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Sustainability and Smart Growth Brown Bag Forum

Wednesday, March 12
11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Fetterolf Room, 23rd Floor, Regional Enterprise Tower, Downtown Pittsburgh
No fee to attend. Bring a bag lunch; refreshments and dessert provided.
RSVP info@sustainablepittsburgh.org or 412-258-6642
Featuring:
Ty Gourley, Institute of Politics
Regional Water Management Task Force

The Regional Water Management Task Force, created in mid-2006, is designed to build on previous studies of southwestern Pennsylvania’s water and sewage-related problems—which are widely considered to be among the most challenging in the nation—and to achieve consensus on policy solutions.

The Task Force is currently drafting its initial recommendations and will soon be seeking input from the region in order to improve them. This brownbag lunch will be one opportunity to be involved in providing feedback to the Task Force on its activities and eventual recommendations.

Endorsed by the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission, the Task Force includes representatives of 11 southwestern Pennsylvania counties. Carnegie Mellon University president Jared Cohon serves as chair.

Sponsored by:

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Architect’s Lecture: Martin Haas, Partner, Behnisch Architekten

Friday, February 22
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
CMA Theater, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland
Free admission
Reception follows
Heinz Architectural Center Galleries open until 8:30 p.m.

Martin Haas presents recent work by Behnisch Architekten. The lecture marks the opening of Ecology.Design.Synergy, a collaborative exhibition between Behnisch Architekten and Transsolar ClimateEngineering that includes the competition-winning RiverParc proposal for downtown Pittsburgh. The RiverParc project locates public spaces and recreational areas on the southern, sunny sides of residential streets and provides a wide range of opportunities for people to linger, meet, and interact. In accordance with Behnisch and Transsolar’s collaborative ethic, the plans are not only environmentally responsible but aim to produce a new architectural aesthetic and aid in Pittsburgh’s desire to be a leader in the development of “green architecture.” Ecology.Design.Synergy will be on view at Carnegie Museum of Art’s Heinz Architectural Center February 23–May 25, 2008. For more information about Carnegie Museum of Art, call 412-622-3131 or visit the web site at www.cmoa.org.

Clean-up Coordinator Training Workshops

Multiple dates/times in February and March
Multiple locations throughout Allegheny County
$10/organization for up to five people
Registration required
Contact Allegheny CleanWays at 412.381.1301

Allegheny CleanWays is offering Clean-up Coordinator Training workshops to help community groups prepare for the 2008 Great PA Cleanup/Spring Redd-Up! These workshops provide tools and information needed to manage a successful event. Allegheny CleanWays can also provide bags, gloves, and vests for clean-up volunteers. An affiliate of PA CleanWays, Inc., Allegheny CleanWays’ mission is to engage and empower people to eliminate litter and illegal dumping in Allegheny County.

SPRING 2008 Clean-up Coordinator Training Workshops
6:30 P.M. Monday, Feb. 25: Indianola
6:30 P.M. Thursday, Feb. 28: Wilkinsburg
6:30 P.M. Monday, March 3: Northside
7:00 P.M. Monday, March 10 Millvale
6:30 P.M. Tuesday, March 11 Green Tree
6:30 P.M. Tuesday, Feb. 26: South Park

Transportation 101

February 26 in Beaver County
9:00 am – 1:00 pm OR Noon – 4:00 pm; bus ride between noon and 1
Location: Beaver County Transit Authority
Free to the first 20 attendees – Registration deadline Feb. 15

March 31 in Westmoreland County
9:00 am – 11:45 am and 1:00 pm – 3:45 pm; bus ride for both sessions between noon and 1
Location: PA CareerLink Westmoreland County
Free to the first 25 attendees – Registration deadline March 14

For more information and to register, contact Lisa Kay Schweyer at 412-391-5590 ext. 375 or lkschweyer@spcregion.org

Transportation 101 is a 3 – 4 hour session designed for human services professionals and employers who are interested in learning more about the transportation options available in their area. The approach is to train the participants so they can take the information back to their workplace and share it with co-workers, clients, employees, etc. The sessions are facilitated by the local transit operator, the local transportation management association (if there is one in the area) and CommuteInfo. There is no fee to attend.

