Grounded Strategies

Resilience Fair
2016-09-14 16:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Southside Market House, 1 Bedford Square , Pittsburgh, PA, 15203, United States
Join us for an update on the City’s Resilience Strategy, and come visit local speakers and resource tables that showcase city-wide resilience initiatives. Learn how we’re working to make Pittsburgh and our residents stronger, and how you can get involved. Bring your thoughts on what a resilient Pittsburgh should look like.

Green Playce McKeesport Volunteer Day with US Steel
2016-09-15 09:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Trinity Church of God in Christ, 2216 Jenny Lind Street, McKeesport, PA, 15132, United States
Join us for a volunteer day with US Steel on our Green Playces McKeesport site.

GTECH's Entrepreneurial Spirits
2016-09-17 18:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Wigle Whiskey Barrelhouse, 1055 Spring Garden Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, 15212, United States
Every year GTECH tests new ideas and innovative solutions with partners to transform blighted, vacant land into community assets. These ambitious projects produce creative solutions and products to tackle social issues and offer new ideas for wide-scale change. As social entrepreneurs our vision is to help Pittsburgh become the most innovative city for addressing vacant land and community disinvestment.
GTECH’s Entrepreneurial Spirits event celebrates and supports our ability to trial new ideas and test innovative solutions for fighting blight and vacancy. The celebration will showcase our history of applied innovation projects and partners, while raising support for GTECH to innovate and test future ventures. This year we’re partnering with Wigle Whiskey to offer an evening of inspired libations; including experimental brews, hopped whiskey, local food and great conversation at the Wigle Whiskey Barrel House.
Applied Innovation is GTECH’s program to research and develop new tools, partnerships, and value added products to improve the social, environmental and economic health of communities. The program has grown since piloting growing hops on vacant land, to building outdoor classrooms with Green Playces and launching an interactive online resource for reclaiming vacant land through Lots to Love.
Tickets for the 2016 event are $25 and include:

First 50 tickets get a custom g jar
Sample pour of beer from Allegheny City Brewing
Sample pour of cider from A Few Bad Apples
Wigle Whiskey Tasting
One full size wigle whiskey cocktail

Thanks to our generous sponsors for making this event possible!

Green Playces: Eat N' Park Volunteer Day
2016-09-20 09:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | McKeesport Green Playce, 2216 Jenny Lind Street, McKeesport, PA, 15132, United States
Come volunteer at our McKeesport Green Playce and help finish out the site.

Email i.brown@gtechstrategies.org for more details and to sign up!

Pittsburgh Gives Day of Giving
2016-09-21 08:00 - 23:55 (America/New_York) | PA
Day of Giving is Wednesday, September 21, 2016!
Day of Giving is a one-day online giving event organized by The Pittsburgh Foundation. The goal is to inspire the Greater Pittsburgh community to give together on one day to support the unparalleled work of our local nonprofits.
Join us in supporting the life changing work of our community’s nonprofits on Wednesday, Sept. 21 by donating online between 8 a.m. through 11:59 p.m.

Green Playces: APOST/PPG Volunteer Day
2016-09-22 09:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Hill District Green Playce, 1852 Enoch St, Pittsburgh, PA, 15219, United States
Come volunteer with us to kick off our 6th Green Playce in the Hill District

Allentown Green Playce Dedication Ceremony
2016-09-22 15:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | ALEC, 827 E Warrington Ave, Pittsburgh, 15210, United States
Join us for a celebration and dedication ceremony for the newly completed Green Playce at the Allentown Learning and Engagement Center.

Please RSVP to i.brown@gtechstrategies.org

Planting day at Hosanna House, Wilkinsburg
2016-09-23 09:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Hosanna House, 807 Wallace Ave., Wilkinsburg, PA, 15221, United States
Join us on Friday between 9am and noon as we transform a vacant lot across from the Hosanna House into an outdoor classroom! We will be planting four trees, setting up some raspberry trellises, and building the outdoor classroom. Staff from Hosanna House and Nine Mile Run Watershed Association will be joining us as well. People of all ages and skill-levels are welcome!
If you plan to help out, email Lydia by following this link > or call 412-361-2099 ext. 3.

People Habitat: Eight Ways to Think About Greener, Healthier Cities
2016-09-26 00:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | August Wilson Center
— Invitation: Brownbag Lunch Presentation —
Featuring: Kaid Benfield, PlaceMakers
“People Habitat: Eight Ways to Think About Greener, Healthier Cities”
Monday, September 26
12:00 pm – 1:15 pm (11:30 registration and networking)
August Wilson Center
Bring a bag lunch (beverages and dessert provided)
No fee to attend.
Advance Registration Required: Register here
Mr. Benfield’s remarks will be appreciated by a wide range of leaders including businesses invested in the region’s prosperity, community developers and placemakers, municipal leaders, sustainability professionals and more.

