by talia piazza | Aug 30, 2017 | Community News, Grantee Spotlight
A grant from Neighborhood Allies supported the BizFIT Entrepreneurial Construction Training Program, which trains disadvantaged and minority business owners in operating their construction-based business from start-up to becoming a prime contractor. BizFIT is an...
by talia piazza | Aug 2, 2017 | Community News, Grantee Spotlight
A grant from Neighborhood Allies positioned a PSSA to take an innovative approach to addressing food insecurity by using the Manchester Growing Together Farm as a hands-on educational classroom to teach and reinforce healthy eating and living practices to local...
by talia piazza | Jul 6, 2017 | Community News, Grantee Spotlight, Homewood
A grant from Neighborhood Allies helped fund Phase 1 of the Homewood Living Lab project–which is a resident-driven, collaborative initiative envisioned to be a network of parks and gardens and an educational facility–complete with an air monitoring system,...
by talia piazza | May 31, 2017 | Community News, Grantee Spotlight
A grant from Neighborhood Allies supported the relocation and consolidation of the Community Kitchen Pittsburgh to a historic building in Hazelwood. Project Background The Hazelwood Second Avenue Redevelopment is an initiative of ACTION-Housing that began in 2013 when...
by talia piazza | May 1, 2017 | Community News, Grantee Spotlight
With support from Neighborhood Allies, the Bloomfield Development Corporation (BDC) implemented a Streetscape Demonstration that creatively gathered community consensus on a variety of streetscape amenities that will be installed next spring. Last year, we provided a...
by talia piazza | Mar 31, 2017 | Community News, Grantee Spotlight
Quick-Train is offered at New Century Career’s (NCC) Training Innovation Center on the South Side and in the Allegheny County Jail. NCC recruits, enrolls, screens and trains job seekers- with a focus on young adults-for this time-shortened (250, 450 or 600 hours)...