Strategy: Culture

Victory Gardens Leetsdale

The mission of our garden is to provide fresh produce to our neighbors in need while creating an oppor-
tunity to help local wildlife, meet our neighbors, and provide a safe place for people to grow their own
food. Along the way, we hope to educate visitors to the park on the benefits of community gardening. After a wildly successful inaugural season in 2025, we’re looking to expand into new spaces in our community–the more we grow, the more families we can help.

 

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Taylor Allderdice Girls Basketball Booster Club

The Taylor Allderdice Girls Basketball Club believes that every girl who puts on a Dragons jersey deserves a first-class experience — not just a season, but a transformative one.

We are a parent- and community-led organization supporting the girls’ basketball program at Taylor Allderdice High School, a Pittsburgh Public School serving students from across the city. Our team — 22 players, 2 managers, and a dedicated coaching staff — is one of Pittsburgh’s most accomplished high school programs, claiming back-to-back-to-back City League Championships in 2024, 2025, and 2026. But championships are only part of the story.

What we’re really building is the experience behind the wins.

School funding covers the basics. It does not cover the things that make young women feel seen, valued, and supported as full human beings. It doesn’t buy healthy food before a big game, access to a mental health professional when things get hard, or an emergency pair of shoes for a player who needs them. It doesn’t fund the media day that gives a teenager the chance to feel like the athlete she truly is, or the team banquet at the end of a long season where coaches look each player in the eye and say: you mattered this year.

That’s what we do.

Our program provides:

  • Professional team uniforms and warm-up gear for all players, managers, and coaches
  • A full media day with professional photography — because these athletes deserve to be celebrated
  • Letterman jackets for varsity players — a milestone that many of our girls wouldn’t otherwise receive
  • Healthy food at practices and games to keep athletes fueled and focused
  • Access to a team psychologist and mental health support, because we care for the whole player
  • Emergency support — shoes, socks, sports bras, and hygiene products, no questions asked
  • Transportation when the school cannot provide it
  • Community service opportunities, including team outings to cook meals at the Ronald McDonald House in Pittsburgh
  • Year-round development through summer and fall league registration
  • A senior recognition ceremony and end-of-season banquet honoring every player who gave their all

The Dragons are diverse, determined, and deeply rooted in this city. Our roster draws from neighborhoods across Pittsburgh, and our team reflects the full richness of Allderdice’s community. We believe that when you invest in a female athlete, you invest in her confidence, her character, and her future — and that those returns extend well beyond the basketball court.

Your support makes this possible. Every contribution goes directly to the young women of Allderdice. Together, we can make sure that the next three-peat — on the court and in life — belongs to them.

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Safe Sound Protocol

At Bridging the Gap Services, we believe mental health care should be within reach for everyone. We’re dedicated to providing high-quality, affordable, and accessible therapy—especially for individuals and families who have been historically underserved or overlooked.

Through partnership with NSR, Bridging the Gap Services will implement the Safe Sound Protocol with medicaid clients and with existing students in Pittsburgh Public Schools.

The SSP is an evidence backed listening therapy, initiating repatterning in the nervous system increasing engagement, connection, and healthy responses to the environment in a meaningful and adaptive way, rather than staying stuck in traumatic and stressful patterns and responses.

 

Social links:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bridging.the.gap.services/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bridgethegapservices20/

 

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Before The Dreams

Before the Dreams’ Annual Youth Combine is a fiscally-sponsored community program seeking to bring together youth from Pittsburgh area communities and beyond through yearly day-long football events during which they display their athletic abilities in an NFL-style combine.  The purpose of “Before the Dream” is to nurture amateur sports competition; lessen the burdens of government, lessen neighborhood tensions, eliminate prejudice and discrimination, combat community deterioration and juvenile delinquency, and advance education. The Combine helps expand young athletes’ horizons and promotes meaningful interactions among peers, with instructors, and coaches by engaging them in healthy activities, fostering a positive self-image, and by encouraging sportsmanship. The Youth Combine began with 30 participants in 2016 and saw a record 190 attendees from all over the city of Pittsburgh and surrounding communities in 2025.  Each year, the positive impacts of this project reverberate across every single participant’s community of origin. In practice, every single community in the Pittsburgh area and its surroundings is set to be impacted.

Facebook: 2026 Dream Shots Media

 

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Womb to World

Womb to World is a community-rooted initiative dedicated to supporting women as they navigate the journey of healing from trauma and reclaiming their lives. We recognize that healing is not linear—and often requires both emotional support and financial resources. Through our network, we provide access to healing services, education, financial assistance, and a compassionate community that walks alongside each woman as she transitions into a more stable, empowered chapter of her life.

Our mission is to remove barriers to healing by ensuring that women are not alone in their process—and that the resources they need are within reach. Your support helps us fund transformative care, provide critical assistance, and create a space where women can rise, rebuild, and return to themselves.

