Media Report - October, November, December 2019

Media Report October, November, December 2019

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From left to right: Board Chair Alan Trivilino, Honoree Robert Hill, Honoree Sharon McDaniel, Honoree Bob Nelkin and Urban League of Greater Pittsburrgh President & CEO Eshter L. Bush at the 2019 Ronald H. Brown Leadership Awards Gala on Friday, December 6, 2019.

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10-2-2019

Topic

Pennsylvania provides $96,000 for urban farming in Allegheny County

Media Outlet

Pittsburgh Tribune Review

Mentions: Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh 10-4-2019

Pittsburgh urban agricultural organizations receive thousands in Pittsburgh City Paper state Farm Bill grant Mentions: Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh

10-3-2019

Bank On Greater Pittsburgh at the Hill Community Development Facebook Corporation

10-9-2019

2019-2020 Executive Leadership of the Urban League Young Professionals of Greater Pittsburgh

Via Facebook (from ULYP page)

10-9-2019

Oral Health Disparities

New Pittsburgh Courier

10-10-2019

More Black Women live in poverty in Pittsburgh than comparable cities

New Pittsburgh Courier

10-14-2019

Census 101: 2020 Census National Tele-Town Hall to feature Activists and Experts on How to Prevent an Undercount

Facebook (via National Urban League)

10-15-2019

The RIDC has donated the Business Innovation Center building in Duquesne to the Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh

New Pittsburgh Courier

10-21-2019

2020 Census National Tele-Town Hall coming on October 22 at 8:00 PM

Facebook

10-21-2019

We will #pausewithPittsburgh to honor, restore and connect

Facebook

Together we remember – anniversary of the synagogue shooting remembered 10-22-2019

Make Black Count: 2020 Census National Tele-Town Hall coming on October 22 at 8:00 PM

Facebook

10-27-2019

Jim Rooney’s book on his father, Dan, expands a legacy

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Mentions: Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh 10-27-2019

Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh organize Sock Drive

KDKA

10-29-2019

Now Hiring – Giant Eagle

Facebook

11-12-2019

Diabetes and Physical Activity

New Pittsburgh Courier

11-15-2019

Annual Thanksgiving Distribution Announcement

Facebook

11-16-2019

Set up for the Annual Thanksgiving Distribution

Facebook

11-15-2019

Volunteers are ready at the registration table

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Media Outlet

11-16-2019

Urban League Young Professionals helping out at the annual Thanksgiving Distribution

Facebook

11-16-2019

Faith Harfield promotes Northview Heights Family Support Center at the annual Thanksgiving Distribution

Facebook

11-25-2019

STEM Program Manager position announcement

Facebook

11-29-2019

Silent Auction opens Black Friday

Facebook

12-1-2019

We’re Moving

Display sign

Urban League moves into the Warner Center 12-3-2019

Giving Tuesday

Facebook

12-6-2019

Tonight’s the night! Ronald H. Brown Leadership Awards Gala announcement

Facebook

12-8-2019

Awards and Honors

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Mentions: Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh 12-12-2019

Ronald H. Brown Leadership Awards Gala

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

12-14-2019

The Urban League 2019 Ronald H. Brown Leadership Awards Gala

New Pittsburgh Courier

12-16-2019

Dr. Howard B. Slaughter Jr. Elected to FHLBank Pittsburgh Board as a Public Interest Independent Director

Business Wire News Releases

Mentions: Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh (as former Board Member) 12-17-2019

Profile: Meet Mary Weidner

The Incline

Mentions: State of Black Pittsburgh 2019 and the Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh 12-17-2019

The Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh Ronald H. Brown Leadership Awards Gala

New Pittsburgh Courier

12-17-2019

Maternal Mortality

New Pittsburgh Courier

12-20-2019

Holiday Silent Auction

Facebook

12-23-2019

Holiday Silent Auction Ends

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12-31-2019

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12-31-2019

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Pennsylvania provides $96,000 for urban farming in Allegheny County

Grow Pittsburgh, which promotes regional urban agricultural initiatives, plans to expand through a $50,000 state grant that will help pay for a new greenhouse.

Jake Seltman, executive director of the Homewood-based organization, said Grow Pittsburgh would continue to partner with The Frick Pittsburgh for use of its greenhouse. He said a second greenhouse would provide more plant seedlings to urban and backyard gardeners and schools.

