civic engagement

Youth at the Table

civic engagement | education | generational | leadership | mentors | politics | town hall meeting | youth

Board service, mentorship, and decisionmaking experience for young leaders

Community Exchange Club

café | civic engagement | neighborhoods | networking | night life | politics | social | town hall meeting

A Traveling Monthly Social Club

Adopt-A-Stop

action | arts | beautification | civic engagement | cleaning | education | environment | image | litter

Community Bus Shelter Design Competition

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

Progressive Pittsburgh

art | civic engagement | collaboration | dining | food | image | neighborhoods | night life | politics

Monthly dining club with art and political themes with the goal to bring attention to local restaurants and artists; using food to experience art and civic involvement

Pittsburgh Information Gap

civic engagement | community | hub | information | networking | one-stop | revitalization | small business

Establish an organization to bring small businesses and organizations to web by using starter web pages. Establish a portal web site that automatically aggregates information from these new/existing web sites.

Bumper Debates

boats | civic engagement | debates | politics | rivers

[Overview needed]

Pittsburgh Flats

buildings | city property | civic engagement | co-housing | community | housing | life-work balance | low income

Provide affordable co-housing option to young, pre home-owning professionals

Speak Up

advocacy | civic engagement | collaboration | community | forums | neighborhoods | politics | urban

[Overview needed]

Living the Vision

awareness | brainstorming | civic engagement | co-op | community | government | identity | image | metropolitan

Lead the development of a city-wide identity

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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