Who funds Poise Foundation?

Meadow families scholarship fund

Core support for seed funding for pittsburgh's cultural treasures initiative to support local arts and cultural activities

Operating and core programming support

General support

To help support the organization's new downtown youth enrichment center

To develop a new strategic plan

Promise of an Equitable Future

Pittsburgh hardball academy's capacity building and strategic planning

The yvac fund

To support coaching and organizational capacity building for new organization operation amani

Professional women's network's coaching & professional development

Association for the study of african american life and history conference support

To support the professional women's network second year of professional coaching

To support "region to region," a visiting artists program for cultural treasures that fosters intercultural, intergenerational, and interdisciplinary spaces that serve as venues for play, peace, and pride

Yvac 2024 president's youth council grant

Human equity & justice fund and critical community needs fund

Matching gift

Core support for seed funding for pittsburgh's cultural treasures initiative to support local arts and cultural activities

To support the pittsburgh cultural treasures initiative, in partnership with the ford foundation and the poise foundation

General support

Operating and core programming support

To provide nonprofit executives with access to a sabbatical program

To provide nonprofit executives with access to a sabbatical program

Toward support of operations for the hear foundation

To help support the organization's new downtown youth enrichment center

To fund two years of black tech nation events and programs and to support the success and growth of black entrepreneurs, startups, and technologists in pittsburgh

Yvac - state of young campaign

Charitable

To send 15 black tech nation team members and several pittsburgh black tech entrepreneurs and techies to afrotech, november 1-5, 2023 in austin, TX; the largest black tech conference in the world

To improve the quality of life for marginalized residents and people of color through the plus-10 initiative and through project barnabas

Working with local mothers to reduce gun violence and support communities coping with traumatic loss

Yvac 2023 president's youth council grant

Human equity & justice fund and critical community needs fund

Matching Gifts

Matching gift

Matching gift

To serve the black community

General support

To support the pittsburgh cultural treasures initiative, in partnership with the ford foundation and the poise foundation

Core support for seed funding for pittsburgh's cultural treasures initiative to support local arts and cultural activities

increase the knowledge and networks of Black led philanthropic funds and institutions to advance power building in philanthropy through research, convenings, and network development

General support

Toward support of operations

To provide faith-based leaders with sabbaticals

To support the staff capacity for black tech nation to continue building a digital and physical black technology ecosystem in pittsburgh

To provide operating support for the alliance for police accountability

To support a communications campaign and public launch of the hear foundation, a new nonprofit that will foster relationships between pittsburgh police and residents, via fiscal sponsor poise

To support the build-out of a robust student-centered gaming and esports initiative in partnership with schools, nonprofits, and businesses that can provide and connect additional learning and career pathways

To support a process to gather community input around trauma, resilience and safety to inform community microgrants

Charitable

Support for professional womens network's coaching program

Charitable

Human equity & justice fund and critical community needs fund

Matching Gifts

General support

Core support for seed funding for pittsburgh's cultural treasures initiative to support local arts and cultural activities

To support the pittsburgh cultural treasures initiative, in partnership with the ford foundation and the poise foundation

General support

To provide nonprofit executives with access to a sabbatical program

Toward support of the community wealth impact notes program to help community residents in changing neighborhoods, and others, grow income, increase investment acumen, and directly benefit from increases in property value

Operating and capacity support

Capacity building

General operating

Covid-19: critical community needs fund

engage and educate Black donors across Greater Pittsburg on the benefits of collective giving through individual giving fund generation and targeted giving circle models to impact the success of Black families and vibrancy of the communities in which they live, learn, work and play

For programs and operations at brothers and sisters emerging to support the implementation of new curriculum and programming to bring about improved social, emotional, educational, and economic outcomes for youth and families

