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Events

Sustainability and Smart Growth Brown Bag Forum: "One Step at a Time. . ."

Student Sustainability Symposium
Friday, April 11
10:00 am - Noon
31st Floor Conference Room, 425 Sixth Avenue, Regional Enterprise Tower (Downtown)
RSVP to Dolly Chavez (chavez@pitt.edu ; 412-624-8780) by April 7.

The University of Pittsburgh Environmental Studies Program Department of Geology and Planetary Sciences School of Arts and Sciences invites you to learn what Pitt students are doing to promote sustainability on campus and in the City of Pittsburgh. “One Step at a Time: Shrinking the Campus Footprint” is a cooperative project of Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh, and Duquesne University supported by a grant from the Heinz Endowments.

Resources

PennFuture’s Global Warming Conference 2008: Solutions for a Warming Planet

Saturday, April 5
9:00 am – 3:00 pm
La Roche College, Zappala College Center Square, 9000 Babcock Blvd, North Hills
Free for PennFuture members and students; $10 for non-members.
Register here today or by calling 1-800-321-7775.
For more information about PennFuture visit www.pennfuture.org.

Learn how you can take action to help stop global warming, with presentations by national, state, and local experts and leaders:
- Larry Schweiger, president, National Wildlife Federation;
- Brenda Ekwurzel, climate scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists;
- David Foster, executive director, Blue-Green Alliance;
- Allen Kukovich, director of the office of Governor Ed Rendell for the southwest region;
- Pennsylvania State Representatives Lisa Bennington and Chelsea Wagner;
- Brian Hill, president and CEO, Pennsylvania Environmental Council;
- Representatives from Solar Power Industries, Gamesa Wind US, Green Building Alliance, and Pennsylvania Association of Sustainable Agriculture.
- Latest global warming policy updates on state and federal levels.
- Watch biodiesel manufactured on-site by Steel City Biofuels and
- Listen to music by Life in Balance.

This event is co-sponsored by La Roche College and Pennsylvania Interfaith Climate Change Campaign.

Environmental Charter School Information Sessions

Tuesday, April 8
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
East Liberty Presbyterian Church (116 S. Highland Ave., Pittsburgh, 15206)

Wednesday, April 9
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
The Environmental Charter School at Frick Park (829 Milton St., Pittsburgh, 15218)

Thursday, April 10
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Rosedale Children's Early Learning Center (7810 Tioga St., Pittsburgh, 15208)

Learn more about the new school opening this fall at these information sessions. Information packets will be available at each session. Please call the school at 412-247-7970 for updated information about open houses and hours of operation. The mission of The Environmental Charter School is to educate each student to high academic learning standards using a themed curriculum that will foster knowledge of, and respect for, the environment, and that will preserve it for future generations.

Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City

Wednesday, April 9
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm; reception follows
John Heinz History Center (1212 Smallman Street), Muller Event Center
Please RSVP: lisa@pfaffmann.com or 412-471-2470

Judith Paine McBrien is a filmmaker and writer focusing on architecture, history and urban design. For the past 15 years Judith Paine McBrien has been producing interviews on camera with some of the best-known architects designing buildings in Chicago. Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City for national broadcast in 2009, the centennial of the 1909 Plan of Chicago. Pittsburgh's Burnham Buildings will be filmed during her visit as they played a prominent role in the work of Burnham. Ms. McBrien will be joined by Pittsburgh architectural and planning scholar Ted Muller to discuss their perspectives on Burnham's legacy in Pittsburgh's architectural history.

Sustainability and Smart Growth Brown Bag Forum: "One Step at a Time. . ."

Student Sustainability Symposium
Friday, April 11
10:00 am - Noon
31st Floor Conference Room, 425 Sixth Avenue, Regional Enterprise Tower (Downtown)
RSVP to Dolly Chavez (chavez@pitt.edu ; 412-624-8780) by April 7

The University of Pittsburgh Environmental Studies Program Department of Geology and Planetary Sciences School of Arts and Sciences invites you to learn what Pitt students are doing to promote sustainability on campus and in the City of Pittsburgh. “One Step at a Time: Shrinking the Campus Footprint” is a cooperative project of Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh, and Duquesne University supported by a grant from the Heinz Endowments.

