neighborhoods

The Living Broom

beautification | cleaning | community | competition | greening | image | litter | neighborhoods | pride

Encourage community pride through environmental consciousness. Give every shop owner a broom to sweep in front of their shop and neighbors' if needed. Before and after pictures would be taken. Competition between neighbors with prizes awarded by local officials when someone is seen sweeping.

Get Out Of Oakland

amenities | awareness | buses | central | colleges & universities | donate | history | image | neighborhoods

[Overview needed]

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

Habitat 4 Creativity

arts | collaboration | community space | education | funding | housing | neighborhoods | planning | studio

[Overview needed]

New Faces Campaign

advocacy | arts district | circuses | civic engagement | education | forums | media | neighborhoods | politics | students

[Overview needed]

Preservation / Repurposing

beautification | bike parking | bricks and mortar | development | low income | neighborhoods | recycling | redd up

Take old buildings and remodel for new uses

Bob's Bean

café | civic engagement | community | neighborhoods | networking | politics | town hall meeting | web-based

Follow Bob into communities: traveling civic coffee truck and net cafe

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

Top Stop

buses | competition | energy | interactive | mapping | media | neighborhoods | one-stop | public transportation

Interactive source for information located at bus stops

West End Wanderings

collaboration | culture | history | low income | neighborhoods | revitalization | storefronts | west

Using abandoned storefronts in the West End to display art work that reflects the neighborhood history

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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