Spring 2006 Annual Report Issue of H Magazine

ANNUAL REPORT ISSUE

RAISING THE BAR A new leader and vision for the Pittsburgh Public Schools

CITY DESIGNERS CAREER PREP MOM-CARE WORKERS ARTISTS UNION SAVING SLOPES inside

Founded more than four decades Our fields of emphasis include apart, the Howard Heinz Endowment, philanthropy in general and the established in 1941, and the Vira I. disciplines represented by our grant Heinz Endowment, established in 1986, making programs: Arts & Culture; are the products of a deep family Children, Youth & Families; Innovation commitment to community and the Economy; Education; and the common good that began with Environment. These five programs H. J. Heinz and continues to this day. work together on behalf of three shared The Heinz Endowments is based in organizational goals: enabling Pittsburgh, where we use our region southwestern Pennsylvania to embrace as a laboratory for the development and realize a vision of itself as a of solutions to challenges that are premier place both to live and to work; national in scope. Although the majority making the region a center of quality of our giving is concentrated within learning and educational opportunity; southwestern Pennsylvania, we work and making diversity and inclusion wherever necessary, including statewide defining elements of the region’s and nationally, to fulfill our mission. character. That mission is to help our region thrive as a whole community — economically, ecologically, educationally and culturally — while advancing the state of knowledge and practice in the fields in which we work.

h magazine is a publication of The Heinz Endowments. At the Endowments, we are committed to promoting learning in philanthropy and in the specific fields represented by our grant making programs. As an expression of that commitment, this publication is intended to share information about significant lessons and insights we are deriving from our work. Editorial team Linda Bannon, Linda Braund, Maxwell King, Carmen Lee, Maureen Marinelli, Grant Oliphant, Douglas Root. Design: Landesberg Design About the cover As the new Pittsburgh Public Schools superintendent, Mark Roosevelt has a list of tasks ahead in his quest to turn the school district around. Several are already board-approved, but whether they can improve student performance remains to be seen. Cover photography Ric Evans 6 Thriving by Design Pittsburgh civic leaders get tips from Chattanooga on how to design a bustling city. 12 Pizza with extra cheese, olives, sausage, onions, pepperoni (and a career) Career education programs take on a new look and energy to prepare high school students for jobs in the 21st century.

Volume 6 Number 2 Annual Report Issue 18 Mothering the Mother Women known as “doulas” are helping to increase healthy births among mothers in Pittsburgh’s eastern communities. 24 Class Act Mark Roosevelt’s arrival as Pittsburgh’s new school superintendent follows a big push by local foundations to improve public education in the city. 32 Artistic Vision The merger of Pittsburgh Filmmakers and the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts brings the center back to life and offers a brighter future. 38 Hillside Story With foundation support, two community groups have developed strategies for preserving Pittsburgh’s hillsides.

2 Feedback 3 Messages 44 Financial Summary 45 The Year in Review 46 2005 Grants 58 In Tribute 60 History 61 Boards of Directors and Staff Mothering, page 18 feedback

Our Winter 2006 issue featured Pittsburgh-area foundations’ collaboration with county agencies and faith-based organizations to help southwestern Pennsylvanians rebuild lives and livelihoods torn apart by Hurricane Ivan in 2004. We also looked at how the Tech-Link Program of Pittsburgh helps students with disabilities learn about careers in science and technology.

A Flood of Help community and a desire to help others. We h Recognized with Awards After years in Pittsburgh philanthropy, I have need to draw on these assets in good times The stories in h feature the people served by seen how the generosity of our community, and hard times to maximize our effectiveness The Heinz Endowments. We believe quality and the strength and engagement of the and uphold this wonderful tradition. work by our grantees deserves quality display. So time and care is put into crafting descrip- region’s nonprofit and government sectors, Gerri Kay tions and explanations, and capturing the comes to the fore in times of crisis. So it was Vice President for Program and Policy essence of stories with photographs and especially appropriate that Jeffery Fraser The Pittsburgh Foundation illustrations. captured this so well in his article “A Flood When any of these efforts is given special of Help.” commendation, we feel it’s only right to recog- His excellent report on the strong local Abling the Disabled nize within the magazine those individuals response to the devastation and despair In the Winter 2006 issue story “‘Abling’ the whose talents helped to further highlight work caused by the effects of flooding by the rem- Disabled,” Carmen Lee and Rob Quinn do the Endowments supports. This year the foundation and several contributing writers for h nants of Hurricane Ivan in September 2004 a great job of telling Tech-Link Pittsburgh’s story, but the last sentence best explains our achieved the following honors: shined a spotlight on the broad community The Heinz Endowments received the Gold goal of helping young people with disabilities involvement in the relief effort, including Award in the magazine/periodical category of foundations, corporations, government, the themselves become “role models and leaders the 2006 Wilmer Shields Rich Awards Program local community, nonprofit organizations, in addressing the challenges the disabled live for Excellence in Communications. Sponsored churches, businesses and individuals. with daily.” by the Council on Foundations, this national This scale of collaboration and cooperation As head of Carnegie Mellon University’s awards program recognizes effective use of created a synergy and an effectiveness that Medical Robotics Center and a member of communications to increase public awareness of philanthropy. organizations or government working alone the Tech-Link board, I’ve been encouraged by The Heinz Endowments’ support of Tech-Link Howard Heinz Endowment Chair Teresa cannot achieve. In the case of Hurricane Ivan, Heinz and freelance writers Christine O’Toole and of medical robotics at Carnegie Mellon, the partnership with the Allegheny County and Jeffery Fraser were honored with awards Department of Economic Development, which has been instrumental in helping at the 42nd Annual Golden Quill Contest. which developed and administered the grants us create new bridges to colleagues at the Managed by the Press Club of Western and loans program for businesses, brought University of Pittsburgh. One of those con- Pennsylvania, the competition identified the valuable knowledge and expertise, resources nections has resulted in a partnership with best journalism in the region from last year. and enhanced relevance to the relief effort. Pitt’s School of Health and Rehabilitation Heinz was recognized for a collection of mes- But the sad fact is that, despite all this Sciences; that partnership was recently sage essays; Fraser for his story, “Sacred Ground,” which reported on the foundations’ help, many businesses have failed to bounce awarded a highly prestigious and extremely key role in the Flight 93 Memorial in southwest- competitive grant for a National Science back, and some family homes remain unin- ern Pennsylvania; and O’Toole for her piece, habitable. In many cases, the small businesses Foundation Engineering Research Center. “Higher Fidelity,” on the growth of Pittsburgh’s in the areas worst affected by the flooding The center’s focus will be a new genera- independent community radio station, WYEP. provided the means of support for those tion of technologies aimed at enabling people Communications Officer Carmen J. Lee same families, potentially dealing a crippling with disabilities and older adults. Tech-Link and freelance writer Barry Alfonso won a blow to local community life. is a key partner to this new Quality of Life Robert L. Vann Award for the story they This raises the important question: Could Technology Center and will help us achieve co-wrote, “Elders’ Wisdom,” about a multi- media project highlighting the lives of older we have responded faster and more effectively? some of our outreach goals. African Americans whose stories would other- Our region is rightfully proud of its rich and Jim “Oz” Osborn wise be lost to regional history. The Pittsburgh enduring philanthropic legacy, its abundance Executive Director Black Media Federation sponsors the Vann of foundations, nonprofit organizations, Medical Robotics Technology Center awards to recognize the best journalism and individuals with a passion for their Coordinator, University Life Science Initiatives relating to African Americans and diversity Carnegie Mellon University issues in western Pennsylvania. message Barry Lavery

By Teresa Heinz Chairman, Howard Heinz Endowment

illiam H. Rea, a longtime friend and Heinz The young man I met in my graduate school days and Endowments board member who passed away whom I would later marry, John Heinz, introduced me to a W just as this issue of h magazine was going to press school of inquiry I had never experienced in my younger (see our tribute on page 58), had a consistent way of greeting years — Socratic, searching, relentlessly curious. He loved to grim news about our region over the years. “That’s terrible,” debate and argue, to pull apart an idea from every angle and he would say, shaking his head. And then, always, without then reassemble it in some new form. When he was wrestling exception, he would add, “What are we going to do about it?” with a tough issue, the last thing he wanted was for someone to It was a great question, and so typical of Bill. Simply by leap to the answer. “Don’t give me the solution,” he would say posing it he reminded us to keep our focus on the positive and as we spoke over dinner. “Let’s just talk.” the possible. But there was a heavy dose of pragmatism in his Someone once told me “telling is stealing,” meaning that to inquiry as well. His emphasis always fell on “do,” a reminder try to answer someone else’s question for them, supplanting that change derives from actions, not mere good intentions. your own advice for their critical thinking and personal soul- Earlier in his life, Bill had been one of what my late father- searching, robs them of the opportunity to grow and learn. in-law called his “band of dreamers”— a group of friends and I think that was why John felt so strongly about asking questions: colleagues who shared Jack Heinz’s goal of creating a dynamic He believed that the value of one’s answers was ultimately a cultural district in the heart of Pittsburgh’s then-blighted function of one’s capacity for inquiry, and that scrutiny breeds downtown. Bill was civic-minded to the core, and the force of improvement and excellence. his question derived from his obviously genuine interest in On the wall in his U.S. Senate ofﬁce, he used to have a sign the answer. that read, “The status quo is not good enough.” He lived that

Effective grant making is all about asking thoughtful questions.

I have had a lifelong interest in the power of questions. As a creed through the questions he asked, which he believed had young girl growing up in Mozambique, I saw their potency power not only to challenge present circumstance but also to expressed through my father, a doctor who sometimes allowed shape and sharpen ideas for changing it. me to accompany him on his rounds. When he met with That was a philosophy he shared with his father, Jack Heinz. patients, he began by inquiring generally about their lives and I recently came across a speech that Jack delivered to the well-being. From him I learned that questions could be used Altoona Community Welfare Council in 1953, in which he not only to draw out information but also to build a connec- argued that the single most valuable and appropriate role tion between two human beings separated by distances of fear, nonproﬁt board members could play was to ask “penetrating uncertainty and doubt. questions.” Noticeably absent in my youth were the sorts of questions “The most effective directors, by general agreement, are we take for granted here in the United States, questions about those who ask the most discerning questions,” he argued, politics, government and civic life. In those days, Mozambique adding that “the effective tool of asking intelligent questions” was a colony of Portugal, which at the time was a dictatorship. can be used “to reveal blind spots in executive proposals.” Being critical of the government in any way, even just by asking For me, that notion is fundamental not just to the gover- questions, was a dangerous and potentially fatal act. nance of nonproﬁt institutions, but also to the practice of That is why I was so surprised, when I came to America as good philanthropy. Effective grant making is all about asking a young bride, to see the freedom with which such questions thoughtful questions. were asked here. In this country, questions could be used to Sometimes those questions may be provocative, designed challenge social mores, change public policy and even oust to jolt the conventional wisdom and challenge an unreasoning political leaders. comfort with the status quo. Our cover story for this issue 4

offers an example. When three Pittsburgh foundations started Sometimes the questions that foundations ask are designed, asking tough questions about accountability four years ago, like the ones my father used to pose, to help us learn and build it helped usher in an impressive new day in the Pittsburgh bridges at the same time, as our story on Chattanooga illus- Public Schools. There are no guarantees that Superintendent trates. More than a decade ago, I invited a group of civic leaders Mark Roosevelt’s ambitious reform agenda will be realized, from Chattanooga to come to Pittsburgh to see the work but the district’s willingness to begin asking itself the difﬁcult we had done in creating our downtown Cultural District and questions offers hope that real progress, and real results, may our nascent efforts to promote green design. Recently, the at last be on the way. Endowments sponsored a delegation from Pittsburgh to visit Not all the questions foundations ask need to be provocative Chattanooga and examine the impressive urban design strides to add value. Far more common are questions that no one has being made there. Not only did our group of local leaders get a simply thought to ask before. An example can be found in our chance to examine how another community is meeting the story in this issue on preserving Pittsburgh’s green hillsides. challenge of livability and quality of life, they also had a chance Little thought had been given to protecting these distinguishing to build a shared interest in applying those lessons in our own features of our urban topography until new development pres- community. Nothing beats joining in a journey of discovery sures began to consume them in recent years. Asking whether for building a shared sense of possibility. our community wanted to preserve them — and if so, in what Too often I think foundations are leery about asking too way— led to a change in policy that never would have hap- many questions for fear it might seem arrogant and intrusive. pened but for someone weighing in with the catalytic question. After all, the thinking goes, who are we to question the people Asking discerning, sometimes tough and even provocative questions is the highest expression of respect for the work we all do and the goals we want to advance together. A spirit of inquiry is the essence of this work.

Thoughtful queries lie at the heart of every initiative doing the hard work in the trenches? But I would turn that described in these pages, and of the work we do every day. notion around: Who are we not to? Asking discerning, They may be questions that Endowments board members ask sometimes tough and even provocative questions is the highest our staff, that our staff asks the organizations we fund or that expression of respect for the work we all do and the goals we these organizations ask themselves. Not infrequently they are want to advance together. A spirit of inquiry is the essence questions that grantees ask us, an example of which you will of this work. ﬁnd in our story on the merger of two arts organizations. After The essential role of foundations in our society is to be a failure to ask itself rigorous questions about its ﬁnances led bold, thoughtful and daring — to help dream the dreams that to the near-death of one arts institution, the head of another no one else can or will and then help transform them into came to us with an intriguing notion: What if we put these two reality. That invariably begins with a question, asked with organizations together? It was a daring question, and of course equal parts aspiration and pragmatism. It is a question that, it led to many more, but in the end it helped save a valuable for each of us, cuts to the core of our personal beliefs about our Pittsburgh resource. ability to bring change into the world and our responsibility for doing so. It is a question that Bill Rea, the practical dreamer, understood well: What are we going to do about it? h message

By James M. Walton Chairman, Vira I. Heinz Endowment

or more than a year now, the Endowments’ staff and In fact, a key Endowments grant last year that funded the directors have been actively engaged in a strategic merger of the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts with Pittsburgh F planning process that has prompted us to drill deeply Filmmakers is a perfect, real-world example of the Endowments into the values that are at the heart of our organization. being open to a strategy employed with gusto in the same It has not been an easy process. For all of last year, as period by scores of the world’s largest corporations. regular operations continued with more than $57 million in The reshaping of an often brutal business tactic to save grants processed to worthy organizations throughout western one of Pittsburgh’s oldest arts organizations is at the heart of Pennsylvania, the staff and directors poured many extra hours “Artistic Vision,” Jeffery Fraser’s compelling story in this annual into a top-to-bottom review. The daunting challenge has been report issue. It details how staff from the Endowments’ to examine what we’re about and determine how best to Arts & Culture Program responded quickly but also carefully position the organization for the next decade. to Pittsburgh Filmmakers Director Charlie Humphrey who But the hard work is paying off in ways we had not antici- came up with the idea of a merger to save the troubled Center pated. When we’re finished, there will be a grant-making for the Arts. framework in place that better sets priorities and transmits A national survey of arts organizations by the Wall Street core values as we strive to meet community needs. Journal found that at least a dozen arts organizations have Any review of our planning and grant-making work for committed to some type of merger or alliance in recent months. last year, though, should highlight the link between the The story reports that mergers are no panacea for staving off Endowments’ effort to get back to “core values” and the large bankruptcies; there are often unique challenges presented by numbers of corporations engaged in similar processes to get nonprofits that Fortune 500 companies don’t have to worry back to “core businesses.” about. But, carefully crafted with proper foundation support Strategic planning is just one of several tools developed in and strong nonprofit leadership, these mergers often offer the the for-profit, business world and adapted for application to best opportunity an arts organization may have to keep the nonprofits and foundations. Some of these — like strategic lights on. planning — transfer easily and bring enormous benefit. But The two boards of the Endowments were the business- other business-developed tactics have fizzled in the nonprofit model instigators several years ago when they pressed six Cultural District arts groups to join WHEN WE’RE FINISHED, THERE WILL BE A GRANT-MAKING FRAME- together in a Shared Services Program WORK IN PLACE THAT BETTER SETS PRIORITIES AND TRANSMITS that has saved each organization tens of CORE VALUES AS WE STRIVE TO MEET COMMUNITY NEEDS. thousands of dollars in marketing, ticket world, sometimes leaving an organization worse off than processing, health insurance and other areas. before the intervention. There are other program areas outside the arts where the Despite that risk, there has been a concerted effort at the Endowments and other local foundations have adopted busi- Endowments to become more businesslike in our internal ness tactics to enable a worthy philanthropic outcome, as in the practices and in some of our interactions with grantees. But 2003 purchase by four foundations of a 178-acre tract of prime that does not mean the institution itself is bent on becoming riverfront land, one of the largest brownfields in the region, to a de facto business enterprise. ensure that it becomes a model of sustainable development. Vira I. Heinz and Howard Heinz, who created the The bottom line of all this — if you will excuse the business Endowments, had enough experience with the business world terminology — is that southwestern Pennsylvania has benefited to understand that a charitable institution must be set apart from the Endowments’ and other local foundations’ willingness from the for-profit mindset in terms of mission, advocacy and to become more business-minded in their work with grantees. image in the community. Clearly, many nonprofit groups are coming around to under- That stated, it’s a huge leap from the Endowments acting stand that, in a world of diminishing public resources, business more “entrepreneurial” in the community to then becoming a sensibilities will carry a mission much further than traditional “venture capitalist firm” that subjects every grant request to charitable sympathies. h the rigors of a business deal. Chattanooga planners took impressive advantage of the city’s riverfront in redesigning its downtown. Among the developments near the Tennessee River are the ultra-modern Tennessee Aquarium and the RiverSet Apartments, a complex of one- and two-bedroom units with decks facing the river.

6 A DECADE AGO, CHATTANOOGA OFFICIALS TOOK A CUE FROM PITTSBURGH ON HOW TO REVIVE A COMMUNITY HARD HIT BY INDUSTRIAL DECLINE. NOW PITTSBURGH CIVIC LEADERS ARE GETTING TIPS FROM CHATTANOOGA ON HOW TO REVIVE A DOWNTOWN. BY CHRISTINE H. O’TOOLE PHOTOGRAPHY BY MATT DUNMORE THRIVING BYDESIGN

he Pittsburghers swarming over the Chattanooga riverfront on a crystal-clear day last October behaved no differently than the million other visitors who flock to this re-made southern town each year. They strolled in ball caps and sneakers between the contemporary Tennessee Aquarium, the Creative Discovery Museum and the Hunter Museum of American Art, pausing en route to Tadmire the sunlit sculpture garden and handsome new condos. They scooped up brochures from the friendly Visitors Center and scanned them over coffee at the adjoining outdoor cafe. They watched crew teams race past on the Tennessee River and rode the carousel at the riverfront Coolidge Park. But for souvenirs, the Pittsburghers took photos that were more quirky than Kodachrome: a bannered bus stop for the city’s electric shuttle, a bulldozer at a wetlands park, a parking garage with a ground-floor movie theater. Cities trying to redesign tired downtowns know that the devil is not just in the details, but in the collaborations. In Chattanooga, those are pic- ture-perfect. Here, the bus stop serves a popular tourist district shuttle that’s nonpolluting, efficient and free. The wetlands park reclaims a downtown Superfund site. The garage-cineplex replaces ugly acres of surface parking and adds the Bijou, the city’s first downtown movie theater in 30 years. The Pittsburgh team snapped those shots as evidence of stunning cooperation among politicians, planners and philanthropists in making Chattanooga a national success story for civic design and community development. The three- decade transformation of this city on the Georgia border, with a population of 155,000, from a decayed industrial riverfront into an attractive, sustainable community struck a particular chord Sightseeing in Chattanooga for the Pittsburgh planners and civic leaders includes snapping photographs of the latest in urban design, much of which emphasizes openness and access. Top: A New Urbanist development shows the appeal of open space, sidewalk-lined streets and a diverse range of housing. Middle: Water that sprays from “The Passage,” the largest work of art by Southeastern Native peoples in 1,000 years, flows into the Tennessee River. Bottom: Visitors to the Hunter Museum of American Art can view the Tennessee River from inside a new addition that uses some of architect Frank Gehry’s design principles for glass and steel. 8

with the 30 Pittsburgh guests. The Pittsburgh Civic Coalition Chattanooga’s leading philanthropy, the Lyndhurst had invited the group of architects, developers, planners, traffic Foundation, has served the same community challenger– engineers and community leaders to travel south on a first-ever convener role in its hometown as the Endowments has done in field trip. Pittsburgh. The Lupton family charity has been a courageous “Our coalition came together as eight organizations work- source of capital there during the past three decades, contributing hard on distinct tasks, but totally focused on design,” says ing $105 million to support a working partnership of design Mary Navarro, The Heinz Endowments Arts & Culture senior professionals, developers and politicians that has extended program officer, who has chaired the coalition since its creation through the terms of four mayors. by the foundation in April 2004. “We believe that quality “What happened in Chattanooga was that the Lyndhurst design is an economic development tool and that design brings Foundation, working with politicians and the university, value. Chattanooga has proved that vividly.” provided the leveraging capital for change,” says architecture The civic leaders and design specialists who participate in professor Vivian Loftness. As director of the Urban Lab at the coalition are working together to encourage development Carnegie Mellon University, she has followed the Chattanooga that complements and enhances Pittsburgh’s physical and story since 1994. “You need a partnership for design vision, cultural environment. The group is seeking to advance political will and foundation commitment — but there has to Pittsburgh’s early successes in civic design: New downtown be capital in there somewhere.” stadiums and parks are complete. Local neighborhoods are Chattanooga’s innovations incorporate handsome tourist reclaiming run-down districts. Environmentally savvy green destinations and wise land use with green development building concepts have been adopted at every scale, from family solutions. Among the standouts are the $75 million Tennessee homes to the city’s David L. Lawrence Convention Center, the Aquarium; a 10-mile recreational greenway along both sides nation’s largest green building. But new energy, dollars and con- of the Tennessee River; revitalized neighborhoods with new sensus are required to amplify that success across the region. owner-occupied housing; and connections to the downtown In convening the coalition to define and champion design riverfront incorporating a $1.2 million public art project, a free excellence in Pittsburgh, and providing $105,000 in first-phase electric shuttle and pedestrian paths. Officials also re-routed a funding, the Endowments formalizes a hands-on role in civic riverfront parkway to encourage pedestrian access and create design that has been in play in the community for more than commercial and residential development. After the improve- a decade. ments, revenues from tourism topped $133 million per year. It was certainly no accident that the coalition’s first out-of- The Lyndhurst Foundation’s civic design support is “maybe town field trip was to Chattanooga. Much of the foundation’s the best value for the dollar that we’ve invested in any project,” early ideas on civic design issues were transferred there says Jack Murrah, its president since 1989. “It’s had such a large informally by Teresa Heinz in the early 1990s. She became impact on the physical and social environment of the city.” involved in an effort to remake the southern city after it had As the lights went down in the Hunter Museum’s auditorium gone through many of the same wrenching changes experienced in October, slides familiar to Pittsburghers flashed on its by Pittsburgh a decade before: a huge exodus of workers after screen: images of blight, followed by demolition and renewal. the collapse of the steel industry, a decaying urban core and a Chattanooga planners and developers took the podium to national reputation as one of the country’s most polluted cities. review how the city articulated a single design vision for a Heinz participated in a community charrette process in troubled region. Chattanooga that has been used many times in Pittsburgh and “We had to change through persuasion, not regulation,” that became the blueprint for the city’s transformation. She recalls Murrah. “One of our successes has been creating a also took major players in the Chattanooga renovation effort shared vocabulary that the community can use to talk about on an informal tour of Pittsburgh to show the turnaround what we want the city to be.” that was possible. Beginning in 1984, 1,700 Chattanoogans applied their new

