celebrations

Signature Festivals

block party | bridges | celebrations | community | culture | identity | image | neighborhoods | tourism

Block Parties bring neighborhoods together, a Bridge Festival puts Pittsburgh on the map.

Tour de Burgh

bikes | celebrations | competition | festival | international | marketing | promotions | race | sports | tour

World-class cycling event that highlights and celebrates the diverse neighborhoods of Pittsburgh

Building Blocks: The All-City Block Party

block party | celebrations | community | culture | diversity | identity | image | neighborhoods | night life

Publish a yearly guide to holding community-building activities through a simple block party form that provides "how to" and ideas

The Lomo: Local Mobile Bar

activities | buses | celebrations | colleges & universities | culture | image | mobile | night life | party

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Bridge Festival

bridges | celebrations | community | culture | fireworks | food | history | image | party | performance | tour

A festival celebrating bridges between communities, generations, and focusing on all the things Pgh is known for using the bridges

Office of Sustainable Development ("Green Dream Machine")

beautification | bikes | buildings | celebrations | community | energy | environment | farm markets | health | industry

Create an agency with a mission to implement and encourage environmentally friendly community projects and lifestyles in individual households

Melody: music education life opportunity dreams youth

arts | celebrations | civic engagement | fundraising | image | mentors | music | public speaking | schools

Promote music and arts in public schools through public speaking. Appeals to students and school board members on emotional and personal level

Engage Pittsburgh is a program of The Sprout Fund, a project of the Tides Center (PA), and is supported by lead contributions from the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation and the Richard King Mellon Foundation.

Additional support for Engage Pittsburgh is provided in part by the Alcoa Foundation, Eden Hall Foundation, Grable Foundation, the Elsie Hillman Foundation, Jewish Healthcare Foundation, and the Pittsburgh Foundation.

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