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 | 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...
Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar, a Community on the Rise
On August 26th, the Lincoln Lemington Collaborative (the Collaborative), united with Neighborhood Allies, Rebuilding Together Pittsburgh (RTP), WAVE, Omicelo Construction Group, and other partners, held its first Community & Housing Resource...
Neighborhood Allies Director Recognized for National Steering Committee
Sarah Dieleman Perry, our Director of Economic Opportunity has been appointed to Prosperity Now's Financial Security Network (FSN) Steering Committee. Sarah joins this committee with 12 leading financial empowerment experts from across the county...
$49,500 Grant from PPG Foundation will continue to help us incorporate STEAM programming into our Digital Inclusion work in 2023-24
Since 2019 the Digital Inclusion team at Neighborhood Allies has invested in educational STEAM and computer literacy programming at neighborhood community centers in the Hill District and Homewood neighborhoods for youth and adults. Last year, the...