Lecture : Stefan Behnisch and Thomas Auer

Tuesday, April 15
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Carnegie Museum of Art (CMA) Theater
Free admission
Exhibition galleries open 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm preceeding the lecture
For more information about Carnegie Museum of Art, call 412-622-3131 or visit www.cmoa.org .

In conjunction with the exhibition Ecology.Design.Synergy on view at Carnegie Museum of Art's Heinz Architectural Center, Stefan Behnisch of Behnisch Architekten and Thomas Auer of Transsolar ClimateEngineering will together discuss several of their collaborative projects. Based in Stuttgart, Germany, Behnisch and Transsolar work together from initial sketches to realize buildings at the forefront of environmental design, including the RiverParc proposal for Downtown Pittsburgh. The presentation is the Hans Vetter Memorial Lecture in the Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture Spring 2008 Lecture Series.

Working collaboratively, the German architecture and engineering firms Behnisch Architekten and Transsolar ClimateEngineering are setting a standard around the world for "green architecture." Their environmentally responsible designs for buildings and urban spaces are innovative, aesthetically refined, energy efficient, and sustainable. RiverParc, the team's winning proposal for the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, is on view along with the firms' other designs that transform work environments and city spaces for contemporary life.

Save the Date - Rachel Carson Spirit & Nature Forum

Wednesday, April 16
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Chatham University, Shadyside
Tickets: $25 for adults and $10 for college students (dinner is included).
Register and pay online at www.rachelcarsonhomestead.org.

Rachel Carson Homestead will present a multi-faith gathering to discuss the reverence for nature contained in all world religions. Through this roundtable discussion, participants can explore how earth stewardship is a matter of faith and how sustainable living, including conservation efforts, green building and using renewable energy, are practices that can be embraced by all.

Participants include Reverend David Carlisle, Springdale United Presbyterian Church; Nusrath Ainapore, Islamic Center of Pittsburgh; Sharon Pillar of Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future, biologist Dr. Kanak Iyer, a representative of the Zen Buddhism Center of Pittsburgh (to be confirmed) and Dr. Elisa Beck, Founding Co-Chair of the United Jewish Federation Environmental Committee, Dr. Terry Collins of the Institute for Green Oxidation Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University, and Sister Mary Christopher of Felician Sisters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Province.

Deliberative Democracy Lecture

Wednesday, April 16
7:00 pm
Steele Hall Auditorium, California University of PA
For more information and easy directions to campus, visit www.cup.edu.

California University of PA hosts a day of democratic deliberation on environmental issues. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Natural Resources Defense Council and Waterkeeper Alliance, will address the health of our nation’s rivers and other issues.

Water Trail Working Session

Friday, April 18
Danville, PA
More information:
Contact: Hannah E. Hardy at 412-481-9400 or hhardy@pecpa.org.

This one-day event will focus on managing the water trail system for the long-term. Pennsylvania has a nationally recognized system of water trails that is growing as new water trails are developed. Trail maps and guides are widely distributed. Amenities are available to water trail users. Now is the time to focus on sustaining this system for the future.

Come prepared to roll up your sleeves and dig into a variety of topics in interactive, discussion-oriented sessions. Topics to be covered include camping, organizational management structure, working with private property owners, stewardship and conservation, programming and facilities management. This will be great networking opportunity to work with your peers in Pennsylvania and adjoining states on developing successful models for long-term management of your water trail.

Earth Day Celebration

Saturday, April 19
10:00 am - 9:30 pm
The Mall at Robinson

Join The Mall at Robinson for an Earth Day celebration on Saturday, April 19. In honor of Earth Day, The Mall is hosting a fun-filled day with eco-chic giveaways, plastic bottle sculptures and educational materials showcasing ways to incorporate environmental awareness into every day life.

