Transportation service from Heritage Community Initiatives adds over $14 million annually to regional economy, economic impact study finds.
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...
Forging Forward: Going the Distance
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...
Support Our Children’s Continued Learning and Education: Sign the Allegheny County Children’s Fund Initiative Petition Today!
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...
Young and Old Bond Through Summer Nutrition Program, Games and Activities
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...
Braddock Program Acts as Transportation Concierge
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...
Feature Story, Critcal Condition, A signature fundraising program generates a record-breaking $1.27 million to nonprofits providing basic needs, like affordable transportation.
James Alexander is one of 6,000 people per month who rely on transportation assistance from Heritage Community Initiatives to run errands and get to work and medical appointments. By Mackenzie Carpenter, Freelance Journalist based in Pittsburgh MOST OF THE TIME, a...
Critical Needs Alert, which replaces Day of Giving, Set for May 23
MICHAEL MACHOSKY – NEXTPITTSBURGH Jeremiah's Place--A young boy, whose mother is in an abusive relationship, plays on the imaginarium in the nursery. Photo by Joshua Franzos for The Pittsburgh Foundation. Food stamps aren't actually stamps anymore. SNAP (Supplemental...