Assembling Success Spring 2019

Photo: Manchester Bidwell Corporation President & CEO Kevin Jenkins giving founder and Executive Chairman Bill Strickland and Board Chair Greg Jordan flags that were flown over the United States Capitol in honor of Strickland and Manchester Bidwell Corporation’s 50th Anniversary. Photograph by Jonathan Zito.

ASSEMBLING SUCCESS Biannual Newsletter of Manchester Bidwell Corporation Spring 2019

50th Anniversary Celebration

BTC Hires New Executive Director

33rd Jazz Concert Season

Grab a glimpse of MBC’s 50th Anniversary Celebration

Meet Bidwell Training Center’s new Executive Director Kimberly Rassau, Ed.D

MCG Jazz’ upcoming concert season inspires collaboration among renowned artists

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New Photography Exhibit at MCG

DMC’s Plan for Agriculture

ECAT Hires Executive Director

Local photographers inspire action, movement, and revolution in MCG students

The DMC’s plan for controlled-environment agriculture will change the food landscape

The Erie Center for Arts and Technology has hired its Executive Director Daria Devlin

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Remembering Nancy Wilson Bill Strickland, Founder and Executive Chairman of Manchester Bidwell Corporation Nancy’s spirit embodied our mission. Not only did we record two GRAMMY® Award-winning albums together, but she generously donated all the proceeds of her Christmas album, “A Nancy Wilson Christmas,” to the organization. Nancy’s voice had left me in awe countless times but her many benevolent acts will always stay with me.

In the over 50 years that Manchester Bidwell Corporation (MBC) has been around, our patrons have turned into family. They end up believing and championing the work just as much as I do.

Unfortunately, we lost a member of our family recently with the passing of the dear Nancy Wilson.

I’ll never forget when Nancy went on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” to promote the album. When Oprah asked her why she donated all the proceeds Nancy said “they are making a difference in the community.”

“They are giving people hope, and I want to support what they are doing.

It is a beautiful place—something every major city should have.”

The Future is Now

as they develop their plan to incorporate controlled-environment agriculture into the greenhouse and change Pittsburgh’s food landscape.

Kevin Jenkins, President & CEO We ended a reflection-filled 2018 with a bang at our 50th Anniversary Celebration held at our main campus on Metropolitan Street. We showcased our innovative art studios and our career training classrooms during a festive night that included a special performance from GRAMMY® Award-winning Dee Dee Bridgewater; proclamations from the city, county, state, and federal government; and the premiere of our short documentary “Manchester Bidwell Corporation: Half a Century of Making People Whole.”

The night was an excellent spark to inspire us to make the next 50 years even better than the last, and as you’ll see in this issue we are well on our way.

We have new staff to push us in new and exciting directions like Bidwell Training Center’s executive director Kimberly Rassau. We’re providing more opportunities for Pittsburgh-area youth with MCG’s

I carry those words with me every day. I want to make sure we can bring Nancy’s words to life, and that every major city has one of our centers of hope. She deserves that and so much more.

We are acting with a sense of urgency to surpass the achievements of the past half century. The future is now. Poverty and despair don’t take days off, and as you’ll read in this issue neither do we.

Upcoming Events • March 27 & 28: MCG Youth & Arts Spring Course Enrollment

Invitational ready to award over $300,000 in scholarships and prizes. MCG Jazz’ upcoming season is primed to be one of our most successful with its new theme of collaboration between renowned artists.

NCAT is also inspiring partnership with the creation of their new resource center for affiliate centers. And for innovation, look no further than the Drew Mathieson Center

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• April 13: Bidwell Training Center Commencement Ceremony • May 1: MCG Invitational • May 4: Drew Mathieson Center Spring Market • May 28: Bidwell Training Center Medical Claims Processor Program Start

GRAMMY® Award-winner Dee Dee Bridgewater performing a tribute to Manchester Bidwell Corporation in the K. Leroy Irvis Concert Hall.

MBC’s 50th Anniversary Celebration Nearly 300 guests started our 50th Anniversary Celebration in the concert hall hearing from our founder and executive chairman Bill Strickland, watching our short documentary, and enjoying a tribute from GRAMMY® Award-winner Dee Dee Bridgewater.

From there guests enjoyed cocktails and specialty cuisine curated by noted Pittsburgh chef and Bidwell Training Center alumna Kate Romane, witnessed demonstrations from former students in our art studios; explored our training center classrooms showcasing alumni accomplishments, and swung to live jazz throughout our building.

The night ended with Mel Torme’s classic “A Christmas Song” performed by his son James Torme and MCG Jazz musicians.