Grow Pittsburgh supports more than 100 community gardens and 30 school gardens.

“This is really going to help expand our operations across the region,” Seltman said. “We’re just really happy and thankful.”

Gov. Tom Wolf on Wednesday announced the state would distribute $500,000 in urban agricultural grants, including $96,075 for organizations in Allegheny County. In addition to Grow Pittsburgh, they include: •Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh, $2,500 for seeds, soil, wood chips and equipment.

•Allegheny County Conservation District, $21,225 for 87 new raised beds and a hoop house.

•New Sun Rising, Triboro Ecodistrict Partnership, $8,600 for a refrigerator, seedlings and lumber.

•The Small Farmer, $2,500 for new cold storage.

•Hazelwood Initiative, $1,250 for compost and a picket fence.

•Hilltop Urban Farm, $2,500 for stainless steel tables and sinks.

•Richard’s Imagine Center of Hope, $2,500 for an automatic sprinkler system.

•Love ’n Fresh Flowers, Philadelphia, $2,500 for a cooler and insulation.

•Operation Better Block, $2,500 for materials to support the Junior Green Corps for food preservation and storage.

Bob Bauder is a Tribune-Review staff writer. You can contact Bob at 412-5643080, bbauder@tribweb.com or via Twitter .

Pittsburgh urban agricultural organizations receive thousands in state Farm Bill grants

Today, Gov. Tom Wolf announced that several urban agricultural organizations in the Pittsburgh area will receive grants to help continue their missions.

Nine local organizations will receive Urban Agriculture Grants. The grants, which total $500,000, will help fund 28 projects throughout the state in the counties of Allegheny, Butler, Erie, Lawrence, Northampton, Philadelphia, and York.

“Urban agriculture is about more than just growing food; it’s about growing our communities and our economy, it’s about increasing quality of life,” Gov. Wolf says in a press release. “In addition to urban gardens providing places to work and learn, they aggregate fresh, local products to combat food insecurity and improve access to healthy, nutritious food.”

The announcement comes months after Gov. Wolf signed Act 40 to create the Urban Agriculture Infrastructure Grant Program as part of the state’s first-ever Pennsylvania Farm Bill. Signed in July, it provides microgrants of up to $2,500 for one-time projects or individual applicants, and larger grants of up to $50,000 for cooperative or regional efforts with multiple partners.

Local microgrant recipients include The Small Farmer, the Hazelwood Initiative, Hilltop Urban Farm, Richard’s Imagine Center of Hope, Love ‘n Fresh Flowers, Operation Better Block, and the Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh. Macro grants went to Grow Pittsburgh, the Allegheny County Conservation District, and the New Sun Rising Triboro Ecodistrict Partnership.

As outlined in a press release, the organizations plan to respectively use the funds for urban garden operations, new equipment, supplies, and system updates, as well as other necessities like pest control.

"We are so grateful for this allocation of state funding in support of urban agriculture across the Commonwealth and particularly in Allegheny County as we work to realize the many benefits that urban gardens bring to our neighborhoods,” says Grow Pittsburgh executive director Jake Seltman. “With over 100 community gardens, 40 school gardens, dozens of urban farms, and thousands of backyard gardens in Allegheny County, this funding will help Grow Pittsburgh to build a greenhouse to expand our capacity to provide seedlings and education for these important projects in our community."

Digital Daily More Black women live in poverty in Pittsburgh than comparable cities—New equity report shows noticeable disparities •Christian Morrow - Courier Staff Writer

URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH PRESIDENT AND CEO ESTHER BUSH

by Christian Morrow, Courier Staff Writer Typically, analyses of racial and gender disparities in Pittsburgh’s crime rate, unemployment, economic activity, education levels, poverty, etc. compare it with 13 cities of similar size and racial makeup.

But Pittsburgh’s Inequality Across Gender and Race report compares the city to 89 others— including those 13. The result, as one of the report’s researchers said at the Sept. 17 release of the report, confirms what many people already knew instinctively: “If Black residents got up today and moved to most any other city in the U.S., automatically by just moving, their life expectancy would go up, their income would go up, their educational opportunities for their children would go up,” said University of Pittsburgh sociologist Junia Howell.

The report looks at multiple health variables: infant mortality; causes/ages of death; heart disease; poverty rates; income levels; educational attainment; and job sector inclusion. In many of these areas, the disparity between Blacks and Whites in Pittsburgh is worse than almost anywhere else.

