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2 Women-Focused Organization Awarded At Nonprofit Accelerator Event

December 20, 2017 Ben

Two women-focused nonprofits were awarded $500 each at December 15th’s Social Venture Partners’ Full Circle Impact Accelerator Pitch Event. The event, held at Google Pittsburgh’s HQ, was a culmination of a fourteen-week accelerator program from Social Venture Partners Pittsburgh, a philanthropic grantmaking organization based on the venture capital model. The night’s $500 recipients were Ujamaa Collective and Prototype PGH. Ujamaa Collective invests in the economic and social growth of Africana women entrepreneurs and artisans through a boutique in the Hill District and Prototype PGH operates a North Oakland maker-space and offers maker educational programming focused on equity and feminism. At… Read the rest

Filed Under: Community Organizations, Community Resources, For a Good Cause, Non-Profits Tagged With: acce, Events, Google, nonprofit, pittsburgh, women-focused

2016 Wilkinsburg Vacant Home Tour Planning Meeting

February 24, 2016 Lindsay

One of the most popular posts here on the blog last spring was about the Wilkinsburg Vacant Home Tour. Blogger Ray Bowman wrote a recap of his visit to the tour here. I was able to stop by and check out a few of the houses featured on the tour, I was on the fence about the idea of bringing a bunch of people to see vacant homes in Wilkinsburg. I was impressed with many of the efforts behind this event and the amount of history that was shared on each of the properties. The planning meeting for the 2016… Read the rest

Filed Under: Community Organizations Tagged With: Historic Preservation, Vacant Home Tour, wilkinsburg, Wilkinsburg CDC

Get Started Programming With Code & Supply

July 23, 2015 Remy Porter

This Saturday, at 1PM, Pittsburgh technology community Code & Supply invites you to their latest installment of their #StarterSeries. Their #StarterSeries project promotes basic programming and coding literacy and encourages everyone to code. Their hope is to grow the Pittsburgh technology community, not just by making it attractive to existing developers, but by teaching Pittsburghers how to be great software developers. This month’s installment expects a basic familiarity with programming. They intend to explore the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern and the fundamentals of Object-Oriented-Programming (OOP). MVC and OOP combined are the basis of nearly every program and application you interact with,… Read the rest

Filed Under: Community Organizations, Technology

Awesome Pittsburgh to Hold Office Hours on Sunday

September 10, 2014 Lindsay

If you are interested in who in Pittsburgh is helping others to turn ideas into reality then one of the organizations that you need to know about is Awesome Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh needs more people coming up and trying out crazy ideas.  And I love Awesome Pittsburgh and the Awesome Foundation because they help people try out these ideas.  One of the major theories in the world of startups in the idea of Lean Entrepreneurship and MVP (minimum viable product).  How soon can you get your business to market to try the idea and get feedback.  I think that Awesome Pittsburgh… Read the rest

Filed Under: Community Organizations, Community Resources Tagged With: Awesome Foundation, pittsburgh, twitter, ZipPitt

A Conversation About Gun Safety

October 2, 2013 Lindsay

I know this is a bit of a detour from our usual postings about things to do in Pittsburgh.  But, I wanted to post about this event because I think the League of Women Voters is an important organizations that more people need to know about and because I think this is an important issue for cities.  Please take a moment to follow the League of Women Voters Pittsburgh on Facebook here. The League of Women Voters is a non-partisan organization – that means that they cannot advocate for any specific candidate or position.  The League of Women Voters exists… Read the rest

Filed Under: Community Organizations, Community Resources Tagged With: Carnegie Mellon University, Deliberative Democracy, Gun safety, League of Women Voters, Nonpartisan, pittsburgh

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