• Find out more about the various transportation options available
• Discover valuable resources
• Learn how to read a transit schedule
• Learn which transit routes to take
• Learn how to “transfer” from bus to bus
• Take a ride on one of the transit vehicles

Heart Health & Air Quality – What’s the Connection?

Wednesday, February 27
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Wightman School Community Bldg, 5604 Solway St., Room 205 (Squirrel Hill)
Free admission
Register by contacting GASP at 412-325-7382 or lee@gasp-pgh.org
Heart Healthy Snacks Provided.

Please join GASP and cardiologist Dr. Don Grandis for an informative discussion of Hearth Health and Air Quality. Southwestern PA faces many air quality challenges, including some of the highest levels of fine particulates in the nation. A February 2007 article in the New England Journal of Medicine found that for every 10 ug/m3 rise in PM 2.5 readings at air quality monitors in their zip code, the risk for suffering any type of cardiovascular event rose by 24%, and risk of death from cardiovascular disease rose by 76%. In addition, a study in Germany, published in July 2007, found that the distance of a person’s home from a major road, ranging from >200 m to within 50 m, was associated with their risk for a high level of coronary artery calcification.

cityLIVE! 5: “managing the inevitable!”

Wednesday, February 27
6:30 pm
New Hazlett Theater (North Side)
Free!
Read more at http://www.popcitymedia.com/citylive/default.aspx
Respond to: rsvp@nowall.com

We need to find ways to contain our hunger for energy and other resources that are, inevitably, dwindling. Are there solutions? How realistic are they? And how can they be implemented?

Come listen to our experts’ well-formulated ideas. Green chemistry, adapting our manufacturing processes, energy options, infrastructure and more will be discussed and debated. Our experts include Dr. Paul Anastas, Professor at Yale University and a Heinz Award recipient in the environmental category; Audrey Russo, CEO and President of the Pittsburgh Technology Council, and Steve Winberg, Vice President of Consol Energy R&D, led in a lively discussion by Moira Gunn, of TechNation Media.

Bring your questions, ideas and bring your energy! Cocktails and conversation to follow.

Green$ense Conference

Wednesday, March 5
7:30 am - 3:45 pm; Green building tour at 4pm
David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Downtown Pittsburgh
Registration fees vary
Visit the conference website for more details.

Green$ense, hosted by the Green Building Alliance, is a one-day conference highlighting strategies in green building featuring breakout sessions and case studies with nationally recognized experts. Exhibit booths displaying green building products and an afternoon tour of Bakery Square is also available. The event features the Shades of Green Leadership awards recognizing Western Pennsylvanians who have contributed to the environmental transformation of the region.

Sustainability and Smart Growth Brown Bag Forum

Wednesday, March 12
11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Fetterolf Room, 23rd Floor, Regional Enterprise Tower, Downtown Pittsburgh
No fee to attend. Bring a bag lunch; refreshments and dessert provided.
RSVP info@sustainablepittsburgh.org or 412-258-6642
Featuring:
Ty Gourley, Institute of Politics
Regional Water Management Task Force

The Regional Water Management Task Force, created in mid-2006, is designed to build on previous studies of southwestern Pennsylvania’s water and sewage-related problems—which are widely considered to be among the most challenging in the nation—and to achieve consensus on policy solutions.

The Task Force is currently drafting its initial recommendations and will soon be seeking input from the region in order to improve them. This brownbag lunch will be one opportunity to be involved in providing feedback to the Task Force on its activities and eventual recommendations.

Endorsed by the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission, the Task Force includes representatives of 11 southwestern Pennsylvania counties. Carnegie Mellon University president Jared Cohon serves as chair.

Sponsored by:

“Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order”

Saint Vincent College Threshold Series
Thursday, March 13
8:00 pm
Saint Vincent College, Robert S. Carey Student Center Performing Arts Center (Latrobe)
Free admission; Reservations required
Requests for reservations may be made by phone (1 to 4 p.m. weekdays) or e-mail by giving name, address, daytime phone, and number of seats requested to the Threshold Box Office at 724-805-2961 or threshold@stvincent.edu. All reservations will be confirmed by phone or email.

