Media Coverage | New affordable housing project coming to Hill District

by talia piazza | Jan 17, 2025 | Front Page, Hill District, Media Coverage, Revitalize Neighborhoods, Uncategorized

By: Jordan Anderson | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | January 16, 2025 | Read the full article A caving roof, collapsed floors — the shuttered African Queens record store is a shell of its former self, barely safe to enter anymore. It’s what happens after more than a decade...

Introducing HomeBase | Flexible Microgrants up to $5,000 for Small Businesses

by Chelsea Contino | Jan 16, 2025 | Advance Equity, Front Page, Revitalize Neighborhoods

Over the years, Neighborhood Allies has grown to support minority-and-women-owned small businesses in a variety of ways – like through our Get Online Grow Online (GOGO) Program, which has helped hundreds of business owners to promote and sell their products and...

Media Coverage | WPXI Pittsburgh | $350K to be put towards affordable housing Hill District

by talia piazza | Jan 16, 2025 | Front Page, Hill District, Media Coverage, Revitalize Neighborhoods

Story by: WPXI.com News Staff | Read the full story Hundreds of thousands of dollars are being put towards a new affordable housing project in the Hill District. Neighborhood Allies, an organization that focuses on community development, said it is investing $350,000...

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...

Building Capacity for Equity in Architecture: Neighborhood Allies’ Partnership with NOMA Pittsburgh

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

As staff at Neighborhood Allies, we know that the most impactful community-serving work is not carried out in a vacuum – so, we collaborate with others at every turn. We strive to make connections that bloom into trusted partnerships while simultaneously...

Friends of Neighborhood Allies Celebrate Pittsburgh Architecture Week by Sharing Their Favorite Buildings and Public Spaces in Pittsburgh

by Chelsea Contino | Oct 11, 2024 | Front Page, Revitalize Neighborhoods

By Jordan Swartz, Social Impact Designer at Neighborhood Allies Put on every year by the Pittsburgh chapter of the American Institute of Architects, Architecture Week celebrates the built environment of greater Pittsburgh and elevates the impact that...