low income

Community Use Space

bricks and mortar | low income | mentors | neighborhoods | outreach | revitalization | space | youth

Safe, Open and Useful Sites in Urban Communities

Graffiti Museum

alternative transportation | beautification | books | bricks and mortar | final report | graffiti | low income | museum | museums

Safe haven for taggers/artists, museums without walls is a place for graffiti artists to express themselves on designated places for graffiti art

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

Pittsburgh Artists Coming Together (PACT)

art | artists | co-op | housing | low income | mapping | mixed-use | one-stop

Collaborative of local artists of all genres, "one-stop-shop" centrally located downtown - one building

Rehabitat

alternative | buildings | co-housing | co-op | collaboration | DIY | education | energy | housing | low income

Rehabilitate houses in low to moderate income neighborhoods by employing youth and out-of-work adults to do renovation and then providing homes to the community to live in and own.

With IN ____

bikes | bricks and mortar | food | grocery | information | low income | mixed-use | neighborhoods | restaurants

[Overview needed]

Street Smart

advocacy | arts | awareness | buses | colleges & universities | education | food | health | homelessness | lifestyles | low income

Convey information to homeless individuals on small wallet-sized cards

Bribe To Stay

block party | colleges & universities | entrepreneurial | internships | local business | low income | mentors

Entrepreneurial effort to educate and fund high school students to start their own local businesses in lieu of going to college or provide scholarship to attend a local college

Discards for $$ and Development

aging | brainstorming | clean up | community | education | job training | low income | recycling | redd up | reuse

[Overview needed]

Art Always

low income | music | neighborhoods | outdoor space | parks | performance | performance space | public art

Public art performance spaces in the city and parks for artists to create and perform in

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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