This presentation by author and mathematician Steven Strogatz, an expert on the emerging field of natural synchronization, is being given in cooperation with the Herbert W. Boyer School of Natural Sciences, Mathematics, and Computing.

What caused hundreds of Japanese children to fall into seizures while watching an episode of the cartoon show Pokemon? Why do women roommates sometimes find that their menstrual periods occur in sync? The tendency to synchronize is one of the most mysterious and pervasive drives in all of nature. Every night along the tidal rivers of Malaysia, thousands of fireflies flash in silent, hypnotic unison; the moon spins in perfect resonance with its orbit around the Earth; the intense coherence of a laser comes from trillions of atoms pulsing together. All these astonishing feats of synchrony occur spontaneously -- almost as if the universe had an overwhelming desire for order. On the surface, these phenomena might seem unrelated. After all, the forces that synchronize fireflies have nothing to do with those in a laser. But at a deeper level, they are all connected by the same mathematical theme: self-organization, the spontaneous emergence of order out of chaos. Video footage of synchronous fireflies, and the notorious crowd synchrony that triggered the wobbling of London's Millennium Bridge, will be shown. A question and answer period follows the presentation. For further information, contact the Public Relations Office at Saint Vincent College, 724-537-4560, pr@stvincent.edu.

National Green Jobs Conference Set for Pittsburgh

March 13-14, 2008
David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Downtown Pittsburgh
For more information and to register, visit www.greenjobsconference.org.

Good Jobs, Green Jobs: A National Green Jobs Conference will launch a nationwide dialogue about moving our country rapidly toward leadership in promoting the benefits of a new green economy.

The conference is been designed for advocates representing local, state and federal policy makers; labor; business; the environment and public health; economic and workforce development specialists; investors; and scientists and technology experts. It will accomplish three objectives:
• Provide a forum for strategic interaction between the different constituents comprising the developing new green economy;
• Showcase key policy initiatives for the rapid expansion of green job growth and economic development; and
• Demonstrate to the importance of public and private investments in the emerging green economy and launch the public discussion on these ideas.

Lunch and Learn: Ecology.Design.Synergy and Pittsburgh’s RiverParc project

Thursday, March 20
10:30 am - 2:00 pm
Lunch included in the Carnegie Cafe
CMA Theater, $36 members/$45 non-members, including lunch
Call 412-622-3288 to register.

Heinz Architectural Center curator Raymund Ryan puts Pittsburgh’s RiverParc project in the context of green design by these two internationally renowned firms. Following lunch, Ryan gives a tour of the exhibition. For more information about Carnegie Museum of Art, call 412-622-3131 or visit our web site at www.cmoa.org.

Climate Change Uncertainties: Opportunities for Business Innovation?

Thursday, March 27
7:45 am - 5:00 pm
Four Points by Sheraton Pittsburgh North, Mars, PA
Registration: $100/person; Special Student Rate: $35 Registration fee includes continental breakfast and lunch.
Contact:
Jerry Swart at 412-262-6291 - jerry.swart@fedex.com
John Quinlisk at 412-503-4537 - John_Quinlisk@URSCorp.com

Three of Pittsburgh’s business, engineering and environmental professional organizations are coming together to convene a regional conversation about climate change, its impacts and responses. Climate change, global warming, greenhouse gases, carbon footprint--all of these terms and issues continue to appear in conversations in the media. Many of these conversations are heated and controversial. One thing is clear about this situation: these issues will present challenges to businesses and individuals, simply because of the degree of interest people have in the topics and resulting worldwide concern and debate. Interest in climate change topics has already prompted foreign, federal, and state governmental considerations and actions.

To meet these challenges, the Pittsburgh section of the American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE), and the Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI), in association with the Allegheny Mountain section of the Air & Waste Management Association (AWMA), and Sustainable Pittsburgh’s Champions for Sustainability (C4S) network invite the region’s business, engineering, and environmental professionals to a one-day seminar focusing on climate change.

