Joshua Franzos
Participants in EHN's study attend a 2019 climate change event in downtown Pittsburgh. (Credit: Connor Mulvaney for EHN)
Could any serious person really have been surprised about what happened in Georgia? It was an aberration neither as an act of anti-Asian violence nor as a mass shooting, neither as an attack on women nor as an expression of a society now openly at war with its own highest values.
Read moreFunded in part by the Endowments’ largest-ever single grant and guided by a committee of community leaders, the Center for Shared Prosperity at Carnegie Mellon University aims to create a sustainable, replicable model for community-university collaboration, focusing on solutions for socio-economic inequities. Read the press release here. Listen to a new “We Can Be” podcast episode about the Center featuring CREATE Lab’s Illah Nourbakhsh, Raqueeb Bey, exec. dir. of Black Urban Gardeners and Farmers of Pittsburgh, and Endowments’ President Grant Oliphant.
Listen to the podcastAn Environmental Health News scientific investigation finds western Pennsylvania families near fracking are exposed to harmful chemicals, and regulations fail to protect communities' mental, physical, and social health. Dozens of urine, air, and water samples were analyzed for 40 of the chemicals most commonly found in emissions from fracking sites. Read about results - and the stories of the families involved in the study - in the 4-part EHN series “Fractured.”
Read “Fractured” here.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 based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where we concentrate on advancing a sustainable future for our community and planet, successful learning outcomes for young people and their families, and a culture of engaged creativity for all our citizens.
Learn MoreWith 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.
Apply For A GrantThis issue of h magazine examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Pittsburgh region and within the context of the national and global crisis. The stories reveal how individuals, families and businesses are coping in different areas such as health and economics, and how communities are trying to rally together to address immediate needs and prepare for a better future.
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The FISA Foundation and The Heinz Endowments are co-sponsoring a series of webinars as part of a broader effort to address the intersection of race and disability. Please join us as we learn to face our history and move forward together in more just, fair and inclusive ways.
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