Tag: Nonprofit organization

  • Learn about great Pittsburgh Places to Volunteer at the Help or High Water Party

    Learn about great Pittsburgh Places to Volunteer at the Help or High Water Party

    This is one of those events that highlights some of the best of Pittsburgh. Hosted by Pittsburgh Cares, a non-profit organization that matches people who want to volunteer with organizations that need volunteers, this party is a chance to find out more about where you can volunteer your time. Pittsburgh Cares is a great organization and they are bring together over 35 other amazing organizations for a big awesome volunteer party at the Union Project. (The Union Project is a perfect spot for a Pittsburgh volunteer fair because most of the remodeling of the building was done by, you guessed it, volunteers.)

    If you are looking to get more involved in your community, meet some other civic minded folks or just find out more about what these organizations do everyday, stop by the Union Project on Thursday night for Help or High Water II.

    Help or High Water II: A Volunteer Fair

    Thursday, September 21, 2017
    6-10pm
    The Union Project

    Here are the details from the Help or High Water II: A Volunteer Fair (and a birthday party!) Facebook Event:

    Pittsburgh Volunteer Fair

    The first “Help or High Water” event in January was such a success — hundreds of volunteers, dozens of nonprofit agencies in attendance — that Pittsburgh Cares is organizing another to help us commemorate our 25th year of serving the Pittsburgh region.

    In other words, happy birthday to us!

    We’re celebrating with food trucks, beer from Full Pint Brewing, wine from J&D Cellars, Maggie’s Farm Rum, Red Star Kombucha, celebrity bartenders, and more. Bring your friends, bring your wallets (suggested $5 at the door), and bring your willingness to improve your community by supporting one (or more) of Pittsburgh’s many worthy charities and service agencies.

    While you’re here, get to know a bit more about the evening’s beneficiary, Pittsburgh Cares, which works to advance a culture of volunteerism and civic engagement in the region. Pittsburgh Cares matches non-profits with volunteers of all ages, and organizes one-time and recurring volunteer activities.

    This volunteer fair is open to all ages, all abilities, anyone and everyone who wants to get active and give back, but is unsure where to start. Come out to the Union Project on Sept. 21, have a drink, and start building a more vibrant city by meeting amazing people from:

    1. 412 Food Rescue @412FoodRescue
    2. ACLU of Pennsylvania @aclupa
    3. All for All
    4. Amachi Pittsburgh
    5. Assemble
    6. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh
    7. Bike Pittsburgh
    8. Book’Em (Pittsburgh’s Books To Prisoners)
    9. Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
    10. Casa San Jose
    11. CeaseFirePA
    12. Community Human Services Corporation
    13. Coro Pittsburgh
    14. Dress for Success Pittsburgh
    15. Engineers Without Borders Pittsburgh Professional Chapter
    16. Focus On Renewal
    17. GASP
    18. GLCC of Pittsburgh
    19. Girls Rock! Pittsburgh
    20. Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council – GPLC
    21. Homeless Children’s Education Fund
    22. Jewish Family & Children’s Service of Pittsburgh-Refugee & Immigrant Services
    23. Just Harvest
    24. Keys Service Corps AmeriCorps
    25. Lawrenceville United
    26. Mattress Factory – Museum of Contemporary Art
    27. Northern Area Multi-Service Center – Landmark Home Health-Refugee Resettlement
    28. One Pennsylvania
    29. PennFuture
    30. Pennsylvania Resources Council
    31. Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse
    32. PULSE – Pittsburgh Urban Leadership Service Experience
    33. PPWP–Planned Parenthood of Western PA
    34. Proud Haven
    35. Wesley Family Services-In Service of Seniors
    36. YNPN Pittsburgh
  • 24 Gifts of Pittsburgh: Fair Trade Coffee from Building New Hope

    24 Gifts of Pittsburgh: Fair Trade Coffee from Building New Hope

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    Building New Hope has been one of those things that has sort of been on my Pittsburgh radar, but not something I have blogged about before.  Building New Hope is a Pittsburgh non-profit organization that imports coffee beans from El Porvenir, a worker-owned coffee cooperative in Nicaragua.  The coffee is roasted locally by Coffee 19 in Washington County. Proceeds from the sale of coffee are used to fund two schools and other youth programs in Nicaragua.

