Hazelwood expands with new affordable housing development

Hazelwood’s long history as a home for industry, art, community, and recreation continues to evolve with the announcement of a new residential development at Hazelwood Green. Plans for a 50-unit apartment building at the site have been announced and will include 40 units of affordable housing. Through a partnership with Pittsburgh Scholar House, 13 of those units will be reserved for single parents pursuing a college degree.

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Heinz Award for the Environment honoree Colette Pichon Battle on “We Can Be” podcast

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.

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h Magazine digital and print upgrades

The Heinz Endowments’ magazine, h, has a new look for both its digital and print versions. The digital edition has an upgraded webpage and offers a more immersive experience. The printed magazine is smaller and lighter weight, with fewer stories and a more environmentally friendly production process. For both formats, the professional look and high-quality content of h have been maintained.

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The Heinz Endowments seeks to help our region thrive as a whole and just community and, through that work, to model solutions to major national and global challenges. We are devoted to advancing our vision of southwestern Pennsylvania as a vibrant center of creativity, learning, and social, economic, and environmental sustainability. Our work is supported by reliable data based on equitable, results-focused goals to cultivate a world where all are treated with fairness and respect and have the opportunity to reach their fullest potential.

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With grantmaking that averages almost $70 million annually, The Heinz Endowments is among the leading foundations in the United States. The impact of our grants lies in the possibilities they create, the critical need they address and the transformative change they help to bring about. Every grant listed here is part of that mission.

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Welcome aboard

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.

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Diane Hughley joins THE

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.

Read the Pittsburgh Business Times story about Diane

Bringing the massive savings and workforce potential of solar to light

In this new episode of the Endowments’ “We Can Be” podcast, Pennsylvania Solar Center Founder Sharon Pillar brings shares her decades of clean energy advocacy with host Chris DeCardy. Learn of the massive workforce and financial savings potential of solar, her training experience with former Vice-President Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project, and how regions built upon fossil fuel production and processing can once again become centers of the energy universe.

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50 artists, artist collectives and arts organizations receive PCTI grants

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.

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Endowments commits $9.3 million to improve region’s climate, environment, health outcomes

The Heinz Endowments has announced $9.3 million in grants to 35 organizations whose work focuses on confronting climate change, reducing adverse environment-related health effects and improving equitable access to healthy food in the region. The grants advance nearly 30 years of environment and health advocacy by the Endowments and are informed by recent research supported by the foundation that identifies areas of critical need in the region’s climate, air and water quality, and food security sectors.

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2024 Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Awards honorees

The Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Awards 2024 honorees have been announced, with fiber artist Tina Williams Brewer named Established Artist and director-writer-performer Adil Mansoor tapped as Emerging Artist. A shared initiative of the Endowments and The Pittsburgh Foundation, the program spotlights artists that live and work in southwestern Pennsylvania and features $50,000 in unrestricted funding for each of the two awardees.

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