On April 19 guests will be invited to visit Guest Services to receive a FREE eco-tote bag by dropping off 10 clean plastic water bottles and they can receive a free compact fluorescent light bulb by pledging to switch from inefficient incandescent bulbs. The Art Institute of Pittsburgh will unveil two displays out of 836 plastic water bottles (the average annual consumption for a family of four) in the Food Court at 10am. The Mall will also donate 5 percent of gift card sales on April 19 to the Sierra Club.

Please contact Shema Krinsky at shemakrinsky@forestcity.net if you are interested in setting up a table to promote your sustainable initiatives.

Lecture 4: “Local Living Economies: Green Fair and Fun”

Tuesday, April 29
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Connan Room, University Center, Carnegie Mellon University
Free to the public

The Local Living Economies and Urban Farming lecture series concludes with Judy Wicks, founder of Philadelphia's Sustainable Business Network, the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE, www.livingeconomies.org), and the White Dog Café. Wicks is probably best known for establishing The White Dog Cafe on the first floor of her Philadelphia home in 1983. As the restaurant grew, so did her notion that the strength of her business relied upon the quality and sustainability of its locally grown ingredients. Envisioning how strengthening relationships among independent, community-rooted enterprises could inspire broad and profound cultural change, Wicks joined the Social Venture Network and co-founded the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) in 2001. She is currently writing a book about the White Dog Café and local living economies called Good Morning, Beautiful Business.

"Food and Farming Based Entrepreneurship: The Next Generation of Business in Pittsburgh"

Wednesday, April 30
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Singleton Room, Roberts Hall, Carnegie Mellon University
Fee: $50/$30 academics and nonprofits. Free to the CMU community.
RSVP by April 11 to 412-268-1125.

Following the last lecture in the Local Living Economies and Urban Farming series, there will be a public workshop featuring keynote talks by Judy Wicks and Benjamin Gisin, publisher of Touch the Soil magazine (www.touchthesoil.com) and an expert on how monetary policy affects agriculture. Afterwards there will be a panel discussion with local and regional sustainability leaders.

Conservation Connection at the Zoo

Saturday, May 3
5:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium
Tickets: $15 for adults; $8 for young people ages 3-12
Tickets and information are available now through April 26th at www.westmorelandconservancy.org or 412-951-0601.

An opportunity for Regional Conservation Organizations and the Public to to meet and share ideas at this wonderful Pittsburgh venue. The event will feature a Classic American Buffet, Behind-the Scenes Tours, Speakers, Children's activities and more!

Affordable Housing Forum

May 13-14, 2008
Pittsburgh Hilton, Pittsburgh, PA
Fee: $99 (includes lunch, a tour of model housing sites, and an evening reception)
Please register and reserve your room at the Hilton by April 12, 2008 to guarantee a discounted hotel rate. See below for details.

The Affordable Housing Forum is designed to provide participants with an understanding of the key elements of the development process and cutting edge techniques to revitalize and manage your assets. The event will feature panelists, workshops, and a closing plenary. NOTE: Rooms have been set aside at the Hilton at rates that include breakfast ($129 single, $149 double, plus tax and fees, pre- during, and post-event). For complete registration information and a schedule of events, visit https://www.marcnahro.org. Contact Larry Cobb at 317-409-8171 or Ethicsworks@aol.com if you have questions or special ADA needs (before April 12). No refunds after April 10, 2008.

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)
Register online at www.sustainablepittsburgh.org For more information call 412-258-6642 or emailinfo@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

Sponsored by:
BNY Mellon
Babst, Calland, Clients, and Zomnir, P.C.
Bombardier
Building Owners and Managers Association - Pittsburgh
National Association of Industrial and Office Properties - Pittsburgh Chapter

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.