Christine O’Toole is a Pittsburgh-based freelance writer. Her last story for h was about how WYEP, Pittsburgh’s independent community radio station, has matured into a financially sound, artistically respected organization with a new $3 million home. 9 vocabulary in a process called Vision 2000. The public discussions guided subsequent debate on the city’s priorities. Residents said they cherished the city’s natural beauty, its river location, its mountains and public life. After 65 meetings, they decided to showcase those assets, keying new development to downtown attractions and close-in neighborhoods. The environmental and civic centerpiece for the plan was the Tennessee Aquarium, which replaced old industrial plants on the river’s southern bank in 1992. The location, just steps from the city’s earliest settlement, symbolized the determina- tion to celebrate the river in a unique contemporary setting. Visitors move along a watershed of ramps, past freshwater exhibits that trace the river and its wildlife from its mountain source to the Mississippi. A second building, opened last year, showcases saltwater life. Public response to the aquarium’s opening was ecstatic. More than a million visitors poured through the building in its first year. “At the beginning, we asked people to be hopeful and helpful,” recalls Karen Miller Hundt, head of the Planning and Design Studio at the regional planning agency. “We think we have all the answers as urban designers. We really don’t. Involving the public through Vision 2000, even though it took a long time, was crucial to get community buy-in.” Priorities were visually translated by the Planning and Design Studio, an outgrowth of a university storefront architecture lab, with strong New Urbanist principles. Under the leadership of Stroud Watson, the center advocated human- scale streetscapes to give pedestrians priority over parking and freeways. Watson’s civic design philosophy was strongly endorsed by the staff and board of Lyndhurst, which funded the public process. His principles also emerged as a guiding force of the RiverCity Co., a nonprofit created with bank and foundation backing in 1986 to spur economic development in downtown Chattanooga. While Lyndhurst and the Lupton families donated the $45 million cost of the first aquarium building, RiverCity developed the surrounding sites: a visitors center, the Creative Discovery Museum, an IMAX theater, restaurants and retail shops. “If all we’d done was open the aquarium, it probably would have been successful for a while, but people wouldn’t have come 10 2

13 MANY INITIATIVES, back the next year,” says the Design Studio’s Hundt. “We had to ONE VISION. look at streetscape improvements, new hotels and restaurants With a blend of old and new, classic and contemporary, and other things for people to do while they are here. So all Chattanooga’s reinvigorated downtown and adjacent neighborhoods of that — the private and public sides — is very important. boast a variety of business, recreational and residential developments. And if you don’t insist on quality design, it’s not going to be But the diversity promotes the single vision of making the area an as good a project as it could be. We demanded it on all our attractive destination for tourists and residents.

projects, right down to streetlights and ﬂowerpots.” 1. The Hunter Museum of American Art contains one of the south- An ambitious 21st Century Waterfront plan emphasized the east’s most important collections of American art, with work by waterfront, tourism and pedestrian access to extend success in artists ranging from Norman Rockwell to Pittsburgh native all directions: to public art, parks and museums. The three-year, Andy Warhol.

$120 million scheme, funded by a $69 million hotel tax and 2. Originally built in 1890, the Walnut Street Bridge has been $51 million in private investment, encouraged downtown density. refurbished into a half-mile pedestrian walkway, one of the longest The city’s response to the improvements, however, was in the world. mixed. While residents took pride in the downtown face-lift, 3. “The Witness,” with its six “heads” facing all directions as if political grumbling began: Where was the commitment to the seeing everywhere, is a public art sculpture by Chattanooga artist city’s struggling residential districts? Rick Booth that stretches toward the sky in Coolidge Park. Lyndhurst was caught in the crossﬁre in last year’s mayoral 4. Once an abandoned shipyard on the city’s North Shore, the seven- campaign, in which the candidates — both city planners — acre Coolidge Park features a century-old, hand-carved carousel and took opposite positions. a large fountain with stone horses, lions and sea turtles. “It was framed as downtown versus neighborhoods; the success of downtown became a liability. The complaint 5. The Cherry Street Townhomes, with their Georgetown-style brick facades and private courtyards, are among the more than was there was too much attention [to downtown] from city 750 new condos and apartments under development in downtown government and private funders,” recalls Murrah of the Chattanooga. Lyndhurst Foundation. In fact, the partners who had collaborated on downtown 6. Across from the Tennessee Aquarium, the Tortilla Factory restau- rant offers Mexican fare downstairs and an open-air rooftop bar. had been achieving similar success in neighborhoods. The RiverCity Co. had raised $8 million for a new elemen- 7. The free, environmentally friendly CARTA Electric Shuttles run tary school in the Jefferson Heights neighborhood to comple- daily about every ﬁve minutes from the legendary Chattanooga ment new owner-occupied housing. The Design Studio had Choo Choo to the Tennessee Aquarium, with stops every block in between. provided technical assistance for both, while Lyndhurst had 11

4 6 7 generously funded neighborhood development nonprofits, different directions. We need civic designers as translators.” incentives for new home buyers and grants for streetscape Enter the Pittsburgh Civic Design Coalition with its wealth improvements. Housing values have risen 60 percent, and of design expertise. The eight members suggest the wide scope private developers are extending the growth. of its talent. The controversy — and a new administration’s shift in focus Loftness’ Urban Lab at Carnegie Mellon assigns graduate and funding toward neighborhoods — hasn’t shaken Lyndhurst’s architecture students to brainstorm solutions for community priorities. “There’s an opportunity for the civic design con- needs — a supermarket for the inner-city Hill District or a new science to stick around for residential projects downtown,” business district in a Mon Valley mill town. The Community Murrah argues. With a five-year funding cycle, his organization Design Center of Pittsburgh makes $80,000 in grants to is committed to both downtown and neighborhood support neighborhood nonprofits to hire architects and planners. The for the long haul. American Institute of Architects’ Pittsburgh chapter pulls the As the Pittsburgh Civic Design Coalition forms a 10-year local professional community into the debate; the city’s planning plan, Chattanooga’s forthright collaborations have made an director offers the government perspective. The Green Building impression. The Pittsburgh visitors envied its inclusive planning Alliance encourages Pittsburgh’s growing reputation as an process and the central role of its Design and Planning Studio. innovator in environmental design, while Sustainable Pittsburgh “As a group, our coalition can develop language that res- emphasizes transportation and planning solutions. As its name onates, like Chattanooga,” says coalition member Anne-Marie suggests, the Riverlife Task Force promotes a vibrant urban Lubenau of the Community Design Center of Pittsburgh. waterfront. The Endowments has provided individual support “We need to organize forums that engage the public around to each of the nonprofit coalition members, as well as funding design on a multi-neighborhood, citywide level.” Heeding the coalition effort. the Chattanooga example of pulling elected officials into that “The Endowments has provided catalytic dollars for our discussion, the coalition invited candidates from last year’s design vision. We’re not yet where we want to be, but we’re Pittsburgh mayoral campaign to discuss their views in a first- putting visual ideas in peoples’ eyes,” says Carnegie Mellon’s ever forum on civic design. Loftness. “Agents for change are in place. There’s tremendous “They put together a debate on issues never brought up political will in [Pittsburgh’s] Urban Redevelopment Authority before in any campaign for elective office in this city,” recalls and city planning. The power of our coalition is a bigger voice Pittsburgh City Councilman Bill Peduto, who had been to convince our political leaders to fight to make quality design a candidate. “They’re holding candidates accountable. Every a defining feature of our region, too.” h city is changing the paradigm of economic development to incorporate public opinion. But everyone approaches it from Pizza is good bonding food, and ninth-graders Shamira Williams, left, and Raven Huntley, right, enjoy their slices at Pittsburgh’s Langley High School with Fawn Robinson of the Duquesne University School of Nursing. Robinson is a mentor in the CLAAY— Career Literacy for African American Youth — program. 1212

ast the first-floor metal detectors, past the seemingly endless rows of lockers, past the patrolling security guards, in a small, windowless room on the basement floor of Pittsburgh’s Langley High School, a pizza party is in full swing. A couple dozen students and adults are Pscattered around several tables, desks and fold- ing chairs, talking a little sports, a little music, a little TV, a little hair style, a little gastronomy. “Who ate the last piece of cheese?” asks one participant. “You’re too late,” says another. “Try the pepperoni.” Welcome to Career Prep — the 2006 version. The pizza party — some might just call it lunch — is a regular feature of the every-other-Friday sessions organized by the Career Literacy for African American Youth program, or CLAAY. It’s part of the Institute for Economic Transformation at Duquesne University. In keeping with CLAAY programs at more than a dozen other high schools throughout the Pittsburgh region, this group of students has spent the previous hour exploring what they’re going to do after high school. They follow a step-by-step guide developed by CLAAY mentors to help them identify interesting jobs and then craft a plan to land them. The mentors are not full-time teachers. They’re professionals, businesspeople and college students from the area who have signed up as advisors and tutors to help turn CLAAY students’ interests into solid career plans. While these students come from varied circumstances, they do share the label of being “the quiet ones,” those who teachers tend to PIZZA WITH EXTRA CHEESE, OLIVES, SAUSAGE, ONIONS, PEPPERONI (AND A CAREER)

SEVERAL PITTSBURGH PROGRAMS ARE USING APPEALING ACTIVITIES AND MENTORING OPPORTUNITIES TO WHET HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ APPETITES FOR JOBS IN THE 21ST CENTURY. BY THOMAS BUELL, JR. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOSHUA FRANZOS 14

overlook because — for better or worse — they don’t draw “This is one of the programs where students ask if it’s com- much attention to themselves. For many of them, the CLAAY ing back next year,” says Langley Principal Linda Baehr. “That’s sessions represent the first time the spotlight has been placed a very good thing. It’s a very thoughtful program and a very on them in terms of considering what kind of career they might effective program. Anything that gets the students thinking like to pursue. about the future is a good thing.” “I knew I wanted to get out of high school, but I never The new emphasis on training students to take control of thought much about after that,” says sophomore Jordan Palm their futures after high school also extends to suburbia. At Steel as he drinks the last of his soda from a plastic cup. “[CLAAY] Valley High School in Munhall, the fact that a Career Day event has helped me learn stuff I’d never really looked at before — is in progress is given away by the Allegheny County Medical jobs, careers, setting goals.” Examiner’s van parked in front. Palm wants to be a motorcycle mechanic, or a heating and “Everybody wants to go into forensics now,” says Bob cooling technician, and eventually run his own business. He Huston, manager of the county’s crime lab. “They see it on TV now knows that, to achieve his goal, he must do well in high and they think that’s the job for them.” school and then attend a two-year vocational program. It’s a Huston is one of several dozen government, nonprofit and hard-nosed plan and a sharp reality check for a 16-year-old. for-profit representatives setting up tables at the event, which Ensuring that these often-forgotten students are not lost in differs from most career fairs because it’s organized entirely the system — that they identify a life’s work passion and get by students. the training to pursue it — is the mission of CLAAY and sev- Through The Future is Mine, which grew out of the Mon eral other career preparation programs in the Pittsburgh area Valley Education Consortium, the students decide on invitees funded by the region’s philanthropic community, including and presenters, set up the schedule and run the event. The The Heinz Endowments and the Buhl, Richard King Mellon, Future is Mine also provides a two-day Career Development Claude Worthington Benedum, Pittsburgh, Grable, Alcoa and Academy, a peer-to-younger-peer project and other school-to- Annenberg foundations. employment awareness programs for students and teachers at The Endowments provides an average of more than the 25 school districts it serves in the region. $760,000 annually to career-literacy programs, which have “I had no idea what I wanted to do before this,” says Lori evolved through the past five years to focus not only on helping Wunderlich, a Steel Valley senior in her second year of helping students identify careers, but also on gaining the skills and to set up the career fair. “Most kids my age didn’t. Then I heard flexible attitude necessary to succeed in the 21st-century work- about The Future is Mine and met other kids who were getting force. The programs the foundation supports include three — a head start on their careers, and I said, ‘I have to get into CLAAY; The Future is Mine, which organizes career awareness this program.’” events; and Keys2Work, which has an online component — Wunderlich, who wants to be a teacher, already is taking that together have received a total of more than $2.6 million in classes at Community College of Allegheny County and Endowments grants. Chatham College. When she graduates from Steel Valley, she’ll “We want [students] to be lifelong learners who can adapt have 16 credits toward a five-year program at Chatham that to changes that are thrown at them,” says Suzanne Walsh, will gain her a master’s degree and a teaching certificate. the program officer for Innovation Economy at The Heinz “I never would have done that without The Future is Mine,” Endowments. “Reports show that in the new workforce, a per- she says. “It has been a huge benefit.” son might have several jobs throughout their working years. We The stories of Lori Wunderlich and Jordan Palm embody the want to prepare kids for that constantly changing environment.” broad spectrum of career directions undertaken by today’s School administrators already see positive results from teenagers, and the new approach to preparing kids for success the CLAAY program, which has received $920,000 in in the modern job market. Endowments support. Career counseling for high schoolers isn’t new, but it has

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CLAAY come a long way since the days when the career track automat- ically meant four-year college, and the trade school kids were considered second-class citizens. “The rules that used to apply to having a successful career eremiah Jackson, a CLAAY coordinator, don’t apply anymore,” says Vanessa Lund, program director for lends his expertise to Antonio Retana, right foreground, the Human Capital Policy Initiative, a special project of the as the Langley High School senior ponders an online University of Pittsburgh’s Institute of Politics. The initiative was college application. Duquesne University’s Institute for developed in cooperation with the Endowments and Workforce Economic Transformation began the CLAAY program Connections, which is supported by the Pennsylvania Economy after the institute’s research showed that many high League, a nonproﬁt research group. school students in southwestern Pennsylvania were not Jprepared to meet the region’s employment demands. “The idea that going to a four-year college is your ticket to success is absolutely wrong. It’s great for some people, but not CLAAY addresses this problem by providing students for everyone,” says Lund. “Students and parents need to think with mentors, tutors and enrichment experiences. of college as one of many viable options for achieving their career goals.” The Human Capital Policy Initiative works with CLAAY, The Future is Mine and other programs to educate students, teachers, school administrators, politicians and community leaders about trends in the workforce and how young people can best prepare themselves for those jobs of tomorrow. “The goal is to help kids see how something they’re learning in the classroom will help them in real life,” Lund says. 16

“The vocational schools have become very sophisticated in “But most people don’t have any awareness of those kinds of what they’re offering.” jobs. That’s what we’re trying to change.” To make her point, Lund cites statistics from the U.S. Keys2Work is one of the more popular programs used to Department of Labor predicting that only a quarter of help students narrow their career interests and sharpen their American jobs in 2014 will require a college degree or higher. skills. It was developed in Pittsburgh and made available to Twenty-eight percent will require a two-year degree of some dozens of high schools throughout southwestern Pennsylvania kind, and 46 percent will require on-the-job training. — including Langley and Steel Valley — with the help of a Even so, surveys by the Pennsylvania Department of $250,000 Endowments grant in 2003. The foundation has since Education indicate that 56 percent of the state’s high school awarded the program another $960,000 in funding. students still say they plan to attend a four-year college, The program uses a four-step process to measure a student’s although half of them won’t graduate, Lund says. skill levels, particularly in the areas of reading for information “What we’re trying to do is get people to start thinking and applied math. Then it helps students explore job openings earlier about their careers, and to connect their education and and education and training options available to a person with training to what it is they want to do.” those skills. Lund believes the concept of blue-collar and white-collar If students in the program want to improve academic skills jobs is seriously outdated. She promotes the notion of a “gold- to qualify for a better career or a better education, Keys2Work collar” workforce in which employees possess basic technology provides an online remediation curriculum to fill the gaps. skills that can be adapted to a wide range of jobs, proficiency Once they’ve beefed up their skills, usually when they’re in the in reading and math, and strong critical thinking and problem- 10th grade, students can complete the process by taking the solving abilities. standardized ACT WorkKeys test. The WorkKeys results then “Those types of workers will be in demand; they’ll be well- can be used to create a proficiency certificate to be included in paid and they’ll require as little as a two-year degree,” she says. a student’s portfolio, or to bolster applications for employment or post-secondary training.

tudents in the Keys2Work program can access nearly 1,000 interactive career cards on the Internet, like this one about tool and die making. Developed in Pittsburgh, Keys2Work takes advantage of Internet technology to help students improve their academic skills and earn a Sproficiency certificate they can use when seeking a job or post-secondary education. When exploring employment options, students can pull up the career cards and learn about tasks, skills, training locations and other facets of a wide range of jobs. KEYS2WORK uquesne High School sophomore Robert Jackson guides fifth-grader Alissa Lohr, center, as she assembles a puzzle while blindfolded. Also wearing a blindfold 17 is sixth-grader Adrianna Furby, right, who reaches in the wrong direction to arrange puzzle pieces. The teamwork-building exercise Dat Duquesne Middle School is part of the Peer to Younger Peer Project of The Future is Mine program, which is designed to show students how to make smart decisions about their futures. Program activities include career exploration opportunities, peer projects THE FUTURE IS MINE and the chance to plan a portion of the annual The Future is Mine Conference.

“We show them that the more skills they have, the better job employees for high-priority industries and occupations. they can get, the more choices they have and the more money It also better aligns education and training funding with they can earn,” says David Mosey, executive director of Smart employer needs. Futures, the nonproﬁt umbrella company that develops and Several area career literacy programs, including The Future monitors Keys2Work. “People love that part of it. This is the is Mine, receive state grants in addition to support from the overlap between education and career development.” Endowments. Smart Futures also is rolling out programs to provide Aimee LeFevers, program director for The Future is Mine, mentoring assistance for students via e-mail, which will allow credits the Endowments, which has given the program $500,000 greater participation by mentors who may not have time for in grants, with providing more than just important funding. face-to-face work with students, and another online program She says it brings together several programs that share the called My Career Insight to get middle-schoolers thinking common goal of increasing career opportunities for high about careers. school students in the region. “The PA e-Mentor program and My Career Insight are tools “It’s a great network [Suzanne Walsh] has started,” says the students will be able to use whenever they want,” Mosey LeFevers. “If it weren’t for [the Endowments], we’d only be says. “Communicating by e-mail and getting information passing each other at meetings.” online are where they’re comfortable.” Back at Langley High School, freshman Shamira Williams All of these programs buttress efforts by Pennsylvania Gov. confesses that the pizza party was what originally drew her to Ed Rendell to prepare employees to compete in the global the CLAAY program. Now, she’s glad her friend Deona Summers economy, increase options for students to receive post-second- talked her into joining for other reasons. ary education and enhance the skills of high school graduates. “I like it because it helps me think about what I want to do Approved last July, Job Ready Pennsylvania legislation later in my life, after I graduate,” she says. “And I like it because allots an additional $91 million in state funding to train future I get to express my feelings.” h Mothering the Mother A revival of the ages-old ritual of “mothering” the mother during pregnancy and childbirth is helping healthy babies to be born to mothers in disadvantaged neighborhoods of nce more, Michelle Versaw gathers her Pittsburgh’s East End and eastern suburbs. waning strength to push as she is encouraged By Gregg Ramshaw and comforted by Pamela Wilson’s calming voice. Photography by Karen Meyers The baby’s father, Adam, is there in the hospital room; but it is Wilson who suggests different positions to ease the labor pains. In her role as a birth “doula,”Wilson breathes with Versaw and applies pressure to the pregnant woman’s hips. Months later, Versaw, a 23-year-old stay-at-home mom, recalls that it felt at times “like she was holding me together during the contractions.” Although Wilson, 26, of Pittsburgh’s East End, is not a mother herself, her back- ground includes serving as a Lamaze-trained childbirth educator. She also is an obstetrics coordinator for two branches of the East Liberty Family Health Care Center in Pittsburgh, which offers birth doula services. After little Isaac was born, Versaw, who’s from Penn Hills, a suburb east of the city, was weary but grateful for the additional support provided through this contemporary version of a timeworn tradition. “We three birthed this baby together,” she says. The word doula has Greek origins and means “a woman who serves” or a woman who “mothers the mother,” as a current doula training guide describes it. Modern-day doulas hold the laboring mother, feed her ice chips, fan her during the sweaty exertion and whisper reassuring words in her time of pain. They are reviving ages-old practices to bring a mother safely through childbirth and try to ensure that her baby is healthy. “You have to allow a woman to draw on that ancient power that women have to give birth,” says Lupita Telep, a doula and a 50-year-old mother of four. In Pittsburgh, a Heinz Endowments–supported doula program known as The Birth Circle is being credited with helping healthy babies to be born to mothers in disadvantaged neighborhoods of the city’s East End and eastern suburbs. Seventy percent of the program’s clients live below the poverty line. “The Endowments has been fantastic,” says Dr. Irene B. Frederick, an obstetrician and the program project manager. “There’s no way we could have accomplished what we’ve done without them. It’s allowed me to follow my passion to ensure that pregnant women have a positive birth experience.”

