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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

Celebrate space with Yuri’s Night Pittsburgh tomorrow!

April 11, 2015 Catherine

Yuri's Night PittsburghSpace is pretty awesome. Blockbuster hits like Gravity and Interstellar, privatized space exploration such as Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Virgin Galactic, and incentives like Google’s Lunar XPRIZE, which awards $30 million to the first private company to send a robot to the moon, have renewed our interest beyond our atmosphere. And Pittsburgh has great representation with local NewSpace company Astrobotic leading the race to the moon, having won initial milestones of the Lunar XPRIZE and currently accepting payloads to be sent to space on their first launch. And lucky you– you can get in on some space-related fun tomorrow evening… Read the rest

Filed Under: Annual Events, Events, Free, Non-Profits Tagged With: Events, Free, NASA, nonprofit, pittsburgh, space, Space Apps, Yuri's Night

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