Community Connections was a grassroots initiative supporting projects that encouraged civic engagement to commemorate the Pittsburgh region’s 250th anniversary. A region-wide community decisionmaking process selected 100 projects to share $1 million in funding for events and activities occurring throughout the anniversary year of 2008.
Funded Projects
15th Street Playground Shelter
A Day in the Life of An Enslaved Child
A Vietnam Remembrance
Acoustic Avenues and Pixel Perfect Teen Programming
Acquistion of the Jay Bee Model Circus
Adopt-A-Block
Allegheny Echoes
Allegheny Market House Co-op
American Red Cross Kids Club
Apollo Memorial Library Centennial: Return to 1908
Arcadia Theater’s 10th Anniversary Celebration and Endowment Establishment
Art-Repreneurship
Be Well! Pittsburgh
Beaver County River-Town Community Walking
Bradford’s Kitchen Reconstruction
Bridge to Broadway
Butler Area School District Fine Arts and Beyond (FAB) Showcase
Celebrate Pittsburgh: Music Commissioning Project
Citywide Salon
Civil Rites: Oral Histories of Two Generations of Pittsburgh Artists
Colonnade Of History
Community Supported Agriculture Facility Upgrade
Compass Inn Museum Living History Advertisement Project
Connellsville Historic heritage Walking Trail
Creation of New Play Space for Parent and Child Together
Creative Communities Conference Monthly Seminars
Diversity Outdoors
Downtown Greensburg Asset Image Campaign
East of Liberty
Everson Borough Veterans Parklet
Explore Western Pennsylvania’s Wild Waterways
First Company Fort McIntosh Garrison Revitalization Request
Fisherman’s Tale
Ft. Bedford Park Riverfront Trail Promenade
Gateway to Ambridge Project
Grandma’s Good Eats!
Grant Avenue Pocket Park
GRASP Tutoring
Great Allegheny Passage Trail Town Public Art Project
Greetings from Pittsburgh: Neighborhood Narratives
Homewood Redd Up!
Imagine What You Can See Here
In Sisterhood: The Women’s Movement in Pittsburgh
In the Making: 250 Years 250 Artists
Indiana County Covered Bridge Festival
Interfaith Spiritual Healing Meditation
It Takes You: Campaign to End Poverty in our Community
Jays After School Program (Joining to Achieve Youth Success)
Keepin’ it Real: Black Athletes and Racism in Pittsburgh Sports
Lawrenceville Historic House Tour: Snapshots Through Time
Lockley Kindergarten Center Playground
Main Street Classic 5K Run/Walk for the Homeless
MLK Community Mural Project
Mobile Ag/Ed Science Lab
Musicians of Wylie Avenue
Old Bedford Village Redoubt and Encampment Project
Operation Fresh Express
Out of this Furnace: New Tales of Labor and Unions
Petrolia Area Historical Project
Pioneer Point Public Arts Heritage Project
Pittsburgh Environmental Oral History
Pittsburgh Safe Neighborhoods
Pittsburgh Signs: 250
Planting Connections: Our Cambrian Garden
Postage Stamp Park
Raising Pittsburgh’s Black History Awareness through Literature
ReDiscovering Eden: Historic Waynesburg Walking Tour
Restoring a Hay Wagon
ReTool Local Economies Forum
Roadside Giants of the Lincoln Highway
Roaring Run Natural Area Hiking and Biking Brochure
Sailing in Pittsburgh
Sandyvale Memorial Botanical Gardens Phase I, Task II – Staging/Visitors Area
Schellsburg Community Park
SGA ’Green and Growing’ Initiative
South Side Sculpture Project
Spotlight on the Community, Movies in the Park
Student Philanthropy Project
SugarCreek Community Days
Sure Foundation Community Center Car Ministry
Tanoma Abandoned Mine Drainage Wetlands Educational Trail
Telepsychiatry Program
Tennis Courts Renovation
The Haynes Street Underpass Sculpture Project 2007
The Mid-Mon Valley Pay It Forward Initiative
Times Tabloid for Beaver County Historical Organizations
Touchstone’s Mountain Crafts Festival Weekend
Trail Town Public Art Project
W.R. McIlwain Store and Warehouse Mule Barn Preservation Projet
Walkers’ Festival 2008
Washington’s Encampment
Website for the Butler Downtown Revitalization Project
Welcome Mat Landscaping Project
Westmoreland County History Speakers Program
Westmoreland Earth Day 2008 – Greening Your Footprint
Women’s Voices, Women’s Votes: 250th Anniversary Survey of Women’s Issues
Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Days
Youghtoberfest
Youth Advocate Project