Gregg Ramshaw, a producer for public television’s NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, formerly known as the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, for 21 years in Washington, is now a freelance writer in Pittsburgh. His last story for h was about the Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council’s new Downtown Center, which helped replace programs lost when the Connelley Technical Institute and Adult Education Center closed in 2004. ilvia Silva (standing) will provide support and encouragement to Ana Auxume whenilvia Silvashe (standing) delivers will provide her baby. As a doula,support and Silva, encouragement who to Ana is bilingual, worksAuxume with when pregnant she delivers her baby.

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ixteen-month-old Andre Durrett Endowments Senior Program Director ixteen-month-old Andre Durrett gazes Marge Petruska has spent much of her upgazes at Ericka up Addison-Waite at Ericka as he Addison-Waite career in search of ways to improve sitsas onhe the sitslap of hison mother, the Natasha lap of his mother, maternal health. In 2002, she learned Boston.Natasha Addison-Waite, Boston. who also Addison-Waite, is of a community-based doula project in Sawho medical also assistant is at a the medical East Liberty assistant at the Chicago that showed improvements in healthy birth rates. She thought the pro- FamilyEast Health Liberty Care Center, Family was Health Care Boston’s doula when she gave birth gram would be a good ﬁt for Pittsburgh. “In the 1980s, Pittsburgh had the toCenter, Andre. was Boston’s doula when she gave birth to Andre. highest black infant mortality rate in the country,” Petruska says. “It stood in stark contrast to the world-class hospitals and physicians available here.” The city’s East End had led Allegheny County in infant mortality and low- birth-weight babies for years. The rate among underserved African-American mothers was often several times the rate for white mothers. “We wanted to see if we could replicate the outcomes of the Chicago program here, and we believe we have,” Petruska says. 21

The idea was to reach out to pregnant Wilson says the program now has 19 Frederick explains that a mother’s women where they lived, in natural set- trained doulas. Ten are African American, experience during childbirth can affect tings and local health centers, rather than four are Hispanic and five are white. how she reacts to her baby. “If the mom through impersonal medical institutions. Ten more women are in training. has a positive experience in delivery, The Birth Circle provides services to No official government licensure she’ll feel more positive about the baby. obstetrics practices at the two East exists for doulas, though nationally, If she goes home in a euphoric state, Liberty Family Health Care Centers and several organizations certify them. The there should be less incidence of post- at Metro Family Practice in Wilkinsburg, largest is DONA International, which partum depression. If she’s not depressed, a borough east of Pittsburgh. has about 6,300 members. About 2,300 she’ll interact with the baby and the The program’s name evolved from a doulas in the United States are certified family more effectively. If she’s a bread- drawing made by an artistic client to reflect through the group, including about 100 winner, she can go back to work sooner, the organization’s mission statement: in Pennsylvania. Doulas must complete and a healthy family unit results.” “Working with our community to build at least 16 hours of course work and Because of the physical and emotional an integrated circle of care that addresses meet several on-the-job requirements intimacy involved and the unique bond the needs of childbearing families.” before they are certified through DONA. women make with one another, men do As The Birth Circle’s primary source There are two types of doulas: birth not serve as doulas. A few have gone of support, the Endowments has awarded doulas who coordinate prenatal visits through informational training, includ- $260,000 in grants in the last three years. and provide labor and delivery support, ing an obstetrician and a massage thera- The program also has received $50,000 and postpartum doulas who help to take pist, says Kathy McGrath, a doula and from the Highmark Foundation, $54,000 care of the entire family after the baby is Birth Circle doula trainer. from the United Way and $25,000 from born. The Birth Circle uses birth doulas, So, what kind of women become the March of Dimes. but, for the most part, they do not make doulas — “Birkenstock” types? There’s a The first phase of the Endowments’ house calls or conduct off-site interven- sense of that among them. But some are funding was in October 2003 and was tions with troubled, expectant women. struggling single mothers; some are just used to enlist “ambassadors”— trusted If an expectant mother comes into single. They’re in their 20s to their 50s. neighborhood women who would go out one of the East End health centers for a The common thread is their belief in the into the community to reach expectant prenatal visit, she will be told about the sisterhood of mothers — that women mothers, some of whom were teenagers doula program when she has her first must be in control and confident as they without supportive parents, reliable part- meeting with a doctor. bring the next generation into the world. ners, income, health insurance or even a “During pregnancy, doulas try to McGrath is one such believer. basic knowledge of human biology. create a birth plan for an expectant A pioneer in the doula movement, the “Reproduction is still loaded with mother,” says Wilson. “They ask the 52-year-old mother of three was one of myths, especially among the young,” says question, ‘What do you want to happen only two teacher–trainers nationwide Frederick. “Our job is to communicate the day you give birth?’ Doulas want to when DONA was founded in 1989. without proselytizing, and our ambassa- empower them so they are in control of “A doula plants seeds of encourage- dors give out information only about the that day and feel positive about an event ment,” she says. “Women can be hard availability of and necessity for maternal they’ll remember for the rest of their on themselves and critical of their own health care, not medical advice.” lives. It can be empowering or it can be behavior. ‘I whined too much; I was a The next phase of funding, provided devastating.” baby,’ are common self-criticisms. It’s a last October and December, financed The doula is also the mother’s advo- vulnerable time. If it’s positive, it sticks.” the hiring and training of a multiracial, cate to doctors, nurses and even family Birth Circle doulas have attended multinational, multilingual group of members. Sometimes she’s a gatekeeper 132 successful births since 2003. About doulas, most of whom were already of the birthing room door, asking 30 expectant women are enrolled in experienced in providing support to noisy or unhelpful friends or family to the program each year. The clientele is women in childbirth. celebrate elsewhere. 22

65 percent African American, 25 percent In the Pittsburgh area, the going rate began to inch forward to see what I was Caucasian and 7 percent Hispanic. for a private doula to attend a mother at doing. Then I urged her to take over. While the program is too new to have birth is $450 to $550. The Birth Circle “The girl in labor got to see her made a measurable difference in “bio- pays its doulas $200 for a 10-hour labor mother come through for her in a way statistics” maintained by the Allegheny and delivery, plus $20 for each additional she’d never done before,” says Wilson. County Health Department, it is making hour up to a maximum of $350. “Sometimes we get to ‘re-parent’ the noticeable inroads. Because the goal of the doula move- older family member. It was a tough In 2003, the latest year for which ment is to have health insurance cover birth, but there were beautiful moments figures are available, Pittsburgh had a these services, The Birth Circle, Magee- for the girl and her mother.” citywide infant mortality rate of 14.8 per Womens Hospital, the UPMC For You But it’s not easy to know whether the thousand live births. Wilson says there Health Plan and UPMC Braddock mothers who use The Birth Circle doulas has been no infant mortality among Community Hospital have embarked on live happily-ever-after. Some move on Birth Circle mothers in three years. an 18-month study to determine the via- after healthy deliveries and don’t stay The rate of low-birth-weight babies — bility of having insurers cover doula serv- in touch. Others go wrong from the those with weight below five-and-a-half ices as part of a maternity package. The beginning. pounds — is 4.8 percent among UPMC Health Plan will pay the fees of six One cocaine-addicted mother in her Birth Circle women, compared with to 10 doulas who will assist an estimated 20s could not stay off the drug during 11.4 percent citywide. 125 to 150 mothers during the study. her sixth pregnancy. Eventually, it spiked The rate of premature births among Dr. Dennis English, vice president her blood pressure, and she delivered a Birth Circle moms is 7.2 percent, says of medical affairs at Magee, said it was two-and-a-half-pound baby who tested Wilson, compared to a rate of 14.5 per- “more than likely” that the study will positive for the drug. The child was cent in Pittsburgh and 11.6 percent in prove the value of adding doula services placed immediately in protective custody. the rest of Pennsylvania. Premature to the coverage, especially if — as doulas Other infants may go to adoption infants are born before gestation has claim — it leads to shorter labors, fewer agencies, even after a successful labor reached 37 weeks; normal pregnancies C-sections and fewer babies needing and delivery, because of the overwhelm- run 38 to 42 weeks. costly neonatal intensive care treatment. ing adversities the at-risk mothers face. “Those numbers hold great promise,” “We think this is the way to go, but And that could be the best decision for says the Endowments’ Petruska. “We’ll we’re doing it as a pilot to be sure it everyone, says Wilson. continue to evaluate them to be sure it’s makes clinical sense,” says Dr. Michael “Just because a mom won’t be par- a success.” Culyba, the health plan’s vice president enting doesn’t mean she should not have Frederick adds that because The Birth of medical affairs. a positive childbirth experience. Chances Circle results are still anecdotal, harder On an unusually warm March after- are she’ll get pregnant again someday, data is needed to prove their worth. noon, McGrath and Wilson sit in a stuffy and she will have vital knowledge and “We need to get doulas recognized as room at UPMC Braddock and describe experience to draw on the next time.” medically significant, with an impact on some of their clients to a group of It’s because of the needs of women outcomes that crosses health plan goals,” doulas-in-training. such as these that the doulas of The she says. When Wilson met “Tonita,” the Birth Circle contend that their services Proving the impact doulas can have 16-year-old was alone, sullen, huffy and ultimately have a value you can’t put is an important next step because their eight weeks pregnant. Her partner was a price tag on. Theirs is a calling, not services are not covered by private or 24 and in and out of jail. Her mother a career; a passion, not a paycheck; a public health insurance. Doulas work was an addict. Then, at 36 weeks, she commitment to treasuring the gift of life, voluntarily, or their services are covered went into labor prematurely. from conception to birth and beyond. by grant money or private payments that “Her mother was in the room and “Being a doula is not just what I do,” many prospective mothers in the East watched me massage and comfort her says McGrath. “It’s what I am.” h End cannot afford. daughter,”Wilson recalls. “Her mother pamela and michelle

oula Pamela Wilson reaches to take 7-month-old Isaac from the arms of his mother, Michelle Versaw. Michelle and her husband, Adam, are newlyweds, and Wilson met with them several times Dduring Michelle’s pregnancy for childbirth preparation and education sessions. In addition, Wilson, who also is an obstetrical coordinator for East Liberty Family Health Care Center, was on hand when Isaac was born. 24

class act

Many Pittsburghers hope Superintendent Mark Roosevelt has the right combination of intelligence, charm, street smarts and outsider intrigue to transform the city schools before state officials have to step in to do so. Some local foundations are doing more than hope. They’re banking on it — and him. By Carole P. Smith Photography by Steve mellon 25

Although not formally trained as an educator, Pittsburgh Superintendent Mark Roosevelt brings his own brand of enthusiastic instruction to Marla Pelkofer’s third-grade classroom at Thaddeus Stevens Elementary School. Roosevelt was a guest reader/speaker during the school’s 12th annual Guest Reader Career Day in May. Roosevelt, right, greets ofﬁce staff at Thaddeus Stevens Elementary School as he makes the rounds with Principal Joseph Foriska, center, in May. As part of Roosevelt’s reform initiatives, Pittsburgh principals agreed to allow pay-for- performance contracts for their colleagues who run the new “accelerated learning academies.”

ost mornings, Mark Roosevelt to the state Legislature and governor’s office in Harrisburg. Mwalks the mile to his office in the headquarters of the Pittsburgh Especially visible is a group of six foundations —The Heinz Public Schools. The journey is pleasant: a stroll down his Endowments, DSF Charitable Trust, and the Grable, Pittsburgh, Squirrel Hill neighborhood’s tree-lined streets; then a change of Buhl and Jewish Healthcare foundations — that have made a scenery in energetic Oakland, the city’s educational epicenter, risky and very public bet that the city schools can be turned where the main streets are bordered by well-manicured univer- around. Some big foundation money has been plunked down sity campuses. His end point is the Administration Building, on Roosevelt, on a refocused school board and on key aspects an uneven rectangle of a structure that manages to hold its of their “Excellence For All” learning improvement plan. own among important museums, libraries and churches. The timing couldn’t be more crucial. The district is trying The walk gives Roosevelt an assured daily break from the to raise achievement after three years of poor scores on state- whirlwind surrounding him since he took over as superintend- mandated, student-assessment tests, a pattern that gives the ent of the beleaguered district less than a year ago. state the right — if not the appetite — to take over the district. But walking to work also sets the right tone. In fact, he sold Roosevelt also must overcome a projected deficit of more than off the limousine his predecessors used for getting around $47 million to convince state legislators and city taxpayers that town. You can’t preach fiscal conservancy from the back seat the district can live within its means. of a limo, he decided. While he arrived only last August and with no experience Tone aside, sitting all comfy with coffee, a newspaper and as an educator, the politically savvy former Massachusetts the back of a driver’s head for company is everything Mark gubernatorial candidate and state legislator knows how to hit Roosevelt is not. When he needs to visit a school or get to a the ground running. meeting, he rides up front in one of the district’s patrol cars Roosevelt’s list of accomplishments so far includes develop- so he can chat up the officer for any street buzz about what’s ing a school-closing process based on an objective rating for- going on inside the schools. mula; obtaining school board approval of a reorganization plan Given the dismal state of urban public education systems that closes some schools, expands others and converts several across the country, borne out most dramatically by the thousands low-performing ones into “accelerated learning academies;” of students sent into the world woefully deficient in basic skills; negotiating pay-for-performance contracts for principals given the armchair experts who claim to know how to turn it all running the academies; winning a new, pro-reform teachers’ around; given the entrenched bureaucracies, the demanding contract for the union’s 3,125 members; and garnering positive constituencies and, perhaps worst of all, the groups that don’t responses from state legislators when lobbying for help with care whether these districts succeed or fail; given all of these, the district’s deficit. Roosevelt can use all the inside information he can get. Without apology, he is going after the goal of being among But why would a smart, well-connected and richly pedigreed the first urban school districts in the country to close the 50-year-old professional want to run a school district full of yawning achievement gap between white and economically such troubles? Roosevelt’s family and staff already see signs that disadvantaged students, most of them African American. the incessant demands are threatening his morning walks and The swiftness with which Roosevelt has delivered detailed any other reflective time he can manage apart from the office. reform plans and surmounted problems that had tripped up Should he accomplish what he came to Pittsburgh to do — previous superintendents doesn’t surprise those who have transforming the district from a bloated, underachieving gotten to know him. bureaucracy back to the performance-driven system that was “He has extraordinary organizational skills, the brains for a leader in urban education two decades ago — it’s likely his the substantive issues and a knack for political strategy and recognition will stretch far beyond this city’s borders. plotting,” says Tripp Jones, who served as Roosevelt’s campaign He also will be the champion of some powerful interests that manager during his 1994 bid for governor. But even a quick stretch from community groups in Pittsburgh neighborhoods glance at performance statistics in the district indicates that

A former Pittsburgh journalist, Carole P. Smith is the arts and humanities program ofﬁcer for the Heinz Awards. For 10 years, she worked as a reporter at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. This is her ﬁrst story for h. 2727

But these problems didn’t occur overnight. The 1990s marked a historic turning point for the system. Fifteen years earlier, the board was reconfigured from an appointed body to one in which members are elected in nine districts. he’ll need all those skills and then some to be successful. By the 1990s, it had trended away from being a collective- Last year’s state assessment test, the most current available, minded group to a parochial-minded one, with the directors showed that 69.2 percent of the Pittsburgh district’s black staunchly shoring up their own constituent bases. Public 11th-graders — compared to 28.4 percent of white peers — meetings quickly degenerated into protracted sessions of failed to crack the proficiency barrier in reading. Nearly 83 per- name-calling and finger-pointing, often tinged with references cent of African-American 11th-graders — compared to about to race and class. And superintendents were hampered from 41 percent of white peers — missed the proficiency mark in math. moving forward with many aspects of their educational agendas More than 60 percent of the district’s 31,000 students are black. because pro–school board state laws limited their authority. Roosevelt turned the scandalous gap into the main sound In a city where more people were going than coming — the bite of the stump speech he delivered night after night to population dropped to 339,000 in the 2000 census, down from community groups last winter in a relentless, but eventually 370,000 in 1990 — one of the most heated battles was about successful, effort to sell his plan. “This gap,” he would say after school closings. Long-time observers say the board hit rock shocking his audiences with the alarming statistics, “is the civil bottom the night it voted to reopen schools that just months rights issue of our time.” before had been closed by a prior board. The district’s mainte- One of those audiences was made up of members of the nance workers were dispatched to reopen schools they already foundation community who had sounded the alarm years ago had shuttered. about a failure-to-learn crisis affecting students and a failure- Leaders of Pittsburgh’s foundation community, long to-govern crisis affecting the school board and administration. benevolent and patient benefactors for the city schools, could “I think the community had a good understanding of sit in the shadows no longer. In July 2002, frustrated as relations how bad a situation has to be before local foundations become among the nine elected school board members deteriorated so frustrated that they disengage in a very public way,” says and funded programs were ignored, the heads of the Maxwell King, president of The Heinz Endowments. “That was Endowments, Grable and Pittsburgh foundations called a joint the power of it. Foundations are supposed to be nurturers and news conference — the first in memory for Pittsburgh founda- quiet supporters. Instead, we stepped back, but we didn’t tions. They announced a suspension that had the potential disengage. We worked to make sure community leaders got to cost the district as much as $12 million through the next the signal that it was time to step in and do something.” several years, based on grants in place and likely future funding. Pittsburgh is steeped in a tradition of tell-it-like-it-is tough- The action reverberated across the region and across the ness, partly forged from its embrace of the steel industry, where country in press coverage. “At the time, the foundations just mill workers had to put out a measure of grit unparalleled in couldn’t get the board’s attention, so this was saying ‘We’re other trades. It’s also a city of neighborhoods, each grounded going to whack them upside their heads with a two-by-four,’” in strong ethnic and cultural identities. That very combination says columnist Sally Kalson of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the of toughness and neighborhood kinship stoked partisan region’s largest daily newspaper. “Was it good for the district to disputes among school board members that became a prime lose that money? No. But if you’re looking for a way to impress contributor to the district’s governance troubles. upon the board the necessity of doing their job for the benefit of the city’s children and families, that’s certainly a way to do it.” time for a change Pittsburgh’s foundations have played a pivotal role in the Pittsburgh Public Schools’ change in direction during the past five years.