Thank you to our sponsors PNC, UPMC, UPMC Health Plan, PJ Dick, CNX, The Bair Family Fund,Byham Charitable Foundation, Rackoff Family Fund, Schneider Downs, Chatham University, Community College of Allegheny County, Eckert Seamans, Enkompas Technology Solutions, Hefren-Tillotson, Huntington Bank, and Nicholas D. Varischetti for making the night possible.

Photographs by Jonathan Zito.

Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald, Julie Strickland-Gillard, Mayor Bill Peduto, Bill Strickland, and State Sen. Jay Costa.

Guests signing the 50th Anniversary vase in the ceramics studio.

MBC 50th Anniversary Celebration guests exploring the student work in the digital studio.

To support Manchester Bidwell Corporation and its affiliates visit

manchesterbidwell.org/donate

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Bidwell Training Center’s New Executive Director Stands As a Model for Students Rassau plans to take BTC’s successful education model and look ahead as the school faces a changing education sector.

“I want to make sure that the school remains relevant and sustainable,” said Rassau. “The landscape changes rapidly and industry needs can be fickle on any given day and on any given year. I want to make sure that BTC is not just meeting all the necessary standards but setting them.”

Kimberly Rassau, Ed.D, Bidwell Training Center’s new executive director Bidwell Training Center (BTC) has hired Kimberly Rassau, Ed. D., as its new executive director. Rassau comes to BTC with career training leadership experience working in several executive and dean positions at various for-profit schools.

“Kim’s extensive experience and accomplishments in career training and higher education were the first things that caught our attention in our search for a new executive director at BTC,” said Kevin Jenkins, Manchester Bidwell Corporation President & CEO. “Her innovative ideas peaked our interest as they will allow us to help more people in the community while also pushing BTC as a leader in the career training space. And the fact that she was a non-traditional student who can serve as a model for our students cemented her as being our choice to help steer BTC into the next 50 years.”

Rassau enters BTC in its 51st year after the departure of former executive director Valerie Njie, who retired after dedicating 37 years to the school.

“I have tremendous amount of respect for what Valerie and the staff here have built,” said Rassau. “BTC has been a school of excellence two consecutive times. I know I have incredibly big shoes to fill.”

While this is Rassau’s first time working for a non-profit, she’s been very familiar with schools like BTC from a young age.

Rassau’s mother worked enacting the Jobs Training Partnership Act (JTPA), which gave money to organizations and tuitionfree schools to prepare youth and unskilled adults for the labor force. BTC was one of the organizations that received support from the JTPA. Rassau’s enthusiasm for the work started when she was a JTPA teen board member in high school, and while she made some deviations on the way she found herself back helping adults in transition.

“I realized that I absolutely did not want to work for an organization that was strictly numbers driven only,” said Rassau. “ I feel like BTC is a perfect fit because what I’m doing is valued at a level that is focused more on developing the human spirit.”

Aside from the enthusiasm for the work and her vast experience in the field, Rassau is also very familiar with many of the obstacles and stresses many of our students face.

Rassau’s father worked at Edgewater Steel, and in 1981—when she was graduated from Valley Senior High School in New Kensington, PA—the steel industry was on the cusp of collapsing. Worried about her no longer being on his health insurance, Rassau’s father made it a priority for her to get a job so she could get health insurance. She luckily landed an administrative assistant position at Carnegie Mellon University, but it would take over eight years until she started working for Education Management Corporation

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and was asked to consider going back to school.

“At that time I wasn’t thinking at all about going back to school let alone getting my bachelor’s degree,” said Rassau. “I had felt that school just wasn’t for me.”

However once she returned to pursue her secondary education, she didn’t stop for 12 years until she got her doctorate in organizational leadership.

“I know what it’s like driving down Route 28 at 10:30 p.m., crying your eyes out because your exhausted then get back up in the morning to go to work, do your homework, go to class, and do it all over again,” said Rassau. “I know exactly how it feels to look at your checkbook and think ‘I got $4.37 and payday is not for seven days but I have to pay my bills today.’”

Rassau shared her story of being a nontraditional student during an assembly with BTC students and staff on her first week as executive director.

“You’re never too old to realize your self worth or your potential earning power,” Rassau said during the assembly. “For me, that happened very much later in life.”

While Rassau is inspired by the work BTC’s staff has done for 50 years there is one area that she wants to change.

“My goal is to get rid of the idea that BTC is the best kept secret,” said Rassau. “I want to increase our exposure, so people stop thinking that BTC is only for a certain kind of student that lives on the North Side. BTC is a wonderful opportunity for everyone.”