Conference support provided by:
The Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation
The Heinz Endowments
The Richard King Mellon Foundation

Saving $ - Managing Water: Regional and collaborative approaches to water, sewer, and stormwater management in Pennsylvania

Thursday, May 22
Hilton Harrisburg Hotel, Harrisburg, PA
To register or learn more about the conference, visit http://www.eli.org/Program_Areas/Events/penn_water_05.22.08.cfm
Registration Dealine: May 12, 2008
Contact: Yen Hoang at 202-939-3822 or hoang@eli.org.

A one-day conference for elected officials, authority managers, watershed organizations, planners and engineers, and citizens interested in new and innovative ideas for regional and collaborative water resource management.

Resources

Gore Launches Ambitious Advocacy Campaign on Climate

Former vice president Al Gore will launch a three-year, $300 million campaign Wednesday aimed at mobilizing Americans to push for aggressive reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, a move that ranks as one of the most ambitious and costly public advocacy campaigns in U.S. history.

King and Kerner: An Unfinished Agenda

America has had much to reflect upon during the approach of the interrelated 40th anniversaries of the final report of the Kerner Commission, the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and the round of riots that followed in Washington, Baltimore, Chicago and well over 100 other cities across the nation. We have heard Sen. Barack Obama's insightful speech on race and the reactions it provoked. Today, unfortunately, Dr. King's dream remains deferred.

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Ravenstahl endorses Pittsburgh-Allegheny County merger

Chancellor Nordenberg said the report makes three central recommendations. The first is "zero tolerance for service duplication" between the city and county. He said they should begin merging functions immediately. The second is "a formal cooperation compact" between the two governments that would extend efforts beyond the terms of current leaders. Then comes the big one: "At the earliest possible time, the question of whether the governments of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County should be consolidated . . . should be placed before the voters."

Bamboo turning up in all types of products

Bamboo, which grows in weed-like profusion in Asia, is being touted by some as the new "green" giant. It requires little of the pesticides that are used in the cultivation of other crops such as cotton. Harvested bamboo groves, grown mostly in China, can regenerate themselves quickly, often within a year.

FirstEnergy Subsidiary Signs Renewable Power Supply Agreement with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

UPMC has purchased approximately 24,000 renewable energy certificates (RECs) of FirstEnergy Solutions' MixedGreens(TM) product as a source of a portion of their electric generation. This agreement represents 10 percent of UPMC's electricity load in the Pittsburgh area.

The End of Carbon Price Orthodoxy

Among policy makers, environmentalists, and the general public, the syllogism goes that if you care about climate change, then you support a carbon price. Environmental groups devote their time and resources to achieving a price for carbon, either in the form of a direct carbon tax, or through cap-and-trade legislation. Investing in emerging technologies is seen as prudent complementary policy at best, and an unnecessary distraction at worst. Then there are those of us who think technology development ought to be at the center of climate change policy. We think this problem is too big for our current energy system to handle, and we will need to devote tremendous resources to creating a new energy infrastructure that can one day support the aspirations of nine billion inhabitants of the planet. We believe that a carbon price can play a role in an R&D-driven agenda, but on it's own, it will not be near enough.

Fast, Clean, & Cheap: Cutting Global Warming’s Gordian Knot

To deal with global warming, we will need an entirely new energy infrastructure. Creating a new energy infrastructure is more comparable to the creation of the railroads, the interstate highway system, personal computers, the Internet, and the space program than it is to installing catalytic converters and scrubbers, or phasing out ozone-depleting chemicals. The latter involved mere technical fixes, not wholesale technological revolutions.

All of us can promote local tourism, one of our critical industries in a globalized world

Americans worry about globalization, particularly the loss of jobs to overseas countries. But globalization concerns places like the Bahamas, too. An editorial in the Bahamas Journal put it directly: "The Bahamas is part of a wider region [that] itself is enmeshed in a wider world. Ours is a nation that is ultra-dependent on others. We import practically everything we consume, while at the same time exporting practically everything we produce."

