The Equity Impact Center

03/03/2024

🌍 Leaders from all sectors are invited to apply for the 2024 Transformative Leader program!

This 8-month leadership development program for social impact leaders offers professional development, a financial award, and the opportunity for change-driven leaders to learn from experts in the field, develop skills to navigate systems change work, and build relationships with like-minded peers.

Leaders in this virtual cohort-based program will benefit from:
✅ Facilitated learning through discussions that follow a curriculum designed to build specific areas of knowledge
✅ Individualized personal leadership development
✅ Organizational growth plans that center equity, efficiency, and impactful solutions
✅ Mentoring and coaching based on the specific needs of the leader and the strategic growth plan
✅ Training, tools, and resources that focus on wellness and care for social impact and equity leaders
✅ Closing event to recognize leaders and celebrate their completion of the program
✅ $3,000 financial award

Application: https://EquityImpactCenter.formstack.com/forms/2024_transformative_leader_program_application

Apply today! Share with your community.

08/18/2023

On Aug. 12, our 2023 Summer Intern Colleen Moosman, concluded her CMU PSIP internship with the Equity | Impact Center. Colleen has been an incredible asset to the EIC team. From our first team meeting, to our last event, Colleen worked hard creating graphic designs for our programs, provided input during brainstorming sessions and supported our team in planning workshops, events, and programming.

Colleen committed to our values and community agreements and utilized them to guide her work and decision-making. We can’t say enough about how kind, pleasant, self-motivated and how much of a thought-leader Colleen is. Colleen is starting her Junior year at Carnegie Mellon University and we hope you join us in wishing her a successful year and good luck with all of her future endeavors.

Thank you, Colleen, for being a part of the EIC Team this summer!

06/29/2023

Thank you to all who attended our 2-Year Anniversary Celebration and Showcase! It was a beautiful afternoon filled with music, art, laughter, and joy.

The Equity | Impact Center was designed to address a need in our community. To be a place for collective learning, community building, and joy. We are proud of the positive impact we have had on our region and what we’ve accomplished in the last two years. Thank you for celebrating us and thank you for celebrating with us.

Thank you to our MC and Host, Wellness & Culture Advisor and SCALE Fellowship Alum, Diarra Clarke, for bringing us together in such a beautiful way. Thank you to our Board Chair, Laura Miller, current Creative-in-Residence and Transformative Leader, Tiffany Huff-Strothers, and Transformative Leader and DEI expert, Fatima Bunafoor, for speaking and sharing your stories of connection about the Equity | Impact Center with our community. Thank you to our performers, the Barrels to Beethoven ensemble, Zuly Inirio and DJ itsdatjawn, photographer Kitoko Chargois for capturing our event and the Art Room for hosting us.

Thank you to our vendors:
- Art curated by Natalie Sweet of Brew House Association
- Floral design by Blooms
- Photo booth provided by PicturesquePgh
- Dessert table by L & L Cake Pops

Thank you all for being a part of our celebration and creating an experience for our guests to remember for years to come. Our top priority was to prepare a space for joy and connection to be centered while showcasing the talents of our community and we believe we achieved just that!

Want to support the Equity | Impact Center? Donate to our newly launched IMPACT Fund! https://bit.ly/3JxItvx

05/19/2023

You're Invited!

Join us on Thursday, June 22 from 4-7 p.m. as we celebrate two years of creating impactful change in our community! Festivities will include acknowledging our milestones, amplifying the talent and hard work of our program participants, and providing the opportunity for fellowship within our community. The event will feature music and art along with complimentary food and drinks.

RSVP today! We can’t wait to celebrate with you! bit.ly/45iuiUp

If you cannot attend the event, but would still like to support our organization, please consider making a donation to ensure we can continue doing the work to transform our community.

05/14/2023

(Image of President & CEO Leigh Solomon Pugliano and her daughters.)

The Equity | Impact Center (EIC) would like to wish our community a Happy Mother’s Day! We are honored to create inclusive spaces and programming for those who are mothers, as we fully understand the commitment and sacrifice mothers make everyday.

To all mothers and those who mother, we recognize the care you provide and commitment and hope your Mother’s Day is filled with love, laughter, rest and plenty of joy!