To provide operating support for the alliance for police accountability

To develop a communications plan

To support the black equity coalition

Covid-19: vaccine education in partnership with wqed

Charitable

General support

To support the creation of the hear foundation, a new nonprofit that will foster relationships between pittsburgh police and residents with the goal of growing healthy, safe and thriving communities

To support a communications campaign and public launch of the hear foundation, a new nonprofit that will foster relationships between pittsburgh police and residents, via fiscal sponsor poise

To launch the hear foundation to improve relationships between community residents and police with a goal of addressing issues of mental health, workforce training, and gun violence

Critical community needs fund

To support academic enrichment for baseball players from low-income communities

Human equity & justice fund and critical community needs fund

Matching Gifts

Charitable purpose

General support

To expand the advanced leadership institute that supports leadership development of african americans in pittsburgh and nationwide

To support the poise foundations critical community needs fund to re-grant money to small and mid-sized black led organizations (blos) to support their efforts to provide critical services

To provide operating support for the alliance for police accountability to advance a set of transformative policy changes around criminal justice and restorative practices

Capacity building

To launch an online digital content and education platform that produces daily video series, live events, and written features focusing on technology and the black community

Toward a collaborative project to remove barriers to black students college access caused by the learning disruption and economic instability of covid-19

To support the black covid-19 equity coalition

To implement a pilot leveraging existing partnerships addressing service delivery gaps for low-income/minority populations with barriers to employment

General operating

Toward two-year support of operations and sustainability initiatives

The advanced leadership initiative: executive leadership academy

To support the alliance for police accountability

To support the advanced leadership initiative (tali) an organization that develops and implements programs that build the pipeline of african american executive leaders

Toward support of operations due to the covid-19 pandemic

Covid-19: support for black-led nonprofits

Critical community needs fund and human equity and justice fund

Toward support of the community wealth impact notes program to help community residents in changing neighborhoods, and others, grow income, increase investment acumen, and directly benefit from increases in property value

engage and educate Black donors across Greater Pittsburg on the benefits of collective giving through individual giving fund generation and targeted giving circle models to impact the success of Black families and vibrancy of the communities in which they live, learn, work and play

Toward support of operations and start-up funding for forge global

To provide operational funds to support the ongoing development and advancement of forge

To support the black covid-19 equity coalition

Critical community needs fund

To identify how leaders throughout the region are thinking about this economic and social moment and determine the opportunities to plan for a structural reform of the economy

To support the alliance for police accountability to engage underrepresented groups, particularly young people and people of color, around the hundreds of local offices in allegheny county up for election in 2021

Charitable

To support the advanced leadership initiative to dramatically improve the regional presence of african americans in corporate and nonprofit leadership roles

To support a COVID-19 community assistance campaign.

General purpose

For general operating support for alliance for police accountability

For general operating support

General support

T0 support a program to introduce black girls to the fashion- and maker- industries

Covid-19 critical community needs fund

General

Human equity & justice fund and critical community needs fund

Eat initiative support

Covid-19 critical community needs fund

General support

Matching gift program

General support

Assistance for social services

Philadelphia black giving circle

General support

General support

Toward two-year support of operations and sustainability initiatives

General support

engage and educate Black donors across Greater Pittsburg on the benefits of collective giving through individual giving fund generation and targeted giving circle models to impact the success of Black families and vibrancy of the communities in which they live, learn, work and play

Pittsburgh hardball academy

Diversity

To support the advanced leadership initiative to dramatically improve the regional presence of african americans in corporate and nonprofit leadership roles

To develop a strategy for the pittsburgh black elected officials coalition to close the workforce skills gap

Charitable

Critical community needs

#strongmomstrongbaby

General & Unrestricted

General fund

Diversity

Support the launch of the advanced leadership initiative (tali) which aims to foster a pipeline of high performing african american leaders in the greater pittsburgh region

Matching gift

Community development

Matching gift

engage local African American donors in building capacity to attract donors to collectively pool resources toward strengthening Black families, through targeted giving models and grants to community-based organizations