Pittsburgh Scholar House awarded a $100,000 multi-year grant in the “Moving To Financial Stability” category for its Wayfinders Program!
United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania, powered by its community of 50,000 donors, has announced investments of $21 million over the next three years to human services agencies helping our region thrive. These awards are the result of United Way’s recent Multi-Year Grant funding process, where record numbers of community volunteers reviewed proposals from hundreds of nonprofits.
The awards come as United Way launches the public phase of its fundraising campaign to raise $40 million for a new endowment in honor of its 100th anniversary in 2027.
“This $21 million investment is vital and needed now more than ever,” said United Way President & CEO Bobbi Watt Geer, Ph.D. “The number of funding requests to United Way grew by 30% since our last multi-year grant cycle in 2023. This is a reflection of unprecedented needs our partner agencies are seeing in the community, often from people who have never sought help before. Meeting these needs is one of the reasons we’re asking the public to help us meet our goal of raising $40 million in honor of our 100th anniversary in 2027.”
United Way’s $21 million investment will benefit 138 programs run by 121 nonprofit agencies across Allegheny, Armstrong, Butler, Fayette and Westmoreland counties through FY 2029. Investments are in four categories: meeting basic needs, moving to financial stability, building for success in school and life, and capacity building to strengthen the nonprofit sector.
See the full list of unded agencies are listed on United Way’s website here.
Read about the public campaign, how United Way makes funding decisions, and its major supporters in the full press release here.