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TRCF Celebrates 20 Years of Change, not charity!

Please join us on Saturday, February 13, 2010, at The Andy Warhol Museum (117 Sandusky St., Pittsburgh, PA  15212), for our 20th Anniversary Event and Champions of Change Awards!

Hors d'oeuvres, drinks, dessert, and coffee.  Lots of entertainment - Amethyst Bellydance Company, Dreams of Hope, Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School, Mike Stout, Mimi Yahn, the Raging Grannies, and a DJ and dancing after 10:30, in addition to a Social Change Art Show (second floor gallery), and access to the rest of the Warhol.  Rob Rogers, lead editorial cartoonist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, will be the Master of Ceremonies, which will honor our founders, 2009 grantees, and the inaugural Champions of Change Awards.

$50 regular-admission ticket (begins at 7:15 PM)

$100 VIP ticket includes a private, behind-the-scenes tour of the Warhol with its Director, Tom Sokolowski and a private pre-event reception (begins at 6 PM)

$25 Late-Night Special gets you in at 9:30 PM to enjoy the entertainment acts and dancing until midnight.

Please call the office at 412-243-9250 to reserve your spot today!

TRCF Releases 2010 Grant Application

The 2010 Grant Application for TRCF has been released.  Applications are due Friday, February 26, 2010.  Applications must be postmarked or turned into the office by that date (the office will be open until 6 PM to accept applications).

Download your copy of the 2010 application here.

Give to TRCF via the United Way Campaign

TRCF is a Contributor's Choice Agency with the United Way of Allegheny County.  Employees at participating workplaces can now contribute effortlessly by selecting us as their designated charity.  Our Agency Number is 962105.

TRCF is also on both iGive.com and GoodSearch.com!  Start your shopping or searching needs at either website, choose Three Rivers Community Foundation as your charity, and go!

TRCF's "Guide to the G-20" is now available!

Pittsburgh is playing host to the world in September 2009 with the Group of 20 Economic Summit!  Knowing that alternative voices for how the world should run are rarely at the table, TRCF has published a "Guide to the G-20," which lists why some organizing sectors object to the G-20, and a listing of some of the major events going on that week.

Download your copy here!

Hard copies are also available - contact the TRCF office for your copy (or copies!) today (see above for contact information).  TRCF will also be at a number of events during the week of the G-20 to distribute these.

2009 Grantees Announced!

In June 2009, TRCF awarded eleven annual grants grants, four Media Justice Initiative grants, and reported five Special Opportunity Grants to the following organizations, giving away a total of $86,930 for Change, not charity:

Annual Grants:

Black Political Empowerment Project - $4,000 to support its Civic Engagement program, allowing them to continue providing a consistent, locally-based campaign and a trusted community presence as an alternative to national voter efforts that appear and disappear.

Book 'Em - $4,000 to completely overhaul their Pennsylvania Action Directory guide, a 55-page booklet of resources for prisoners and ex-offenders.

Consumer Health Coalition - $4,000 to institute the program “Living Together is an Art,” to foster empowerment and learning for people with disabilities, as well as to advance public dialogue via the arts about disability rights.

Dreams of Hope - $4,000 to support their seventh season.  Dreams of Hope is the first LGBT, questioning, and allies youth performing arts group.  All performance materials are taken from the youth’s life experiences and are written and performed by the youth.  Each show is followed by a candid question and answer period with the audience.

Garfield Community Farm - $4,000 to subsidize an internship program for the summer.  The farm provides job opportunities and local, healthy food to the residents of this blighted neighborhood.

GTECH Strategies - $4,000 to implement a series of lessons at after-school programs to teach youth about environmental and social issues surrounding vacant lots, while allowing them to explore solutions as a way to empower them in their own communities.

In Sisterhood: The Women's Movement in Pittsburgh - $4,000 to record 20 stories on video, in addition to collecting photos and memorabilia, of activists, primarily lesbians, about their involvement in advancing women’s rights in the Pittsburgh region.

Marilyn G. Rabb (MGR) Foundation - $4,000 to hold a city-wide Peace Rally, bringing together students, working with artists of varying media, to express their thoughts, feelings, and visions about violence.  This project encouraged students to be activists for change and agents of peace.

New Voices Pittsburgh: Women of Color for Reproductive Justice - $4,000 for operating support.  NVP is the only human rights and social justice activist organization for, led by, and about women of color in the greater Pittsburgh area.  They build progressive young women of color into political activists and community leaders.

Persad Center - $4,000 to build its After School Program for GLBT youth, who acquired negotiation skills and received leadership training, which will empower a new generation of community activists.

Wilkinsburg Family Support Center Parent Council - $4,000 to establish a Neighborhood Association, which encouraged residents to take ownership of community by keeping it clean.

Special Opportunity Grants:

Garfield Community Farm - $500 to construct a Hoop House, a form of greenhouse, to extend the farm’s growing season.

Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network, Pittsburgh - $500 to put on its first Unified for Youth (U4Y) Conference, a weekend-long event consisting of workshops and discussions on LGBT issues.

Human Rights Coalition, Fed Up! Chapter - $500 to help stage a showing of Hurricane Season, a production of Climbing PoeTree, exploring critical issues facing humanity during Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.

