More than 200,000 service members transition out of the armed force into the civilian workforce each year. Despite their highly-valued skill sets, more than half struggle with employment – including under-employment – after leaving the military. Read the Atlanta Journal-Constitution op-ed to learn more about why this moment in time is a critical crossroads for our country’s veterans.
Read the op-ed and learn moreThe Heinz Endowments has started the new year by reaffirming its commitment to the Sarah Heinz House. The Endowments’ board of directors has approved two significant grants totaling $3.05 million to fund capital improvements and increase community outreach, ensuring the 120-year-old organization remains a center of support for families on Pittsburgh’s North Side and across the city.
Learn more about the future plans for Sarah Heinz HouseThe final 2024 issue of h magazine cemented the new look of its digital and print versions. Stories featured include an article on the growing number of southwestern Pennsylvania projects that received Inflation Reduction Act funding along with some Endowments support; another on foundation-funded guidebooks that helped prepare incoming Pittsburgh and Allegheny County administrations; and a third on the Endowments’ increased investments in workforce development for local youth and young adults who would benefit from the support.
h Magazine Issue 2, 2024The Heinz Endowments seeks to help our region thrive as a whole and just community and, through that work, to model solutions to major national and global challenges. We are devoted to advancing our vision of southwestern Pennsylvania as a vibrant center of creativity, learning, and social, economic, and environmental sustainability. Our work is supported by reliable data based on equitable, results-focused goals to cultivate a world where all are treated with fairness and respect and have the opportunity to reach their fullest potential.
Learn MoreWith grantmaking that averages almost $90 million annually, The Heinz Endowments is among the leading foundations in the United States. The impact of our grants lies in the possibilities they create, the critical need they address and the transformative change they help to bring about. Every grant listed here is part of that mission.
Apply For A GrantThe Heinz Endowments has contributed $750,000 toward POGOH’s $5.7 million project to significantly increase bikeshare access across the Pittsburgh region. The expansion will add 50 new stations, giving more than 80,000 people access to charged electric POGOH bikes within a half mile of their homes. Forty percent of the new stations will be in economically challenged communities.
A new, first-of-its-kind study of veteran-serving, employment-focused nonprofits shows the essential role the nonprofit sector plays in supporting the 150,000 service members who reintegrate into civilian life each year.
Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh has awarded $1.2 million in new grants to 24 individual artists, collectives and arts organizations. This is the second year the program funded by The Pittsburgh Foundation & the Endowments has provided two-year grants for project-specific support.
Nonprofits, government and non-governmental organizations, and philanthropies with deep connections to the Pittsburgh region are offering a variety of programs to guide and simplify the processes for accessing support for clean energy projects, creating infrastructure that has played a major role in providing nearly $1 billion in clean energy funding for Pennsylvania over the past 18 months.
Acclaimed artist & co-founder of multidisciplinary art collective Rainbow Serpent, Marques Redd is helping create the future of art by reviving ancient – & often erased – traditions. By uplifting Black LGBTQ creativity & culture through exploration of emerging technologies, innovative healing protocols, African cosmologies & multimedia art, he is sparking important dialogue & reconsideration of the Western artistic canon.
The $10 million Pittsburgh Cultural Treasures Initiative (PCTI), launched by the Endowments and the Ford and POISE foundations, is wrapping up its grantmaking with a collection of grants to 50 Black arts organizations, artist collectives and individual artists. The awards totaling $505,000 mark the first time individual artists have been direct recipients of PCTI funding.
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