Grants Awarded
As indicated, users may search by Program Area, State, or Year of Authorization. In addition, by entering a term in the criteria field, the search will return grants with that term in either the organization name or city fields.
Grant seekers are reminded that the emphasis of the Foundation’s grants program evolves over time and that prior grants may not be indicative of the Foundation’s future program emphasis.
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Appalachian Community Capital (Christiansburg, VA)
To support communities with technical assistance, predevelopment, and project design in places where resources and support systems are scarce (over two years)
Date Awarded: 12/05/2023
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $100,000.00
Appalachian Forest National Heritage Area (Elkins, WV)
To expand regional activities promoting the creative economy in the Appalachian Forest Heritage Area and surrounding counties to grow tourism and improve communities (over two years)
Date Awarded: 09/14/2021
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $150,000.00
Appalachian Forest National Heritage Area (Elkins, WV)
To expand the successful Highlands Creative Economy initiative, using collaboration and assistance to enhance cultural heritage, natural, and human assets to grow tourism and benefit communities (over two years)
Date Awarded: 09/12/2023
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $197,000.00
Appalachian Forest National Heritage Area (Elkins, WV)
To support planning associated with volunteer-based trail maintenance in the Appalachian Forest National Heritage Area
Date Awarded: 09/14/2020
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $20,500.00
Appalachian Headwaters Inc (Lewisburg, WV)
As a match to funding already awarded by the Appalachian Regional Commission, to develop beekeeping enterprises to help unemployed and underemployed citizens earn sustainable incomes through apiculture
Date Awarded: 06/13/2017
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $125,000.00
Appalachian Headwaters Inc (Lewisburg, WV)
To support expansion of production and marketing for the Appalachian Beekeeping Collective
Date Awarded: 11/06/2019
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $202,000.00
Art Expression Inc (Pittsburgh, PA)
For an after-school program that uses architecture to advance STEAM education
Date Awarded: 03/11/2014
Program Area: Education
Region Served: Pennsylvania
Amount Awarded: $33,000.00
Assemble, Inc. (Pittsburgh, PA)
To engage peer organizations and community members in strategic conversations around the development of a teaching artists center in southwestern Pennsylvania
Date Awarded: 11/14/2022
Program Area: Education
Region Served: Pennsylvania
Amount Awarded: $15,000.00
Asset, Inc. (Pittsburgh, PA)
To support action planning for the implementation of the Partnerships to Advance Learning in STEM (PALS) program in Greene County, Pennsylvania
Date Awarded: 05/23/2022
Program Area: Education
Region Served: Pennsylvania
Amount Awarded: $10,000.00
Association of Science-Technology Centers Incorporated (Washington, DC)
To host, in Pittsburgh, an international conference on innovations in science, technology, and learning
Date Awarded: 09/12/2019
Program Area: Education
Region Served: Pennsylvania
Amount Awarded: $75,000.00
Athens County Foundation (Athens, OH)
To conduct a Broadband Town Hall convening members of congress and other stakeholders from Central Appalachia to discuss issues which can facilitate broadband deployment in the region
Date Awarded: 07/08/2021
Program Area: Economic Development
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $2,000.00
Attack Theatre Incorporated (Pittsburgh, PA)
For the new Creative Learning Program pilot, which will establish a professional learning and residency model for Greene County schools based on transferable kinesthetic learning strategies (over 18 months)
Date Awarded: 12/06/2022
Program Area: Education
Region Served: Pennsylvania
Amount Awarded: $58,100.00
Attack Theatre Incorporated (Pittsburgh, PA)
For expansion of a cross-circular educational program that teams teaching artists with classroom teachers, and engages students in public art projects (payable over two years)
Date Awarded: 03/10/2020
Program Area: Education
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $275,000.00
Attack Theatre Incorporated (Pittsburgh, PA)
For expansion of the Creative Learning Program pilot, establishing a professional learning and residency model for Greene County schools based on transferable kinesthetic learning strategies
Date Awarded: 06/11/2024
Program Area: Education
Region Served: Pennsylvania
Amount Awarded: $58,000.00
Attack Theatre Incorporated (Pittsburgh, PA)
To create kinesthetic instructional strategies for students with special learning needs
Date Awarded: 12/11/2018
Program Area: Arts
Region Served: West Virginia
Amount Awarded: $96,500.00
Attack Theatre Incorporated (Pittsburgh, PA)
To establish a hub in the Mon Valley Creative Corridor to support and expand arts and culture programming essential to learning and community development
Date Awarded: 11/06/2019
Program Area: Education
Region Served: Pennsylvania
Amount Awarded: $50,000.00
August Wilson African American Cultural Center (Pittsburgh, PA)
For operating support for the 2023-2024 season
Date Awarded: 09/12/2023
Program Area: Arts
Region Served: Pennsylvania
Amount Awarded: $75,000.00
August Wilson African American Cultural Center (Pittsburgh, PA)
For operating support for the 2024-25 season
Date Awarded: 09/10/2024
Program Area: Arts
Region Served: Pennsylvania
Amount Awarded: $75,000.00
August Wilson African American Cultural Center (Pittsburgh, PA)
For fellowships that will contribute to the pipeline of arts management professionals of color, benefiting the field, as well as the Pittsburgh arts ecosystem (over two years)
Date Awarded: 06/11/2024
Program Area: Arts
Region Served: Pennsylvania
Amount Awarded: $200,000.00
August Wilson Center for African American Culture (Pittsburgh, PA)
For operational funding for 2013-14, conditioned upon successful negotiation of a financial restructuring plan
Date Awarded: 09/10/2013
Program Area: Arts
Region Served: Pennsylvania
Amount Awarded: $0.00