youth

Youth at the Table

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

Board service, mentorship, and decisionmaking experience for young leaders

Sustainable Urban Farming Initiative

community | environment | gardens | health | neighborhoods | resources | schools | vacant land | youth

Reclaim vacant lots and unused land to support healthy community gardens

Mix Burgh

community | diversity | education | generational | interviews | online | radio | tv | web-based | youth

Documenting Pittsburgh’s immigrant history

Community Use Space

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

Safe, Open and Useful Sites in Urban Communities

Academy of the South Side

arts | bricks and mortar | education | painting | South | students | workshops | youth

Start a painters' resource in Pittsburgh by teaching classes, holding workshops, and importing cutting edge artists from other regions to give demonstrations and improve arts education.

The Anytime Lounge

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

[Overview needed]

Sexercise

alternative sexuality | education | health | policy | politics | quality of life | sexuality | youth

Providing sex education to the Pittsburgh community

Da Club

multi-use | one-stop | safety | space | youth

[Overview needed]

Mix Burgh

aging | diversity | education | elderly | generational | interviews | online | radio | tv | web-based | youth

[Overview needed]

Hop-Skip Farm Kids

advocacy | alternative | education | farms | gardens | media | programming | schools | tv | youth

Half hour children's TV show about urban farms based and taped in Pgh shown nationally. Coordinated with local organizations, schools and the Organization of Farming Urbanites, to start farming and educational facilities

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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