One such indicator is fetal death: For Pittsburgh’s Black women, 18 out of every 1,000 pregnancies end in a fetal death. This is compared to only 9 out of every 1,000 White pregnancies and 2 out of every AMLON (Asian, Multiracial, Latinx, other racial groups or Native American) pregnancies. That rate for Black women is higher than 94 percent of other cities.

Urban League President and CEO Esther Bush, who submits a monthly health column to the New Pittsburgh Courier, said she found the report’s findings sobering.

“It’s like, I knew we were bad, but I didn’t know we were the worst,” she said. “We need to come to a place of necessity, where we ask each (person) what ‘we’ are doing, personally, to make things better—because whatever we’ve been doing is inadequate.”

While the poverty rates for all races in Pittsburgh are higher than the other cities surveyed, Blacks, again, have higher rates. However, more Black women live in poverty in Pittsburgh than in 85 percent of other cities. And 85 percent of other cities have higher rates of Black employment than Pittsburgh.

Also, as the chart from the report indicates, while Whites tend to find employment across high-tolow income employment sectors, Blacks are more segregated, with fewer in the high-income positions such as attorney, engineer, mathematicians, etc.

While the report’s authors note that some national factors affect outcomes—in primary education, for example—others seem to be localized and therefore could be remedied by studying what has been done in the comparison cities.

This is the first of four reports the Pitt team of researchers will produce in the coming months.

Mayor Bill Peduto said he plans to develop policy based on the findings but told the Sept. 17 press conference audience that the city can’t do it alone. He said the city’s largest institutions and corporations should use the same data to help.

Echoing Bush, he said, “Start by asking, ‘What are you doing to make their lives better?’”

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THE RIDC HAS DONATED the Business Innovation Center building in Duquesne to the Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh. (Photo courtesy RIDC)

by Christian Morrow, Courier Staff Writer Urban League President and CEO Esther Bush loves old buildings, and now she has a new one to love. Last month the Regional Industrial Development Corporation (RIDC) of Southwestern Pennsylvania donated its Business Innovation Center building in Duquesne to the Urban League.

Built at the end of the 1800s, it was originally the office building for Carnegie Steel. Since being acquired by the RIDC in 1988, it has filled a number of purposes, primarily as an incubator for start-up firms, but it also provided space for social service agencies—the Urban League has operated one of its three Family Resource Centers there for more than two decades.

“We’ve been in that building for 25 years. We were the last tenant in the building,” Bush told the New Pittsburgh Courier. “We’re looking forward to providing additional social services—not just the Urban League’s, but from other providers who are looking to expand their services to the Mon Valley. It’s an opportunity to strengthen what we’re doing.”

The Duquesne Family Support Center, like the Urban League’s two others in Northview Heights and East Hills, focuses on strengthening families with children ages 0 to 5.

“We provide the kind of support to make sure kids are ready for school, things like immunizations, early childhood development programming,” Bush said. “We assist families with any issue that could help make them better parents, try to expose them to different programs and opportunities they might not be aware of that could benefit them, and of course, upgrading employment opportunities.”

Bush said she isn’t yet sure how much more of the three-story, 14,512 square-foot building her agency will use.

“We’ll use some, but we look forward to leasing space to other providers. We are looking to positively impact the community,” she said. “Our forums and seminars will expand there also. (And) we’re going to continue to serve Allegheny County with a focus on Pittsburgh’s Hill District, Homewood and North Side, and the Mon Valley—it needs more attention than it receives now.”

And while the building itself will at some point need attention, Bush said it is in good shape, especially considering its age.

“This one is very nice. It’s stately. There’s a second-floor conference room where one entire wall is solid wood, and it has a lot of period detail,” she said. “But what is the lifetime of the AC, of the furnace? So, like any building it needs maintenance. So in addition to expanding our services, we do have to look for grants and do fundraising to upgrade the facilities. But we are very appreciative of RIDC, which was very patient with us.

They want to make sure we are successful.”

RIDC president Donald Smith told the Courier that was the point of donating the building.

“I think it’s an important resource in a community that really needs it, it was important for the services to be maintained for the people and the surrounding communities,” he said. “We’ve been invested in that community for quite some time and it’s a community that has weathered some economic challenges. The good work that the Urban League is doing and working with community members is important in that community.”

Spotlight: Meet Mary Weidner

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