We are at a pivotal moment of change, and we invite dynamic professionals to join us at The Heinz Endowments. If you are passionate about driving meaningful impact and eager to contribute to transformative projects, this is your chance to make a difference. We actively seek candidates from diverse backgrounds including communities of color, the LGBTQ community, veterans, and people with disabilities. We value multidimensional experiences and a curious, intentional approach to learning.

Acclaimed artist & co-founder of multidisciplinary art collective Rainbow Serpent, Marques Redd is helping create the future of art by reviving ancient – & often erased – traditions. By uplifting Black LGBTQ creativity & culture through exploration of emerging technologies, innovative healing protocols, African cosmologies & multimedia art, he is sparking important dialogue & reconsideration of the Western artistic canon.

The Heinz Endowments is happy to welcome Sameera Fazili and Patrick Gallagher to our Board of Directors. Ms. Fazili is an economic policy expert who was Deputy Assistant to the President & Deputy Director of the White House’s National Economic Council in the Biden administration. Dr. Gallagher was University of Pittsburgh chancellor from 2014-23, where he is currently a professor in the university’s department of physics & astronomy.

Heinz Award for the Environment honoree Colette Pichon Battle joins Endowments President/host Chris DeCardy for a deep dive into the inequities of climate change in this episode of “We Can Be.” A lawyer and leader at environmental advocacy organization Taproot Earth, Colette shares how increasingly severe weather is affecting generational land ownership from Louisiana’s bayous to Appalachia and welcomes a special guest questioner: environmental legend and Love Canal clean-up hero Lois Gibbs. 

The Endowments is happy to welcome Diane Hughley as executive assistant to the president. Ms. Hughley’s extensive foundation and nonprofit experience includes positions at Jewish Healthcare Foundation, Pressley Ridge, Greater Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce, and Arabella Advisors in Washington D.C. She brings to the Endowments team her deep and long-held commitment to serving individuals and communities.

The $10 million Pittsburgh Cultural Treasures Initiative (PCTI), launched by the Endowments and the Ford and POISE foundations, is wrapping up its grantmaking with a collection of grants to 50 Black arts organizations, artist collectives and individual artists. The awards totaling $505,000 mark the first time individual artists have been direct recipients of PCTI funding.