mentors

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 Use Space

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

Safe, Open and Useful Sites in Urban Communities

The Anytime Lounge

24/7 | bricks and mortar | café | community | education | meeting place | mentors | music | theatre | youth

[Overview needed]

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

Youth at the Table

alternative | awareness | civic engagement | education | generational | leadership | mentors | politics

[Overview needed]

The Real Real World

careers | local talent | mentors | professional development | schools | training | youth

[Overview needed]

Project Exposure

artists | bricks and mortar | collaboration | community | low income | mentors | neighborhoods | outreach

Provide a cultural/community center in underserved areas utilizing empty or abandoned buildings, and using music, performance and art to draw in youth and foster community relations

Space for Kids and Teens

activities | after school | buildings | Downtown | mentors | neighborhoods | safety | schools | technology

A space downtown for kids and teens to hang out that is run by kids and teens: smaller centers may be located in the different neighborhoods

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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