BTC Provides Culinary Art Students A New Pathway to a Degree With New Partnership Bidwell Training Center (BTC) and Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC) have entered into an articulation agreement that will allow BTC’s culinary art students to transfer credits to CCAC if they wish to pursue a culinary arts degree.

With regular wait lists to enroll, BTC’s culinary arts diploma program is among the career training school’s most popular majors. Our students have gone on to work at some of Pittsburgh’s most prestigious restaurants, started their own restaurants, and established their own catering companies. At no cost to qualified students the culinary arts program—like all other BTC programs—provides an excellent first step for student’s to change their lives.

This new articulation agreement will help

Bidwell Training Center culinary arts students. Photograph by Jonathan Zito.

provide new opportunities for our students who would like to continue their studies and get an Associate in Applied Science from CCAC in culinary arts.

“This is a wonderful opportunity for Bidwell’s culinary arts graduates who would

Two New Medical Companies Join BTC’S Industry Advisory Boards Adagio Health and Accredo have joined Bidwell Training Center’s (BTC) industry advisory boards, which help shape curriculum to better prepare students for employment and help develop externship and placement opportunities.

Adagio Health is now part of the medical assistant industry advisory board. For nearly 50 years, Adagio Health has served over 100,000 patients and clients—most of them women who are uninsured and underinsured—in 23 counties in Western Pennsylvania. They provide life-changing services including 9,000 breast cancer and cervical cancer screenings through the HealthyWoman, WiseWoman, and the Komen Mammogram Voucher program, which help low-income underinsured

women. Their insight on women’s health will be a great asset for the medical assistant students.

Pharmacy technician students will gain more knowledge about the specialty pharmacy field with the addition of Accredo to their industry advisory board. This specialty pharmacy company serves patients with HIV, cancer, hepatitis C, multiple sclerosis, and other complicated health conditions. Focusing on these complex conditions allows the pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and nurses to provide more personalized care to the patients.

like to receive their Associates Degree in culinary arts,” said Cynthia Tuite, BTC’s culinary arts program director. “This agreement will give them the opportunity to have a flexible schedule with CCAC by receiving credits for courses completed at Bidwell Training Center.”

Stand-Out Stats 100 %

The Medical Assisting Education Review Board, the accreditation board for the medical assistant program, noted that the medical assistant program has received 100 percent achievement in its 2017 outcomes for placement, graduate survey participation, graduate satisfaction, employer satisfaction, exam participation, and exam pass rate.

For program start dates and more information on Bidwell Training Center visit

bidwelltraining.edu

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MCG Jazz Inspires Collaboration in 33rd Season MCG Jazz’ 2019-2020 concert season features artists that explore the theme of creative connections. Internal collaborations of musicians and musical styles will demonstrate jazz music’s connectiveness to the listener and to the collective world culture.

The diverse grouping of musicians and wide range of styles that make jazz music so vibrant today will be represented from traditional piano/vocal duo and standards settings to avantgarde and jazz fusion.

performance will be recorded for inclusion in MCG Jazz’ archives collection. Select artists will participate in educational outreach or community engagement activities.

Each concert will be performed twice for the public, and each

Ben Vereen October 4 & 5, 2019

Joey Alexander

Jonathan Butler

October 18, 2019

November 16, 2019

John Pizzarelli & Catherine Russell November 22, 2019

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A Peter White Christmas December 7, 2019

Jane Bunnett Latin Christmas

Cecile McLorin Salvant & Sullivan Fortner

December 13, 2019

February 21, 2020

Kenny Werner & Patricia Barber

Ann Hampton Callaway & Tierney Sutton: In Technicolor

March 14, 2020

March 27, 2020

Nicole Mitchell: Radical Transformation For Angela Davis

SFJAZZ Collective April 4, 2020

April 17 & 18, 2020

Yellowjackets

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

May 1 & 2, 2020

May 16, 2020

artists and dates subject to change

To see a full schedule, show times, and to buy tickets to support our mission to preserve, present, and promote jazz visit

mcgjazz.org

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Three Local Photographers Inspire Action, Movement, and Revolution in Students with New Exhibit “Action·Movement·Revolution” is a photography and mixed-media exhibit featuring work from Pittsburgh artists Kenneth Neely, Martha Rial, and sarah huny young. Each artist documents and highlights the human experience from the definition of an American woman to the effects of gentrification to the struggle of refugee lives. The exhibit includes photographs and mixed-media paintings and will be on display through April 5, 2019.

Along with the exhibit and reception, the artists engaged MCG Youth & Arts students in a series of workshops.