05/09/2023

We are feeling renewed and encouraged to produce even more impactful programming, events, and opportunities for our community. Our team has been working hard to define how we engage this work and determine how our story is told. Our President & CEO, Leigh Solomon Pugliano, joined by Board Chair, Laura Miller, Transformative Leader participant, Fatima Bunafoor, and members of our community, came together to do just that; show you who we are, what we do, and how we serve.

Watch our new video to learn more about the mission of the Equity | Impact Center.

04/07/2023

We hope to see you there!

We've been working with Dr. Tahirah Walker to add some very special elements to Ten Evenings with Hanif Abdurraqib on Monday, April 17!

Be sure to get to the Carnegie Music Hall early to hear music by local Black artists in the vestibule and chat with folks from The Legacy Arts Project, Balafon West African Dance Ensemble, Blknvmbrpgh , The Equity Impact Center and Pulsus Digital (Driven Digitaly)- Media Company in the lobby.

Before Hanif Abdurraqib's lecture, we will enjoy a recorded poem from Danielle Obisie-Orlu, City of Asylum Youth Poet Laureate of Allegheny County '21-22 .

And after his talk, Hanif Abdurraqib will be in conversation with Dr. Tahirah Walker. Submit your questions in the lobby before the lecture!

We hope you'll join us! https://pittsburghlectures.org/lectures/hanif-abdurraqib/

03/09/2023

***GIVEAWAY CLOSED***
The Equity | Impact Center is partnering with Point Park University's Pittsburgh Playhouse to bring our community FREE TICKETS for Octavia E. Butler's "Parable of the Sower," An Opera created by Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon, showing March 30-April 2! Follow the steps below to enter for a chance to win 2 free tickets! There will be 10 winners selected.

How to Enter:

1. Like and share the giveaway to your timeline or story.

2. Follow partner organizations participating in The Parable Path Community Event Series:
The Equity Impact Center | Point Park University's Pittsburgh Playhouse | City of Asylum | Kelly Strayhorn Theater | Dreams of Hope | Black Unicorn: Library and Archives Project

3. Comment below and tag who you want to bring with you to the show!

The ticket giveaway ends on Friday, March 17, at 5:00 p.m. EST. Winners will be notified on Friday, March 24.

02/03/2023

📣 The Equity | Impact Center is pleased to announce Laura N.K. Miller as our inaugural Chair of the Board. Ms. Miller, Sr. Associate Counsel, VP Government Programs & Provider Contracting for UPMC Insurance Services Division, was appointed to lead the Board of Directors by President & CEO, Leigh Solomon Pugliano, last month.

As a steadfast supporter of the Equity | Impact Center and its values, Ms. Miller’s advocacy and commitment to equity are demonstrated through her community work. Ms. Miller is a member of the United Way Board of Directors and Chair of the UW Good Neighbor Volunteer Committee. She serves on the Board of Trustees of the Frick Pittsburgh and Carnegie Library, Co-Chairing the CLP Inclusion, Equity, Diversity, and Access (IDEA) Committee.

Welcome, Laura!

To learn more about Laura and her work with the Equity | Impact Center, view our press release: https://equityimpactcenter.org/?p=1233

01/23/2023

We had a wonderful time welcoming our inaugural Creative in Residence, storyteller, Tiffany Huff-Strothers 🖋️✨

Over the course of the residency, Tiffany will work directly with our President & CEO, Leigh Solomon Pugliano to support the EIC community in telling their stories as well as develop the UnBlocked program for new writers and storytellers.

Congratulations Tiffany and thank you to all who attended!

Images by: Kitoko Chargois

01/06/2023

📣📣Announcing the merger of SVP Pittsburgh and The Equity Impact Center

We are excited to announce that SVP Pittsburgh will now operate under the Equity | Impact Center. We'll relaunch fully this year beginning with a new partner recruitment campaign later this month, the 2023 SVP Fellows program, and the next cycle for the Full Circle Nonprofit Accelerator in the spring.

Thank you to our President and CEO, Leigh Solomon Pugliano and the SVP Board of Directors, especially Jon Halpern, Lou Camerlengo (he, him), Eileen Forrester, and Brett Fulesday for your time and commitment.

Read more in this Pittsburgh Business Times article: https://lnkd.in/g-5KA4D6