by Laura Kelley | Feb 4, 2022 | Nutrition
ANYA SOSTEK – Pittsburgh Post Gazette A few weeks ago, Rankin Mayor Joelisa McDonald posted a picture on her mayoral Facebook page of a new concept from Giant Eagle. Once a week, the company would bring to her town a trailer, called the Giant Eagle Mobile Market,...
by Laura Kelley | Feb 2, 2022 | Nutrition
FOOD PODCAST –TribLIVE podcast network On this week’s episode of the Food Podcast, presented by Clearview Federal Credit Union on the TribLIVE podcast network, the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank looks into transportation and how it impacts food access and food...
by Laura Kelley | Feb 1, 2022 | Transportation
PRESS RELEASE –Pittsburgh, PA Heritage Community Initiatives announced today that they have granted 550 free rider cards to the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank, allowing neighbors in need unlimited access to Heritage Community Transportation’s fixed-route...
by Laura Kelley | Jul 29, 2021 | General
NATE DOUGHTY – Pittsburgh Business Times Paula McWilliams would love to be able to fill her 12 open and full-time roles “tomorrow,” but her biggest challenge is finding people to even apply for the positions. As the president & CEO of Heritage Community...
by Laura Kelley | Feb 28, 2021 | Transportation
ED BLAZINA – Pittsburgh Post Gazette For years, Paula McWilliams has understood the value of Heritage Community Transportation through the rides it provides to jobs, medical appointments and grocery stores for residents in disadvantaged communities in the...
by Laura Kelley | Feb 24, 2021 | Transportation
By Nate Doughty – Digital Producer, Pittsburgh Business Times A new economic impact study found the transportation service from the Braddock-based nonprofit organization Heritage Community Initiatives adds more than $14 million in economic value per year to the...
by Laura Kelley | Apr 27, 2020 | Transportation
Table Magazine Forging Forward is a series of eight articles about our region’s recovery and resiliency in the time of COVID, presented with the generous support of the Pittsburgh Foundation. Imagine you have a child with severe asthma. You call your family doctor...
by Laura Kelley | Jun 25, 2018 | Education
Join us for the good of all our kids. Today, we begin collecting petition signatures to get the Allegheny County Children’s Fund on the ballot. Will you join us? Share your support – and your John Hancock – as we create a movement for the biggest ballot initiative in...
by Laura Kelley | Aug 1, 2017 | Nutrition
By Madison Brunner – Located just outside of Pittsburgh, Braddock has the second-highest number of senior citizens living alone and in poverty in Allegheny County. In under-served communities, two of the most vulnerable population groups are older adults and young...
by Laura Kelley | Jul 29, 2017 | Transportation
ED BLAZINA – Pittsburgh Post Gazette eblazina@post-gazette.com In her position overseeing a transportation network that serves 14 mostly disadvantaged communities in the Mon Valley, Paula McWilliams has seen this scenario too many times: Heritage Community...