Following is a listing of topics covered and corresponding speakers:
Human impact on climate change – William Easterling (Dean, PSU, College of Earth and Mineral Science)
Natural cycles on climate change - Dr. S. Fred Singer (Science & Environmental Policy Project)- invited
Impact on business - Kathryn Klaber, Vice President (Allegheny Conference on Community Development)- invited
Regulatory issues – Krish Ramamurthy (Chief, Division of Permits, Bureau of Air Quality, PA DEP)
Legal framework and carbon emissions trading – Harry Klodowski, Esq. (Betts, Hull, & Klodowski LLC)
Measuring our impact – carbon footprint – H. Scott Matthews (Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering and Publbic Policy at Carnegie Mellon University)
Possibilities of offsetting carbon – George Hoguet
Climate action and leadership – Chris Steffy P.E. (Industrial Energy Engineering)

Farm to Table: A RECIPE FOR A HEALTHY PITTSBURGH

Friday, March 28, Noon – 6:00 pm
Saturday, March 29, 2008, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
David Lawrence Convention Center in Downtown Pittsburgh
Regular admission fee: $15; Kids under 12: free; Students (ages 14-18): $10
More information: Visit https://www.pathwayswellnessprogram.com/farm_to_table_conference.html or call 412-563-8800.

The speakers and exhibitors will assist Western Pennsylvania consumers in understanding the benefits of eating locally grown food. Businesses that grow, sell or prepare farm raised produce, livestock, and value added products will be featured. Organizations providing health and wellness opportunities will also be an integral part of this conference. Giant Eagle and American HealthCare Group are sponsors of the event.

8th Annual Southwestern Pennsylvania Smart Growth Conference

Revitalize the Region: Seize Market Interest to Redevelop Core Communities
Friday, May 16
Omni William Penn Hotel, Pittsburgh
8:30 am - 3:30 pm (continental breakfast and lunch included)
Keynote speaker: Christopher Leinberger, Metropolitan Land Strategist & Developer
Cost: Early Registration: $30. After May 1: $40 (free to elected officials)
To register call (412) 258-6642 or info@sustainablepittsburgh.org

Presented by:
Local Government Academy
Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development
Pittsburgh Partnership for Neighborhood Development
Smart Growth Partnership of Westmoreland County
Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission
Sustainable Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh Institute of Politics

For sponsorship and tabling opportunities call 412-258-6643.

This conference, designed for communities in the region that desire to accelerate their redevelopment, will be rich in content, featuring tools, case studies, and technical assistance opportunities. A window of opportunity is growing for communities that are prepared to foster smart growth in step with the shift in the development market that is now occurring. Renewed interest in urban and core communities by developers and investors spells opportunity for restoring prosperity. This shift is fueled by demographic, economic, and cultural trends that are serving to revalue our core communities. Want to be better prepared to seize this market interest? This Smart Growth conference will help communities better understand the changing market, appreciate how to capitalize on their assets, comprehend what needs to done to participate in the market-based renaissance, and engage in a network to pursue mutual interests. Our region's sustainable growth depends on it.

Conference Highlights:
Project Region: The new regional transportation and development plan, plots a new smart growth course for Southwestern Pennsylvania focused on restoring and reinvesting in the region’s existing communities. Learn how the Region's Plan is aligned with emerging market interest in reinforcing existing places and targeted corridors with a strong emphasis on preservation, maintenance and operation of existing infrastructure.

Deal Makers and Breakers: To fully benefit from the Region's Plan, it's incumbent on existing communities to understand what developers and investors are looking for when they scan a region for opportunity. In a unique undertaking, the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP) and the Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University (CURP) have collaborated to investigate new approaches municipal officials can employ to help attract new development to their communities. Project leader, David Soule will engage conference participants in discovering what is takes to attract smart growth investment. Furthermore, a consultancy will be launched to work with communities around the region to take a proactive, aggressive stance to meet the complex needs of firms looking to start up operations, relocate, or add new facilities.

