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Foundation Awards More Than $2.5 Million in Special Funding to Help Pittsburgh’s Downtown Performing-Arts Organizations to Overcome Daunting Challenges

Posted on February 26, 2024 (March 12, 2024) by [email protected]

PITTSBURGH (Feb. 26, 2024) – Pittsburgh’s Downtown performing-arts organizations are essential pillars in the region’s quality of life and its economy. But, like their counterparts across the nation, Pittsburgh’s performing-arts organizations are under significant stress. The national crisis facing the performing arts has been documented by The New York Times and others. Attendance plummeted during the […]

A New Steelers Field for
Kids in Hazelwood Green

Posted on December 14, 2023 (December 14, 2023) by [email protected]

Pittsburgh Steelers announce new community field and youth-recreation complex at Hazelwood Green; state-of-the art facility, to be developed by Tishman Speyer, will serve young people in Hazelwood and across the region Richard King Mellon Foundation awards $10 million for construction PITTSBURGH (Dec. 14, 2023) – The Pittsburgh Steelers today announced an historic expansion of their […]

Richard King Mellon Foundation Announces Disaster-Relief Assistance for Hawai’i after Maui Wildfire

Posted on September 5, 2023 (September 5, 2023) by [email protected]

PITTSBURGH (Sept. 5, 2023) – The Richard King Mellon Foundation today announced $1 million in grants to support recovery efforts on Maui after the tragic August 8 wildfire there. At least 115 people were killed in the wildfires, and others still are missing. Historic Lāhainā in Western Maui largely was destroyed by the wildfire. “As the […]

Foundation Announces Another
Million-Dollar Social-Impact Pitch Competition

Posted on August 8, 2023 (September 6, 2023) by [email protected]

Today’s tight capital markets make philanthropic investmentsin socially focused for-profit companies even more important PITTSBURGH (August 8, 2023) – The Richard King Mellon Foundation today announced another $1 million social-impact Pitch Competition in its ongoing program to find and fund for-profit companies that prioritize positive social impact as well as profitability. “It is a challenging time […]

Catherine Walker Joins Richard King Mellon Foundation as Prosser Mellon Fellow

Posted on May 10, 2023 (May 15, 2023) by [email protected]

Accomplished performer will advise Foundation on its arts-and-culture economic-development grantmaking PITTSBURGH (May 10, 2023) – The Richard King Mellon Foundation announced today that Catherine Walker – an accomplished Broadway performer who studied at Carnegie Mellon University – has agreed to serve as the Foundation’s newest Prosser Mellon Fellow. In her role as a Fellow, Walker will […]

Two Foundations Collaborate
Once Again to Offer Sabbaticals
to Nonprofit Executives

Posted on March 8, 2023 (March 8, 2023) by [email protected]

Research shows that three-month leaves give veteran nonprofit executives restorative breaks, and create greater organizational capacity PITTSBURGH (March 8, 2023) – The McCune Foundation and the Richard King Mellon Foundation once again have joined forces to offer sabbaticals to local nonprofit executives. “Nonprofits perform essential and often heroic work in our communities, and strong leadership […]

Helping Today’s Workforce, and Tomorrow’s to Benefit from the
New-Economy Jobs

Posted on February 15, 2023 (February 15, 2023) by [email protected]

Two new Requests for Proposals issued today Foundation is prepared to award up to $4 million in grants for compelling proposals PITTSBURGH (February 15, 2023) – The Richard King Mellon Foundation today is issuing two new Requests for Proposals (RFPs) to help more people in our region to benefit from the new-economy jobs that are […]

Winners of 2nd Social-Impact Pitch Competition Announced

Posted on February 7, 2023 (July 31, 2023) by [email protected]

Four winners – one from each of the Foundation’s four Program Areas Resilient Lifescience wins $500,000 first prize PITTSBURGH (February 7, 2023) – The Richard King Mellon Foundation today announced the winners of its second Social-Impact Investment Pitch Competition – its latest effort to invest in for-profit companies with social missions that have the potential […]