Pittsburgh Mercy Health System

2010

Amani Christian Community Development Corporation

$10,000 to green and beautify vacant, blighted properties in the Upper Hill District.

Catholic Health East Global Health Ministry

$5,000 toward rebuilding Hospital St. Francis de Sales in Port-au-Prince in Haiti.

Catholic Relief Services

$5,000 for the Haitian Emergency Relief fund.

Center for Hearing and Deaf Services

$30,000 to further develop and maintain a website that will deliver physical and mental health information in English, close captioning, and video-streamed American Sign Language for persons who are deaf, deaf-blind, and hard of hearing.

GTECH Strategies

$37,580 to launch the Francis Street Community Garden and Farm at the former Bedford Dwelling site at Bedford and Francis Street in the Hill District. This project is a collaboration of GTECH, Grow Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh Housing Authority, the A Philip Randolph Institute, and the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank to reclaim a large vacant lot in the Hill District and return it to productive use. The Francis Street project will consist of an urban farm, community vegetable garden, sunflower garden, wildflower garden, pumpkin patch, and farmer’s market. Four youth from the community will be hired to work with the farm manager during the summer to learn farm systems management.

Martin Luther King Reading and Cultural Center

$10,000 for strategic planning.

The Pittsburgh Foundation for the Jail Collaborative

$5,000 to support this community-wide, collaborative effort to build a comprehensive system of supports for parents incarcerated in the Allegheny County Jail. This initiative will change the systems of arrest, communication, family visitation, community and family re-integration, and post-release support with the goal of strengthening the families of ex-offenders and reducing recidivism.

Pittsburgh Mercy Health System Development Office for Mercy Behavioral Health

$7,000 to expand Dancing Classrooms to two schools in the Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese-St. Agnes and St. Benedict the Moor schools.

Sisters of Mercy of the Americas New York, Pennsylvania, Pacific West Community

$1,000 toward rebuilding the Holy Cross School in the Philippines which was damaged by a devastating fire.

University of Pittsburgh

$10,000 for STANDING FIRM, a collaborative initiative designed to encourage employers to recognize the impact of partner violence; to respond appropriately to improve worker safety; and to refer employees to community resources for further assistance.

Uptown Partners of Pittsburgh

$15,000 for the creation of a mosaic sign and three-dimensional sculpture at the intersection of Fifth Avenue, the Birmingham Bridge, and Kirkpatrick Street. The artist will work with a group of teens from the Hill House Association's Youth Service Program and refugees from the Refugee Service program of Jewish Family and Children's Services to create this public art.

2009

A Child's Place at Mercy

$27,400 to support the operations of A Child's Place at Mercy.

August Wilson Center for African American Culture

$50,000 to provide 500 charter memberships during the inaugural year of the August Wilson Center for African American Culture. The grant will reach approximately 800 persons in the Hill District, Uptown, and West Oakland by providing memberships, access to events, artists' appearances and tours of the Center.

Bethlehem Haven of Pittsburgh

$40,000 for a rapid re-housing program that will help homeless women and women at-risk for homelessness to secure and maintain stable, appropriate housing.

Carlow University

$364,000 over three years to establish the Mercy Center for Service, a campus-wide, collaborative center that will promote student service, institutionalize service-learning, and provide the infrastructure to support community outreach.

Carnegie Science Center

$40,000 for Mission Discovery, an out-of-school science program for middle school students and their families in the Hill District.

Center that C.A.R.E.S.

$75,000 to engage 100 middle and high-school youth from the Hill District in workshops, lectures, and field trips to cultural and historical venues, and visits to college and university campuses.

Consumer Health Coalition

$32,000 over two years to assist uninsured individuals and families in the Hill District, Uptown, and West Oakland access publicly-funded health insurance programs and public health resources such as mammogram voucher and pharmaceutical assistance programs.

Friendship Community Presbyterian Church

$11,500 for community engagement and an assessment of West Oakland and Oak Hill. The assessment will identify the community's needs, identify existing resources and gaps, outline the most pressing needs, and determine strategies for providing relevant programming at the 200/202 Robinson Street site.

Healthy Home Resources

$150,000 over three years to reach 75 children with asthma to reduce or eliminate asthma triggers and decrease asthma symptoms for the child.

Hill Community Development Corporation

$25,000 for a redevelopment planning process that will identify a financially-viable reuse of the New Granada Theater on Centre Avenue in the Hill District.