Window of Opportunity: Keynote, Christopher Leinberger (see below), will demonstrate the shifting market now brewing in favor of “walkable urbanism” -- downtown and suburban downtown revitalization, New Urbanism, transit-oriented development, green field mixed-use development (“lifestyle centers”), regional mall redevelopment, among others. He will review ways the real estate sector is re-tooling how it designs, plans, regulates and finances to serve these markets to formulate and implement the next American Dream. A panel of regional developers and government leaders will discuss the trend of revaluing urbanity now stirring in our SWPA and how to accelerate market readiness.

Zoning for Smart Growth: Too often zoning techniques that shaped the growth of the American suburb create barriers to meeting today's community visions for traditional types of development. Gregory Heller of the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission will be on hand to explore new innovations in zoning that provide flexibility to respond to changes in private market demand. Learn from Gregory and local leaders how your community can be an early adopter and zone the way to seize market interest to redevelop core communities.

Keynote Speaker:
Christopher B. Leinberger is a metropolitan land use strategist, developer, teacher, consultant and author helping to make progressive development profitable. He is a founding partner of Arcadia Land Company, a real estate development firm serving to create walkable communities in harmony with nature.

Leinberger is a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution focusing on research and practices to help transform traditional and suburban downtowns to places that provide “walkable urbanism." He is also a professor and director of the Graduate Real Estate Program at the University of Michigan which focuses on downtown and suburban town center revitalization, transit-oriented development, new urbanism, and conservation development.

In his recently released book, The Option of Urbanism, Leinberger reviews how Americans are voting with their feet to abandon strip malls and suburban sprawl, embracing instead a new type of community where they can live, work, shop, and play within easy walking distance. He explains why government policies have tilted the playing field toward one form of development over the last sixty years: the drivable suburb. Conversely, Leinberger shows how the American Dream is now shifting to include cities as well as suburbs and how the financial and real estate communities need to respond by building communities that are more environmentally, socially, and financially sustainable.

Leinberger has written award-winning articles for publications such as The Atlantic Monthly, The Wall Street Journal and Urban Land magazine. He has been profiled by CNN, the Today Show, and National Public Radio.

Great Outdoors Week 2008

May 16-25, 2008

Come one, come all! The seventh annual Great Outdoors Week runs from Friday, May 16 through Sunday, May 25, 2008! Great Outdoors Week highlights the amazing outdoor recreation opportunities Southwestern Pennsylvania provides. Various events are scheduled around the region during this week, including five signature events:
5/16 – National Bike to Work Day
5/17 – Venture Outdoors Festival
5/18 – Pedal Pittsburgh
5/20 – “Learn to Row” Indoor Session
5/25 – Rachel’s Sustainable Feast

Individuals from all skill levels and backgrounds are invited to participate. Stay tuned for more details!

Resources

Sustainable Pittsburgh Joins Concerned Citizens Call for Allegheny County Pledge to Support and Strengthen the Local Air Quality Program

Sustainable Pittsburgh joins with other concerned citizens and organizations in calling upon Allegheny County leaders and the Board of Health to commit to keeping the Air Quality Program local and to provide the program with the staff and resources necessary to ensure healthy air quality for Allegheny County residents.

Sustainable Pittsburgh believes businesses today place a high premium on a clean environment and public health and see that these imperatives are prerequisite to economic prosperity locally and for the region. The opportunity at hand is to deliver a superior locally controlled Air Quality Program whose processes are clear, fair, prompt in processing permit applications, and is highly adept in assisting businesses to determine cost effective means to come into and stay compliant with air quality regulations.

America's 50 Greenest Cities

We used raw data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the National Geographic Society’s Green Guide, which collected survey data and government statistics for American cities of over 100,000 people in more than 30 categories, including air quality, electricity use and transportation habits. We then compiled these statistics into four broad categories, each scored out of either 5 or 10 possible points. The sum of these four scores determines a city’s place in the rankings.

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Aliquippa has a future in alternative fuels

Joe Cranston, president of Sunnyside Ethanol LLC, which is under the umbrella of Consus Ethanol LLC, said the company is in the process of getting licensed from the state to build a $750 million ethanol plant along the banks of the Ohio River on 88 acres of the old LTV plant. . .There’s also the matter of raising money to build the $750 million plant. Part of that amount will be partially funded through state grants — which would reach up into the millions — but the bulk of money to build the plant will be raised through financial investors. . .Joe Cranston, president of Sunnyside Ethanol LLC. . .said his facilities would answer the question of energy by building a waste coal-fired plant on the property. As for the other issue, Cranston looks to genetic engeneering of corn kernels to mass produce the product in the future. He also said that in time, the company may switch to deriving ethanol from switchgrass, a dense grass in plentiful supply.

