Vendor Directory November 2017 1Hood Media ALCOSAN Allegheny

Vendor Directory November 2017

1Hood Media www.1hood.org Allegheny Land Trust Taliya Allen [email protected] www.AlleghenyLandTrust.org 1Hood is a collective of socially conscious Julie Travaglini: artists and activists who believe that art is [email protected] the best way to challenge inequity, raise We serve as the lead land trust conserving awareness and unify humanity. They and stewarding lands that support the provide programming for high school aged scenic, recreational, and environmental teens that focus on artistic and media well-being of communities in Allegheny development including: media literacy, County and its environs.that will make ALT media creation, songwriting, branding, beat programming stand out above the rest. We selection, performance readiness and other offer many types of programs for ages 2 skills associated with independent artistry years old through adult. From family hikes and self-sustaining. by the full moon to afterschool outreaches to participation in Summer Dreamers and ALCOSAN our own summer camps, we have a wide www.alcosan.org range of programming available for most Wesley Latham: age ranges and interests. [email protected] The ALCOSAN Scholastic Outreach APOST Department provides programs and activities www.afterschoolpgh.org for students, teachers and communities within Allegheny Partners for Out-of-School Time ALCOSAN’s service area. Aligned to (APOST) is a partnership of funders, Pennsylvania’s Core Standards, and expanded intermediaries and providers dedicated to upon traditional classroom learning, the building a quality Out-of-School Time (OST) activities provide a hands-on approach to System that will contribute to the healthy learning about the environment that teaches successful development of young people as students to be responsible stewards of water they progress through their school years, and other natural resources. graduate from high school and enter into adulthood. We offer opportunities for youth- service providers to move toward providing quality programs by offering a program self- assessment, professional development for their team and partnering with other organizations to increase opportunities.

Assemble BaM Coreography assemblepgh.org http://www.bamchoreography.com Hannah Sauder: [email protected] [email protected] Assemble connects artists, technologists, We provide dance and fitness classes for all and makers with curious adults and kids of ages in an effort to promote wellness, boost all ages through interactive gallery shows, confidence and bring the community community talk backs, learning parties, together. We offer group dance fitness after-school programs, camps, and classes, hip hop dance workshops, workshops focused on teaching STEAM adult/child classes (e.g. Mom & Me, Dad & principles (science, technology, Me), private dance sessions, birthday engineering, art, and math). parties, supplemental group fitness classes (e.g. for scout troops, teams, clubs), ASSET STEM Education wellness seminars, and life-skills workshops www.assetinc.org (e.g. professional socializing, writing for Maleea Johnson: [email protected] success - geared towards teenagers). ASSET STEM Education™ is a national education improvement nonprofit with 22 Bike Pittsburgh years experience designing and facilitating www.bikepgh.org professional development to strengthen Julie Mallis: [email protected] instructional practices that advance student Bike Pittsburgh is transforming our streets learning. They offer in school, out of school and communities into vibrant, healthy products and services, and Professional places by making them safe and accessible Development. for everyone to bike and walk.

Balmoral School of Piping and Be a Middle School Mentor Drumming https://uwswpa.org/be-a-middle-school- www.sprbagpiper.com mentor/ George Balderose: [email protected] [email protected] Balmoral School is a non-profit educational We match hundreds of successful adult organization that was established 1979. The mentors with middle school students to school celebrates and teaches traditional learn about real careers and jobs, bagpipe music dating to the 15th century, as to develop big dreams for their future, to well as more recent compositions in the understand the importance of doing well in traditional style, including the competition school, and to have another caring adult repertoire. Balmoral's mission is to raise the role model. standard and promote the appreciation of bagpipe music in the USA by providing Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh world-class instruction, cultivating carnegielibrary.org excellence in youth, presenting innovative Cheryl Patalano: musical events and fostering tradition. They [email protected] teach a range of Gaelic disciplines, We're a city wide organization that works to including Bagpiping, Scottish Percussion, bring materials and programs to residence and Highland Dance. both within the library building and out in the community.

