Creating
Healthy Neighborhoods
of Choice & Opportunity
The entire Pittsburgh region benefits when more neighborhoods are resilient, thriving and equitable.
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Stories of Impact

 
			Creating
Healthy Neighborhoods
of Choice & Opportunity
The entire Pittsburgh region benefits when more neighborhoods are resilient, thriving and equitable.
Read Our
Stories of Impact

Our Commitment to Equity
Our Commitment to Equity
We center our work and investments to foster a more just, fair, and inclusive society in which all can participate, prosper, and reach their full potential. We emphasize the importance of racial equity—the condition achieved when one’s identity no longer statistically predicts how one fares. Racial equity is a part of racial justice and thus we work to address root causes of inequities and not just their manifestations.
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Programs & Initiatives
Programs & Initiatives
Stories of Impact
Over the next ten years, we will expand our resources to Accelerate, Scale, and Sustain the work of our community partners to create healthy neighborhoods of opportunity and move 100,000 low-income Pittsburghers up the socio-economic ladder. When we think about challenges, it’s not the lack of resources, it’s the ‘opportunity gap.’ Neighborhood Allies is in the business of creating opportunity.
Media Coverage| STEAMfest highlights lifelong learning at CCAC Homewood-Brushton Center
Pittsburgh Today Live visited the new Verizon Community Forward Adult Learning Center at CCAC Homewood-Brushton Center during their annual STEAMfest! This is the second of two centers to open as part of the Verizon Community Forward Initiative, in...
Steel Smiling Beams to Bridges Program Graduates 3rd Cohort
Steel Smiling is proud to share that our third cohort, BTB3, has graduated from the Beams to Bridges program! - our Black-centered mental health and wellness education and training program. Throughout the six-month long, once-weekly classes, BTB3...
Get to know our Fall 2023 RISE HIGH Grantee Partners
Last month, we announced two new RISE HIGH Growth Grant Partners, Awaken Pittsburgh (AP) and Northside Partnership Project (NPP). With this funding and partnership, we are helping to build the capacity of these organizations to scale and deepen...
Media Coverage | Black-led Steel Smiling centers importance of Black mental health in Pittsburgh region
By: Courier Newsroom | October 18, 2023 | Read the full article Steel Smiling, a Black-led, Pittsburgh-based non-profit, connects residents to Black-specific mental health support through education, advocacy, and awareness. Founded in 2015, Steel...
Introducing Steel Healing…
Steel Smiling is proud to announce that we are changing the name of the “Black Mental Health Fund” program to “Steel Healing”! We are taking this step to recenter the true intentions of the program: for Black community members to have access to a...
Media Coverage | Preparing Underinvested Communities for New Funding
Below is an excerpt, highlighting Pittsburgh and the Preservation Working Group's work to preserve affordable housing in Pittsburgh. Underinvested communities are at a disadvantage when it comes to attracting and deploying funding. The Center for...
 
			 
				