Hill District Neighborhood Partnership Program

$250,000 to support a collaborative effort by community development and social service providers based in the Hill District to 1) close the racial academic achievement gap; 2) prevent violence and substance abuse; 3) rehabilitate the homes of low-income, senior homeowners to stabilize Hill District neighborhoods and prevent vacancy and abandoned properties; 4) provide financial literacy programs to help increase the financial security of low-income residents and avoid predatory lending.

Hill House Association: Ujamaa Marketplace

$180,000 to support The Ujamaa Collective, a group of African American women entrepreneurs and artists with a shared vision of creating a platform for advancing self-sufficiency and entrepreneurship. This project will fund entrepreneurship training and the creation an open air community marketplace in the Hill District, envisioned as a vibrant, outdoor shopping destination offering quality goods including distinctive arts and crafts, body care products, handmade jewelry, custom clothing, and healthy foods.

The Intersection

$7,000 to provide transportation to low-income persons who need to access medical care, employment, education/training, and social service appointments.

Lydia's Place

$46,000 for strategic planning, board and staff development, information technology, fundraising for children's programming, and an analysis of the feasibility for establishing transitional, supportive housing for addicted female offenders.

Mercy Outreach Ministries

$5,000 for Mercy Neighborhood Ministries. Mercy Neighborhood Ministries serves West Oakland families by assisting with financial emergencies, such as lack of food and risk of utility shutoff.

Oak Hill Residents Council

$43,875 for consulting support to the Oak Hill Council during Phase II construction of market-rate and low-income apartments, townhouses, and single-family homes, and renovation of a community and recreational facility. Additional funding of $5,225 will be used for an organic community garden in collaboration with Landslide Community Farm.

Oakland Planning and Development Corporation

$25,000 to construct classrooms and a mock hospital room to train low-income persons to become home health aides and certified nurse assistants.

Operation Safety Net®

$49,700 to implement a national model known as HELP (Homeless Experience Legal Protection). OSN will collaborate with the Allegheny County Bar Association and local attorneys to provide free legal assistance to approximately 90 homeless clients.

Ozanam, Inc.

$25,000 to implement a tutoring component to this after-school and summer basketball program in collaboration with Wireless Neighborhoods.

The Pittsburgh Foundation - Neighbor-Aid

An additional $25,000 to strengthen the region's safety net for families and individuals facing hardship.

Pittsburgh Partnership for Neighborhood Development

$45,000 to support a consultant to advise Uptown Partners of Pittsburgh on development projects.

The Salvation Army

$1,875 to Project Bundle-Up to provide new winter outerwear to 25 children and seniors from the Hill District, Uptown, or West Oakland.

Sisters Place

$25,000 grant to fund ongoing children's programming and social services in this supportive housing community committed to assisting single parent, homeless families achieve self-sufficiency.

United Way of Allegheny County

$40,000 toward the Summer Youth Violence Prevention and Community Service Project, targeting teens and young adults in the Hill District and West Oakland.

YouthPlaces

$192,540 over two years for YouthPlaces sites in the Upper Hill and West Oakland to provide safe, out-of-school wellness, writing, and career development programs to 100 youth.

2008

A Child's Place at Mercy

$26,100 for the Parent and Baby Project, an initiative designed to prevent shaken baby syndrome.

Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank

$20,000 for food pantries in the Hill District, Uptown, and West Oakland to meet the escalating demand for food resulting from the economic crisis.

Hill House Association

$44,000 for staffing, consultants, and offices to support neighborhood development and management of projects resulting from the Hill District community benefits agreement.

The Intersection

$5,000 to meet the escalating demand for food as a result of the economic crisis.

Jubilee Kitchen

$5,000 to meet the escalating demand for food as a result of the economic crisis.

Mercy Parish Nurse and Health Ministry Program

$20,000 for strategic planning.

Operation Safety Net®

$29,250 for the transitional housing component of the Allegheny Engagement Network which targets the area's chronic homeless population.

The Pittsburgh Foundation - Neighbor-Aid

$20,000 to meet the escalating demand for essential services, such as food, housing, utilities, and transportation.

Uptown Partners of Pittsburgh

$75,000 over three years in support of staffing and consultants for grant-writing, community development projects, membership recruitment and communications.

YMCA of Greater Pittsburgh

$500,000 over three years to support construction of the new Thelma Lovette YMCA in the Hill District. The grant will support the green rooftop terrace which will provide a site for outdoor recreation.