Carnegie Science Center Common Threads www.carnegiesciencecenter.org www.commonthreads.org Keri Medwid: Ashley Roth: [email protected] [email protected] Through our cooking and nutrition programs The Science on the Road department of the and curriculum, we help prevent childhood Carnegie Science Center offers a wide obesity and reverse the trend of generations variety of cost-effective programs that can of non-cookers, while celebrating our be brought to any site. We have a hands on cultural differences and the things people all classroom program called STEM by the over the world have in common. At Hour with four themes; Chemistry, Robotics, Common Threads, we bring our family- Astronomy and Engineering. centric, hands-on program model with proven results to kitchens in low-income, Carnegie Museum of Natural History urban communities across America. Our www.carnegieMNH.org unique approach empowers children to eat Pam Ireland: [email protected] healthy, make sustainable behavior We offer hands-on, inquiry-based programs changes, and celebrate culture through that can be for classroom sized or large food. group sized. We have a variety of science and cultural topics to choose from. We can Computer Reach also provide multiple programs during one Dave Sevick: [email protected] day or over the course of several days. Use Low cost computers and technology camps. of real and replica specimens, live animals (when appropriate), real scientific tools and Fine Art Miracles, Inc. inquiry teaching methods are the hallmark www.fineartmiracles.com of our programs. Tess Lojacono: [email protected] Nonprofit offering fine art lessons, art The Citizen Science Lab therapy, music therapy and social robot http://www.thecitizensciencelab.org/ enhanced learning. Carrianne Floss: cfloss@urbaninnovation21org fitUnited, United Way of Pittsburgh's first and only community life Southwestern PA sciences laboratory. The Citizen Science https://uwswpa.org/fit-united/ Lab is open to everyone—from middle and Justine Fuga: high school students, to parents and [email protected] educators, to undergraduate and graduate fitUnited works to improve the health and students, to professionals and DIY wellness of children by motivating and scientists. We invite the citizens of mobilizing community partners using Pittsburgh to observe, experiment and various tools, resources and programs to analyze through discovery-based learning equip them with the knowledge they need to and STEM education. promote a culture of health among children afterschool, field trips, and summer in Allegheny County. programs The Frick Pittsburgh http://www.thefrickpittsburgh.org/ Molly Kilbridge: [email protected] Museum visits and art enrichment activities onsite or offsite for after school. We also provide summer visits to the museum to community groups. 3

Fun Slides Carpet Skatepark & Party Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Center www.funslidespark.com Bank Candy Holsing: [email protected] http://computerreach.org We are a unique type of family fun center. Chris West: [email protected] Carpet skating is so easy to learn and fun Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank, for all ages (4 and up) Just strap Fun Slides a member of Feeding America, is a on under athletic shoes and slide. Carpeted nonprofit organization founded in 1980 that ramps and rails. Blacklight atmosphere distributes more that 31 million meals makes it more fun. We also offer STEM annually throughout a network of nearly 400 fieldtrips on Newtons laws of motion and member agencies across 11 counties in more! southwestern Pennsylvania.

Girl Scouts Western Pennsylvania Healthy Out-of-School Time www.gswpa.org https://host.healthiergeneration.org/ Marissa Dellorusso: [email protected] Justine Fuga: Girl Scouts offers a very flexible troop meeting [email protected] schedule, which can include meetings after HOST is a nationwide initiative implemented school, during school or even weekends. by Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of Summer camp programs are also available, UPMC and United Way's fitUnited to as well as various other programs put on by improve the healthy eating and physical the Girl Scouts Western PA Council. activity practices of afterschool programs. They offer program health assessments, Global Wordsmiths action plan development and www.globalwordsmiths.com implementation, mini-grant opportunities, Mary Jayne McCullough: technical assistance, training and [email protected] professional development. Global Wordsmiths provides language interpretation and translation with a social INVESTING NOW mission to improve language access for http://www.engineering.pitt.edu/investingnow/ immigrants nad refugees in western Emiola Jay Oriola: [email protected] Pennsylvania. They offer language As a year long program, we provide to translation and interpretation for parents, our INVESTING NOW students advising students and educators. sessions, tutoring, Hands On Science

