Social Impact Design | Call for Projects

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...

From Vision to Action: Creating a Creative Analytic Play Space in the Hilltop

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...

Media Coverage | Comcast awards $150,000 in grants to local organizations

by talia piazza | Sep 3, 2024 | Front Page, Media Coverage

By: Pittsburgh Courier Newsroom | August 27, 2024 | Read the full article The New Pittsburgh Courier has learned that Comcast on July 30, 2024, awarded four Pittsburgh-based non-profit organizations a total of $150,000 in grants as part of its continued investment in...

Kincaid Street Garden Project

by Chelsea Contino | Aug 30, 2024 | Build Capacity, Front Page, Revitalize Neighborhoods

Between January and August of 2024, Neighborhood Allies collaborated with the Kincaid Street Community Garden to design a new community space that could bring life to the garden’s vacant southern lot. The goals of the project included designing a space that...

We’re Hiring! | Become a Fund My Future PGH Community Outreach Assistant | Contract-based position

by Chelsea Contino | Aug 16, 2024 | Announcements, Archive, Front Page, Opportunities

Position: Fund My Future PGH Community Outreach AssistantStatus: Contract-based position (1099-position)Reports to: Senior Program Manager of Empowerment and Outreach Contract Summary:The Fund My Future PGH Community Outreach Consultant is responsible for assisting...

Presley Gillespie to Speak on Recent FED Survey Related to Small Businesses and LMI Communities

by talia piazza | Aug 9, 2024 | Advance Equity, Front Page, Thought Leadership

Next week, Presley Gillespie, our President & CEO at Neighborhood Allies, will join Matt Klesta, Senior Policy Analyst, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, and Kurt Reiber, President and CEO, Freestore Foodbank to discuss the most recent Federal Reserve Bank of...