{"id":2696,"date":"2021-11-02T16:09:09","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T20:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riverlifepgh.org\/?p=2696"},"modified":"2021-11-02T16:09:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T20:09:09","slug":"riverlife-awarded-partners-for-places-grant-to-connect-west-end-to-riverfronts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucid-heisenberg.31-170-165-113.plesk.page\/index.php\/2021\/11\/02\/riverlife-awarded-partners-for-places-grant-to-connect-west-end-to-riverfronts\/","title":{"rendered":"Riverlife Awarded Partners for Places Grant to Connect West End to Riverfronts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Riverlife is excited to announce that we have been awarded a Partners for Places Mini Grant from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fundersnetwork.org\/\">The Funders Network<\/a>. These grants are intended to help local governments, place-based funders and frontline community-led groups build relationships, align project ideas, and center racial equity in water, sustainability and climate action work. Pittsburgh was one of only 5 cities selected to receive this grant.<\/p>\n<p>Riverlife was awarded <strong>$10,000 to connect Pittsburgh&#8217;s West End to the riverfronts<\/strong> in partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/hopefortomorrowinc.org\/\">H.O.P.E. for Tomorrow, Inc.<\/a> and funding partner, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heinz.org\/\">Heinz Endowments<\/a>. This grant will help us to strengthen relationships with frontline organizations in the city\u2019s West End. Creating neighborhood connections like this is key to our goal of <a href=\"https:\/\/riverlifepgh.org\/loop\/\">&#8220;Completing the Loop&#8221;<\/a> of Pittsburgh\u2019s 15-mile, 1,050-acre system of trails, parks and public open space. While 85% of the Loop is already completed, many neighborhoods still lack accessible connections to the rivers. This grant will help us work towards building one of these connections in the West End.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the Partners for Places Grants, and check out the other amazing projects that were awarded in this round on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fundersnetwork.org\/five-communities-receive-partners-for-places-mini-grants\/\">The Funders Network website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riverlife is excited to announce that we have been awarded a Partners for Places Mini Grant from The Funders Network. These grants are intended to help local governments, place-based funders and frontline community-led groups build relationships, align project ideas, and center racial equity in water, sustainability and climate action work. Pittsburgh was one of only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[581,58,29,84],"class_list":["post-2696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-community-planning","tag-fundraising","tag-pittsburgh","tag-west-end"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucid-heisenberg.31-170-165-113.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucid-heisenberg.31-170-165-113.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucid-heisenberg.31-170-165-113.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucid-heisenberg.31-170-165-113.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucid-heisenberg.31-170-165-113.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucid-heisenberg.31-170-165-113.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucid-heisenberg.31-170-165-113.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucid-heisenberg.31-170-165-113.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucid-heisenberg.31-170-165-113.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}