neighborhoods
Neighborhood Allies, through the Social Impact Design (SID) program, is seeking proposals from community organizations, local leaders, artists, designers, and small businesses in Pittsburgh’s underserved neighborhoods. We want to work together on projects that...
by talia piazza | Sep 6, 2024 | Advance Equity, Announcements, Build Capacity, Front Page, Hilltop, Revitalize Neighborhoods
Last summer, our Social Impact Design team partnered with The Brashear Association, Inc. and South Pittsburgh residents to co-design a Creative Analytic Play Space (CAPS) to be built in a vacant lot across from the Brashear CARES Center. Our team worked...