Rial lead the students in a three-day intensive workshop documenting resident artists at City of Asylum, huny taught the students portraiture techniques at the Ace Hotel Pittsburgh with two professional models, and Neely worked with the students over a number of weeks on a collage and mixed-media project using their own photographs.

Neely is a visual storyteller that uses photography and mixed-media paintings to tell the rich and complex stories of people of color. Neely’s long-term project is the continued documentation of the ever-changing city of Pittsburgh with his “Welcome to Pittsburgh” portfolio. In addition, Neely teaches art and uncovers a

child’s inherit artistic talent.

Pullitzer Prize-winning photographer Rial has traveled to the mountains of Haiti; African villages; and the streets of her hometown, Pittsburgh, in order to document compelling stories.

Her work can be found in the permanent collections of the Carnegie Museum of Art, BNY Mellon, and the Newseum in Washington, D.C. sarah huny young is an awardwinning creative director and visual artist primarily documenting and exalting black womanhood and LGBTQ communities through portraiture and video. Framing her subjects as her cocurators, she often shoots on-location across the country in personal, intimate spaces of the subjects choosing.

Currently, huny is a freelance photographer for Pittsburgh City Paper, an executive advisory board member at Carnegie Museum of Art, and curates cultural events as part of a residency at Ace Hotel Pittsburgh.

Learn more about the exhibit at mcgyouthandarts.org.

sarah huny young with students editing photos from a model shoot at the Ace Hotel Pittsburgh. Photograph by Jolie Valentine.

Caption: Serena Lucille, 2018. Serena is a MCG Youth & Arts student and sarah huny young’s daughter. Serena is the only child in young’s “American Woman” project on display in the “Action•Movement•Revolution” exhibit “because she—like so many other little brilliant, hopeful, and beautiful black girls in this country—is the future,” said young.

Photograph by sarah huny young.

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2018 MCG Invitational winners on stage at the K. Leroy Irvis Hall at Manchester Bidwell Corporation. Photo by Germaine Watkins.

MCG Invitational to Award Record Amount of Prizes This Year The eighth annual MCG Invitational (MCGI), a juried arts exhibition that highlights talent, rewards achievement, and encourages hope through creativity, will give out a record amount of awards that currently totals nearly $400,000.

scholarships, cash awards, and post-secondary education opportunities for high-school students in Pittsburgh and the surrounding area.

MCGI seeks to recognize excellence and commend achievement demonstrated by youth in Pittsburgh’s communities.

Along with the awards, the artwork is displayed in Manchester Bidwell Corporation’s Connie Kerr Gallery and North Lobby where countless renowned artists have had their work displayed.

Several universities, museums, local businesses, and charitable funds contribute

All high school students from Pittsburgh Public Schools are invited to attend along

with others from the surrounding area.

For more information on MCGI visit mcgyouthandarts.org/mcg-invitational.

Event: MCG Invitational Awards Ceremony & Reception Dates: Wednesday, May 1, 2019 6 p.m.–9 p.m.

Location: 1815 Metropolitan St., Pittsburgh, PA Support local youth art at the MCG Invitational Awards Ceremony & Reception. Witness high school students win awards, see the compelling art in the Connie Kerr Gallery, and enjoy conversations with the student artists during a joyful night.

For a list of our youth courses as well as art classes for adults visit

mcgyouthandarts.org

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Schematic of controlled-environment agriculture greenhouse at the Drew Mathieson Center for Horticultural and Agricultural Technology.

DMC’s Controlled-Environment Agriculture Initiative The DMC Greenhouse plans to add commercial Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA), where food crop production is dependent on creating and maintaining optimum growing conditions in an enclosed structure, to the unique operating model focused on workforce development and will create a new and exciting opportunity to develop educational and career building platforms. With CEA, the environment and plants are monitored by technology and agricultural technicians.

The DMC Greenhouse’s commercial food production will be focused on hydroponic production techniques and will include a combination of vining crops, herbs, specialty/mixed greens, lettuce, and microgreens.

Growing in a pristine greenhouse environment ensures a product free of disease and contamination. Producing a premium product should not come at the expense of nature’s limited resources. Incorporating principals of conservation and preservation results in a positive impact on the environment, while providing a premium product to our customers.

To grow in the winter months, DMC Greenhouse will utilize LED grow lights

to help supplement lighting conditions.

Diffused glass is used on greenhouse rooftops for increased quality and production without increase in energy. The addition of these state-of-the-art energy efficient artificial lights, along with natural light will create perfect growing conditions year-round.