 

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Neurodiversity Navigators

Neurodiversity Navigators advances equity, belonging, and opportunity by supporting neurodivergent mid-career nonprofit and self-employed professionals. We provide the resources, training, and coaching they need to thrive, and we help their workplaces build inclusive and accessible environments where all talent can succeed authentically.

Many neurodivergent folks suffer in workplaces that aren’t designed with their brains, energy, or work styles in mind. They may struggle to navigate workplace processes like accommodation requests, policies, and unwritten expectations or have limited access to affirming professional development and career advancement opportunities, resulting in burnout.

The organizations where they work may lack clear policies and practices for accessibility and accommodations or be uncertain about how to support neurodivergent employees while maintaining organizational effectiveness, resulting in missed opportunities for innovation, retention, and leadership development when neurodivergent talent isn’t supported.

Neurodiversity Navigators bridges individual growth and organizational change. We support neurodivergent professionals in building the skills, strategies, and self-awareness to succeed, while equipping workplaces with the tools and practices to become truly neuroinclusive. This two-pronged model ensures that progress for individuals translates into long-term cultural change.

By supporting both neurodivergent professionals and the organizations where they work, we improve experiences and expand opportunities, not just for today’s leaders, but for the neurodiverse professionals who follow. Together, we’re making Pittsburgh’s nonprofit and entrepreneurial ecosystem more inclusive, accessible, and resilient.

Will you join us?

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Angry Man Salsa

Are you ready to feed “The Little Fire in All of Us that Fights for Greatness”? Pick up a jar of Angry Man Salsa where 100% of profits help feed people in need.  Launched by New Sun Rising friend, partner, and artist Baron Batch, Angry Man Salsa started ramping up operations at the Millvale Food + Energy Hub as a social enterprise by Moose MODE Inc in late 2025.

Magic Hour Academy

Magic Hour Creative is a community arts organization where young people, artists, and makers create films, social content, podcasts, and other media projects. Through our Film Academy for grades 9–12, in-school programs, camps, mentorship, and collaborative opportunities, we help storytellers at any stage turn ideas into reality. Alongside our students, our production team develops original films and projects, and we host film-industry workshops, community arts events, and music programs that spark creativity and connection.

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The Resilient Foundations Project

The Resilient Foundations Project is dedicated to empowering families and caregivers of individuals with severe mental illnesses through free, accessible education, and resource linking. We believe families and caregivers deserve access to education, support, and tools that empower them, not just to care for their loved ones, but to thrive themselves.

The RF Project exists to create a world where no caregiver feels alone, uninformed, or unsupported. Through workshops, one-on-one education sessions, and resource-sharing, we equip caregivers with practical tools to navigate the challenges of mental health care, reduce stigma, and advocate for their loved ones with confidence. Our work is grounded in equity, trauma-informed care, and a commitment to meeting caregivers where they are.

Empowering Caregivers. Strengthening Communities. Navigating Serious Mental Illness Together.

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The Wendi Miller Legacy Project

The Wendi Miller Legacy Project seeks to archive, contextualize, and celebrate the life and work of an artist and LGBTQIA+ activist who ran a picture frame shop, Miller Frame, for 50 years in historic East Pittsburgh. She turned her shop into a safe and supportive space for herself and for transgender diaspora from around the rust-belt in the 1990s. She served on countless local boards and she helped pen the 1997 City of Pittsburgh ordinance that protected transgender right to jobs and housing. Help keep her legacy alive by donating.

 

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Building Bridges Day

 

Building Bridges Day is a community-focused event that promotes unity and connection among all individuals, regardless of their backgrounds or differences.

This event marks the third annual observance of Building Bridges Day. The Building Bridges Day Event will feature various activities, such as mural painting and community dialogues to foster relationships and encourage collaboration. There will be performances from different cultures, live band, food vendors, and more.

Our mission:
We build bridges to empower kids and everyone in the community to express themselves freely so that we create diversity, inclusion, and connection.

 

To get a better feel for the impact of past events, here are some photos, videos, and a recent article about Building Bridges Day:

Pittsburgh Builds Bridges uses art to bring people from all walks of life together | KD Sunday Spotlight – CBS Pittsburgh
Ebtehal Badawi used what could’ve been a horrible moment and instead made it a way to bring people together.
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The Healing House

As a large-scale investment for food justice, Royally Fit aims to create a food hub and community safe third space called The Healing House, operating it for the distribution of nutritionally-tailored CSA boxes along with nutrition education programs, workshops and partnerships with agricultural stakeholders. Serving as the first phase of building The Healing Village, The Healing House will empower individuals and our communities with the access, knowledge and skills to improve lives through better nutrition and regenerative agriculture.

We seek to support families in underserved communities in a simple, healthy way with The Healing House, serving as an introduction to wellness routines which are important at every stage of life. We intend to catalyze this transformation through produce prescription boxes (nutritionally tailored distributions of fresh fruit and vegetables), herbalism and nutrition education, and improved connections with healthcare partners.

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