Neighborhood Allies Announces 2023 Executive Committee Members!

by talia piazza | Dec 1, 2022 | Announcements, Front Page

Please join us in welcoming and thanking our 2023 Board Officers! We are delighted to call you our allies! Sallyann Kluz has been re-appointed as our Chairperson, Carolina Pais-Barreto Thor has been re-appointed as our Vice Chairperson, Jonathan Brelsford is our new...

Neighborhood Allies is a Founding Member of Creative Reaction Lab’s Institute of Equitable Design and Justice

by Chelsea Contino | Dec 1, 2022 | Advance Equity, Build Capacity, Front Page, Homewood, Path to Equity, Revitalize Neighborhoods

In 2019, Pittsburgh was ranked the eighth most gentrified city in the United States. Black and Brown residents being left out of the design and community development process is a major contributing factor to this reality. As a result of this data and a study of the...

First ‘Money Talks’ Cohort Completed!| 50 Black women come together to learn about saving and investing

by Chelsea Contino | Nov 28, 2022 | Advance Equity, Foster Economic Opportunity, Front Page

Our Money Talks program is a virtual community made up of Black women of various backgrounds and life stages who meet regularly to engage, share with each other, and learn from experts about saving and investing. The program’s ultimate goal is to reduce barriers...

Neighborhood Allies Embeds Disability Awareness and Inclusion in Economic Opportunity Work, Co-leads National Disability Institute’s Pittsburgh Coalition

by Chelsea Contino | Nov 1, 2022 | Advance Equity, Foster Economic Opportunity, Front Page, Path to Equity

Over the past seven years, Neighborhood Allies has developed focus and expertise in Economic Opportunity and addressing racial wealth equity. We continue to expand, providing more services to greater segments of the population. In recent years, we have worked to...

The Financialization of Single-Family Housing in Pittsburgh

by talia piazza | Oct 24, 2022 | Advance Equity, Front Page, Revitalize Neighborhoods

By: Matt Madia | Director of Real Estate, Neighborhood Allies Neighborhood Allies, in its role as convener of the affordable housing Preservation Working Group, and with the support of the Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center, sought to measure the...

Equity in Action – How I Experienced Transformational Capacity Building

by talia piazza | Oct 18, 2022 | Advance Equity, Build Capacity, Front Page, Uncategorized

Steel Smiling is an Organization-in-Residence (OIR) at Neighborhood Allies. Through the OIR model, we are nurturing the organizational growth, capacity building and sustainability of Steel Smiling so that they can continue to serve community members to their...