The national foundation community took notice, too, and the school board who had been trying to exercise leadership.” there were a few who criticized the action. Some 40 education It took months afterward to rebuild relationships, says King. funders convened in Pittsburgh for a summit to process it all “You need to be fair and even-handed to maintain trust.” and discuss future ramifications. “Not every foundation could One of the first commission recommendations to be stick its neck out like that,” says William Porter, executive enacted, with the goal of building the public’s trust in the director of Grantmakers for Education, a national network of school system, was the creation of A+ Schools. The independ- foundations working to improve educational outcomes. “But ent, citizen-based nonprofit with a watchdog mission of [the summit] made them think of new ways to encourage monitoring the district’s progress in student achievement was reform and be change agents.” founded with grants from all three foundations involved in the The suspension of foundation funding was a watershed original funding suspension. moment for the Pittsburgh schools but not just because of the By 2004, the changes accelerated. The district adopted foundations’ public vote of no confidence. several important commission recommendations. An election “Our decision to go public was not a random act out of saw a leader of the old board majority replaced by a reform desperation,” says Susan Brownlee, executive director of the candidate; and the newly configured board elected long-time Grable Foundation. “There was a plan in place that involved member Bill Isler, producer of the Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood discussions with a lot of key players that ensured they would TV series, president. “Our decision to go public was not a random act out of desperation. There was a plan in place that involved discussions with a lot of key players that ensured they would be responding to our action to support a public process.” Susan Brownlee executive director, Grable Foundation

be responding to our action to support a public process.” With relations still poisoned between then-Superintendent King refers to it as “very similar to a political campaign. John Thompson, the first African-American man to hold the posi- There was a lot of strategic planning and very sophisticated tion, and several board members, a majority voted to buy out his communications.” contract. The action angered the three African-American board The inference from all the behind-the-scenes coordinating, members and many others in the communities they represent. says Brownlee, should be that “the foundations never abandoned Despite that rift, the prospect of fresh administrative leader- public education in the city. We changed tactics, not our ship along with the other positive changes enacted from the commitment.” commission report impressed the three foundation heads. Part of that external wiring included then-Mayor Tom In February of that year, the funding suspension was lifted. Murphy, who just days after the foundations’ press conference, Foundation leaders were optimistic that board relations had announced the formation of a 38-member, blue-ribbon Mayor’s improved enough that members would come together to select Commission on Public Education. a qualified superintendent — several provided funds to pay for The most comprehensive analysis of the district’s perform- a national search — but none was expecting a candidate as ance, finances and governance in the city’s history, conducted dynamic as Roosevelt. by community leaders, education experts, accountants, business “It was an impressive and wise selection,” says William E. executives and parents of students, led to extensive recommen- Trueheart, president and CEO of The Pittsburgh Foundation. dations for change in a 144-page report. “The board was recognizing a superintendent with an outstand- King gives high marks to the process and the recommenda- ing record of educational reform.” The risk, he acknowledges, tions coming out of it, but he remembers one costly misstep. was that Roosevelt had gained that reputation as a legislator, “The executive summary was strident. It was written entirely not an educator. School directors were buying into the Broad for effect, to galvanize people, to get their attention. It wasn’t Foundation program from which Roosevelt had graduated. fair to the school system, and it wasn’t fair to the members of The program takes accomplished civic-business leader types, Spring July 09 July 17 August 16 2002 Infighting The Heinz Pittsburgh Mayor Tom Murphy Murphy unveils his 38-member among Endowments announces he will form a task Mayor’s Commission on Public Pittsburgh school directors and the Pittsburgh and Grable force to study the school dis- Education, which represents escalates as a majority moves foundations suspend funding to trict’s finances, governance a cross-section of local forward with plans to reopen the Pittsburgh Public Schools, a and student performance and residents, including civic three schools with extremely decision that could cost the to recommend improvements. leaders, union and business

low enrollment, despite criti- district as much as $12 million The mayor selects downtown officials, university educators Pittsburgh Tribune-Review cisms from board colleagues through the next several years. developer David Matter and and school administrators. Foundation officials say they’ve and Pittsburgh Foundation parents. lost confidence in the district’s President William E. Trueheart governance. The unprecedented to co-chair the commission, move attracts national attention which private foundations and media coverage. will fund.

September 22 November 04 December 01 2003 The commission releases its the mayor appoint school direc- Newcomers Patrick Dowd and William Isler, president of report, “Keeping the Promise: tors and commissions develop Dan Romaniello are elected to Family Communications and The Case for proposals for closing schools the Pittsburgh school board as a city school director since Reform in and improving student perform- voters heed calls for a change 1999, is elected board Pittsburgh Public ance. It also calls for cutting in the board president with- Schools.” Its con- district taxes and offering and an end to out debate. troversial recom- incentives to teachers and its internal Isler commits mendations principals who work with poor- disputes. to ending board include having performing students. inﬁghting and meddling in administration affairs. Lynn Johnson

February 11 March 15 December 10 2004 The Endowments and the A+ Schools is introduced as a Pittsburgh Superintendent John Pittsburgh and Grable community group that will mon- Thompson is notified that his foundations announce they itor the Pittsburgh schools and contract will not be renewed will reinstate funding to the advocate for improved student in June. The Endowments and Pittsburgh Public Schools. performance. The organization, the Pittsburgh and Grable Foundation officials cite which was formed in response foundations fund a national improved relations among to the commission report, is to search to identify and recruit school directors and be privately funded by groups candidates for the top administrators and school such as the Endowments and administrator post. officials’ commitment to act the Pittsburgh and Grable on commission report foundations. recommendations.

July 27 November 09 December 21 2005 The Pittsburgh Roosevelt unveils a re organi- Pittsburgh school directors school board zation and reform plan that approve a $533.6 million approves the includes closing 20 schools budget that cuts selection of a and transforming seven that 350 jobs and uses candidate outside are low-performing into “accel- $33 million in the educational erated learning academies” reserves to help system, Mark for struggling students. His eliminate a Roosevelt, a noted “Right-Sizing Plan” is based $47 million reform advocate on Rand Corp.’s independent deﬁcit. and a former Massachusetts analysis of student data, legislator and gubernatorial which was partially funded by candidate, as the city’s new foundation grants. school superintendent.

February 28 April 21 April–May May 12 2006 The Pittsburgh school Pittsburgh Public Schools Foundation support for Roosevelt releases a compre- board approves Roosevelt’s teachers and other profes- Roosevelt’s reform plan kicks hensive reform agenda that right-sizing plan. sional staff accept a two-year into gear. An initial investment sets priorities and ambitious contract proposal they had includes a total of $4.6 million milestones for advancing rejected three weeks earlier. from six foundations — academic excellence among The 1,547–870 vote paves including the Endowments— all Pittsburgh public school the way for Roosevelt’s that joined in a Pittsburgh students. reform agenda. Fund for Excellence and another funding track. 30

puts them through a crash schools administration program, model. It was a stunning victory. then sends them off to turn around troubled urban districts. “Pittsburgh is my hometown, and I know from experience The more foundation leaders studied Roosevelt the finalist that it takes us awhile to turn the corner,” says Pittsburgh Urban candidate, the more they became convinced he was the horse League President and CEO Esther Bush, an early supporter and on which to make the big bet. [See sidebar: page 31.] coordinator of some community meetings. “People jokingly say Several foundation leaders were among the community it takes us five to 10 years to change. It’s not a joke.” leaders who talked up his selection behind the scenes, and last Not every leader in the African-American community July, the board approved Roosevelt in a 6-2 vote. Of the board’s shares her confidence in the reform plan, though. Pittsburgh three African-American members, two voted against and the NAACP President M. Gayle Moss charged that it provides third abstained. better school locations and resources to white students. Two of In his first four months on the job, Roosevelt attacked the board’s three African-American members also have charged student achievement and budget problems head on. bias and fault Roosevelt for moving too fast. To avoid charges of favoritism that had tripped up previous But at the top of Roosevelt’s reform agenda is a program superintendents on the incendiary school-closing issue, he aimed at the heart of the achievement gap. How it fares will “And it is way too early to be able to say that student achievement has turned around—which, after all, is what this is all about. But I can tell you that public process and communications are two big reasons why the situation has turned around so dramatically.” Maxwell King president, The Heinz Endowments

turned to Rand Corp. researchers to provide clear, convincing determine Roosevelt’s legacy as superintendent. data that would validate proposed changes as being made on In September, eight “accelerated learning academies” will be their merits. added to the district’s infrastructure. Low-performing elemen- The numbers were then packaged with a polished public tary and middle schools will be transformed into rigorous lab- information campaign of his “Right-Sizing Plan” that involved oratories with the mission of raising test scores. Responding to presentations at some 70 community forums. For Roosevelt, a complaint at one forum about the longer school day planned the grueling pace helped bring on a full bout of pneumonia, for the academies, Roosevelt reminded parents what is at stake. but the effort paid off with a 6-3 vote by the board in favor of “There’s a particular American arrogance in believing that the ﬁrst phase of the plan that will close 18 buildings. It also we can compete with other countries where children will have expands 10 elementary schools to include grades six to eight, had three more years of school by the time they reach 12th moving the district away from the stand-alone middle school grade,” he said. With several of his initiatives adopted, Roosevelt makes his way to a seat on a panel of community leaders convened to talk with residents about the future of Pittsburgh’s public schools. Others on the panel are, from left, Vic Papale, executive director of A+ Schools; Esther Bush, Pittsburgh Urban League president and CEO; Muzz Meyers, former owner of The Balcony jazz club who now coordinates programs for disadvantaged students at Westinghouse High School; and Michael Johnson, assistant professor of management science and urban affairs at Carnegie Mellon University. 31

The solidity of the academies plan and Roosevelt’s other critic of city and school district leadership. “In a 10-month significant wins during his first school year have convinced period, he has made reforms happen that have been suggested local foundations to ante up with significant money to ensure for years and years and years, and he has…really stepped up reform success. to the plate. I believe that his ability to get assistance from the Although Roosevelt is looking for foundation support state would be there for him to sustain that movement.” on several fronts, all of the initial investment — a total of Even if the state assistance pipeline begins flowing, King says $4.6 million from six foundations joining in a Pittsburgh Fund it is too early to tell how well board members and Roosevelt for Excellence and another funding track — is being directed to will continue to work together. Some recent board votes hint support the learning academies. From the Endowments alone, at potential problems. “And it is way too early to be able to say a collaborative effort by the Education and Children, Youth & that student achievement has turned around — which, after all, Families Programs has steered $1 million to the district for hir- is what this is all about. But I can tell you that public process ing and training faculty for the academies. Another $1 million and communications are two big reasons why the situation has in CY&F funds will be spent on building effective community turned around so dramatically.” partnerships to help improve student achievement through Trueheart agrees. “With new, courageous leadership in the efforts such as after-school and parenting programs. city and in the school system, our hopes and dreams for our That level of funding is a remarkable testament to Roosevelt’s children — of having an excellent school system that encourages political and diplomatic skills and to his having been embraced high levels of achievement among all students — have, I believe, so quickly, even by those who are cynical about promises of taken significant steps toward becoming a reality.” change in city and school district governance. That bodes well for the foundations that concentrate their “Needless to say, I am very impressed with his credentials funding on Pittsburgh, because, says King, “You can’t save the and his vision,” says Sen. Jane Orie, R-McCandless, a frequent city without a good school system.” h from campaigns to classrooms

If bloodline alone determined leadership Massachusetts Education Reform Act of After completing the program, in 2003, success in turning around a troubled urban 1993, a comprehensive policy still affect- Roosevelt defied his Eastern roots and school district, Mark Roosevelt would be a ing performance. While the state has moved to Santa Fe, N.M., where he winner at the starting gate. made progress in narrowing the achieve- continued education consulting. As the great-grandson of President ment gap between white and African- That’s when a recruiter called about Teddy and a distant cousin of President American students, the reform measures Pittsburgh’s superintendent opening, Franklin, Mark Roosevelt grew up in a have moved fourth- and eighth-graders to a position described by Victor Papale, family that exuded politics. In 1968, in first place in the nation in reading and to executive director of A+ Schools, a non- the thick of Minnesota Democrat Eugene a tie for first in mathematics in testing profit that monitors the Pittsburgh district, McCarthy’s inspired but failed presiden- last year. The SAT scores rose for the as very similar to “being dropped into tial run, Roosevelt spent his free time at 14th year in a row. the cockpit of a 747 mid-flight in a raging the campaign headquarters stuffing At just 38, Roosevelt rode a wave of storm. You don’t know the crew; you envelopes. He was 13. popularity as an education-reform archi- don’t know the condition of the passen- Years later, when Roosevelt ran for the tect to become the Democratic nominee gers; and you’ve never flown a plane Massachusetts Legislature, his registra- in the 1994 governor’s race. But then- before, but you’re expected to perform tion as a Democrat must have sent some incumbent William Weld, with bigger a perfect landing.” prominent ancestors spinning in their numbers in popularity and fund raising, Of course, that job description might graves. In chicken-dinner speeches during won by a landslide. apply just as accurately to a gubernatorial his Massachusetts political campaigns, Roosevelt’s continued education candidate or a reform-minded legislator. Roosevelt loved to point out that his own activism caught the attention of the Roosevelt’s habit has been to take on the family wouldn’t have voted for him. Broad Foundation, home of the Urban causes that serve his vision of a better As fledgling state legislator in 1986, Superintendents Academy. He sailed world — not so far removed from the he became a godsend to public educators through the highly competitive admis- idealistic 13-year-old licking envelopes with his leadership in developing what sions process, which attracts about 300 in the back of a campaign office. would become the far-reaching applicants each year for 20 slots. Supporters of the merged Pittsburgh Filmmakers and Pittsburgh Center for the Arts are counting on Charlie Humphrey to guide the new organization with creativity and vigor, not gasping for breath as the sculpture “Breath” on the center’s lawn appeared to be doing before a tree was planted in its mouth last year. 33

WITH SUPPORT—AND TOUGH LOVE — FROM LOCAL FUNDERS, THE PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR THE ARTS ROSE FROM FINANCIAL RUINARTISTIC BY UNITING WITH PITTSBURGH FILMMAKERS. NOW, IT’S UP TO CHARLIE HUMPHREY, ARCHITECT OF THE MERGER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE NEW ARTS GROUP, TO KEEP THE ORGANIZATION ON TRACK. VISIONBY JEFFERY FRASER PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOSHUA FRANZOS 34

he storm clouds that had gathered over the large foundations seek greater assurances that their funds Pittsburgh Center for the Arts broke just a few days before are used efficiently, and the cultural sector looks for new Charlie Humphrey was to leave for England on the first two- organizational models to better address increased pressures week vacation of his adult life. No longer able to bear the faced by arts groups today. weight of a festering debt that had reached $1.1 million, the A Wall Street Journal survey found that at least a dozen arts arts center closed its doors in 2004 after 60 years of supporting organizations around the country have formed some type of local artists and offering visual arts education to tens of alliance in recent months to ensure the viability of one or thousands of Pittsburghers, young and old. more of the groups involved. The newspaper reported that the It was staggering news to the local arts community. None long-term prognosis of these unions is uncertain, as some still was more affected than Humphrey. struggle to reach financial goals while artistic differences, As director of the successful media arts nonprofit, audience discontent and ego battles among key players have Pittsburgh Filmmakers, he had emerged as one of the city’s made others less than harmonious. leading arts managers and a passionate advocate of nurturing In Pittsburgh, the new arts organization’s performance so and promoting the creativity of local artists. Moreover, the far has done the most to restore the trust that had been eroded center had deep family roots. His great-grandfather, Charles by the arts center’s financial turmoil. The Pennsylvania Council Donnell Marshall, had donated the center’s trademark yellow on the Arts agreed to continue its support, and the Regional stone mansion on Fifth Avenue to the city in 1945 to be used Asset District resumed funding the center. Much of the fund- as a community arts center, and Humphrey’s father was an ing from the region’s foundations also has been restored. early member of the center’s board of directors. The Endowments, for example, recently awarded $90,000 While Humphrey was touring London in the late summer in general operating support for this year, a sum that had of 2004, his thoughts were of the trouble brewing back in been withheld from the center at the height of its crisis. The Pittsburgh. “I thought about it the whole time,” he says. Endowments also forgave a $100,000 debt incurred after “I tried to go back in my mind to figure out what had happened. the center had improperly paid general operating expenses I thought about what could be done to help the Center for the with money from a grant awarded for training school and Arts through its problems. I thought about what that meant. community art teachers. “If you look at the tapestry of Pittsburgh culture and took “That was a vote of confidence,” says Janet Sarbaugh, senior that panel out, there would be a gaping hole. I couldn’t stand director of the Endowments’ Arts & Culture Program. “We the thought of that.” agreed to do those things based on the strength of the work Within two months of returning to Pittsburgh, Humphrey Charlie had done to retire the debt, repay artists and reopen was leading an effort to right the troubled arts center, drawing the center.” support from artists, staff, an army of volunteers and major The city’s artist guilds established the Pittsburgh Center for funders, including The Heinz Endowments. In a little more the Arts more than six decades ago. The center, housed in two than a year, nearly 70 percent of the arts center’s debt had been donated Shadyside mansions, became a significant resource for whittled away. The center reopened. Its core programs were local artists, schoolchildren and others interested in the arts resumed. And a deal was struck, merging it with the more and arts education. Its school offered studio classes and work- stable Pittsburgh Filmmakers and installing Humphrey as its shops taught by local artists, and enrolled more than 3,000 executive director. children and adults in peak years. Its exhibition program gave While the merged organization has yet to settle on a name, contemporary artists of the region a showcase for works in it presents untold creative possibilities and the potential for watercolor, ceramics, fiber art, sculpture and other disciplines, broadening the reach and offerings of both organizations. and a shop where they could sell those works. Its school and It also reflects a recent national trend of arts-group mergers as community program sent artists into schools and community cultural organizations experience more financial difficulties, centers to teach more than 7,000 students a year.

Jeffery Fraser is a Pittsburgh-based freelance writer and frequent contributor to h. His last story ran in the Winter 2006 issue and reported on how a coalition of foundations supported a recovery plan for southwestern Pennsylvanians hit hard by Hurricane Ivan in 2004. Even before Pittsburgh Filmmakers and the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts merged, they shared similar missions, such as supporting arts education. At left, Central Catholic High School sophomore Zack Wallman, left, pays close attention as instructor Eric Fleischauer gives him computer point- ers during an animated documentary class at Pittsburgh Filmmakers. Below, ceramics instructor Kristin Degiovanni lends a helping hand to 9-year-old Katya Grahm as she shapes clay on a pottery wheel at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. EDUCATION

post-merger director. “We were the city’s major center for artists, and we weren’t paying our artists. That’s as bad as you can get.” The center’s failure to provide an annual financial report as required raised concern at the Endowments. The information would later reveal the depth of the crisis and how the struggling center, its cash flow ruined, inappropriately used restricted monies to pay operating expenses. The Endowments suspended the center from its general operating support program and withheld $90,000 remaining from a three-year, $279,000 operating The first public sign of trouble came early in 2002, when the support grant awarded in 2002. center closed its exhibition program to save money. Many fac- The decision was made knowing it would contribute tors reportedly contributed to the financial problems, including to the center’s financial woes. Just as distressing was that the mission drift, tightening of traditional revenues and, generally, Endowments had built a long relationship with the center, an inability to make the tough decisions necessary to bring supporting it with more than $2.8 million in grants in the costs in line with available resources to stave off crisis. previous 20 years. Once the crisis was at hand, the problems quickly com- “It was one of the most wrenching decisions I had ever pounded. The state Attorney General’s office investigated the encountered since coming here,” says Sarbaugh. “But I think center for misusing restricted funds. Benefactors began to back it was the only way to send a message. I hate to use the term away. Cash flow shriveled to a few dollars. All 13 staff members ‘right sizing’ about the arts, but in difficult times, institutions were laid off in August 2004. All operations were suspended need to look at their missions, look at their products and make except a few scheduled summer art camps and wedding recep- adjustments. If the resources are no longer there to carry out tions. And the center closed, leaving $1.1 million in unpaid the original mission, no not-for-profit can take a God-will- bills, including money owed to artists who had sold their works provide attitude. in the shop and to teachers who had taught classes. “The Endowments puts a great deal of emphasis on finan- “There was an enormous amount of trust broken,” says cial health. We think that keeping your financial house in order Laura Domencic, who was initially affiliated with the center is related to having the freedom to make better art. If you are as an artist and teacher, then last year was named its first in financial crisis day after day, it’s unlikely you’re going to be producing your best work.” 36

EXHIBITION

One of the ﬁrst collaborative projects of Filmmakers and the Center for the Arts following the merger was a citywide series of symposia, photography and ﬁlm exhibitions, and other events called “From Intolerance to Understanding.” The series featured the work of Pittsburgh photographer Lynn Johnson, top photo center, and included installations at Filmmakers, above, and at the center, below. The project also illustrated another shared goal of the two groups: providing venues for exhibiting contemporary art.

That Humphrey agreed to attempt to turn the center around came as good news to the arts community and those who supported it. In his 14 years as director of Filmmakers, he had successfully moved the 35-year-old nonprofit from a support, and Domencic was able to open the Artist of the Year hodgepodge of unconnected spaces in central Oakland to a new show with limited hours. home on Melwood Avenue that consolidated classrooms, studios, Filmmakers made it clear, however, that a merger was out galleries and administrative offices. It expanded its course offer- of the question until the debt was significantly reduced. Within ings for filmmakers and photographers, opened three theaters 15 months, the debt was pared to about $300,000, well below to showcase independent film and kept its budget balanced. the $425,000 limit Filmmakers had imposed. The center’s Humphrey began working on reviving the Center for the reopening, the gradual return to a typical course schedule Arts in October 2004 after suggesting to the Filmmakers board and shop sales helped lower debt. Humphrey also reached that the organization enter into a management contract rather an agreement that allowed the center to use some restricted than a merger and allow him to explore ways to help the center funds to pay teachers and artists who were owed money. through its crisis. “Then, if it made sense to do it, we could talk Early in the process, he convened local foundations about a merger,” he says. “It’s a little like living together before to outline his rescue plan and kept them informed of progress, you get married… But this was a little different from simple both of which helped to restore trust and raise money for cohabitation. We were also trying to nurse it back to health.” general operating expenses. The center restored its core programs on a limited basis Just as encouraging was the attitude of staff, artists and with intentions of expanding them as finances allowed. volunteers. Rather than wallow in bitterness and gloom, they Fall classes that year enrolled 120 students compared to the rallied in surprising numbers to lend whatever services they typical 600 to 800. The shop was reopened with volunteer could to help the troubled center. Both Pittsburgh Filmmakers and the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts also support the work of local artists. At left, director Buzzy Miller, center, and Squonk Opera co-founder and artistic director Steve O’Hearn, right, prepare to shoot a scene of the Squonk Opera’s production, “Pittsburgh, the Opera,” in a Filmmakers 37 studio. Below, Josh Andra, seated, director of the center's studio arts programs, and Teresa Foley, media literacy coordinator, set up computers for the new Annie Seamans Electronic Media Arts lab at the Center for the Arts. SUPPORT Both organizations had dedicated audiences, so that any shared activity would likely get broader exposure. The merger of Pittsburgh Filmmakers and the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts became official in January. But it was not without critics. Carolyn Speranza, an activist, video artist and former Filmmakers board member, was disappointed that a fresh face wasn’t sought to rescue and operate the center as a separate organization. “It was an opportunity for new leadership, new vision, new growth. With the merger, that opportunity was lost.” While speaking highly of Humphrey’s abilities, Tom Sokolowski, director of The Andy Warhol Museum, believes that reviving the center’s artistic relevance will take a yeoman’s effort. He says Humphrey and others must not let nostalgia “There was an enormous amount of goodwill,” says prevent them from curing the arts center of its “schizophrenia,” Domencic, who salvaged the Artist of the Year show with the reflected in the way it promotes both artists not ready for help of no fewer than 75 volunteers. “People kept coming to this formal exhibition and those more accomplished. place because there was a community need for it to be open.” Reacting more positively to the move are others like Andrew By the end of last year, the groundwork had been laid for Swensen, director of Pittsburgh Filmmakers, who says the a merger that could benefit both nonprofits. The center’s debt merger “awakened possibilities.” had been slashed, and its budget was trimmed to a manageable This summer, for example, the center’s art camps will offer $1.2 million. Its school enrolled 2,832 students during this teenagers Filmmaker media literacy classes ranging from digital school year, only a few hundred shy of its peak enrollment photography to animation production. “From Intolerance to in 2003–04. The community and school program was again Understanding” is another shared project. The citywide series serving about 7,000 students a year. Exhibitions were regularly of photography and film exhibitions, multi-media installations, scheduled. Sharing insurance costs, public relations, marketing, symposia and workshops explores hate crime, hope and development, financial and other services with Filmmakers understanding. brought economies of scale. Humphrey realizes that such progress must continue for More important, a merger made programmatic sense. the merger to be successful, and that he has to steer clear of the Both nonprofits had core missions devoted to education, sup- problems that threw the center into crisis. port for local artists and exhibition of contemporary work. Prospects for future Endowments funding, says Sarbaugh, Their demographics invited intriguing possibilities. Filmmakers will be influenced by how programs evolve and how successful media arts courses primarily target college-age students, while the new organization is at staying financially stable. “Given the the center’s educational infrastructure focused on the other magnitude of the center’s crisis, it is easy to understand how ends of the age spectrum: schoolchildren and older adults. fragile the rebuilding process is. All the center’s supporters will Filmmakers had an extensive schedule of media arts courses be watching carefully. We’re ecstatic that we didn’t lose the center. in increasingly popular subjects not offered at the center. But Charlie needs to make this work. It is still a work in progress.” h iL HL

Dennis Marsico Pittsburgh has a new park and a new hillside policy, thanks to the conservation efforts of two foundation-supported 39 community groups– and a tornado. S i by Tracy Certo e D story No Development The entire hillside is preserved as a natural landscape, with no buildings on the slope, crest or foot of the hill. Such hillsides also do not have any streets or roads, though a railroad may be at the base.

