Neighborhood Allies

08/19/2026

Love seeing our Organization-in-Residence out in the community!

08/15/2026

We're looking for a strategic partner to help tell the story of a multi-year initiative focused on community engagement, neighborhood transformation, and equitable reinvestment in Pittsburgh's East End.

Neighborhood Allies is seeking a Strategic Communications, Storytelling & Learning Partner to help document community experiences, capture lessons learned and translate them into meaningful stories over the next several years. We're especially interested in hearing from interdisciplinary teams and consultants with experience in community engagement, storytelling, narrative strategy, and learning and evaluation.

Know someone who would be a great fit? Please share this opportunity with your network.

Learn more:https://neighborhoodallies.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Communications-Consultant-7.24.26.pdf

07/30/2026

Big news! 🎉

Our collaboration with PA Treasurer Stacy Garrity and the Keystone Scholars program is EXTENDED THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30th! Act now to receive $125 to invest in your child's future!

Here's how:

✅Step 1: Enroll in Fund My Future PGH

✅Step 2: Claim your account with Keystone Scholars at https://bit.ly/FMF_PowerTheirFutures_social_facebook_posts_a
(Note: Pennsylvania Treasury provides a $100 scholarship for every child born to a PA family on or after January 1, 2019. This investment can be used for your child's future post-high school education expenses and will grow alongside your child).

✅Step 3: Confirm your Fund My Future PGH enrollment by entering your raffle ticket number.

*NOTE: If you have already claimed your Keystone Scholars $100 scholarship, OR if you do NOT have a child born between 2019 and 2026, you are not eligible for the additional $25.

07/28/2026

Neighborhood Allies has intentionally increased spending with minority-and-women-owned small businesses over the past several years, investing over $5M since 2022.

In 2025, 54% of all of our spending was with MWBEs. In order to achieve this, our RISE HIGH team established a system to track spending across grants, programs, and operations.

Through deeper analysis, we can determine that this work has produced a $7.4M Social Return on Investment, or SROI. SROI estimates the broader social and economic value created through investments, including impacts on community organizations, local businesses, and residents. It uses research-based
guidance to approximate downstream outcomes such as increased household income,
business growth and expanded access to opportunity.

07/28/2026

The Allegheny County Financial Empowerment Center now offers sessions in Spanish. Please join us in welcoming our newest counselor, Carlos Chueca, who can offer sessions in both English and Spanish.

Learn more about Carlos at https://bit.ly/FEC_social_facebook_posts_a.

Please join us in welcoming Carlos Chueca to the Allegheny County Financial Empowerment Center (FEC)! Carlos offers free financial counseling in both English and Spanish. Read Carlos’ bio below. I […]

07/24/2026

More exciting affordable housing development news🏠 ...this time from the Hill District!

In March 2024, Tyian Battle reached out to the Neighborhood Allies real estate team with a vision: deliver quality affordable housing to the neighborhood she grew up in.

Two years later, after lots of hard work and perseverance, Tyian closed on the financing of the project that will deliver 4 new, family-sized units of affordable housing to the Hill District! Congratulations on this milestone, Tyian!

To date, the Neighborhood Allies team has provided:

🎓 Developer education through the Real Estate Co-Powerment Series
🛠️ A $15,000 predevelopment grant
📈 Technical assistance that led to $375,000 in additional funding leveraged towards the project
💰A $235,000 equity investment from our Neighborhood Capital Program

Read more here:

In March 2024, Tyian Battle reached out to the Neighborhood Allies real estate team with a vision: deliver quality affordable housing to the neighborhood she grew up in. Tyian’s commitment to building […]

07/21/2026

An affordable housing project in Larimer will soon begin construction and bring 8 units of new affordable housing to the neighborhood!

The “Mayflower Meadows” development is being led by WNT Daniels Development Group and its founder Tina Daniels, following their completion of two successful affordable housing developments in Homewood that were also supported by Neighborhood Allies. It’s a partnership which for years has shared a vision of transforming neighborhoods equitably, ensuring residents have access to quality housing and safe community spaces.

We are proud to build upon our years-long partnership with Ms. Tina. Once all three projects - Mayflower Meadows, Anderson Estates, and the (already finished) Bedford Dwellings - are completed, we will have brought 20 units of affordable housing to neighborhoods together! Concrete Rose Construction

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An affordable housing project in Larimer will soon begin construction and bring 8 units of new affordable housing to the neighborhood! The “Mayflower Meadows” development is being led by WNT Daniels Development […]

07/13/2026

Neighborhood Allies stands in the gaps that other organizations aren't filling.

Hear from our partner, Vernard Alexander, on Neighborhood Allies' wide array of services available to residents.

Vernard is an entrepreneur, a supporter of small businesses, and a great referral partner. He has connected us to partners and participants and helped us to level up our community engagement. We are grateful for partners like Vernard who help us to address the needs of the community.

07/08/2026

"I don’t know if I would have established a savings account for my son so early in life, had it not been for Fund My Future PGH.” - Marietta, a Fund My Future PGH Parent Participant.

Most people don’t struggle financially because they lack ambition or goals. They struggle because the systems, tools, and opportunities that make wealth-building possible are often out of reach.

We're grateful to United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania for its three-year investment in our economic mobility work, so that we can continue to deliver important tools designed for wealth-building to individuals and families across Allegheny County.

Learn more about our perspective on wealth-building at: https://bit.ly/econ_mobility_social_facebook_posts_c