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sparkpgh.org kiosk at Spark Network Launch / Photo: Ben Filio

Spark + (Kids+Creativity) = New opportunities for kids [Kidsburgh]

Written on April 23, 2012

Marty Levine reports from the re-launch of Spark, a program of The Sprout Fund that is serving the Kids+Creativity Network.

Conflict Kitchen serving Venezuelan Arepas / Photo courtesy Conflict Kitchen

Conflict Kitchen awarded $25,000 to catalyze new downtown Pittsburgh location

Written on March 23, 2012

Innovative restaurant serves street food from nations which the United States is currently in conflict—creating dialogue and discussion about foreign policy.

Events and Festivals at Gateways & Corridors / Graphic Capture by Leah Silverman

Next Call to Action from SiX: $10,000 Creative Placemaking Event RFP

Written on March 20, 2012

Sprout request for proposals to support an event that would catalyze community action around the many gateways and corridors that connect Pittsburgh’s neighborhoods.

sparkpgh.org is a new directory of the people, projects, and organizations of the Pittsburgh Kids+Creativity Network

Sprout launches directory of Pittsburgh learning innovators

Written on March 2, 2012

At the premier conference for digital media and connected learning, Sprout launched a new directory of the innovative people, projects, and organizations of the Pittsburgh Kids+Creativity Network!

Greensboro Farmers Fair and Market Celebration of Agriculture / Photo: Sam Boese

Seeding Change in Fayette & Greene Counties

Written by paulruggiero and posted on January 27, 2012

The Sprout Fund has awarded 9 Seed Awards to support grassroots community projects in Fayette and Greene Counties. The program returns in 2012 with a new funding deadline on Friday, March 2nd.

Borland Green Ecological Garden / Photo: Ben Filio

Biodiversity Projects Sprout Up in Pittsburgh Neighborhoods

Written by Jenelle Pifer and posted on December 14, 2011

In 2011, The Sprout Fund Spring program funded biodiversity projects in communities all across Southwestern PA. These four neighborhood-based projects exemplify the program’s work.

Bikes in Doughboy Square near Bike Pittsburgh's offices / photo: Matt Hannigan

Two Wheelin’ Around the Three Rivers

Written by Jenelle Pifer and posted on August 31, 2011

Bikes are everywhere in Pittsburgh today—which wasn’t the case 10 years ago. Sprout’s support for several Bike Pittsburgh initiatives has been part of that transformation.

Katherine Young at work on her 2007 Shadyside mural, Urban Flora

Museum Without Walls

Written by Elise Hawthorne and posted on August 5, 2011

Sprout’s community mural program has helped artists and neighborhoods create more than 50 works of permanent public art for the region’s largest gallery show.

The ReefBot team at the public launch in December 2010 / photo: Joey Kennedy

Smart technology introduces children to reef conservation

Written by Katy Rank Lev and posted on August 2, 2011

ReefBot at Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium allows children to navigate, find, record, and identify marine life in a coral reef habitat.