City Of Pittsburgh: City Awards 14 Love Your Block Community Grants

Press release from the City of Pittsburgh:

07.29.2021

PITTSBURGH, PA (July 29, 2021) The City of Pittsburgh Office of Community Affairs is pleased to announce the 2021 cohort of Love Your Block grantees. Love Your Block is a City of Pittsburgh mini-grant program that brings neighbors together to improve our communities by combating blight, creating assets, and building resilience – block by block.  

14 community organization from across the City of Pittsburgh will participate in this year’s program by maintaining community gardens, cleaning up vacant lots, planting trees in their neighborhoods and more. They include:  

"We are glad that we can once award funding to our community leaders to safely bring neighbors together to lead and implement community improvement projects,” said Mayor William Peduto. “I’d also like to thank the Office of Community Affairs and the city departments who work with our neighborhoods to help make these projects happen.”  

Additionally, 26 community organizations participated in the Love Your Block 2020 program and are implementing their projects through Fall 2021.  

Residents are welcome to stay updated and learn more about Love Your Block by subscribing to the Office of Community Newsletter here.  

This press release was produced by the City of Pittsburgh. The views expressed here are the author’s own.