PSVP

Join PSVP and our guests on Thursday, September 25th at 7PM for a panel discussion moderated by Jill Greenwood, Police Reporter for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and Officer Matt White, Zone Four Police Station, Crime Analysis & Statistics.

 The discussion will be hosted by Officer White at the Senior Citizen’s Center, at the corner of Louisa and Semple Streets in Oakland.  The Panel is comprised of PSVP partners and guests:  Jeff Hartings, Former Pittsburgh Steeler and Development Associate at Urban Impact, Joji Montelibano, Director RAND Corporation, and PSVP Partners Tessa Nicholson, Cynthia Kenderson, Erica Brusselars and Steve Robinson.  Here about what they saw, experienced and felt about a shift with City of Pittsburgh Police officers as they traveled within their zone. 

O.K.  all you Pittsburgh Social Venture Partners and friends of PSVP — this is my very first posting!  How am I doing so far?

Tonight is PSVP’s signature event and unique part of our grantmaking, “Our Elevator Pitch” night.  Our 3 nonprofit finalists in this grant cycle have been trained by PSVP Partners Tom Canfield and Tom Kubalis on how to give an elevator pitch and will do so infront of our full partnership and guests.

The elevator pitch is an important part of PSVP’s grant review process that is being wonderfully managed by partner Trish Levander.  Trish and her team of partners have selected Strong Women Strong Girls; ACTION Housing; and Womansplace as our three finalists out of dozens of nonprofit applicants.

And kudos to PSVP intern Pat Vernallis for getting our blog up and running.  PSVP is the first philanthropic organization in town and social Venture Partner Orginization to start an interactive weblog! Look for some live blogging from partners tonight at the elevator pitch.

Wew — that was really fun!

John Denny, Chair of PSVP