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Hands-On Handmade Demo Table / photo courtesy Handmade Arcade


Pittsburgh’s grassroots ingenuity on display at Handmade Arcade

Written by Paul Carboni and posted on November 11, 2011

Handmade Arcade, started with support from a Sprout Seed Award, continues to expand each year. Nearly 10,000 are expected this weekend at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center.

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Pittsburgh City Council members with Sprout co-founders Cathy Lewis Long and Matt Hannigan and Board Treasurer John Rhoades


Sprout Fund Day in the City of Pittsburgh

Written by Dustin Stiver and posted on November 1, 2011

Pittsburgh City Council honored Sprout’s 10th anniversary and declared November 1, 2011 as “Sprout Fund Day” in the City of Pittsburgh.

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South Side Sculpture at the IAC workspace in 2008 / photo: Nathan Schritter


South Side Sculpture Project Rises [Pop City Media]

Posted on October 19, 2011

Pop City Media profiles the South Side Sculpture Project, a Sprout-supported piece of public artwork more than ten years in the making!

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Rebecca Droke/Post-Gazette photo


Sprout Fund supports new ideas citywide [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]

Posted on October 2, 2011

Diana Nelson-Jones profiles Sprout’s 10-year milestone and reviews long-lasting investments in the people and ideas that have had a dramatic impact on the quality of life in Pittsburgh.

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Encyclopedia Destructica Volume Bumba


Encyclopedia Destructica crafts hand-bound art books

Written by Paul Carboni and posted on September 30, 2011

A small group of artists has published three hand-bolund volumes of graphic art and creative design, from drawings of wolves and zeppelins to speculations about the sexualities of extraterrestrial life forms.

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Camino: A Hiawatha Project Original Play


Hiawatha Project’s Camino on stage

Written by Paul Carboni and posted on September 30, 2011

A tale of two men who have gone missing, and two women trying to find them–is inspired by the true migration and detention stories of two Pittsburgh immigrants.

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Auberle youth visit the new Outdoor Classroom / photo: Ben Filio


Auberle Outdoor Classroom offers hands-on experiences

Written by Alayna Frankenberry and posted on September 30, 2011

Auberle’s new Outdoor Classroom is serving as an arena for hands-on learning of the sciences and teaching the children in Auberle’s care valuable lessons about their role in the community.

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Burgh Bees demonstration at 2009 Sprout Summer Social / photo: Nate Boguszewski


Burgh Bees builds urban apiaries

Written by Paul Carboni and posted on September 30, 2011

Burgh Bees teaches Pittsburghers how to keep bees through classes and workshops, helps network local beekeepers, and provides delicious, local honey.

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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.

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Ready Freddy Goes to School


Ready Freddy Goes to School

Written by Alayna Frankenberry and posted on August 17, 2011

Follow Freddy as he prepares for kindergarten and attends his first day of class. Through reading the new online version of the book, children learn what they can look forward to on their first day at school.

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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.

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photo courtesy project


Southmoreland Middle School plans wetlands project

Written by Alayna Frankenberry and posted on August 5, 2011

Teacher and student from Southmoreland Middle School aim to resolve issues of erosion and flooding in the Jacobs Creek Watershed area by increasing the biodiversity of run-off near the school.

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Seeds for Tree Pittsburgh's community tree nursery


Pittsburgh Nurseries Cultivate Biodiversity

Written by Renee Aukeman Prymus and posted on August 2, 2011

Spring projects are building biodiversity in the Pittsburgh region and three organizations are starting to reap the seeds they’ve sown.

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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.

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AMP: Art Music Performance


AMP 2004 & 100 bands

Written by Paul Carboni and posted on August 1, 2011

Turning up the volume and raising the profile for Pittsburgh’s emerging arts scene, Sprout showcased hundreds of musicians and visual and performing artists during two series in 2003 and 2004.

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