Creating
Healthy Neighborhoods
of Choice & Opportunity
The entire Pittsburgh region benefits when more neighborhoods are resilient, thriving and equitable.
Read Our
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 North Star Goal
Our North Star Goal
Our North Star Goal is to 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-to-moderate income Pittsburghers up the socio-economic ladder.
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Programs & Initiatives
Programs & Initiatives
Stories of Impact
Our holistic approach to achieving genuine impact addresses interconnected areas such as neighborhood development, economic mobility, mental health, and impact-driven partnerships. By aligning people, place, and investment, we work to move low-to-moderate income Pittsburghers up the socio-economic ladder.
Tariq Williams Joins Neighborhood Allies Team as Program Manager of Real Estate Services
Please join us in welcoming Tariq to the team! Joining the Real Estate Services team, Tariq will assist in coordinating and connecting partners to our real estate programming and other partner organizations. He will also be working to develop...
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...
