Play it Forward Pittsburgh assists families in offering brighter holidays to children by through an annual toy drive, collecting gently used items and giving them away free to families in need. Play it Forward Pittsburgh is 100% donation driven. Every item collected is given away and every dollar raised goes directly to support the [...]
PASA works to improve the environmental soundness, social responsibility, and economic viability of food and farming systems in Pennsylvania and beyond. In existence since 1992, PASA, Sustainable Agriculture is a diverse network of growers, businesses, and consumers that facilitates and enables viable farming systems to provide healthy food as locally as possible through innovative [...]
In 2017, The Animal Rescue League Shelter & Wildlife Center and Western Pennsylvania Humane Society have become Humane Animal Rescue merged and are now Humane Animal Rescue. Their open door policy ensures that no animal is ever refused shelter. The non-profit provides care to abandoned, neglected, and injured animals, including injured, orphaned, or ill [...]
Jeremiah’s Place works to protect children and strengthen families by providing a safe haven of respite, health, renewal, and support during times of crisis. As Western PA's only emergency childcare facility, Jeremiah’s Place serves families who are experiencing medical or mental health emergencies, and helps families experiencing homelessness get back on their feet by [...]
Bike Pittsburgh is transforming our streets and communities into vibrant, healthy places by making them safe and accessible for people to bike and walk. Bike Pittsburgh provides on-the-bike education for people of all ages and incomes, and organizes OpenStreetsPGH, Pittsburgh’s fastest-growing free event series that opens miles of streets to people of all ages [...]
Grow Pittsburgh is an urban agriculture organization whose mission is to teach people how to grow food and promote the benefits gardens bring to our neighborhoods. They grow food and seedlings at three urban farm production sites, which also serve as educational hubs and work sites for youth and young adult workforce development programs. [...]
Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse is a non-profit that inspires creativity, conservation, and community engagement through reuse. Register Round Up funds will facilitate education on the environmental, social and personal benefits of reuse through hands-on creative programming offered in economically disadvantaged communities.
As the region’s only mentoring program designed to serve girl-identified teen writers, Girls Write Pittsburgh utilizes the craft of creative writing as the tool for encouraging self-empowerment, growth, and discovery. Register Round Up funds will provide opportunities for teens to write, publish, read in public spaces, and work with professional writers in the community. [...]
Rebuilding Together Pittsburgh believes everyone deserves to live in a safe and healthy home. That is why they provide low-income homeowners with critical home repairs, accessibility modifications, and energy-efficient upgrades. Over 25 years, they’ve completed more than 2,300 projects that have transformed the lives of low-income homeowners by improving the safety and health of [...]
Global Links is a medical relief and development organization dedicated to supporting health improvement initiatives in resource-poor communities and promoting environmental stewardship in the US healthcare system since 1989. Global Links captures unused, unexpired surplus medical supplies from healthcare facilities in and around Pittsburgh, keeping them out of landfills and redirecting them to those [...]