and Engineering activities, and an array Grow Pittsburgh www.growpittsburgh.org of college preparatory workshops. Michelle Soto: [email protected] During the summer, we provide Our mission is to teach people how to grow academic classes in the morning and food and promote the benefits gardens engineering projects in the afternoon. bring to our neighborhoods. Grow Pittsburgh’s Summer Intern Program provides local teens with the opportunity to gain summer employment while learning about the value of growing and eating healthy food.

Kidsburgh PAEYC www.kidsburgh.org www.paeyc.org Yu-Ling Cheng: [email protected] Jan Sapotichne: [email protected] Welcome to Kidsburgh, your go-to online PAEYC supports high-quality care and resource focusing on the people and ideas education for young children by providing making Pittsburgh a better place for all kids. advocacy, community resources, and At Kidsburgh, you’ll find hundreds of feature professional growth opportunities for the and news stories about everything from needs and rights of children, their families, creative learning and health, to advocacy on and the individuals who interact with them. a wide range of issues, to guides and fun PAEYC works regionally (in Southwestern things to do in Pittsburgh. To help with the Pennsylvania) and takes its expertise and many choices, we also feature a robust models to statewide and national calendar that lists kid-friendly events audiences. We provide professional throughout the region and a directory of development for afterschool/summer child-serving organizations. educators.

Lavel Claytor, Consultant Phipps Conservatory and Botanical LavelClaytorConsultant.com Gardens [email protected] www.phipps.conservatory.org Digital technology has highly transformed Heather Stevens: the world in which we live, and particularly [email protected] the world of business. Today, it is absolutely Our Science Research and Education essential to know how to use the tools of the Department offers science education trade and program management best program. practices. “Let us assist you! Please visit our website for more information. Let’s Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse Become Empowered Together!” www.pccr.org Nora Gilchrist: [email protected] Mattress Factory Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse is a www.mattress.org non-profit that inspires creativity, Karen Forney: [email protected] conservation, and community engagement Founded in 1977, the Mattress Factory is a through reuse. We operate a non-traditional contemporary art museum and experimental art supply shop located at the intersection of lab featuring site-specific installations Wilkinsburg, Homewood, and Point Breeze, created by artists in residence from around where people can donate used art and craft the world. supplies, as well as shop for these unique items all in the same location. Our shop is a The Mentoring Partnership of wonderful resource for affordable creative Southwestern PA materials, we visit after-school and summer www.mentoringpittsburgh.org program sites to facilitate Creative Michelle Thomas: Education programs using reclaimed [email protected] materials, and we host field trip tours (and We provide support to every program by activities when possible) at our center with helping to strengthen relationships between visiting groups. youth and the adults in their lives through our Everyday Mentoring training and Making the Most of Mentoring. For mentoring- focused programs, we offer program support through our Effective Practices Training and LENS Meetings, mentor and youth trainings and technical assistance. 5

