Canine Companions: Helping One Pittsburgh Puppy At a Time
Canine Companions provides service dogs, free of charge, to adults, children and veterans with disabilities. Before a dog can help out, though, someone — like Bridgeville resident Jill Sabo and her family — needs to turn a rambunctious puppy into a service dog in training.
How the OneTen Coalition is Ensuring Black Talent Without Four-Year Degrees Grow Their Careers
These are jobs with fair wages and ample opportunity.
Sisters Place: Providing Empowerment Through Housing in Pittsburgh
The nonprofit is helping homeless Pittsburghers get back on their feet.
How Bike Pittsburgh Is Making Our City Safer for Cyclists
Pittsburgh was once one of the worst cities for biking. Thanks to 20 years of efforts from BikePGH, that has changed.
Pittsburgh Nonprofit Profile: Cribs for Kids
This nonprofit provides cribs to low-income families — and it’s thanks to an unlikely, and very Pittsburgh, meeting.
Pittsburgh Nonprofit Profile: 412 Food Rescue
412 Food Rescue fights food insecurity by saving excess food that would otherwise fly off the shelves and right into landfills.
Pittsburgh Nonprofit Profile: Brother's Brother Foundation
The North Side-based nonprofit has partnered for the first time with local health agencies to provide a mobile clinic to help with eye and diabetes care.
Pittsburgh Nonprofit Profile: Global Links
The Green Tree nonprofit sends medical equipment to countries in need in addition to assisting Pittsburghers so they can live safely, independently and with dignity.
The Thomas Merton Center's 50 Years of Action in Pittsburgh
The nonprofit has spent a half century on the front lines of activism, from Vietnam to Black Lives Matter.
Pittsburgh Nonprofit Profile: Pressley Ridge
After receiving a $10 million unrestricted gift from philanthropist Mackenzie Scott, nonprofit Pressley Ridge continues to foster a diverse and communicative environment for the families they serve.
It's About the Warrior: Making Sure Veterans Never Feel They Are Alone
For some, the foundation offers camaraderie with those who have had similar experiences. For others, it’s the difference between life and death.
Helping Pittsburgh Veterans Continue to Serve After Leaving the Military
Leadership Pittsburgh’s Community Leadership Course for Veterans helps post-9/11 veterans transition from serving their country to serving their communities, free of stigma.
This Group Provides Equity and Empowerment
The POISE Foundation works to connect Black-led nonprofit organizations, in Pittsburgh and beyond, to funds and support.
Where to Give Blood in Pittsburgh
Vitalant operates 10 donation centers in western Pennsylvania.
Where to Give Hygiene Products in Pittsburgh
The Women’s Center and Shelter is open to many forms of donations.
Where to Donate Clothing in Pittsburgh
The Free Store Wilkinsburg offers donated clothing at no cost to community members — unlike most secondhand stores, which charge for their wares.
How a New Youth Center Aims To Reinvigorate an Under-Resourced Pittsburgh Community
The youth center at the Homewood-Brushton YMCA is the first of two spaces for residents to gain access to cutting-edge technology. An adult space will open at the Homewood branch of CCAC in August.
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Give: November 2022
Sisters Place | Empowering Through Housing, Spirit of Giving | The Silicon Valley of Nonprofits, Canine Companions: Helping One Puppy at a Time
Giving Tuesday is Nov. 28, 2023
Give Big Pittsburgh falls on GivingTuesday, a nationally recognized response to the holiday spending done on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Pittsburgh Magazine has partnered with GiveGab, an online donation platform, since Give Big Pittsburgh’s inception in 2017. More than $14 million has been raised for Pittsburgh nonprofits since the start of the fundraising campaign.