Grid Development These slopes are developed from top to bottom, usually with some of the city’s older, historic housing. The inclines in these areas tend to be more gradual, and because infrastructure and building patterns are in place, additional development can be accommodated.

n an early June evening in the first time, the houses on top of Mount Washington,”she recalls. 1998, Sue Thompson was driving her car along Pittsburgh’s The twister that randomly ripped through the hillside did Grandview Avenue with her niece, who had just arrived in something else in the process. It rearranged the landscape and town. A sudden storm darkened the sky, and strong winds blew opened up expansive views. leaves and snapped branches off trees. It also exposed growing tension between conservationists Thompson paused at the top of the winding and narrow and developers about the best use of the city’s scenic hillsides. East Sycamore Street to let cars pass in the opposite direction. And while often supportive of economic and residential She pointed down the steep Mount Washington hillside development in and near Pittsburgh’s downtown, The Heinz through the pouring rain. “There’s my house,” she told her Endowments and other nonprofits are backing efforts to pre- niece. “The one with the huge cherry tree.” serve the city’s signature slopes and limit future construction Then a car crested the hill, and the driver shouted not to go on them. down. “There’s been a tornado, and all the houses have been “Our hillsides and their natural characteristics are defining Oblown away!” he yelled. elements of Pittsburgh,” says Endowments Environment When a frantic Thompson got to her house, she was relieved Program Director Caren Glotfelty. “More development can to find it still standing. But the landmark tree seen minutes occur in some of these hillside areas. But we shouldn’t be so earlier had toppled. anxious to develop everywhere because that mix of green space It was one of many that was felled as nature flexed its mus- and development is what makes the hillsides attractive and cles, uprooting hundreds of trees, mangling scores of others keeps property values high. Any short-term gain is not worth and blowing apart houses along East Sycamore Street, a road the long-term economic loss.” adjacent to 16 steep, wooded acres known as “the Saddle.” If there’s anything the highly visible Mount Washington is As Thompson stepped outside of her house after surveying known for, it’s steep wooded hillsides and the dramatic views the damage, she looked around in awe. “I was amazed to see, for they afford. Namesake George Washington enjoyed the show-

Tracy Certo is the editor of Pop City, a weekly e-newsletter and Web site showcasing positive and sustained transformation in the Pittsburgh region, and of Columns, the magazine of the Pittsburgh Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Her last story for h magazine was a report on a new green addition to the Sarah Heinz House that, along with innovative programming, has the center reconnecting with the community. Ribbon Development In these sections of the city, strips of development on the face of a hillside alternate with strips of green space. The buildings are usually along streets that cross the slope and provide the infrastructure to support more development.

Pittsburgh Hillside Development Building a development that complements its natural surround- ings is no easy task, and Pittsburgh’s rolling hills intensify Developed Edges This occurs the challenge. An Endowments- when buildings are constructed funded study, “An Ecological and on the top and bottom edges of the slopes, allowing the natural Physical Investigation of Pittsburgh landscape to remain in between. Hillsides,” found four hillside condi- Similar to ribbon development, tions in the city that researchers more building can be done in deemed worth maintaining. those sections where the infrastructure exists.

stopper, panoramic vista from what is now Grandview Avenue tax revenue and greenspace at the same time.” hundreds of years before the popular and iconic viewing pods Others disagree. “The Saddle is geologically unstable,” insists were installed. Most recently, USA Today named the view from Glotfelty, who also is an East Sycamore Street resident. that vantage point as the second most beautiful in the country. Still, it took the tornado and the damage it caused to whip Where else can you ﬁnd such a stunning, close-up tableau up the debate about protecting Pittsburgh’s hillsides. Although of a scenic downtown framed by three rivers and wooded the slopes have been part of the city’s landscape for eons, the bluffs? Nowhere in the country, says architect Stephen Quick, attempt to preserve them is relatively new. As some developers who had researched other cities looking for comparables. began to explore options for building in the Saddle after the Views sell. So it was a stark twist of fate when the tornado twister blew through, two groups initiated projects that helped that wrought destruction literally paved the way for some change the fate of Mount Washington, alter Pittsburgh’s hillside developers — undeterred by nature or warnings of shifting hill- zoning policy and provide a blueprint for hillside conservation sides — to suddenly notice the steeply graded Saddle plots with for the entire region. their exceptional vistas. While the city was willing to sell parcels One effort resulted in an empirical study of Pittsburgh hill- of land, others protested. Among many concerns, including sides that was used as a tool for regulating zoning and develop- aesthetics, was the issue of safety. ment. The other was a seven-year-long project of the Mount “You can develop anywhere if you come up with the right Washington Community Development Corp. to protect and engineering solutions,” says Roy Kraynyk, landscape architect restore 280 acres of green spaces, parks, hillsides and trails that with the Allegheny Land Trust. The problem lies in the high ring the community. risk of future repair and replacement costs — and that falls on Quick, of Perkins Eastman Architects, which did the urban the public, he says. design part of the study, says the work was important because But developer Mark Masterson says he thinks the Saddle the city’s slopes are “fundamental.”“They provide buffers and could support a small development — a maximum of eight to open space, contribute to the quality of life, and they are 12 townhouses to take advantage of the view — and still pre- intrinsic to the identity of the city. When you are competing serve 80 to 90 percent of the land. The townhouse owners also against other cities for economic development and people, could pay for a trail through the greenway, he says. “It could be green hillsides are important for quality of life. They have a a win–win for someone to develop property in the city to get direct economic impact.” 42

Pittsburgh’s City Planning Department was looking for a The study, which the councilman says is “cutting edge for different kind of economic boost, however, when it initiated zoning and planning policy anywhere in the nation,” garnered zoning code changes after the 1998 tornado. The revisions an AIA Pittsburgh Design Award last fall for introducing a included a new zoning designation for Mount Washington hill- new approach to regulating the development of hillsides. And sides that permitted development in the Saddle and elsewhere. although the recommendations are tailored to Pittsburgh, the Lynn Squilla, chair of the Mount Washington Community report offers community designers everywhere suggestions for Development Corp. board, says residents were alarmed by this zoning more effectively. turn of events. “Is that the highest and best use, which City Allegheny County officials are looking at the study for ideas Planning claimed it was? We questioned that. We said, ‘Wait! to be incorporated into the county’s first comprehensive land- There’s an economic value to keeping this green.’” use plan, which is expected to be completed and adopted next Recognizing the need to update the city’s approach to its year. As is the case in Pittsburgh, developers have been attracted hillsides, Councilman Bill Peduto asked the city Planning to the rolling hills surrounding the city and have built retail Department in 2002 to help Pittsburgh officials rethink hillside and housing complexes among the slopes, sometimes bulldoz- policy. With that nudge, Planning Director Susan Golomb ing them level in the process. Lynn Heckman, assistant director formed the Hillsides Commission, a group of citizens who of planning for the county’s Department of Economic would aid in re-evaluating how public policy and zoning regu- Development, says county officials do not have the power to lations could protect the slopes. The committee used a $50,000 dictate zoning or development regulations for local towns, but Endowments grant to hire Perkins Eastman and the Allegheny the plan could influence those decisions because state grants Land Trust to conduct the first-ever study of Pittsburgh hills. and permits for projects are often determined by compliance “No one ever looked closely at our local slopes before. to county guidelines. We’ve been suffering from panoramic myopia,” says ecologist The hillside study’s findings left a more definitive mark on and artist Tim Collins, who conducted the ecological portion Pittsburgh development policy after city planners presented of the study through the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at zoning legislation based on the report to the Planning Carnegie Mellon University. Commission last June. Opposition from developers led to more The 2004 report, called “An Ecological and Physical community meetings. But in December, City Council approved Investigation of Pittsburgh Hillsides,” made the case that tradi- new rules for building on slopes, which included a requirement tional planning tools have been ineffective in regulating hillside that any construction planned on land with a grade greater development. Originally established to address nuisances and than 25 percent must be reviewed in a public forum. now-dated notions of health and safety, zoning ordinances fail That zoning change, and recommendations that the city to address the modern need for environmental stewardship act as a better steward of its land, benefited the Emerald Link, and quality of life. a project of the Mount Washington CDC. The idea for an Because hillsides are such a distinctive and public feature of expansive swath of green space evolved through a convergence the city, they should be subject to an even higher standard of of events that began the same year the tornado struck. regulation than is typical of city land, the study said. One of its In 1998, Susan Brandt, then director of the CDC, basic principles was that buildings and development should announced at a monthly meeting that, once again, the organi- be subordinate to the natural landscape. From slopes to steep zation had been turned down for funding for a hillside bluffs, the study classified the various kinds of hillsides into improvement project. three categories for zoning purposes: preservation, conservation Frustrated, a task force dubbed “Green is Good” decided to and development. formulate a new funding strategy, thinking bigger and even By quantifying factors that could better inform the develop- greener. Instead of focusing on one hillside area, the group ment versus conservation debate, the hillside report went would promote preservation of all of them and more: It would further than any other in defining the terms. “It takes issues connect the dots of the four existing parks in the community debated on principle and applies hard numbers to them,” to create a much larger parcel of green space for an “Emerald explains Peduto. Link” of trails, parks, playgrounds and natural forested areas. A

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Pittsburgh’s Fifth Park The Grand View Scenic Byway Park is a proposed 280-acre tract that would encircle the plateau of Pittsburgh’s Mount Washington Illustration: Mount Washington CDC Illustration: Mount Washington and Duquesne Heights neighborhoods, connecting existing parks and a stretch of hillsides facing the Monongahela and Ohio Rivers. It was so impressive that Dan Deasy, a new City Council member, agreed to propose the idea of the Emerald Link as the A Grandview Park city’s ﬁfth major park to then-Mayor Tom Murphy at the end B The Saddle (16 acres of public land added to the parcel in March) of his administration last year. Murphy authorized the idea of C Grand View Scenic Byway and Grandview Overlook Park the park with one exception: He omitted the Saddle. That D Olympia Park property, with its panoramic city views, was still highly sought E Mount Washington Park after by developers with the potential for providing tax dollars F Duquesne Heights Greenway to the city. Key elements of the park include: Green space and trails to preserve and protect green and open spaces Around the same time, Deasy mentioned in passing to Hillside restoration and management to promote sound ecological Mayor-elect Bob O’Connor an upcoming meeting of the practices that help stabilize hillsides, provide habitats for native Mount Washington CDC to unveil the plan for the Emerald plants and wildlife and maintain attractive views to, from and within Link. To Deasy’s surprise, O’Connor showed up. “He was the park excited about the plan and impressed by the CDC,” says Deasy, Improved and restored city parks within the Grand View Scenic “and the fact that the plan wasn’t relying solely on city money, Byway Park, ensuring their ongoing maintenance and increasing their active community use but also included foundation, state and federal funding.” In March, a few months after O’Connor became Pittsburgh’s mayor, the city ceded the 16 acres comprising the Saddle to The CDC partnered with the Western Pennsylvania become part of 280 acres that would constitute the newly Conservancy to study a 458-acre area. Endowments support named Grand View Scenic Byway Park. for the project included $27,000 in grants to the CDC and a Residents are thrilled with the park designation. “It’s the total of $195,000 to the conservancy. “It was a comprehensive best way to consolidate all this land, to protect it and restore it,” look at the green infrastructure,” says Judy Wagner, an urban says Squilla. planner and the project manager from the conservancy. It’s expected to take up to 10 years to acquire more funding Using GPS technology, the team created dozens of reports and implement the plan for the Grand View Scenic Byway and maps, detailing resources such as the types of forests, soil Park. The Endowments has given the CDC $50,000 to hire a and plants, then outlining opportunities for improvements. parks director and another $150,000 to begin executing the Issued in November, the Emerald Link master plan was in- plan. Meanwhile, a skeletal trail system is in place, and pilot depth, thorough and “allowed a level of technical information projects, such as creating a new viewing area overlooking the that surprised everyone,” says Wagner. Saddle, are ready for construction. “The master plan was a really unusual project. It allowed a Even before completion, the Byway will be a unique urban relatively small CDC to partner with a larger environmental park that blends the built environment with the natural. organization to go further than they would have gone on their Visitors will be able to walk a trail deep in the woods, then own,”Wagner says. “What is wonderful is that [The Heinz climb steps to sidewalks on a city street offering skyline views Endowments] provided enough support that the plan was that take your breath away. done on this scale.” In how many cities can you do that? h financial summary

This is a combined financial summary for Total Combined Approved Grants for 2005 (in millions) = $57.4 the Howard Heinz Endowment and the Vira I. Heinz Endowment. The 2005 amounts indicated here have not yet been audited.

Arts & Culture $13.7

Children, Youth & Families $11.5 By Program Area Education $7.1 { Environment $9.5 Innovation Economy $15.6

Southwestern Pennsylvania will be…

a premier place to live and work $32.3

By Organizational Goal a center of learning and educational excellence $15.7

{ a home to diversity and inclusion $8.3

other $1.1

Historical Perspective

2005 $57.4 2004 $53.1 Total Combined Approved Grants 2003 $51.9 (in millions) 2002 $70.3 { 2001 $55.4

2005 $1.4 2004 $1.3 Total Combined Net Assets 2003 $1.3 (in billions) 2002 $1.2 { 2001 $1.4 year in review By Maxwell King President, The Heinz Endowments

usan Hockenberry and Kathleen Enright work at We have made an internal commitment to be a national leader opposite ends of the philanthropic sector, and they in the philanthropic sector on these values, and we realize S lead very different organizations. They don’t know that achieving that requires that we promote them through one another, but their positions on ethics, effectiveness and our grantees. accountability were knitted together in much of the As the new chair of the national Council on Foundations, I Endowments’ work in these areas last year. am particularly aware of our need to pay attention to the other Hockenberry is executive director of western Pennsylvania’s end of the philanthropic pipeline and to live up to the same Local Government Academy, one of hundreds of nonprofit ethics-effectiveness code. Certainly, the ethical misbehaviors in organizations that shared in the more than $57 million in recent years by some high-profile foundations make that clear. Endowments grants distributed throughout the region last That’s why the words of Enright and the services of GEO year. Its superb ethics-effectiveness training program for public have been especially valuable to the Endowments and to the officials is why it has been a grantee since 1993. field as a whole. Enright is executive director of Grantmakers for Effective Like Hockenberry, Enright also draws a direct line between Organizations, a national group dedicated to making founda- the willingness of a foundation to engage in honest self-evalua- tions more effective in the ways in which they relate to grantees tion and outside assessment of effectiveness and ethical behavior. and to the nonprofit field. Embedded in the organization’s “Grant makers often expect their grantees to exhibit behav- various programs is the principle that grant makers concerned iors that they themselves do not model,” Enright wrote in last with evaluating their impact in the community are likely to year’s May-June issue of Foundation News & Commentary pay more attention to ethics and accountability issues. magazine. She cited an Urban Institute study that found “a As an active member of GEO and a grantor of the Local Government “IT’S HARD FOR PEOPLE TO SEE IMMEDIATELY THAT OUR SESSION Academy, the Endowments, I believe, ON STORMWATER MANAGEMENT HAS AN ETHICS COMPONENT, is playing a leadership role in the BUT IT DOES. ... TELLING THEM WE’RE GOING TO LECTURE THEM ethics-accountability field, which is ON ETHICS ALONE IS LIKE YELLING ‘EAT YOUR VEGETABLES!’ ” itself growing in importance in the Susan Hockenberry executive director, Local Government Academy foundation world. At the academy, newly elected officials are put through substantial number of foundations failing to engage in practices 10 courses that cover the basics of running municipalities — that, by their own standards, are important to effectiveness.” finances, human resources, law, public safety, planning — and The Endowments took this message to heart last year and a specific session on ethics. But the underpinnings of the entire contracted with a partner organization, the Center for Effective program are ethics, transparency, evaluation and effective Philanthropy, to conduct a grantee perception survey. While we decision making. have done these in the past, this was the first in which we com- “It’s hard for people to see immediately that our session pared our results with those of other foundations. As part of on stormwater management has an ethics component, but it walking the walk with our grantees and the public, we will be does,” says Hockenberry. “That’s on purpose. We realize that we posting the results of the survey on our Web site in the future. have what amounts to a teachable moment with these officials. This is just one of the ways in which we intend to measure Telling them we’re going to lecture them on ethics alone is like our own effectiveness and improve our accountability to the yelling ‘Eat your vegetables!’ ” public. But in the process of “learning to eat our vegetables,” Instead, the vegetables get mixed in with the meat and pota- we take some caution from Howard Heinz Endowment toes of governance. What officials discover, says Hockenberry, Chairman Teresa Heinz. In a speech at the recent Council on is that “being effective in office means paying attention to a set Foundations conference in Pittsburgh, she cautioned the field of shared, community-based ethics.” to avoid becoming “one colossal, collective bore” in the process The Local Government Academy is just one of dozens of adopting these values. They are only worthwhile, she said, of grantees that Endowments program staff identified and to the extent that they give us the credibility to lead and “give supported last year as strong ethics-effectiveness advocates. others that spark, that idea or vision that can change lives.” h 2005 grants

