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The Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research was founded in 2004 with the mission to facilitate interdisciplinary research that will help to change the way the world thinks and acts about our environment. The SEER grants seed funding for innovative projects that support the mission but are unique and need a initial 'boost' to get started. | |
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The STUDIO for Creative Inquiry which receives funding from the Carnegie Mellon College of Fine Arts and receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. | |
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The Sprout Fund is nonprofit organization supporting innovative ideas and grassroots community projects that are catalyzing change in Pittsburgh. Each of The Sprout Fund's programs, Seed Award and Public Art, is designed to advance a community initiative from idea through dialogue to implementation, creating a critical mass of activity for positive regional change. Sprout believes a vital component to building healthy and vibrant communities is civic engagement; serving those who demonstrate the drive and the capacity to think creatively about their communities. With ongoing local support and continued appreciation by the communities it serves, The Sprout Fund will continue to provide an entry point for Pittsburghers to become involved and active in their communities and support projects that have the collective power to shape a new culture and vision for the region |
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Ingram Barge Company is the leading carrier on America's inland waterways. Their principal strengths include dynamic people, leading-edge systems, and commitment to quality. Ingram operates nearly 4,000 barges powered by the best towboat fleet in the industry. With over 100 linehaul vessels ranging up to 10,500 horsepower and approximately 40 boats under 1800 horsepower, Ingram can accommodate a wide array of shipping needs. They transport cargoes including coal, grain, aggregates, fertilizer, ores, alloys, steel products, and chemicals. |
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Supported in part by a Ford Fund contribution to Carnegie Mellon University. The Ford Fund supports innovative research at Carnegie Mellon and other universities. | |
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The Mayor of Braddock, John Fetterman. As mayor, Fetterman's emphasis is threefold: improving the quality of life for the young people in Braddock, attracting the kind of outside energy, ideas, and interest from the artistic, urbanist, and creative communities, and subverting the $2.5 billion Mon-Fayette Expressway designed to run through the middle of Braddock. | |
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For more than a decade, National Wildlife Federation's Campus Ecology Program has been helping transform the nation's college and university campuses into living models of an ecologically sustainable society, and training a new generation of environmental leaders. Campus Ecology supports and promotes positive and practical conservation projects on campus and beyond to protect wildlife by restoring habitat and slowing global warming. | |
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The Port of Pittsburgh Commission endeavours to promote the commercial and industrial uses of the inland waterway system in southwestern Pennsylvania for the betterment of the economic vitality of the region. It also strives to leverage funding for improvement and upgrading of the waterway infrastructure (locks and dams), and it works with local groups to integrate commercial use of the rivers with recreational use and with beautification of the waterfronts. The Port Commission also initiates various projects that aim to advance the utilization of technology in the waterway industry, such as SmartLock; and projects beneficial to the community such as the River Shuttle. |
Mom and Dad, Bill C., Uncle Michael and Aunt Ellen, Louise, J. and Martha, Aunt Gretchen, Uncle Michael and Aunt Linda, Cary and Bill, Bob B., Renee, Uncle Matt and Aunt Donna, Pat and Vince