In Search of a Real Urban Policy

By now, many Americans have heard the presidential candidates talk about issues close to the heart of rural America. They fell all over themselves to praise ethanol in Iowa and condemn nuclear storage in Nevada. But as important as rural problems are, they’re not nearly as big as the task of helping the nation’s struggling cities — where most Americans live or work. The cities have been the hardest hit as federal policies have failed or gone missing in education, housing, health care, jobs, transportation and environment, to name a few. Yet urban issues have gotten scant attention in this campaign.

The Next Slum? By Christopher B. Leinberger, SP's Smart Growth Conference Keynote

The subprime crisis is just the tip of the iceberg. Fundamental changes in American life may turn today’s McMansions into tomorrow’s tenements. . .A structural change is under way in the housing market — a major shift in the way many Americans want to live and work. It has shaped the current downturn, steering some of the worst problems away from the cities and toward the suburban fringes. And its effects will be felt more strongly, and more broadly, as the years pass. Its ultimate impact on the suburbs, and the cities, will be profound. . .For 60 years, Americans have pushed steadily into the suburbs, transforming the landscape and (until recently) leaving cities behind. But today the pendulum is swinging back toward urban living, and there are many reasons to believe this swing will continue.

Environmental groups want air quality program to stay local

Court Gould, executive director of Sustainable Pittsburgh, said some of the benefits of keeping the air quality program local are that local control provides better access to decision-making, lets the program benefit from institutional knowledge of the airshed and provides more attentiveness and responsiveness than if the function were moved to the state.

ULI Asks: 'Can Stand-Alone Malls Survive?'

The five-member panel, moderated by managing principal and president Greg Vilkin of San Francisco-based MacFarlane Partners, agreed that the heyday of the freestanding mall surrounded by surface parking is long gone and that the remodeling, repositioning and razing of existing malls that has occurred in recent years will only continue. The gist of much of the discussion was that stand-alone malls as they developed during the suburban boom in America during the past 50 years have run their course, but mixed-use developments including shopping venues as one part of the mix are the way of the future.

Scientists Would Turn Greenhouse Gas Into Gasoline

If two scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory are correct, people will still be driving gasoline-powered cars 50 years from now, churning out heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — and yet that carbon dioxide will not contribute to global warming.

Higher Education Gap May Slow Economic Mobility

"...gaps in higher education between rich and poor, whites and minorities, could soon lead to a downturn in opportunities for the poorest families. [Researchers] found that Hispanic and black Americans were falling behind whites and Asians in earning college degrees, making it harder for them to enter the middle class or higher."

The Guardian: Peg bonuses to worker safety and green success, firms urged

Britain’s biggest companies are being urged to radically alter the way they pay their directors by linking their bonuses to non-financial measures such as environmental protection and the safety of employees.

The Toxic Ten

For all the environmental-speak coming out of American corporations these days, many remain polluters. A look at 10 companies that should be doing better.

The Green 11

Some of America's most eco-savvy corporations.

The Big Impact from Greening Small Businesses

When it comes to the environment, small business is big business. Although large companies continually grab the headlines with far-reaching announcements about carbon reduction, recycling and eco-friendly products, small businesses have just as much ability to affect the environment. In the United States, small businesses (defined by the U.S. Small Business Association as independent firms with less than 500 employees) employ half of the private sector workforce and use half of the electricity and natural gas consumed by the commercial and industrial sectors. In 2006, small businesses accounted for 99.9 percent of the 26.8 million businesses in the country.

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Sustainable Pittsburgh benefits from support in 2008 from:

Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation
Dollar Bank
The Heinz Endowments
Elsie H. Hillman Foundation
Roy A. Hunt Foundation
Richard King Mellon Foundation



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