Implementing environmentally conscious efforts throughout our production facility include the practice of Integrated Pest Management, which reduces pesticide usage and includes the introduction of eco-friendly predator insect to control any harmful pests. In addition, the production strategy of introducing bumble bees allows for natural pollination in the greenhouse.

sanitary guidelines, with innovative growing methods and combining them with exacting, state-of-the-art technologies will allow the DMC Greenhouse to grow premium quality crops.

Supply chain-wide electronic traceability will be implemented with the development of a Produce Traceability Initiative plan.

Consumers and distributors desire to know where their food is coming from and this effort will focus on ensuring a superior quality traceable product. A perfectly controlled, closed environment will allow fruit and vegetable harvest to occur at the peak of ripeness with delivery to our customers within 24 hours.

As an incubator for innovative technology and techniques the DMC updates will address areas of conserving resources, operating more efficiently, and incorporating additional AgTech. When complete, the DMC Greenhouse updates will evolve the DMC in to a high-performing facility. In a growing industry, DMC’s evolution to include CEA provides a comprehensive growing laboratory for flowers, food, and the mind.

The learning environment created at the DMC Greenhouse through the CEA initiative will provide students with expanded opportunities for new and exciting applied learning experiences and a wide range of hands-on training associated with food production. Educational goals will be focused on mastering and managing the science and technology behind the updated DMC Greenhouse and CEA initiative.

Good Agricultural Practices creates strict DMC has the perfect plant for you, and by incorporating our plants into your life you are helping to support Manchester Bidwell Corporation. Partnership opportunities include: fundraising; special event, office, and facility decor; corporate gifts; and contract or project specific growing. For more information visit

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NCAT Welcomes New ECAT Executive Director

Daria Devlin, executive director of Erie Center for Arts and Technology NCAT welcomes Daria Devlin as the new Executive Director to Erie Center for Arts & Technology (ECAT). Devlin brings a great blend of experience in education, nonprofit fundraising and management expertise.

Devlin is a life-long Erie resident and a

strong advocate for social responsibility in its urban core. Devlin graduated from Colgate University in 1995 (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Russian Studies and History. She also holds a Master of Education degree in Educational Leadership from Edinboro University. Devlin has over 10 years of nonprofit fundraising, program development and management experience. She played a major role in securing grant funding for many of Erie’s most prominent nonprofit projects including the Wayne School-Based Health Center, the Blue Coats Community-School Bridge, and Erie’s Community School pilot.

In 2012, Devlin founded the Partnership for Erie’s Public Schools, a local education foundation dedicated to organizing financial and community support for Erie’s Public Schools. From 2013–2018, Devlin

also served as the Coordinator of Grants and Community Relations for Erie’s Public Schools, where she was part of the leadership team that successfully secured a $14 million increase in state funding for the district after a three-year public awareness and advocacy campaign.

Devlin is an active member of her church community where she serves as Secretary of the Parish Council and the Chairperson of the church’s annual Russian Troika Festival. She also volunteers at the Overflow Homeless Shelter and the Emmaus Soup Kitchen. Devlin was named a Woman Making History in 2014, one of “Four Under Forty” by the Erie Times News in 2016, and Public Relations Person of the Year by the local chapter of the PRSA in 2017. She lives in Erie with her husband and her three sons.

NCAT Hosts Leaders For Network Annual Conference

Eric Clemons, Bethany Friedlander, Joey Cuzzi, Amy Atkinson, Keren Zehavi, Naim Obeid, Tom Roberts, Tammy Aupperle, Paul McCraven, David Legeay, Maarten Hemsley, Bill Strickland, Steve Sarowitz, Scott Lammie, Kevin Jenkins, Mark Frank, and Carlton Highsmith at the Network Annual Conference.

Leaders representing various Centers of Arts and Technologies from across the United States and Israel gathered in Pittsburgh in

November 2018 to share information about their work and successes, learn more about NCAT’s new business plan, and explore

NCAT’s newly designed website that includes a members-only resource center and interactive leadership forum.

To learn how your community can invest in impactful change by developing a Center for Arts & Technology visit us at

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MCG Youth & Arts student Serena Lucille Wyckoff during the public reception for “Action•Movement•Revolution.”

Photograph by Germaine Watkins.

Thank You For Your Support Manchester Bidwell Corporation would like to thank all our supporters for their generosity. Gifts listed in this section are from January 1, 2018 through December 31, 2018. Any gifts received after December 31, 2018 will be listed in our newsletter’s spring 2020 issue.

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Photo: Bidwell Training Center culinary art students in class. Photograph by Jonathan Zito.