Archive for the ‘Events’ Category

Education Chair Erin Queen is inviting PSVP Partners and friends to a party at the Harvard Yale Princeton Club of Allegheny County on Wednesday, November 18th.
Angel Investing & how it could be applied to Engaged Philanthropy.

With the recent decision by PSVP Partners to change from a venture capital model of philanthropy to an angel investors [...]

. . . Come to PSVP Parties!!
Last night PSVP partners Todd Palcic and Dorna Javadi hosted a “Cool, get to know PSVP” party in their new downtown condo in the Cutural District. The place is fantastic with a great balcony, high ceilings, lots of light and next to dozens of great restaurants. But it was [...]

As part of PSVP’s ongoing partner ”Coffee Talk” education programs, PSVP partner Cynthia Kenderson writes this wonderful post.
“Coffee Talk” –
April 23, 2009
Speaker: Reverend Leonard of East End Cooperative Ministries
 
I have personally known Reverend Leonard for 25 years.  I first met him at Mt. Ararat Church in East Liberty where he was the Youth Pastor.  And even though the challenges of our youth [...]

The Pittsburgh Marathon is back!  10,500 runners or 21,000 pair of legs ran 26 miles yesterday.
Check this out — http://results.active.com/pages/oneResult.jsp?pID=56036124&rsID=77431 The PSVP Marathon relay team came in 218 out of 484.  I lead of the relay team running the first 7.1 miles.  I did pretty good, but I have to admit, at one point early on [...]

Hi All.
Last night, as part of our PSVP Partner Education, we served meals at the East End Cooperative Ministries soup kitchen and men’s shelter. The Shelter and kitchen in located in the East Liberty Presbyterian Church. Many of our Partners actually made covered dish meals to serve.
Big time Kudos to PSVP Partner Erin Queen for [...]

And the winner is . . . . .
Our very own Jeremy Resnick.
During last night’s “Solutions for Society” conference, PSVP presented our Philanthropist of the Year Award, recognizing the incredible contributions of both time and money to implement innovative solutions to challenging community challenges.  Several top notch philanthropists were nominated by our partners, but the [...]

We have two really outstanding events coming up thanks to PSVP partners Erin Queen and Dan Koett.  Hope you can come.
1. Educational and Motivational speech by Reverend Leonard of East End Cooperative Ministries on troubled teens in the East End and EECM’s faith based approach to solving social problems.  Where: Inside the East Liberty Presbyterian ChurchDate: Thursday April [...]

What a great weekend event!!
Last Saturday, PSVP Kids spent 3 hours hearing stories from WW II, Korean, and Vietnam Veterans and spouses at the Southwestern Veterans Center.  Our kids wheeled patients, played checkers, cards, scrabble, and served ice cream. And most importantly, they learned the importance of “caring”.
Our leader for the day was Volunteer Coordinator Lynn [...]

A couple of us Pittsburgh Social Venture Partners just got back from the 10th Annual Conference of the Social Venture Partners International Network in Cleveland. Along with Terry Beggy and me, fellow partners Jeff and Andrea Fitting, Greg and Susan Kaminski and Erica Brusselars represented Pittsburgh.
The biggest take aways for me:

The Social Venture Model Works
It’s [...]