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As the COVID-19 crisis worsened, Bridgeway Capital’s Creative Business Accelerator (CBA) helped local makers create personal protective equipment (PPE) for essential workers and underserved communities. Check out their video in …

ACTION-Housing was building 35 affordable apartments in Lower Lawrenceville and preparing to rehab the old Squirrel Hill Theater and the Hill’s Centre Avenue YMCA, when everything stopped. This article explains …

Learn more about how our Penn Mathilda tenant Silver Eye Center for Photography and other local arts organizations are changing how they operate in this strange new world. Normally this …

As part of a larger federal emergency grant, $40,000 in emergency funding was allotted to ACTION-Housing’s MyPlace program to ensure the program can continue to serve and assist local youths …

Thanks to the generosity of the Heinz Endowments, 14 local non-profits that are addressing the urgent needs of Southwestern Pennsylvania residents during the COVID-19 pandemic are receiving emergency grants to …

If you or someone you know is experiencing difficulties related to the coronavirus pandemic and is in need of food, please look at this helpful map that shows free food …

A number of members of the local non-profit community have been compiling a wide-ranging list of resources that can be helpful during the current pandemic. The list is constantly updated …

During the Coronavirus Pandemic, residents at the Centre Avenue YMCA were able to stay nourished thanks to the good work of 412 Food Rescue. Check out this post that features …

ACTION-Housing works hard to provide affordable housing throughout Southwestern Pennsylvania, but housing affordability is a national issue. We encourage you to read this informative report from the National Low Income …

Before the pandemic was in full swing, the beginning of March was good for ACTION-Housing when a $2,200,000 Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI) grant was awarded to assist in …

ACTION-Housing, Inc. has been a tenant in the old ALCOA Building for 19 years, but the longest-standing tenant in the building may be a Jade plant who has been grafted …

Thanks to the support of Congressman Mike Doyle, ACTION-Housing was awarded $2,250,000 in Capital Magnet Funds from the US Department of Treasury. ACTION was one of only fifteen non-profit developers …