    Sample Building New Hope at the Fair Trade Marketplace at ECS

    Pittsburgh-Fair-Trade-MarketplaceThere are so many great ways to shop local this weekend in Pittsburgh. Saturday, December 5 is the Handmade Arcade at the Convention Center. Kerf Case, #3 on our list of 24 gifts of Pittsburgh, will be there as well as OttoFinn, #1 on our list. The blog Design Crush, which covers art and design from around the world, (but is conveniently located here in Pittsburgh) has published a preview of the 2015 Handmade Arcade here.

    This weekend is also the annual Fair Trade Market at ECS (ECS is short for Environmental Charter School) in Regent Square. On Saturday and Sunday you can shop their huge marketplace of fair trade gifts. Building New Hope is one of the vendors as well as several other fair trade brands. You can see a preview of some of the items that will be for sale here.

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    Shop: Building New Hope Coffee is available in regular ($13/lb) and decaf ($14/lb) and can be purchased online here.

    Follow: Follow Build New Hope on Twitter @building_new_hope and Facebook.

  • Share Your 3 Favorite Nonprofits #GivingTuesday

    Share Your 3 Favorite Nonprofits #GivingTuesday

    giving-tuesdayToday, Tuesday, December 3, is #GivingTuesday.  (If you are reading this via our email updates, you wont get this until Wednesday – but keep reading – all of the information is still relevant).

    I have been thinking about GivingTuesday for the past week.  The blog The Motherhood (which happens to be based in Pittsburgh) had a post last week about the 12 days of giving leading up to GivingTuesday.

    This is the 2nd annual #GivingTuesday – the idea is to have a national day that promotes giving as a follow up to Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday.  While GivingTuesday hasn’t quite yet gained the popularity of CyberMonday, I think it is an idea worth sharing. (more…)

  • Preview Screening of Pgh Made Short Films and Videos – Mon. November 25

    Preview Screening of Pgh Made Short Films and Videos – Mon. November 25

    The Sprout Fund
    The Sprout Fund (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

    The Sprout Fund is a Pittsburgh non-profit that has been giving out grants to project big and small that make this city a better place to live.  This year the Sprout Fund has put together a special round of grants for film and video projects.

    On Monday, November 25, the public is invited to watch the trailers and vote for their favorites. Afterwards you will have a chance to vote for your favorites.  Voting will be factored into the decision of which projects receive funding from the Sprout Fund.  This event is open to the public and free to attend.

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  • Follow #NPSummit on Twitter to Learn More About Local Nonprofits

    Follow #NPSummit on Twitter to Learn More About Local Nonprofits

    Since lots of our readers are involved in loca nonprofits I wanted to share some information about the Nonprofit summit and some organizations that you might want to follow on Facebook and Twitter for future info on how to make Pittsburgh nonprofit organizations even better.

    Today is the Annual Nonprofit Summit which is organized by:

    • GPNP (The Greater Pittsburgh Nonprofit Partnership) @GPNPpgh – which is a coalition of about 350 nonprofit agencies in the Southwestern Pennsylvania region dedicated to providing a unified voice for the nonprofit sector.
    • The Forbes Funds @TheForbesFunds mission is to strengthen the management and policy-making capacity of the nonprofit sector by providing the support, resources, and knowledge required for high-performing nonprofits.

    If you are interested in nonprofits – take a look at the program for the 2013 Nonprofit Summit here – there are 14 different workshops on a range of topics.  Even if you aren’t able to attend the list of workshops and speakers offers a glimpse at who are the thought leaders in Pittsburgh.

    Follow #NPSummit on Twitter

    The hash tag for the conferences is #NPSummit – you can see a live stream of tweets from the conference here.

    Here are a few of the tweets of insight and links from the 2013 Nonprofit Summit

    http://storify.com/iheartpgh/following-the-2013-nonprofit-summit-npsummit