Panel envisions 'green' development on Neville Island

"We're seeing a lot of the former -- I guess we would call environmental negatives -- really being turned into positives. We're seeing the state-of-the-art recycling industries, were seeing a lot going on. It seems to us Neville Island is in position to market itself as a the community of green industry," said Charles Bartsch, a panelist who served as spokesman for the group.

The Next Page: On Beyond Casino -- Three Better Bets for Pittsburgh

Admittedly, like the blast furnaces of Carnegie's mills, constructing "disassembly" lines is a big investment that takes time to pay off. But developing recycling infrastructure is a must. By developing it in Pittsburgh, a place still recovering from the decline of industry, we would provide a national and international model for other cities making similar economic transitions. Beyond our city's waste, Pittsburgh could import and profit from waste that other Eastern Seaboard cities are paying to bury in each other's backyards.

Mainstreets funding expected to revitalize 11 neighborhoods

Allentown and the West End are now Mainstreets neighborhoods -- the Urban Redevelopment Authority's draft picks for 2008 funding. They join 10 others in sharing $400,000 to strengthen their business corridors -- Friendship, Mount Washington, Bloomfield, Lawrenceville, Hazelwood, South Side, Downtown, Allegheny West/East Allegheny, East Liberty and the Strip District. Mainstreets Pittsburgh is the local contingent of a revitalization model owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and orchestrated by state and local agencies. The URA reported this week that public money invested in Mainstreets locally averages a 3-to-1 return.

In green-collar jobs, hope for U.S. economy

It can be difficult to parse the difference between green- and blue-collar jobs. Dave Foster, executive director of the Blue Green Alliance, a partnership between the United Steelworkers union and the Sierra Club, pointed to workers who mine iron ore in Minnesota and ship it to steel mills in Indiana. ''Ten years ago, that steel was used for making low-efficiency automobiles, so those jobs were part of the dirty economy,'' Foster said. ''But now that steel is being used to build wind turbines. So now you can call them green jobs.'' But to Andrew Hannah, chief executive of Plextronics, a start-up in Pittsburgh, green-collar jobs often have little relation to their blue-collar counterparts. His company produces high-tech polymer inks that are used to make electronic circuitry for solar panels. Of the company's 51 employees, 20 have doctorates in fields like physics, chemistry and material science. . .''The development of a green economy creates a broad new set of opportunities,'' Quam said. ''When I first started looking at this area, many people commented on how this will be as big as the Internet. But this is so much bigger than the Internet. The only comparable example we can find is the Industrial Revolution. It will affect every business and every industry.''. . .Pennsylvania's efforts have been helped by the presence of many skilled manufacturing workers in the state and its commitment to having 18.5 percent of its power come from renewable sources by 2020. ''We have gone after this sector first and foremost because the green of the sector is important, because it is the green that goes into the pocketbooks and wallets of workers,'' said Kathleen McGinty, the state environmental secretary. ''They are good-paying jobs, jobs that often require advanced skills.''

Environment is a ‘top 10’ risk to business

An increasing concern about the environment has been ranked in the top 10 strategic risks to business in a recent report from consultancy Ernst & Young. The firm used the term ‘radical greening' to describe the increasing environmental challenges that could result from stricter regulations, changes in consumer attitudes and extreme weather events.

America's 50 Greenest Cities

Want to see a model for successful and rapid environmental action? Don't look to the federal government —- check out your own town. Here, our list of the 50 communities that are leading the way. Does yours make the cut?

S.F. moves to greenest building codes in U.S.

San Francisco moved a step closer Wednesday to imposing the country's most stringent green building codes, regulations that would require new large commercial buildings and residential high-rises to contain such environmentally friendly features as solar power, nontoxic paints and plumbing fixtures that decrease water usage. City officials estimate that by 2012, the new green building codes could reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 60,000 tons and save 220,000 megawatt hours of power and 100 million gallons of drinking water.

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Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation
Dollar Bank
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Elsie H. Hillman Foundation
Roy A. Hunt Foundation
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