ARTS & CULTURE Carnegie Institute Community Loan Fund of Filipino American Association For general operating support Southwestern Pennsylvania of Pittsburgh African American Cultural Center Vira I. Heinz Endowment To support the 18-month CL To build a Philippine Nationality For programming in 2005–06 $3,000 Community Facilities pilot, which Room in the Cathedral of Howard Heinz Endowment aims to help area nonprofits divest Learning at the University of Carnegie Institute $200,000 of burdensome real estate Pittsburgh For support of the Carnegie The Bloomfield-Garfield Corporation Vira I. Heinz Endowment Vira I. Heinz Endowment International To support the Penn Avenue Arts $25,000 $5,000 Vira I. Heinz Endowment Initiative’s Youth Arts Program $10,000 Community Theater Project Frick Art & Historical Center in 2006 Corporation To develop a comprehensive Carnegie Mellon University Vira I. Heinz Endowment For the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater to site plan To support the Arts & Culture $30,000 maintain a pricing structure that Vira I. Heinz Endowment Observatory from July 2005 to Calliope House, Inc. supports new and developing $100,000 June 2006 To support the strategic theater users Howard Heinz Endowment Gateway to the Arts planning process Vira I. Heinz Endowment $70,000 $120,000 For operating support for 2005–07 Vira I. Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment $20,000 Cave Canem Construction Junction, Inc. $180,000 To support the Cave Canem 2005 Carnegie Institute For the SALVO Arts Festival in Workshop/Retreat at the University Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council For operating and program October 2005 of Pittsburgh Greensburg For funding to secure a CEO endowment for the Andy Warhol Vira I. Heinz Endowment Vira I. Heinz Endowment $2,000 Vira I. Heinz Endowment Museum $10,000 $30,000 Howard Heinz Endowment Creative Capital Foundation Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council $4,000,000 Children’s Festival Chorus For a Professional Development To support the development of an For a two-phase organizational Weekend Retreat for southwestern Carnegie Institute Office of Public Art in collaboration assessment of Children’s Festival Pennsylvania artists in For long-range planning support with the Department of City Chorus Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Vira I. Heinz Endowment Planning Vira I. Heinz Endowment September 16–18, 2005 $3,550 Howard Heinz Endowment $16,000 Vira I. Heinz Endowment Carnegie Institute $50,000 City Theatre Company Inc. $20,500 For support of the Carnegie Green Building Alliance For funding to assist with a search Creative Nonfiction Foundation International To support the costs of the for a new managing director To support the Pittsburgh Vira I. Heinz Endowment Civic Design Coalition’s work Vira I. Heinz Endowment Creative Nonfiction Literary $10,000 Howard Heinz Endowment $10,000 Festival in fall 2005 Carnegie Institute $50,000 Civic Light Opera Association Vira I. Heinz Endowment For general operating support To support the CLO’s participation $10,000 Historical Society of Howard Heinz Endowment Western Pennsylvania in a national project to develop The Downtown Management $8,000 To support the completion of new musical theater Organization the Senator H. John Heinz exhibit Carnegie Institute Vira I. Heinz Endowment For funding to hire a consultant to and relocation of the Visitor For three-year operating support $75,000 work as an “owner’s representative” Information Center Vira I. Heinz Endowment for the central core redevelopment Civic Light Opera Association Howard Heinz Endowment $625,350 project (Fifth and Forbes) For three-year operating support $28,000 Carnegie Institute Vira I. Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment For three-year operating support $378,850 $50,000 Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania Vira I. Heinz Endowment The Downtown Management Community Design Center To support work toward the $193,410 Organization of Pittsburgh American Association of Museums For strategic planning Carnegie Institute To support the Pittsburgh Civic accreditation process, and To support the Pittsburgh Roars Design Coalition Howard Heinz Endowment $42,850 developmental funding for campaign Vira I. Heinz Endowment future exhibitions Vira I. Heinz Endowment $50,000 Duquesne University Vira I. Heinz Endowment $50,000 Community Design Center To support the Jazz and $200,000 of Pittsburgh Fiddling Camp Carnegie Institute Historical Society of Vira I. Heinz Endowment For support of a marketing plan To support expansion of the Western Pennsylvania $7,000 Vira I. Heinz Endowment Community Design Services For general operating support $18,200 Howard Heinz Endowment Vira I. Heinz Endowment $180,000 $3,000 International Network of Nego Gato, Inc. Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Pittsburgh Irish and Schools for the Advancement To support the growth and For general operating support Classical Theatre Inc. of Arts Education development of Nego Gato’s local Vira I. Heinz Endowment To assist with the search for To support the Network of Schools performance ensemble from $5,000 a new managing director for the Advancement of Arts October 2005 through June 2006 Howard Heinz Endowment Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Education and the National Guild Howard Heinz Endowment $20,000 of Community Schools of the Arts For general operating support $20,000 Pittsburgh Irish and 2005 National Conference held Howard Heinz Endowment Classical Theatre Inc. in Pittsburgh Northside Leadership Conference $2,500 47 For the Sandusky Street underpass To provide partial support for Vira I. Heinz Endowment Pittsburgh Cultural Trust public art project the new position of Managing $15,000 For 2006 operating support Howard Heinz Endowment Director and implementation of Howard Heinz Endowment Jazz Workshop, Inc. $10,000 the strategic plan in 2006, 2007 To support Family Night, Jazz on $850,000 and 2008 Pew Charitable Trusts the Steps and Jazz in the Parklet Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Howard Heinz Endowment To support the Pennsylvania events from October 2004 through For general operating support $120,000 September 2005 Cultural Data Project from Vira I. Heinz Endowment Pittsburgh Musical Theater Howard Heinz Endowment June 2005 to May 2006 $5,000 To support fourteen student $15,000 Howard Heinz Endowment $100,000 Pittsburgh Dance Alloy matinee performances at the Lawrenceville Development For the season premiere in April Byham Theater in 2005–06 Pittsburgh Board of Corporation 2005 and a marketing campaign Vira I. Heinz Endowment Public Education To purchase — and rent below Vira I. Heinz Endowment $25,000 market rate — artists’ studios at To support an integrated $40,000 Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble the Blackbird Lofts elementary arts curriculum To support the 2005 season Vira I. Heinz Endowment at the New Homewood Pittsburgh Dance Alloy $150,000 Elementary School and Dilworth For three-year operating support Vira I. Heinz Endowment Traditional Academy Vira I. Heinz Endowment $40,000 The Looking Glass Institute Vira I. Heinz Endowment $159,200 Pittsburgh Opera Inc. To support drafting quality $64,000 To support the Artistic standards for community Pittsburgh Film-Makers, Inc. Excellence project development Pittsburgh Center for the Arts For three-year operating support Howard Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment For operating support for 2006 Vira I. Heinz Endowment $10,000 Howard Heinz Endowment $222,900 $300,000 $90,000 The Pittsburgh Project Mattress Factory The Pittsburgh Foundation For support for a student to study To support a new marketing Pittsburgh Chapter AIA Charitable For a one-year pilot of the Associates the Afro-Brazilian dance and the staff position Creativity Project to take place To support the Pittsburgh Citizen’s martial art form Capoeira in Brazil Howard Heinz Endowment in 2005–06 $250,000 Gaming Advisory Panel Howard Heinz Endowment Vira I. Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment $50,000 $1,500 Mattress Factory $50,000 Pittsburgh Public Theater To support the City of Asylum’s The Pittsburgh Foundation Pittsburgh Children’s Museum Corporation core program To support the creation of a short To support architect, fund-raising To support strategic planning Vira I. Heinz Endowment film on Pittsburgh in preparation and professional development $15,000 and project management fees for for the 2006 Council on the Hazlett Theater Foundations Annual Conference activities in 2004–05 Mendelssohn Choir of Vira I. Heinz Endowment in Pittsburgh Howard Heinz Endowment Pittsburgh, Inc. $40,000 Vira I. Heinz Endowment $17,000 To fund the world premiere of $30,000 Pittsburgh Public Theater Nancy Galbraith’s Requiem Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Corporation Vira I. Heinz Endowment To support the District Pittsburgh Glass Workshop Inc. For three-year operating support $48,000 Development Fund for 2005 To retire the mortgage on the Howard Heinz Endowment artists’ house and to fund elements Vira I. Heinz Endowment Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation $500,000 of the strategic plan in 2006–08 $433,400 For the Pennsylvania Performing Vira I. Heinz Endowment Pittsburgh Public Theater Arts on Tour program, Phase IV Pittsburgh Cultural Trust To implement facilities $200,000 Corporation Vira I. Heinz Endowment For general operating support $340,000 management recommendations Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Howard Heinz Endowment Foundation Vira I. Heinz Endowment Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation $150,000 To support the green building $2,000 For the Artist and Communities portion of the National Trust Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Pittsburgh Symphony Society project for 2006 and 2007 Conference in Pittsburgh in 2006 To support the national conference For maintenance of Heinz Hall Howard Heinz Endowment Vira I. Heinz Endowment of the Association of American Plaza for 2005–07 $120,000 $30,000 Cultures held in Pittsburgh in Howard Heinz Endowment Multicultural Arts Initiative August 2005 Pittsburgh International $75,000 For 2006 grants Howard Heinz Endowment Children’s Theatre Howard Heinz Endowment $15,000 To support artistic and $400,000 management costs Vira I. Heinz Endowment $60,000 Pittsburgh Symphony Society University of Pittsburgh Arts & Culture Bach Choir of Pittsburgh For general operating support For Shakespeare-in-the-Schools to Creative Heights Program To support the performances of Howard Heinz Endowment pilot and evaluate the new “See It, Artists Image Resource Joe Negri and Tom Roberts on $14,000 Feel It, Act It, Write It” extended To support a Creative Heights March 31, 2006 and April 1, 2006 residency program in area public at St. Agnes Church in Oakland Riverlife Task Force residency with visual artist schools, January–December 2005 Howard Heinz Endowment For the strategic planning project Patricia Villalobos Echeverria Howard Heinz Endowment $6,000 Howard Heinz Endowment from summer 2005 to fall 2006 $20,000 48 $49,000 Vira I. Heinz Endowment The Balmoral School of University of Pittsburgh $40,000 Highland Piping, Inc. Riverlife Task Force To support guest artist expenses To commission James McIntosh, For operating support for 2006 City Theatre Company Inc. associated with Kuntu Repertory M.B.E. to compose bagpipe tunes Vira I. Heinz Endowment To support a Creative Heights Theatre’s productions of Bubbling in honor of Andrew Carnegie $250,000 residency with playwright Tammy with a public performance Brown Sugar, Jelly’s Last Jam and Ryan from May 2005 to April 2006 Robert Morris University in late November 2006 at Sweet Thunder: Billy Strayhorn, Vira I. Heinz Endowment Carnegie Lecture Hall For the Bayer Center for Nonprofit January–June 2005 $7,000 Management to provide financial Howard Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment analyses and technical assistance $20,000 Mattress Factory $5,000 regarding select cultural To support a Creative Heights Virginia Center for the The Bloomfield-Garfield organizations in 2005 residency with visual artist Creative Arts Corporation Vira I. Heinz Endowment Ruth Stanford from May 2005 To support visiting artists from To support Attack Theatre’s $30,000 to December 2005 southwestern Pennsylvania to production of Games of Steel Vira I. Heinz Endowment Silver Eye Center for Photography be in residence at VCCA from at Red Star Ironworks in $27,000 To support key exhibitions and June 2006 to May 2007 October 2005 professional development activities Vira I. Heinz Endowment Pittsburgh Glass Workshop Inc. Howard Heinz Endowment in 2005–06 and 2006–07 $27,500 To support a Creative Heights $15,000 Vira I. Heinz Endowment residency with visual artist Westmoreland Museum of Art Bodiography Contemporary $50,000 Hilary Harp from April 2005 To support the exhibition and Ballet Co. to April 2006 Silver Eye Center for Photography catalog for American Scenery: To support the creation of a Vira I. Heinz Endowment Themes, Symbols and Pairings in new work by Ze’eva Cohen To fund a building renovation $40,000 project Hudson River School Painting for presentation at the Byham Vira I. Heinz Endowment Vira I. Heinz Endowment Pittsburgh International Theater in April 2006 $50,000 $50,000 Children’s Theatre Howard Heinz Endowment To support a Creative Heights $6,500 Sports & Exhibition Authority of WQED Pittsburgh residency with storyteller Azizi Pittsburgh and Allegheny County Brew House Association To support The War That Made Powell beginning in April 2005 To support a special event To support artistic and educational America project Vira I. Heinz Endowment programming for 2006 celebrating the unveiling of a Vira I. Heinz Endowment $7,000 Jenny Holzer work at the $300,000 Howard Heinz Endowment Convention Center Pittsburgh Symphony Society $9,000 WQED Pittsburgh To support a Creative Heights Howard Heinz Endowment Bricolage To support On Q for 2006 residency with composer Reza Vali $15,000 To support the production of the Howard Heinz Endowment from June 2005 to May 2006 Team Pennsylvania Foundation 2006 Staged Reading Performance $250,000 Vira I. Heinz Endowment To support the 2005 Governor’s Series (February–July) WQED Pittsburgh $40,000 Awards for the Arts Howard Heinz Endowment To support the Peter Matthiessen Howard Heinz Endowment Arts & Culture $6,000 documentary project $5,000 Small Arts Initiative Howard Heinz Endowment Carnegie Institute The Thomas Merton Center $30,000 Artists and Cities, Inc. To support the Artists Upstairs For funding to complete the To support artist fees for “ArtUp’s Raw Spectacle Series” WQED Pittsburgh documentary Enough is Barebones Productions’ Howard Heinz Endowment For general operating support ENOUGH: The Death of Jonny performance of Frozen in $5,000 Vira I. Heinz Endowment Lawrenceville in October 2005 Gammage Edgewood Symphony $2,000 Howard Heinz Endowment Vira I. Heinz Endowment Orchestra, Inc. $7,500 $10,000 The Writers Room of To provide funds for soloists, Bucks County, Inc. Tickets for Kids Foundation Artists Image Resource recording and sheet music To support the Generation To subsidize the purchase of tickets To support the 2006 Artist-in- during the 2005–06 season Crossroads Memoirs program to cultural events for 2005–06 Residence program Howard Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment Vira I. Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment $2,200 $10,000 $12,000 $10,000 Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh Touchstone Center for Crafts Autumn House Press To support Fiberart International To support eight headliner artists To support the 2006 Master 2007 from April to August 2007 during the 2005 season Poets Series Howard Heinz Endowment Vira I. Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment $15,000 $16,000 $7,000 Glorious Rebirth Performing Troupe Open Stage Theatre Squonk Opera CHILDREN, YOUTH To support the production of To support the production of To support the development & FAMILIES Junkanoo at the Byham Theater See Under: Love by Corey Fischer phase of Pittsburgh: The Opera on June 17, 2006 (February 24–March 12, 2006) Howard Heinz Endowment 3 Rivers Connect Howard Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment $15,000 To support the development $2,000 $3,000 of a process to collect, analyze Srishti Dances of India and disseminate information Guitar Society of Fine Art The Pittsburgh Camerata To support the presentation of on after-school programs that To provide support to the To support More Pictures Yugma at the Kelly-Strayhorn will begin to inform policy and 49 Pittsburgh Live Chamber Orchestra at an Exhibition (October 28– Community Performing Arts funding priorities, as well as for two concerts in 2005–06 November 5, 2006) Center in April 2006 choice and usage by consumers Howard Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment Vira I. Heinz Endowment $10,000 $6,125 $12,000 $300,000 Guitar Society of Fine Art Pittsburgh Center for the Arts Umoja African Arts Company Allegheny County Department To support the presentation of the To support the Pittsburgh To support the African Arts of Human Services Los Angeles Guitar Quartet and Society of Sculptors 2006 in the Park Festival in August For a community-based approach electric guitarist Mike Stern during Annual Open Exhibition 2006 at Point State Park to youth violence prevention in the 2005–06 season (May 5–August 20, 2006) Howard Heinz Endowment Allegheny County Howard Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment $10,000 Vira I. Heinz Endowment $14,000 $7,000 United Jewish Federation $100,000 The Jewish Theatre of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Concert Chorale To support the Pittsburgh Jewish Allegheny County Department For the development of a For support of the March 4–5, Musical Festival’s performance of of Human Services new play, titled Watching Fire, 2006 Classical Concert From Shabbat to the High Holidays To support the development of Watching Rain, which premiered Howard Heinz Endowment on May 31, 2006 community learning centers in in March 2006 $5,000 Howard Heinz Endowment Clairton, Sto-Rox and Duquesne Howard Heinz Endowment $15,000 School Districts Pittsburgh Film-Makers, Inc. $8,000 Howard Heinz Endowment To support the Two Girls Working United Jewish Federation $200,000 Junction Dance Theatre project, Trappings To support the Pittsburgh Jewish To support the House Party Howard Heinz Endowment Israeli Film Festival International Allegheny County Department performance in May 2006 $6,000 Film Festival at Southside Works of Human Services Howard Heinz Endowment Cinema (March 16–April 2, 2006) For startup of a family support Pittsburgh Jazz Society $8,000 Howard Heinz Endowment center to serve Green Meadows For the production of five $13,000 and Prospect Park housing Laboratory Company Dance, Inc. one-hour programs from the communities University of Pittsburgh To commission guest concert series to be broadcast on Howard Heinz Endowment choreographers to create new WDUQ-FM in winter 2006 To support Music on the Edge’s $220,000 works for the November 2005 Howard Heinz Endowment January 2006 concert with performance $6,500 pianist Ursula Oppens Beginning With Books Howard Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment To expand the Beacons project Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy $11,000 $7,500 in partnership with the Carnegie For the production of A Circus in Libraries of Pittsburgh McKeesport Symphony Society The Unseam’d Shakespeare Company the Park with the Zany Umbrella Howard Heinz Endowment To support a special concert, Circus in spring 2006 To support the production of $500,000 Close Encounters: MSO and Howard Heinz Endowment Othello (June 16–July 1, 2006) Friends, on March 25, 2006 $7,000 Howard Heinz Endowment Berks County Intermediate Unit Howard Heinz Endowment $12,000 To develop a statewide focus on Prime Stage $4,500 infant and toddler health and Xpressions Contemporary To support the production of The mental health New Horizon Theater, Inc. Dance Company Giver (April 29–May 19, 2006) Howard Heinz Endowment To support the presentation of To support the 2005–06 season’s Howard Heinz Endowment $400,000 closing production, American $7,500 Urban Development, a workshop Menu, by Don Wilson Glenn and performance program, Brother’s Brother Foundation Renaissance and Baroque Society (May 19–June 11, 2006), at the February–June 2006 To support efforts to send direct To support presentations of Kelly-Strayhorn Theater Howard Heinz Endowment aid to the victims of the tsunami Rebel in November 2005 and Howard Heinz Endowment $11,000 floods that struck southeast Asia Trio Mediaeval in March 2006 $8,000 on December 26, 2004 Howard Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment North Pittsburgh Civic Symphony $5,500 $250,000 To support the April 1, 2006 Renaissance City Choirs performance of Jazz Goes the Brother’s Brother Foundation For support of Lush Life at the Orchestra To support efforts to send direct Kelly-Strayhorn Theater on Howard Heinz Endowment aid to the victims of the tsunami April 15, 2006 and At the Beach $2,000 floods that struck southeast Asia on May 7, 2006 on December 26, 2004 Howard Heinz Endowment Vira I. Heinz Endowment $5,000 $150,000 Building United of East Liberty Family Health Hill House Association Neighborhood Housing Southwestern Pennsylvania Care Center To continue after-school literacy To support the “My Money, My For a second round of support for To support a strategic planning in three elementary schools Life” financial literacy program the “Faith Saves” public education process to incorporate doula Howard Heinz Endowment Vira I. Heinz Endowment campaign services into outpatient clinics $50,000 $100,000 Howard Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment $150,000 $50,000 Hill House Association Neighborhood Housing To support a financial education To support the development of 50 Carnegie Institute East Liberty Family Health pilot for women of color utilizing Web-Fest, a Web-based financial To transition the Girls Math & Care Center public access television education search tool Science Partnership to the To expand Birth Circle, a Howard Heinz Endowment Vira I. Heinz Endowment Carnegie Science Center comprehensive model of care for $4,000 $50,000 Vira I. Heinz Endowment pregnant women in the East End $100,000 of Pittsburgh Holy Family Learning Pennsylvania Child Care Association Howard Heinz Endowment To support the implementation To provide a second round of Carnegie Mellon University $50,000 of high-quality reading and support for Pennsylvania’s For eliminating toxic and language arts curricula for T.E.A.C.H., an early childhood pathological residuals in New Family Resources elementary students teacher training project Orleans in the Katrina aftermath To expand the Family Howard Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment Nurturing Program at the $100,000 $200,000 $250,000 Family Retreat Center Howard Heinz Endowment Jumpstart for The Pennsylvania Newspaper Center for Creative Play $100,000 Young Children, Inc. Publishers’ Association Foundation For supervised play visits for To support training of Jumpstart To develop a financial literacy families in the child welfare system Family Resources staff to improve their ability to education program for journalists Howard Heinz Endowment To support the public housing develop emerging literacy skills Howard Heinz Endowment $100,000 after-school literacy initiative of young children in targeted $50,000 Vira I. Heinz Endowment neighborhoods Central Susquehanna Pennsylvania State University $200,000 Howard Heinz Endowment Intermediate Unit To support two childhood obesity $44,000 To support a planning process for Girl Scouts — Trillium Council prevention initiatives technical support for Department For corporate sponsorship Junior Achievement of Southwest Vira I. Heinz Endowment of Education–sponsored parent Howard Heinz Endowment Pennsylvania, Inc. $100,000 engagement models $3,500 To implement an economics-based The Pennsylvania State University / Howard Heinz Endowment curriculum into YouthPlaces after- Grantmakers for Children, Cooperative Extension $15,000 school programs for at-risk youth Youth & Families Inc. For expanding community-based Vira I. Heinz Endowment Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh To maintain a financial and financial education in the region $60,000 Foundation administrative structure and the Howard Heinz Endowment To support a four-year program funds to support the work of the The Kingsley Association $100,000 evaluation research model to Early Childhood Funders Initiative To support the Kingsley-Lincoln Pittsburgh Action Against Rape document the impact and Howard Heinz Endowment Freedom School in 2005 To support a mobile children’s outcomes of the Pennsylvania $10,000 Howard Heinz Endowment therapist for child sexual assault quality pre-kindergarten initiative $10,000 Grantmakers for Children, victims in Allegheny County Howard Heinz Endowment Youth & Families Inc. $1,000,000 The Looking Glass Institute Howard Heinz Endowment For the Early Childhood Funders For a third round of funding to $90,000 Civil Society Institute, Inc. Collaborative meeting held in replicate the youth standards Pittsburgh Children’s Museum To implement a $16 million Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on project To support Healthy Smile Days public–private funding October 26–28, 2005 Howard Heinz Endowment for 2005 initiative to expand high-quality Howard Heinz Endowment $75,000 Howard Heinz Endowment pre-kindergarten programs $5,000 Lydia’s Place, Inc. $10,000 throughout Pennsylvania Gwens Girls, Inc. To support the Family Waiting Howard Heinz Endowment The Pittsburgh Foundation For general operating support Area at the Allegheny County Jail $1,000,000 To support the Hurricane Katrina Vira I. Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment Relief Fund–Pittsburgh Civil Society Institute, Inc. $10,000 $200,000 Vira I. Heinz Endowment For the third round of PA BUILD H. John Heinz III Center Macedonia Family and Community $100,000 for 2006 and 2007 for Science, Economics and Enrichment Center, Inc. Howard Heinz Endowment Pittsburgh Mercy Foundation the Environment To fund a part-time counselor $350,000 For a second round of support For initial funding for the for the Family Group Decision to improve health care for Council on Foundations “Rebuilding after Katrina: Making Project children in foster placement 2005 Council on Foundation dues Planning for the Future”project Howard Heinz Endowment Vira I. Heinz Endowment Vira I. Heinz Endowment Vira I. Heinz Endowment $25,470 $14,400 $150,000 $100,000 National Peace Corps Association Council on Foundations For the Tsunami Assistance 2005 Council on Foundation Dues Project, Nagappattinam, India Howard Heinz Endowment Vira I. Heinz Endowment $30,600 $5,000 Public Interest Projects, Inc. United Way of Allegheny County The Women and Girls Foundation North Hills Community To support the western For the direct benefit of various of Southwest Pennsylvania Outreach, Inc. Pennsylvania Fulfilling the homeless shelters For a challenge grant to support To support youth leadership Dream Fund Vira I. Heinz Endowment the Women and Girls Foundation coordinators to manage youth Vira I. Heinz Endowment $10,000 of Southwest Pennsylvania volunteer programs $200,000 Howard Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment United Way of Allegheny County $300,000 $16,000 Robert Morris University For general operating support A second round of support for Howard Heinz Endowment The Women and Girls Foundation The Pittsburgh Project 51 a high school financial literacy $15,000 of Southwest Pennsylvania To increase the number of program targeted to African- For general operating support participants in the Leaders In United Way of Allegheny County American youth Vira I. Heinz Endowment Training college preparation For general operating support Howard Heinz Endowment $10,000 program Howard Heinz Endowment $80,000 Women’s Institute for a Howard Heinz Endowment $8,000 $15,000 Sarah Heinz House Association Secure Retirement United Way of Allegheny County For general operating support To launch the second National YMCA of Greater Pittsburgh For support of the 2005 United Howard Heinz Endowment Women’s Retirement Poll To connect urban and suburban Way Impact Fund campaign $10,000 Vira I. Heinz Endowment schools to bridge the cultural gap Howard Heinz Endowment $25,000 in Pittsburgh Sarah Heinz House Association $700,000 Howard Heinz Endowment For annual operating support Women’s Institute for a United Way of Allegheny County $15,000 Howard Heinz Endowment Secure Retirement For the direct benefit of Extra Mile $1,100,000 To fund the Pennsylvania portion Foundation (#3332) of the National Women’s EDUCATION PROGRAM Sisters Place, Inc. Vira I. Heinz Endowment Retirement Poll For a final round of funding to $5,000 Howard Heinz Endowment 3 Rivers Connect help transition children and their University of Pittsburgh $25,000 To establish an alternative families from homelessness to To support the Faith Tech program high school permanent housing Youthplaces Howard Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment Vira I. Heinz Endowment For operating support and $100,000 $50,000 $100,000 expansion of arts programming University of Pittsburgh for the YouthPlaces Initiative 3 Rivers Connect Three Rivers Rowing Association For a second round of support for Howard Heinz Endowment For education technology For support to engage a consultant “Healthy Class of 2010,” a school- $200,000 programs and operating support to review the finances and based health education program Vira I. Heinz Endowment operations of the organization Youthworks Vira I. Heinz Endowment $650,000 Howard Heinz Endowment For support to provide $100,000 $2,000 employment and training for Allegheny Conference on Community Development University of Pittsburgh at-risk youth in the City of Three Rivers Rowing Association To support the 12th annual Pittsburgh and Allegheny County For the school governance and To build the capacity of the Family Support Conference on region leadership initiative Association in the areas of May 3, 2005 Howard Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment volunteer coordination and Howard Heinz Endowment $300,000 $100,000 fundraising $2,000 Allegheny Intermediate Unit Howard Heinz Endowment Children, Youth & Families For the early literacy/technology $100,000 University of Pittsburgh Summer Youth Philanthropy To continue to provide training Program initiative Tides Center PA and technical support to Allegheny Howard Heinz Endowment For funding for YouthPlaces to Carnegie Institute County family support network $42,000 incorporate into its own 501(c)3 To train adolescents to teach Howard Heinz Endowment Allegheny Intermediate Unit organization and transition from elementary children about science $150,000 To support the online tutoring Tides, PA Howard Heinz Endowment initiative in chemistry Howard Heinz Endowment University of Pittsburgh $17,000 Medical Center Howard Heinz Endowment $15,000 Human Services Center Corporation To support “HEALTH for $50,000 To add workforce development to Tuscarora Intermediate Families,” a pediatric weight Unit Foundation Inc. the Youth LIFE Program serving Allegheny Intermediate Unit management program To support a nutrition and fitness adolescents For the pre-school reading Vira I. Heinz Endowment initiative known as Color Me Howard Heinz Endowment program $200,000 Healthy, for children in early $20,000 Vira I. Heinz Endowment childhood education programs Urban League of Pittsburgh, Inc. $50,000 Magee Women’s Hospital Howard Heinz Endowment For general operating support To support peer educators to Allegheny Intermediate Unit $400,000 Howard Heinz Endowment expand and update youth health For support of the Reading $2,500 United Jewish Federation awareness classes Achievement Center To support the David & Karen Wellesley College Howard Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment Shapira Philanthropic Fund For funding to support a $17,000 $505,000 Howard Heinz Endowment conference for the Pittsburgh $1,000 region’s after-school community Vira I. Heinz Endowment $25,000 Apex Consortium Inc. Community Loan Fund of Greater Pittsburgh Negro Educational For development of teacher Southwestern Pennsylvania Literacy Council Emergency Drive leadership teams For expansion of City Charter For a family literacy program and For the college scholarship Howard Heinz Endowment High School learning English as a second program $50,000 Vira I. Heinz Endowment language services Howard Heinz Endowment $200,000 Vira I. Heinz Endowment $200,000 Asset, Inc. $100,000 For a science and math teacher Community Loan Fund of Negro Educational 52 training program Southwestern Pennsylvania Imani Christian Academy Emergency Drive Vira I. Heinz Endowment For a working capital fund For a new school library For general operating support $350,000 to develop and strengthen Howard Heinz Endowment Vira I. Heinz Endowment alternative schools $100,000 $5,000 Btc Center Howard Heinz Endowment Pennsylvania Economy For funding to purchase $300,000 Imani Christian Academy educational materials and For general operating support League, Inc. pay teachers who provide Duquesne University Vira I. Heinz Endowment For online publication of tutoring services To support the Improving $10,000 Pennsylvania “Issues Alert” University Teaching (IUT) Vira I. Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild 30th International Conference $150,000 $15,000 For assessment of organizational in Pittsburgh Butler County Community College capacity Pennsylvania State University Howard Heinz Endowment For Education Portal, an online Education Foundation $7,000 Howard Heinz Endowment For coordination of a regional $50,000 curriculum project robotics education initiative East Liberty Development, Inc. Vira I. Heinz Endowment Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild Vira I. Heinz Endowment For planning and design of a $250,000 For general operating support $175,000 pedestrian bridge in East Liberty Howard Heinz Endowment The Philanthropy Roundtable Howard Heinz Endowment For support of the Philanthropy Carnegie Institute $100,000 $10,000 To support “SciTech Spectacular” Roundtable Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild Howard Heinz Endowment Extra Mile Education Vira I. Heinz Endowment For general operating support $150,000 Foundation, Inc. $7,500 For general operating support Howard Heinz Endowment Pittsburgh Board of Carnegie Mellon University Howard Heinz Endowment $15,000 For a middle-grades robotics Public Education $25,000 Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild initiative To support the Pittsburgh For program and operating Howard Heinz Endowment Extra Mile Education superintendent’s preparation support $100,000 Foundation, Inc. of the school district’s budget For ongoing evaluation and Howard Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment Carnegie Mellon University improvement of Extra Mile $150,000 $20,000 For development of Project elementary schools Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild LISTEN, a computer-assisted The Pittsburgh Chess Club Vira I. Heinz Endowment For general operating support reading tutor For program support for the $50,000 Vira I. Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment 2005–06 school year $1,000 $150,000 Foundation Center Howard Heinz Endowment For program and operating Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild $15,000 Carnegie Mellon University support for 2005 To support Manchester For general operating support The Pittsburgh Foundation Vira I. Heinz Endowment capacity review Vira I. Heinz Endowment To support the superintendent $10,000 Howard Heinz Endowment $4,000 search process for Pittsburgh Fund for the Advancement of $17,000 Public Schools Carnegie Mellon University Minorities through Education Mon Valley Education Consortium Howard Heinz Endowment To develop a research framework For minority student scholarships For program and operating $25,000 and identify source materials for to attend Pittsburgh independent support a study of PA Teacher quality Point Park University schools Vira I. Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment To support Summer in the Vira I. Heinz Endowment $150,000 $14,000 $100,000 City at Point Park University National Council for History Howard Heinz Endowment The Center for Effective Grantmakers for Education Education $15,000 Philanthropy For program and operating To develop a Pennsylvania For preparation of a Grantee Point Park University support Council on History Education Perception Report for the Heinz To develop Innocence Institute Howard Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment Endowments strategy and partnerships $10,000 $50,000 Vira I. Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment $27,700 Grantmakers of National Foundation for $15,000 Western Pennsylvania Teaching Entrepreneurship to Reading Is Fundamental Pittsburgh Community Loan Fund of Dues for 2005 Disadvantaged & Handicapped Southwestern Pennsylvania Howard Heinz Endowment Youth, Inc. For an after-school early reading For a working capital fund $20,000 To support a distinctive program in five school districts to develop and strengthen entrepreneurship education Howard Heinz Endowment charter schools program for inner-city youth $200,000 Howard Heinz Endowment Vira I. Heinz Endowment $450,000 $125,000 Robert Morris University University of Pittsburgh Chatham College Waynesburg College To support the Bayer Center For support of the Heinz For the Vira I. Heinz Travel For the Vira I. Heinz Travel for Nonprofit Management’s Memorial Chapel Study Awards Study Awards technology training program Howard Heinz Endowment Vira I. Heinz Endowment Vira I. Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment $150,000 $15,000 $15,000 $50,000 University of Pittsburgh Duquesne University Wilberforce University Schenley Heights Community For data collection and review For the Vira I. Heinz Travel For the Vira I. Heinz Travel Development Program to improve education program Study Awards Study Awards 53 For support of an after-school grant making Vira I. Heinz Endowment Vira I. Heinz Endowment early reading program Howard Heinz Endowment $15,000 $5,000 Vira I. Heinz Endowment $25,000 $50,000 Temple University University of Washington For the Vira I. Heinz Travel ECONOMIC Simon Youth Foundation For the National Center on Study Awards OPPORTUNITY For a national conference in Charter Schools Vira I. Heinz Endowment (RENAMED Pittsburgh on alternative Vira I. Heinz Endowment $15,000 “INNOVATION high schools $200,000 Thiel College ECONOMY” Howard Heinz Endowment THIS YEAR) $10,000 Urban League of Pittsburgh, Inc. For the Vira I. Heinz Travel To support “Achievement Matters” Study Awards The African American Chamber United Way of Allegheny County community forum Vira I. Heinz Endowment Foundation of Western Pennsylvania For the direct benefit of Bishop’s Howard Heinz Endowment $15,000 To support a business Education Fund (#928677) $10,000 University of Pittsburgh mentoring program Vira I. Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment $5,000 Urban League of Pittsburgh, Inc. For the Vira I. Heinz Travel To support the Urban League Study Awards $50,000 University of Maryland of Pittsburgh and the Right- Vira I. Heinz Endowment Allegheny Conference on Foundation, Inc. Sizing Plan $15,000 Community Development To distribute American Journalism Howard Heinz Endowment For the Agenda Development University of Pittsburgh Review and Columbia Journalism $50,000 Fund and operating support For program coordination of Review to journalism students at Howard Heinz Endowment Valley School of Ligonier travel/study scholarships Penn State University, Temple $225,000 University and the University of For student aid and teacher Vira I. Heinz Endowment Pittsburgh for period 2005–06 professional development $40,000 Allegheny Conference on Howard Heinz Endowment Community Development Vira I. Heinz Endowment University of Pittsburgh To study and determine whether $24,000 $250,000 at Bradford there is a case for reforming Wireless Neighborhoods For the Vira I. Heinz Travel University of Pittsburgh business taxes in the For support of an expanding Study Awards For evaluation of education Commonwealth network of community-based Vira I. Heinz Endowment program initiatives Howard Heinz Endowment after-school programs $15,000 Howard Heinz Endowment $50,000 $50,000 Howard Heinz Endowment University of Pittsburgh $254,000 at Greensburg American Association of University of Pittsburgh Community Colleges For the Vira I. Heinz Travel To support Faith Tech, a WQED Pittsburgh To support the Community Study Awards community-based technology For general operating support College Affinity Partnership Vira I. Heinz Endowment and education program Howard Heinz Endowment $15,000 Vira I. Heinz Endowment Vira I. Heinz Endowment $2,500 $25,000 $50,000 University of Pittsburgh Education at Johnstown Beaver Valley Intermediate Unit University of Pittsburgh Travel Study Awards For the Vira I. Heinz Travel To evaluate a human resources and For evaluation of school choice purchasing shared services model Arcadia University Study Awards and early math/science initiatives for the 15 school districts in For the Vira I. Heinz Travel Vira I. Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment Beaver County Study Awards $15,000 $50,000 Howard Heinz Endowment Vira I. Heinz Endowment University of Pittsburgh $15,000 University of Pittsburgh $15,000 at Titusville For program and operating Butler County Community College Bethany College For the Vira I. Heinz Travel support at the Institute of Politics Education Foundation For the Vira I. Heinz Travel Study Awards Howard Heinz Endowment To support regional robotics/IT Study Awards Vira I. Heinz Endowment $25,000 workforce development Vira I. Heinz Endowment $15,000 Vira I. Heinz Endowment University of Pittsburgh $15,000 Washington & Jefferson College $100,000 For Heinz Archaeology Research Carnegie Mellon University For the Vira I. Heinz Travel Grants for period 2005–06 Butler County Community College For the Vira I. Heinz Travel Study Awards Howard Heinz Endowment Education Foundation Study Awards Vira I. Heinz Endowment $190,000 $15,000 To support an emergency upgrade Vira I. Heinz Endowment of Internet services that support $15,000 distance learning and workforce development programs Howard Heinz Endowment $40,000 Carnegie Mellon University Coro Center for Civic Leadership Jewish Family & Children’s Service MPC Corporation To support education-related To support a public affairs of Pittsburgh For a joint CMU/Pitt tech transfer robotics activities of The leadership training program with To support intensive new resident prototype development initiative Red Team increased minority participation immigration, job placement and Vira I. Heinz Endowment Vira I. Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment naturalization services $200,000 $50,000 $450,000 Howard Heinz Endowment $300,000 Neighborhood Housing Carnegie Mellon University Corporation for Owner- To provide post-purchase and 54 To support the Center for Operator Projects Jewish Healthcare Foundation foreclosure avoidance services Technology Transfer and To provide matching funds for To build and launch the Howard Heinz Endowment Enterprise Creation a rural business development Southwestern Pennsylvania $50,000 Howard Heinz Endowment initiative and Keystone Health Careers Web Portal New Century Careers $100,000 Innovation Zone Vira I. Heinz Endowment For operating support for a Vira I. Heinz Endowment $50,000 Catalyst Connection $100,000 regional manufacturing workforce To help support the 2005 Lawrenceville Development training initiative with increased Pittsburgh regional EnterPrize Council for Adult and Corporation minority participation Business Plan Competition Experiential Learning To do a community plan Howard Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment For a planning grant to explore related to the arrival of Children’s $250,000 $50,000 the feasibility of creating a Hospital to the neighborhood systemic approach to workforce Howard Heinz Endowment New Century Careers Catalyst Connection development and lifelong learning $50,000 For operating support for a To provide matching funds in health care in southwestern regional manufacturing workforce Leadership Pittsburgh for a nanotechnology and Pennsylvania training initiative with increased To support capacity building and manufacturing initiative Howard Heinz Endowment minority and female participation professional development for staff Vira I. Heinz Endowment $50,000 Howard Heinz Endowment $200,000 Howard Heinz Endowment $250,000 Duquesne University $25,000 The Communications Network To support the Career Literacy Oakland Planning and Development Mon Valley Education Consortium Corporation, Inc. For continued institutional for African-American Youth For the Mon Valley career literacy For the Hill District–Oakland support of the Network’s mission (CLAAY) initiative initiative “The Future is Mine,” health care workforce initiative to promote communication in Howard Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment service to the field of philanthropy $225,000 Howard Heinz Endowment Vira I. Heinz Endowment $150,000 $100,000 Duquesne University $15,000 Mon Valley Education Consortium Pennsylvania Economy To support the Community To provide support for five high League, Inc. Community College of Allegheny Manufacturing Initiative, a low- County Educational Foundation schools in the region to participate For municipal consolidation income community jobs initiative To support the creation of a in FIRST robotics programs research and education Howard Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment Vira I. Heinz Endowment health care sector workforce $200,000 development initiative $30,000 $150,000 Event Committee Pittsburgh, Inc. Vira I. Heinz Endowment Mon Valley Education Consortium Pennsylvania Economy To support the Bassmaster $200,000 To support a planning grant to League, Inc. Classic in July 2005 Community College of Allegheny develop a curriculum for a career For operating support and Vira I. Heinz Endowment County Educational Foundation awareness program for high schools municipal consolidation research $5,000 To support an African-American throughout southwestern and education student recruitment initiative Grantmakers for Pennsylvania Howard Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment Effective Organizations Howard Heinz Endowment $100,000 For efforts to advance the $250,000 $50,000 Pennsylvania Economy organizational effectiveness Community College of Allegheny Mon Valley Initiative League, Inc. of grant makers County Educational Foundation To support an African-American For a joint foundation-sponsored Vira I. Heinz Endowment To support an adult workforce evaluation of Pittsburgh Life $8,000 homeownership initiative training in manufacturing Vira I. Heinz Endowment Sciences Greenhouse initiative The Idea Foundry $1,000,000 Howard Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment For a multi-foundation regional $50,000 Mon Valley Initiative $100,000 business software/cybersecurity To support a pilot project for Pennsylvania Highlands Community startup initiative Community College of community outreach and College Foundation Beaver County Foundation Vira I. Heinz Endowment For professional development for $300,000 organizing for 12 CDCs For a regional five-member Howard Heinz Endowment faculty and staff from the five community college workforce The Immigrant Center of $50,000 SWPA consortium community development consortium the Greater Pittsburgh Region colleges Howard Heinz Endowment To support an international MPC Corporation Howard Heinz Endowment $150,000 resident welcome and For operating support for the $40,000 support center Greater Oakland Keystone Howard Heinz Endowment Innovation Zone $150,000 Howard Heinz Endowment $200,000 Pennsylvania Highlands Community Pittsburgh Regional Alliance University of Pittsburgh Allegheny Land Trust College Foundation For a second round of funding For entrepreneurial training and For capacity- and stewardship- For a socio-economic impact to support iPort, a project that PantherLabWorks incubator building study of the five community works to attract Indian businesses support at the Katz Graduate Howard Heinz Endowment colleges in southwestern to establish U.S. operations School of Business $100,000 Pennsylvania in Pittsburgh Howard Heinz Endowment Brookings Institution Howard Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment $150,000 For general operating support $42,000 $50,000 University of Pittsburgh of the Brookings Metropolitan 55 Pittsburgh Chapter National Tooling PowerLink, Inc. For a regional human capital Policy Program for 2005 and Machining Foundation Inc. To support the growth of community leadership education Vira I. Heinz Endowment To support the National Apprentice women-owned businesses program at the Institute of Politics $100,000 Competition conference in Howard Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment Carnegie Institute Pittsburgh in May 2005 $50,000 $100,000 Vira I. Heinz Endowment To support the Current Buoys $20,000 Slippery Rock University University of Pittsburgh public art project Foundation, Inc. To support research on regional Vira I. Heinz Endowment The Pittsburgh Foundation To enable the Regional Learning gender wage gaps $28,775 For the Pittsburgh Public Alliance building to achieve LEED Howard Heinz Endowment Carnegie Institute Service Fund certification $50,000 To support the training of students Howard Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment $250,000 $150,000 University of Pittsburgh in modern laboratory techniques For the Community Economic for research in biological diversity The Pittsburgh Foundation Smart Futures, Inc. Development Clinic at the Vira I. Heinz Endowment To support administrative To support WorkKeys, a regional School of Law $10,000 expenses associated with the high school student skills testing Howard Heinz Endowment Carnegie Mellon University operation of the Pittsburgh and improvement initiative $200,000 To support completion and Public Service Fund Vira I. Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment $300,000 World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh transfer of products from the $2,500 To support the International 3 Rivers 2nd Nature project to South Side Local Development Communities Initiative organizations for implementation Pittsburgh Gateways Company Vira I. Heinz Endowment Vira I. Heinz Endowment For regional startup support For an analysis and prioritization $100,000 $50,000 in the high-tech manufacturing of the restructuring and reuse sector potential for public facilities in the Carnegie Mellon University Howard Heinz Endowment South Side neighborhood of ENVIRONMENT For regional/sustainable technical $250,000 Pittsburgh design assistance and support of 3 Rivers Connect Howard Heinz Endowment 2005 Cornerstones Symposium Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse To support a neighborhood $35,000 Vira I. Heinz Endowment To support a regional life sciences data demonstration project $60,000 economic development initiative The Robotics Foundry and Howard Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment Digital Greenhouse DBA The $50,000 Carnegie Mellon University $4,000,000 Technology Collaborative Support for Solar Decathlon Home To support a merged job creation 3 Rivers Wet Weather Program Howard Heinz Endowment Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse initiative in the IT and robotics For support to develop a $25,000 To support a regional life sciences sector bacteria-monitoring plan for economic development initiative the Three Rivers watershed Carnegie Mellon University Vira I. Heinz Endowment For funding to support green Vira I. Heinz Endowment $300,000 Howard Heinz Endowment $1,500,000 $35,000 chemistry applications in the Three Rivers Workforce marketplace Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse Investment Board Allegheny College Howard Heinz Endowment To provide operating support For a regional college internship To support the Center for $150,000 for entrepreneurial and development and recruitment Economic and Environmental Center for Civic Participation incubator programs program Development To support the Guyasuta Howard Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment Vira I. Heinz Endowment Fellowship Young Citizen’s $850,000 $200,000 $90,000 Summit on Regional Planning Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse University of Pittsburgh Allegheny Conference on Vira I. Heinz Endowment To provide operating support To support the Office of Enterprise Community Development $25,000 for entrepreneurial and Development, Health Sciences To support Oakland incubator programs transportation and land use Children’s Environmental Health Vira I. Heinz Endowment Network Vira I. Heinz Endowment $50,000 planning $400,000 Howard Heinz Endowment For a planning grant for training University of Pittsburgh $200,000 of medical professionals in Pittsburgh Partnership for For grant support for the environmental health education Neighborhood Development Regional Indicators Consortium Allegheny Conference on Vira I. Heinz Endowment Community Development For operating support payable to the University of $20,000 For continued support for Howard Heinz Endowment Pittsburgh, Center for Urban Oakland transportation and $300,000 and Social Research land use planning Howard Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment $50,000 $225,000 Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Conservation Consultants, Inc. Green Building Alliance The Natural Step Foundation For the Green Neighborhood For funding to enable the For general operating support For the hospital greening project Initiative Pittsburgh Glass Center to achieve Vira I. Heinz Endowment and children’s environmental Howard Heinz Endowment LEED certification $30,000 health education $170,000 Howard Heinz Endowment Next Generation Choices Howard Heinz Endowment $8,000 Foundation $250,000 The Downtown Management Organization Group Against Smog & Pollution For pesticide reduction in 56 Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future To implement the Downtown For support to continue and play areas For support of the Collaborative Circulation Assessment and expand diesel emissions education Vira I. Heinz Endowment on Health and the Environment– Improvement Project and monitoring work $50,000 Pennsylvania Howard Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment Nine Mile Run Watershed Howard Heinz Endowment $50,000 $85,000 Association, Inc. $150,000 East End Neighborhood Forum H. John Heinz III Center for Science, For the Regent Square Frick Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future For planning support for the Economics and the Environment Park Gateway Project For 2006 operating support Environmental Justice Institute For the State of the Nation’s Howard Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment Ecosystems project $50,000 $747,000 $50,000 Vira I. Heinz Endowment Pennsylvania Conservation Voters $350,000 Clean Air Task Force East Liberty Development, Inc. Education League For the Campaign for Healthy Air To support a green visioning H. John Heinz III Center for Science, To promote collaboration among in southwestern Pennsylvania process for the East Liberty Economics and the Environment unions and environmentalists Vira I. Heinz Endowment community For general operating support Vira I. Heinz Endowment $50,000 Vira I. Heinz Endowment Vira I. Heinz Endowment $50,000 $100,000 $20,000 Clean Water Fund Pennsylvania To support the Allegheny County Enterprising Environmental H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Environmental Council Toxics Project in air pollution Solutions, Inc. Economics and the Environment To support the Ohio monitoring and community For funding to prepare a For general operating support Headwaters Initiative education greenhouse gas emissions Howard Heinz Endowment Vira I. Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment inventory and baseline forecast $30,000 $150,000 $75,000 for Pennsylvania Health Care Without Harm Pennsylvania Howard Heinz Endowment For technical assistance on Environmental Council Clean Water Fund $50,000 To support the Allegheny County environmentally responsible On behalf of the Pennsylvania Diesel Reduction Campaign Environmental Law Institute health care practices to Alliance for Restoration and Howard Heinz Endowment For policy analysis to support Pittsburgh hospitals Conservation for education $50,000 Renew PA Vira I. Heinz Endowment of the public about the need for Howard Heinz Endowment $50,000 additional public funding for Community Foundation $100,000 environmental restoration and of Greater Johnstown Learning Disabilities of America conservation To support the ecosystem-based The Foundation for California For the Healthy Children Project Vira I. Heinz Endowment deer management plan University of Pennsylvania on environmental health $50,000 Howard Heinz Endowment To support the Partners for Howard Heinz Endowment $70,000 Fish & Wildlife Switchgrass for $50,000 Pennsylvania Bioenergy Program Environmental Council Community Foundation Local Government Academy Howard Heinz Endowment For implementation of the of Greater Johnstown For operating support and $50,000 Natural Infrastructure Project To support the Western training of local officials on in southwestern Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Watershed Program Funders’ Network for Smart Growth land use planning Howard Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment and Livable Communities Vira I. Heinz Endowment $50,000 $100,000 For 2005–06 membership in this $120,000 affinity group that provides Pennsylvania Resources Community Foundation Local Government Academy opportunities for networking with Council, Inc. of Greater Johnstown For 2006 incentive grants for foundation colleagues on issues To support a campaign focused on To support the Western multi-municipal planning related to Environment Program the proper use and disposal of Pennsylvania Watershed Program Vira I. Heinz Endowment goals, and for a project to organize household hazardous waste Howard Heinz Endowment $80,000 a meeting of Pennsylvania funders Vira I. Heinz Endowment $200,000 for the Campaign to Renew PA Magee Women’s Hospital $50,000 Community Foundation of Howard Heinz Endowment To support planning for the Phipps Conservatory, Inc. Greater Johnstown $40,000 Children’s Environmental To support an innovative energy To support the Pennsylvania Health: Greening, Research and Green Building Alliance conservation technology Green Business Initiative Community Education initiative For operating support Howard Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment $150,000 $100,000 Howard Heinz Endowment $250,000 $25,000 Pinchot Institute for Conservation South Side Local Tides Center — Pennsylvania University of Pittsburgh To support a sustainable forestry Development Company For Venture Outdoors to To support the Center for certification assessment for the To support a stakeholder design implement a membership Environmental Oncology Allegheny National Forest charrette for South Shore development plan Howard Heinz Endowment Vira I. Heinz Endowment Riverfront Park Howard Heinz Endowment $150,000 $50,000 Howard Heinz Endowment $100,000 $35,000 University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Community Tides Center — Pennsylvania To support the Mascaro Broadcasting Corporation South Side Local For Sustainable Pittsburgh Sustainability Initiative 57 To support the Allegheny Front Development Company operating support Howard Heinz Endowment radio program To support detailed design and Howard Heinz Endowment $200,000 Howard Heinz Endowment engineering for the South Shore $100,000 $100,000 Riverfront Park University of Pittsburgh Howard Heinz Endowment Tides Center — Pennsylvania For continued support for the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy $350,000 For early stage development Center for Healthy Environments For support for construction of the Grow Pittsburgh project and Communities of Schenley Plaza Southwestern Pennsylvania Howard Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment Corporation $35,000 $200,000 $500,000 For enhancements to the regional long-range transportation Tides Center — Pennsylvania University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy planning process For completion of the To promote uses of the Senator To support the Pittsburgh Parks Howard Heinz Endowment Southwestern Pennsylvania H. John Heinz III Archives at Conservancy Spring Hat $50,000 Natural Infrastructure project Carnegie Mellon University for Luncheon Howard Heinz Endowment public policy education Howard Heinz Endowment Southwestern Pennsylvania $50,000 Howard Heinz Endowment $20,000 Corporation $30,000 To support revision, publication Tri-State Citizens Mining Network, President and Fellows of and dissemination of Inc. University of Pittsburgh / Harvard College “A Regional Strategic Vision for To support the Coalition for Medical Center Funding for Personalizing Mercury Public Transportation Serving Coalfield Justice project For Alzheimer’s Disease and in Our Environment: A Project to Southwestern Pennsylvania” and Howard Heinz Endowment metals epidemiological research Bring Public Awareness to the Issue “The Toolbox for Transit-Oriented $122,000 seed funding of Mercury Through Engaging Howard Heinz Endowment Communities in Southwestern Trust for Conservation Innovation Journalists and Grantmakers $20,000 Pennsylvania” For expanding the use of chemical Vira I. Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment $50,000 management services into the Urban Land Institute $50,000 pulp and paper industry For Phase I of a research study on Rachel Carson Homestead Steel Industry Heritage Corporation in Pennsylvania the financing plan for the final Association For additional preliminary analysis Howard Heinz Endowment segments of the Mon-Fayette For education programs on of and planning for Pittsburgh $100,000 Toll Road environmental health Rivers Discovery Center concept Vira I. Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment Trust for Conservation Innovation Howard Heinz Endowment $17,160 $50,000 For a program to reduce toxic $43,500 chemical use in the pulp and Virginia Organizing Project Rainforest Alliance Steel Industry Heritage Corporation paper industry in Pennsylvania To produce a public radio For the sustainable forestry market For benchmarking and Vira I. Heinz Endowment program on environmental health linkage project in Pennsylvania preliminary assessment of the $50,000 Vira I. Heinz Endowment Vira I. Heinz Endowment concept of a conference facility as $150,000 $200,000 Turtle Creek Watershed Association part of a new emphasis on rivers To increase capacity to provide Wildlife Habitat Council Rockefeller Family Fund, Inc. at the Carnegie Science Center grass-roots support for stormwater For support of the Three Rivers For affinity group dues in the Howard Heinz Endowment management related to solving Habitat Partnership Environmental Grantmakers $7,000 the regional combined sewer Vira I. Heinz Endowment Association Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer overflow problem $50,000 Vira I. Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment Foundation, Pittsburgh Yale University $2,920 $21,000 For the Pittsburgh-based Susan G. To endow a scholarship fund for Save Our Land Komen Race for the Cure to U.S. Working Group Inc. highly qualified graduate students Save Our Towns Inc. support education and outreach To support market development from Pennsylvania For funding to promote smart on the environmental links in Pennsylvania for sustainable Vira I. Heinz Endowment growth and livable communities to breast cancer forestry $1,000,000 in Pennsylvania Howard Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment Vira I. Heinz Endowment $58,000 $50,000 $30,000 Sustainable Pittsburgh U.S. Green Building Council For 2006 operating support For affinity group dues, 2005 Howard Heinz Endowment Howard Heinz Endowment $250,000 $500 in tribute

