This issue of h magazine opens with a story about The Heinz Endowments’ participation in the Ford Foundation’s initiative America’s Cultural Treasures, an effort to celebrate the achievements of cultural organizations representing historically marginalized populations and to increase the support they receive. Other stories in the magazine describe a Pittsburgh program supporting artists’ responses to the past year of crisis and protest, examine the economic impact of natural gas fracking in the tri-state region surrounding Pittsburgh, explore the growing philanthropic support for nonprofit media, and provide updates on child care and vaccinations at this stage of the coronavirus of pandemic.

The Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh initiative – a joint program of The Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments – will receive $2 million in the latest round of grants by novelist and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott.

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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In the months following a 2018 Christmas Eve fire that knocked out pollution controls at U.S. Steel Corp.’s Clairton Coke Works, poor air quality caused the rate of outpatient and hospital emergency department visits by asthma sufferers in the area to nearly double.

Fifty local physicians, researchers, community advocates and elected officials – including the Endowments and 20+ organizations they support - have signed a declaration calling for immediate action on cancer-causing pollutants in SWPA.