Pittsburgh Anti-Sweatshop Community Alliance - $500 to support travel costs for members to attend a solidarity event in Baltimore and to unite three local colleges to work against sweatshops.

Pittsburgh Dragon Boat Festival - $500 to design new signs and materials after moving the event to correspond with Asian-American Heritage Month.  The festival works to break down stereotypes about people of Asian descent

Media Justice Initiative:

Allegheny County ACORN - $8,000 to assist people living in low-income communities transition to DTV.

Black Political Empowerment Project and Greater Pittsburgh Student Voices - $10,500 to continue their Youth Media Justice Initiative, using findings from youth-conducted local TV news analyses to engage high school students in media policy making.

Just Harvest Education Fund - $14,500 to implement a comprehensive strategy of media outreach and communications on the economic justice issues they address, improving their effectiveness in receiving media coverage, and transmitting skills and knowledge in media relations to their allies.

Pittsburgh Independent Media Center/Rustbelt Radio - $7,500 to expand their community outreach and trainings to new community organizers, with the goal of producing independent, news radio reports on local and global issues of concern for residents of the Greater Pittsburgh area.

TRCF Releases Progressive Pittsburgh 250

In December of 2008, TRCF released an impressive history of Pittsburgh to celebrate the city's 250th birthday.  This history focuses on progressive change that occurred in Southwestern Pennsylvania.  A copy is available for download here, or you can contact the office to receive a hard copy (see contact information above).

TRCF 2008 Reclaim the Vote Grantees Announced

In partnership with the Funding Exchange, TRCF is pleased to announce the recipients of the final year of the Reclaim the Vote Initiative:

Black Political Empowerment Project - $10,000 to continue their Voter Center, funded in past cycles of the Reclaim the Vote Initiative.

Just Harvest Education Fund - $12,000 to work with low-income populations to get them registered to vote, educated about the issues at stake, and mobilizing them to get them to the polls.

PA Center for Women, Politics, and Public Policy - $10,000 to work with New Voices Pittsburgh: Women of Color for Reproductive Justice, to launch the Voice Your Vote campaign.  This campaign was geared towards getting college-age women active in the political process.

United Cerebral Palsy, Pittsburgh - $11,000 to increase the number of people with disabilities who vote through an education and mobilization campaign.

Welcome Center for Immigrants and Internationals - $11,000 to work with legal immigrant populations to get them registered to vote and to help them learn where their voting precincts were. 

TRCF Announces its 2008 Grantees!

In June 2008, TRCF awarded nine grants to the following organizations, giving away a total of $30,825 for change, not charity:

American Friends Service Committee, PA State Program - $3,500 to start the program Alternatives to Military Recruiting, which informs students of local career, job training, and college funding opportunities that are non-military related.

Artists Upstairs - $3,125 for a collaborative exhibit about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, including workshops, speakers, and activities at the Children's Museum.

Dreams of Hope - $4,000 for operating support for this GLBTQ and allies youth performing arts group.  All performance material is taken from the youth's life experiences and are written and performed by the youth, with each show followed by a talkback session with the audience.

Friends of the Pittsburgh Urban Forest - $4,000 to implement programming in Homewood to empower and engage residents to increase tree canopy cover and improve the health of existing trees.

Group Against Smog and Pollution - $4,000 to implement the Pollution Patrol team, made up of Allegheny County residents educated in various air quality issues and trained in the use of air monitoring devices, enabling them to be powerful advocates in their communities.

Marilyn G. Rabb (MGR) Foundation - $4,000 to hold a city-wide Peace Rally, bringing together students, working with artists of varying media, to express their thoughts, feelings, and visions about violence.  This will encourage the students to be activists for change and agents of peace.

New Voices Pittsburgh: Women of Color for Reproductive Justice - $4,000 for operating support to develop a sustainable local organization and movement for reproductive justice.

Pittsburgh Cares - $2,000 to launch the Pittsburgh Young Leaders Academy, which is designed to build bridges across the region between high school youth from suburban, urban, and rural communities while empowering them to take action in areas where they desire change.

Rainbow Rising - $2,200 to continue their efforts to market their GLBT coffeehouse and activities to a broader community.

TRCF 2008 Media Justice Grantees Announced

TRCF, in partnership with the Funding Exchange, awarded four Media Justice Initiative grants in April, 2008.  They were:

Black Political Empowerment Project - $5,450 for implementing a program to involve students in analysis of local TV news coverage of youth, youth of color, and issues pertaining to youth, with findings to be presented to media executives.

Council of American Islamic Relations, Pittsburgh - $6,000 for a comprehensive program encompassing workshops on racial and ethnic phobias in America and the constitutional rights of both media and citizens; a toolkit to enable responses to media attacks; and the production of a DVD and study guide by Muslim youth to be used in educational facilitites.

Innocence Institute at Point Park University - $5,000 to bring attention to the issue of life-without-parole sentences for juvenile offenders.

Just Harvest Education Fund - $11,000 for the Amplify Justice Media Project, which will assist grassroots organizations in becoming reliable, credible, and effective constituency spokespersons to news media outlets.

Congratulations to these grantees!  We expect to hear great things from you!