Urban farm planned for former housing project site

by talia piazza | Aug 25, 2017 | Community News, Hilltop, Media Coverage

By: Bob Bauder | Trib Live  | August 24th , 2017 | Read the full article Rev. Maurice C. Trent Jr. remembers walking the streets of St. Clair Village when the former Pittsburgh housing project was a notorious haven for drug dealers, gang activity and murder. “I buried...

One of the country’s largest urban farms is underway at former St. Clair Village public housing project

by talia piazza | Aug 25, 2017 | Community News, Hilltop, Media Coverage

By: Diana Nelson Jones | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 24th, 2017 | Read the full article Aimee Mangham has found shoes, dolls, baby booties and jump ropes in the soil as she plows around the horseshoe that used to be Bonifay Street. With her husband James, she...

Hilltop Urban Farm in South Pittsburgh is set to become the largest urban farm in the country

by talia piazza | Aug 25, 2017 | Community News, Hilltop, Media Coverage

By: Brian Conway | Next Pittsburgh | August 24, 2017 | Read the full article “First ribbon-cutting for a farm in probably 100 years in the City of Pittsburgh,” quipped Mayor Bill Peduto at the future site of Hilltop Urban Farm, a 107-acre property in the city’s tiny...

Pittsburgh nonprofit leader named to KeyBank corporate responsibility council

by talia piazza | Aug 17, 2017 | Community News, Media Coverage

Please join us in congratulating Presley Gillespie, who is one of 18 leaders picked from coast to coast to serve on the KeyBank National Advisory Council! By: Paul J. Gough | Pittsburgh Business Times | August 17th, 2017 | Read the full article A Pittsburgh nonprofit...

Where Are They Now? | FOCUS Pittsburgh

by talia piazza | Jul 7, 2017 | Community News, Hill District, Media Coverage

In late 2015, we invested $75,000 in FOCUS Pittsburgh to support the planning and pilot phase of their Trauma Informed Community Development (TICD) Initiative. With our support, FOCUS Pittsburgh immediately began to build the infrastructure to support to help address...

Our Grants At Work On the Ground | Trauma Informed Community Development

by talia piazza | May 31, 2017 | Hill District, Media Coverage

By: Diana Nelson Jones | Pittsburgh Post Gazette| May 28th, 2017 | Read the full article ‘We showed that together we are great’: Reconnecting in one Pittsburgh neighborhood Almost one year ago, the 2900 block of Webster Avenue had a street workshop that...