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Love My Neighbor! Quarterly Newsletter | First Edition
Leave a CommentRead the first edition of our new Love My Neighbor! newsletter!
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Media Coverage | Artist Completes Public Work Celebrating Hill District Residents
Leave a CommentThe Temporary Public Art and Placemaking (TPAP) Program is a partnership between Neighborhood Allies and the Office of Public Art. During the pilot, a series of six temporary works of public art have been created in each of our target neighborhoods.
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Love My Neighbor! Grantees Turn Up the Heat for Summer 2019
Leave a CommentThis year, the Grassroots Grantmaking Committee funded 47 resident projects, totaling $96,073 in funding for our neighborhoods! Check out some of the hottest projects that took place in Summer 2019!
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The PGH Mobile Toolbox Continues to Make Impact During Its 3rd Season!
Leave a CommentThus far in its 3rd season, the PGH Mobile Toolbox has provided FREE tools and technical expertise at 32 workdays, engaged with 11 communities, coordinated over 400 volunteers, and helped create or improve 19 outdoor green spaces!
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Applications for Grassroots Grantmaking Committee OPEN NOW!
Leave a CommentWe are seeking resident leaders to represent and make funding decisions on behalf of our target neighborhoods by serving on our Grassroots Grantmaking Committee (GGC).
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Allies At Work | eNews Update | September 2019
Leave a CommentHave You Heard? Our Shared Real Estate Talent Program can help you succeed in community-driven real estate.
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Media Coverage | Improving your financial health—Rep. Wheatley, state treasurer say it’s all about saving money
Leave a Comment“In our work revitalizing neighborhoods, we realized that if the people who live in our neighborhoods are no better off, we haven’t done our job,” said Perry. “We now have nine financial counselors working in 13 different locations around Pittsburgh.”
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Shared Real Estate Talent | At Work On the Ground in Millvale
Leave a CommentWorking with Tom Hardy, MCDC has been implementing a restructuring plan that focuses on selling assets to community serving uses, making significant progress in the community’s redevelopment efforts
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Neighborhood Allies Leads Learning Exchange to Homeboy Industries
Leave a CommentWith support from McAuley Ministries, Neighborhood Allies led a Hill District-based delegation to Homeboy Industries’ Global Homeboy Network Gathering from August 10th to 13th to learn about initiatives that provide previously incarcerated men and women with training, employment, and support to contribute to the wellbeing of their families and communities.
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LISC/Neighborhood Allies Invests $500,000 in East End Neighborhoods
Leave a CommentNeighborhood Allies worked extensively with ELDI staff, consultants and professional advisors to structure a financial product that fit within a very complicated set of requirements to assist in closing a first of its kind financing structure in the Pittsburgh market.
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Love My Neighbor! Project Gives Free Bikes & Helmets to kids | The Millvale Summer Kickoff and Bike Rally
Leave a CommentThe Millvale Summer Kickoff and Bike Rally is an annual, youth-focused community celebration and bicycle giveaway. The event works to promote and encourage bike safety, provide bikes and bike accessories for children who cannot afford them, and promote the Millvale Community Library as a community connector and resource center for all ages.
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Media Coverage | URA Takes A Different Approach To Revitalization Of Centre Avenue
Leave a CommentAll projects that meet the initial criteria will go before the community. Detailed drawings and financing will be deferred until after the URA board has taken a preliminary vote on the project. The URA hired nonprofit Neighborhood Allies to provide technical assistance to interested applicants.
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Get To Know Your Allies | Stephanie Chernay | Chief Operating Officer
Leave a CommentStephanie serves as a key member of the executive team responsible for the day-to-day responsibility of planning, implementing, and managing operational and financial-related activities of the organization, ensuring that organizational systems are aligned to provide the best-in-class measurements and outcomes.
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Neighborhood Allies Launches Shared Communications Platform
Leave a CommentDoes your organization struggle to find resources to devote to communications, storytelling, or design? Neighborhood Allies can help!
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Media Coverage | 26 affordable homes are coming to East Liberty and Larimer. Here’s how it came together.
Leave a CommentLocal Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) is providing $500,000 through Neighborhood Allies to help bring this project to life and create more affordable homes in East Liberty and Larimer.
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Media Coverage | PITTSBURGH URBAN INITIATIVES AND EAST LIBERTY DEVELOPMENT, INC. INVEST IN AFFORDABLE FOR-SALE HOUSING IN EAST END NEIGHBORHOODS
Leave a CommentLISC provided $500,000 through Neighborhood Allies to fill the finance gap.
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Media Coverage | Did you know about the city’s free financial counseling services?
Leave a CommentPittsburghers can access the professionals who have the expertise, one-on-one, for free, thanks to the City of Pittsburgh’s Financial Empowerment Center.
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Your Allies At Work | On the Ground in Homewood
Leave a CommentNeighborhood Allies is working in close coordination with Homewood business owners, the Homewood Collaborative, public and private sector partners and others to support the equitable revitalization of Homewood’s Business and Institutional Corridor.
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Media Coverage | Free art workshops offered at Millvale Library
Leave a CommentAdults can explore their creative sides through six free art workshops at the Millvale Community Library, thanks to two Millvale residents who have secured a $2,500 Love My Neighbor! grant from Neighborhood Allies for the programming.
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SHORE Hosts Its First Ever House Tour
Leave a CommentOver 50 people gathered throughout the day in Schenley Heights to experience and learn about the revitalization efforts happening throughout the community.
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Congratulations to the Schenley Heights Collaborative on becoming a Registered Community Organization (RCO)!
Leave a CommentOrganizations that have been designated as a neighborhood RCO have the ability to meet with developers/applicants prior to public hearings, develop neighborhood plans for City approval, and be recognized on official maps, brochures, and directories.
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Allies At Work | eNews Update | August 2019
Leave a CommentRead our August 2019 eNewsletter FEATURE STORY: The URA and Neighborhood Allies partner on the Equitable Empowerment Fund Pittsburgh Financial Empowerment Center Shows Significant Participation Thus Far, Looks Forward to Continued Success Where Are They Now? | Habitat For Humanity | Homewood Bennett Street Development Neighborhood Allies Expands Communications and Storytelling Capacity with the Addition of New Staff Member Chelsea Contino! Early Bird Tickets for the 3rd Annual Healthy Neighborhoods Celebration are now available! AND MORE!
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Where Are They Now? | Habitat For Humanity | Homewood Bennett Street Development
Leave a CommentDuring the 2018 Catalytic Grant cycle, we awarded $15,000 to Habitat For Humanity of Greater Pittsburgh to use in the development of 4 new homes on Bennett Street in Homewood. The development project also included homeownership training and a financial literacy course, 30-year 0% interest mortgages, and one-year warranties for 4 first-time homebuyers that would eventually occupy the new houses.
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Neighborhood Allies Expands Communications and Storytelling Capacity with the Addition of New Staff Member Chelsea Contino!
Leave a CommentChelsea Contino joins Neighborhood Allies as the Communications and Outreach Program Coordinator.
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The URA and Neighborhood Allies partner on the Equitable Empowerment Fund to provide technical resources to small scale, community-based developers to respond to the recently released Centre Avenue RFQ
Leave a CommentFind out how to seek assistance with building your RFQ response packet!
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