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust / Gateway Public Allies Pittsburgh to the Arts www.publicallies.org www.trustarts.org Teisha Stolich: [email protected] lisa leibering: [email protected] A 10-month Americorps Program focuses The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust offers on leadership and professional development comprehensive and diverse programming to within the non-profit sector. This is an young artists and audiences seeking option/opportunity for high school seniors to professional and personal growth. Through explore after they graduate high school. in-school and out-of-school residencies, Applicants must be at least 17 or older. workshops, and classes, the Trust’s arts education programs provide cultural RISE enrichment to tomorrow’s artists and www.nolimit2rise.com professionals. Arts Enrichment and STEAM. Bridgett: [email protected] Provide custom Foreign Language Pittsburgh Filmmakers/Pittsburgh Instruction (Teaching, Tutoring, Interpreting) Center for the Arts for individuals or groups ages 3 thru www.pfpca.org adulthood. Enrichment thru direct instruction Mary Brenholts: [email protected] for school age students. Lessons are Through our partnership with the crafted thematically or by level. Outcomes Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Artists in are established in order to demonstrate Schools & Communities at Pittsburgh comprehension Filmmakers/Pittsburgh Center for the Arts (PF/PCA) offers Artist Residency Projects The School of Mindful Arts and other vital arts services such as http://www.theschoolofmindfularts.org/ workshops and classes to schools, Bonnie Weiss: community organizations, and nonprofit [email protected] service agencies working with both children Teaching Meditation, Art and and adults in Allegheny, Beaver, Greene, Multiculturalism to Children Ages 3-18 and Washington counties. 45 minute classes with storytelling, mindfulness and art projects unified by Pittsburgh OVR relation to a particular nation/culture http://www.dli.pa.gov/individuals/disability- services/ovr/pages/default.aspx SLB Radio Productions, Inc. Ashley Mullen: [email protected] www.slbradio.org, www.youthexpress.org, The Pennsylvania Office of Vocational www.neighborhoodvoices.org Rehabilitation, or OVR, provides vocational Larry Berger: [email protected] rehabilitation services to help persons with Our mission is to use radio and audio to disabilities prepare for, obtain, or maintain encourage, amplify, share and archive the employment. Services include: Business ideas, stories, and feelings of children, Rep Services (OTJ, WRBLE, Job coaching, youth and families. This is done through on- Job Shadowing, paid internships, etc), site and in-studio workshops using counseling, Restoration Services, support microphones, recorders, editing software services, evaluations, etc. and other digital audio tools to engage students as they create commentaries, podcasts, documentaries, oral histories and other programs with an emphasis on speaking, listening, reading and writing as

well as 21st Century career skills. These programs are distributed on line, on the radio and via CD. programs are customized and available for Grade K-12. 6

Storypearls YWCA Greater Pittsburgh/Southwest www.storypearls.com Regional Key Sydelle Pearl: [email protected]; www.ywcapgh.org [email protected] Sharon Enfield: [email protected] Through her organization, Storypearls, The YWCA Greater Pgh is dedicated to Sydelle Pearl presents author programs and empowering women and eliminating racism. residencies in preschools, child care It provides comprehensive service for centers, elementary schools, and after- struggling families such as affordable child school programs, primarily for children from care and housing. Working with our low socio-economic backgrounds. In May of SOUTHWEST REGIONAL KEY partners, 2016, Storypearls received an Honorable we offer technical assistance to support Mention from the Freedom Through Literacy programs in their quest to improve the Award from Judith’s Reading Room. quality of their facilities...to move to higher Keystone STARS levels. Swim & Water Polo with B.G.C. http://CLOH.org Everything Afterschool is an annual Mark Rauterkus: [email protected] event brought to by: We organize Swim & Water Polo activities at schools, camps and elsewhere. Nonprofit driven.

University of Pittsburgh, Office of

Child Development https://www.ocd.pitt.edu/ Barbara Rose Soltarz: [email protected] The Office of Child Development is a university-community partnership dedicated to improving the lives of children, youth, and families.Through interdisciplinary collaborations across research, practice, and policy, we strive to turn knowledge into action and respond creatively and collaboratively to challenges facing children in Pittsburgh and around the world.

Venture Outdoors www.ventureoutdoors.org Lo Hutelmyer: [email protected] We believe everyone deserves the chance to experience how incredibly fun the outdoors can be, so we provide gear, guidance and inspiration to make the outdoors a part of people's lives. We provide youth and adults with after-school activities, such as kayaking, biking, hiking, geocaching, fishing, snowshoeing, caving, climbing, and more school year, we provide a variety of outdoor recreational and environmental activities in school and afterschool settings.