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NEW PATH FORWARD

Executive Director Saleem Ghubril has been selected to serve as the Executive Director of the Pittsburgh Promise, a new scholarship, education, and community development initiative created by Pittsburgh Public Schools Superintendent Mark Roosevelt and Mayor Luke Ravenstahl.  This new opportunity will allow Saleem to build on The Project’s successes in cultivating young leaders for the future of our region.  He will conclude 23 years of leading The Pittsburgh Project on August 31, having overseen our growth and development from our start in 1985.  We are so very thankful for his gracious, generous leadership here.  We are pleased that Saleem will join The Project’s board of directors and will continue to be an active, invested neighbor here on Pittsburgh’s North Side.   A search for a new Executive Director has commenced.

PROJECT FEATURED IN NEW VIDEO
If you're a Comcast Digital Cable subscriber, you can see video of our Service Camp program in action.  Click the On Demand button on your remote, then navigate to Your Town > Give Back, and point to The Pittsburgh Project.  Enjoy, and tell your friends to check it out.

CHARITY NAVIGATOR AWARDS PROJECT FOUR STARS (AGAIN!)
For the third time, The Pittsburgh Project received a 4-star rating, the highest rating possible, from Charity Navigator, America’s largest independent evaluator of charities. This rating from an independent source indicates that The Project excels in allocating and growing its finances in the most fiscally responsible way possible.  Additionally, The Project’s fundraising and financial practices are evaluated by the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability via a rigorous evaluation process, and have received its “member in good standing” status every year since 1993.

PROJECT AWARDED GRANT TO TRAIN YOUTH IN CONSTRUCTION SKILLS
We’ve been selected by the U.S. Department of Labor to operate a three-year YouthBuild project, in which our staff will help 40 at-risk teenagers and young adults gain General Equivalency Diplomas (GED) and train them for jobs in the construction industry. We will recruit heavily from among our neighborhood’s out-of-school young people, as well as among young adults who have “aged out” of the foster care system and lack adequate support sytems. Participants will complete academic studies to enable them to earn GED’s, and will receive training in construction-related skills provided by a formal pre-apprenticeship program. Follow-up activities for YouthBuild participants will include a paid internship with a construction contractor and an opportunity to enroll in Community College of Allegheny County to pursue a degree in one of its construction-related or other academic curricula. As we do in all our programs with young people, we will emphasize service learning and leadership development as key components of the YouthBuild experience. Graduates will enter a Pittsburgh labor market that is in the midst of a construction boom with a substantial volume of new activity on schedule for the next few years.  For more information, please contact Theresa Lee at 412/321-1678, x141.