By Douglas Root

Remembering William Holdship Rea

t the June memorial celebration service District, an activist board member with more than a dozen for Bill Rea at the Covenant Presbyterian Church in Ligonier, organizations, including the Allegheny Conference on just a few miles from his beloved family farm, his son, Sam, Community Development, the University of Pittsburgh, the told those jammed into every inch of pew about a strange Pittsburgh School Board and several offering minority training remark his father had made at a recent family gathering. and employment programs. He and Ingrid were committed “I can’t think of one thing I’ve done that is of any lasting conservationists and were staunch supporters of the Carnegie importance,” the 94-year-old patriarch announced in the Museum of Natural History and Powdermill Nature Reserve, Apresence of some of his five adult children. Those in the room which borders his family’s Stoneylonesome Farm. stared at one another in stunned silence before one of his four Those of us who knew Bill well from his service on both daughters decided to pass over reminding him of his star- boards of the Endowments — a total of 30 years influencing studded resume and appeal instead to his familial instincts. how enormous sums of money were spent in the region — “But Dad, what about all of us — your children?” there is much in his personality to explain a self-assessment The response took Bill by surprise; he apparently hadn’t that seems so wildly off base. considered his audience, and he thought for a few seconds. We knew it well from twice-a-year board meetings, as Bill “Oh, no. Your mother did that.” had a reputation for flipping past polished presentations and Laughter echoed throughout the church at the re-telling glossy written materials designed to sell grant proposals. of Bill’s self-deprecating response — some of it also out of Instead, he would pose one or two blunt questions that often appreciation for Bill’s wife, Ingrid, a Carnegie Museums devotee challenged the premise of what was being offered. who died in 2003. But there had been groaning and head With Bill, it was always about testing how well each and shaking at first, as Bill’s son uttered the words to the effect of every grant was living up to the Endowments’ mission in the “no lasting importance.” community. Reflecting his Presbyterian-conservative’s soul, It seemed particularly ludicrous in the church setting that Bill’s sense of philanthropy’s mission was far more grounded afternoon as luminaries from all over southwestern Pennsylvania, in practicalities. Instead of “Will this improve the quality of including Pittsburgh CEOs, politicians, foundation heads and life for some of our less fortunate?” Bill was apt to bark out: civic leaders, came in such numbers that some had to stand “Exactly how many jobs will be created with this program?” in the vestibules. Or, “How much money would it take to go at this full force Many in the church were thinking about how the front-page instead of putting a Band-Aid on it?” obituaries in the region’s newspapers were only able to touch Sometimes, those questions were laced with a world-weary on the highlights of a man who came from a prominent exasperation — but always in reaction to the problem, not to Pittsburgh family but managed to make his own prominence those working to solve the problem. Bill had an abiding respect in service to others. for those who work or volunteer in the nonprofit world, and He was president of one of the region’s most successful he often would go out of his way in a phone call or hallway commercial real estate companies, an architect-helper to Jack conversation to make a staff person or grantee understand Heinz in creating the nationally celebrated Pittsburgh Cultural that he cared. One of Bill Rea’s lasting lega- cies is Pittsburgh’s Cultural District, which he helped create as part of the “band of dreamers” gathered by the late Jack Heinz, president of the H. J. Heinz Company and chairman of the Howard Heinz Endowment. Here Bill stands in the right foreground at a meeting of the group in Jack Heinz’s New York City apart- ment. Others include, from left, Sen. H. John Heinz; Drue Heinz, Jack Heinz’s wife, seated next to the senator; and Jack Heinz, standing left center. Clyde Hare

But Bill also had a reputation for challenging staff and A TOWERING PRESENCE board colleagues to go to the core of an issue and test basic To the question of whether the actions of Bill’s life assumptions. If they went there with him, grants usually have affected others in important and lasting ways, emerged much stronger at the end of the discussion. If people he must have found some satisfaction in the words stood their ground, he had the assurance of knowing the offered by fellow board member André Heinz, degree of their conviction. especially this excerpt reprinted here as a tribute Bill thrived on the intellectual give-and-take that came from the entire Heinz family: when community leaders key to the foundation’s significant I would like to describe you, Bill, and say you are investments were invited to speak at board meetings and very much like a forest… dinners. Even in his later years, when he had lost much of his You are like the Apple Tree: because every season that we meet, you are fruitful; sight, Bill was actively engaged in such discussions. He would You are like the Ponderosa Pine: After the fires often slap his knee in gleeful appreciation of a speaker’s wit or and ravages of change, you still stand tall, and drop a well-argued position, even if it ran against his political grain. your seeds of wisdom ; So it is no great surprise to those of us at the Endowments You are like the Elm: After a hard day’s work, you that as he knew he was reaching the end of his life, Bill turned offer shade, reflection and your majesty; that same unflinching intellectual analysis and provocative You are like the Maple: tough on the outside and questioning onto himself to test for basic worthiness and sweet inside; meaningful contribution. You are like the Oak: a stalwart friend from whom Looking past the diplomas from cream-of-the-crop schools, you learn to climb ever higher. And when after the the framed awards, the business success and even his own squirrels have long forgotten where they buried their family, Bill was searching for the essential impact. The standards acorns of experience, you still remember; he set for qualifying for a life of lasting importance were gener- You are like the American Chestnut: You have kept ously light for others and impossibly difficult for himself. the pioneers in this field nourished; you have offered We at the Endowments can only hope that we played some all of yourself; you have proved to be the most useful role in easing some of Bill’s fundamental questioning with a and endurable resource around; and you are almost a surprise grant presentation at the boards’ May 9 meeting made lost breed, the kind upon which America’s greatness just a week before his death. A special $2 million grant for an has been built; endowment funding two new curator positions at the Carnegie And, as with most forests of 94 years, you taught Museum of Natural History and Powdermill Nature Reserve us what it truly means to be young. was made in the names of Bill and Ingrid. True to form in accepting the award, Bill gave all the credit for museum and conservation work to his wife. h

Douglas Root is communications director for The Heinz Endowments. history

Founded more than four Howard Heinz (1877–1941) Vira I. Heinz (1888–1983) decades apart, the Howard Howard Heinz was born near Sharpsburg, a In a city known for its active and concerned civic Heinz Endowment and the suburb of Pittsburgh, on August 27, 1877, the leaders, Vira I. Heinz was among the foremost. Vira I. Heinz Endowment son of Henry John and Sarah Young Heinz. Born Vira M. Ingham in what is now the Brighton were both the products After graduation from Shady Side Academy, and Heights district of Pittsburgh, in 1932 she married of a family commitment to then Yale University in 1900, he entered active Clifford S. Heinz, son of Henry J. Heinz, founder community that began service with the H. J. Heinz Company, where he of the food processing company. Clifford Heinz with H. J. Heinz and that successfully became advertising manager, sales died in 1935. continues to this day. manager, vice president and president. Over the next five decades, Mrs. Heinz actively He was a director and/or trustee of the engaged in the philanthropic and civic work for Pennsylvania Railroad, Mellon Bank, N.A., which she is now remembered. She did so much National Industrial Conference Board, Pittsburgh for so many that it would be impossible to list the Regional Planning Association, Pittsburgh full range of her activities. To mention a few of Chamber of Commerce, University of Pittsburgh, the more prominent, she was vice president of the Carnegie Institute, Shady Side Academy, Western World Council of Christian Education and an Pennsylvania Hospital and the Pittsburgh active supporter of its work in Africa. She was a Symphony Society. He was a ruling elder of founder of the Civic Light Opera, president and Shadyside Presbyterian Church. principal benefactor of the Pittsburgh Youth Long before creating the endowment that Symphony, and a member of the boards of the would lead to large-scale philanthropy, Mr. Heinz Pittsburgh Chamber Music Society, the Pittsburgh was actively engaged in personal charitable and Opera and the Pittsburgh Symphony Society. civic improvement efforts. As president of one Mrs. Heinz received the Chancellor’s Medal of the world’s most recognized businesses, he was from the University of Pittsburgh and honorary one of the founders of the Community Fund, degrees from eleven colleges and universities. one of the early efforts to create organized She was a trustee of Chatham College and the first community-based philanthropy in the United woman trustee of Carnegie Mellon University. States. He served as a director or fund-raising She served as a member of the board of Children’s chairman for dozens of national organizations and Hospital of Pittsburgh and was an honorary fellow campaigns, including service as a trustee for the of the American College of Hospital Administrators. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. As a member of the Board of Directors of the Despite frequently being tapped by governors H. J. Heinz Company, she was the first woman and presidents to lead various projects, Mr. Heinz board member of a multinational corporation made time for city and regional concerns. All his headquartered in Pittsburgh. In the spirit of professional life, he served on the boards of key generosity that characterized her life, Vira I. Heinz community institutions. Mr. Heinz was a leader in provided in her will for the establishment of a the creation of Heinz Chapel on the University of charitable foundation. Pittsburgh campus as a memorial to his parents. The church serves as a spiritual resource for university students but also is considered one of the country’s architectural gems. He took a special interest in programs that would better the lives of young people. As a young college graduate, he established Covode House, a clubhouse for boys, near the Heinz plant. He also served as an active director of Sarah Heinz House, a larger development club for boys and girls on the North Side that continues to thrive. Mr. Heinz died on February 9, 1941. He bequeathed his residual estate to the Howard Heinz Endowment for philanthropic purposes. Boards of Directors Staff

Howard Heinz Endowment Management Teresa Heinz, Chairman Maxwell King, President Christopher Heinz Jack E. Kime, Vice President, H. John Heinz IV Finance & Administration Carol R. Brown Grant Oliphant, Vice President, Frank V. Cahouet Programs & Planning Judith Davenport Maureen R. Marinelli, Executive Assistant Shirley M. Malcom Bonnie J. Gazda, Executive Secretary Barbara Robinson DeWitt Nancy A. Grejda, Administrative Secretary, Frederick W. Thieman Programs & Planning Mallory Walker Drue Heinz, Director Emeritus Arts & Culture Janet L. Sarbaugh, Senior Program Director Vira I. Heinz Endowment Mary A. Navarro, Senior Program Officer James M. Walton, Chairman Justin D. Laing, Program Officer Teresa Heinz Cindi A. Stueber, Administrative Secretary André T. Heinz Franco Harris Children, Youth & Families Wendy Mackenzie Margaret M. Petruska, Senior Program Barbara Robinson DeWitt Director Konrad M. Weis Carmen A. Anderson, Program Officer S. Donald Wiley Wayne A. Jones, Program Officer Linda F. Hall, Administrative Secretary

Innovation Economy Christina Gabriel, Program Director Suzanne E. Walsh, Program Officer Virginia A. Graziano, Administrative Secretary

Education Joseph F. Dominic, Program Director Gerald F. Balbier, Senior Program Officer Joann L. Clark, Administrative Secretary

Environment Caren E. Glotfelty, Program Director Ellen J. Dorsey, Program Officer Anna Marie Lozer, Administrative Secretary

Communications Douglas L. Root, Director of Communications Carmen J. Lee, Communications Officer Linda S. Braund, Communications Associate Linda C. Bannon, Administrative Secretary

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