Presented by: AIA Pittsburgh, Allegheny County Parks Foundation, Bike Pittsburgh, Conservation Consultants, Inc., Friends of the Riverfront, GASP, Green Building Alliance, GTECH, Neighborhood Allies, Nine Mile Run Watershed Association, p4 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Environmental Council, Remaking Cities Institute, Smart Growth Partnership of Westmoreland County, Sustainable Pittsburgh, Traffic21 Institute, Tree Pittsburgh

Kaid Benfield, senior counsel for environmental strategies at PlaceMakers LLC based in Washington DC. is one of the nation’s foremost authorities on how cities, towns and neighborhoods can better work — for both people and the environment. He served for over 30 years as senior attorney and director of the smart growth and sustainable communities programs at the Natural Resources Defense Council, co-founded LEED for Neighborhood Development, a national process for defining and certifying smart, green land development, and is a founder and board member of Smart Growth America. Kaid was named one of the “most influential people in sustainable planning and development” by the Partnership for Sustainable Communities, voted one of the “top urban thinkers” on the leading city planning website, Planetizen.com, and named “one of the top 100 city innovators worldwide” by the website Future. Kaid’s latest book is People Habitat: 25 Ways to Think About Greener, Healthier Cities, distributed by Island Press.

Chipotle Fundraiser for GTECH
2016-10-04 17:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | PA

WHE Healthy Communities Conference
2016-10-06 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | PA
Creating Healthy Communities conference is a one-day summit addressing how our environment impacts public health. Dynamic, nationally-recognized speakers will discuss the scientific, medical, political and community-based approaches to creating healthier communities across the country. Local experts will highlight multiple health topics as they relate to our homes, schools and communities. The conference will educate and encourage attendees to become champions in having a positive impact on the health of our region.

Crowdsourced Apples Deadline
2016-10-07 | Grounded Strategies’ Office, 6587 Hamilton Ave., Pittsburgh, 15206, United States
We’re hoping to create a 10 year cider with the help of YOU and A Few Bad Apples. The deadline for apple collection for this is October 7. We need to collect 6 bushels of apples, which translates to approximately a 10 gallon trash. If we are lucky enough to collect more than this amount, A Few Bad Apples will create extra cider to share with their wonderful volunteers or for use in supporting other local nonprofits.
More info can be found in this blog.

2016 Blight Bootcamp
2016-10-07 15:00 - 2016-10-08 15:30 (America/New_York) | PROPEL Hazelwood, 5401Glenwood Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, 15207, United States
Blight Bootcamp is a two day event for residents to learn about resources and best practices to increase the impact of community-led blight elimination efforts in Pittsburgh neighborhoods. The conference is hosted by the Pittsburgh Blight Working Group, composed of the City of Pittsburgh, Neighborhood Allies, GTECH, PCRG, URA, and The Design Center Pittsburgh.
Taking place on October 7th and 8th, the 2nd annual Blight Bootcamp will focus on three significant areas of blight remediation work: green space projects, building acquisition and improvement, and organization of resident and volunteers in projects. This event provides the learning and growth opportunity to organizations and residents so that they can lead the change in the health and well-being of their neighborhoods. Conference sessions will highlight work from around the city, including this years host neighborhood, Hazelwood.

One Northside Traveling Block Party
2016-10-09 15:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Riverview Park, Pittsburgh, PA, 15214, United States
The Block Party, a project of One Northside Pittsburgh in partnership with The Buhl Foundation, is excited to announce it’s final of five events in 2016 taking place in Observatory Hill on Sunday October 9. The Block Party is series of mini arts festivals that will call attention to and celebrate the valuable resources and local identities of Northside neighborhoods of Pittsburgh.
GTECH will be there collecting input from neighbors in support of our GTECH GSI project.
This free festival will feature:
• A mobile stage from Flyspace Productions with live performances.
• Stories about the neighborhood are being collected onsite by The Saturday Light Brigade
• Hands-on activities with Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse
• Featuring local visual art and screenprinting with AIR: Artists Image Resource
• Hands on activities with Mattress Factory – Museum of Contemporary Art
• Historical photos courtesy of Allegheny City Historic Gallery
• The Storymobile from Reading is FUNdamental Pittsburgh which will be giving out free books
• Games from City of Play
Brought to you by your friends at New Hazlett Theater, Deutschtown Music Festival and The Sprout Fund.

Green Playces: Hill District Volunteer Day
2016-10-13 10:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | PA
Join us at our Green Playces: Hill District Site to help build out our outdoor classroom and environmental education space.
If interested in attending please email Ian Brown

McKeesport Green Playce Dedication Ceremony
2016-10-16 14:30 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | 2216 Jenny Lind Street, McKeesport, PA, 15132, United States
Join GTECH Strategies, Youth CAST and the Trinity Church of God in Christ to celebrate the opening of our Green Playce in McKeesport. The site is located at 2216 Jenny Lind Street, McKeesport, PA 15132.

Green Playces: Hill District Volunteer Day
2016-10-21 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | PA
Join GTECH and the Grayson Center to help build out the environmental classroom and outdoor space.
If interested in attending please email: Ian Brown
Ian M. Brown
Project Manager
Growth Through Energy & Community Health [GTECH] Strategies
6587 Hamilton Ave #1W, Pittsburgh 15206
o. 412.361.2099 ext. 6

Pumpkinfest
2016-10-22 13:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Horace Mann Field, 2819 Shadeland Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Join Brightwood Civic Group and neighbors for Annual Pumpkinfest in Marshall-Shadeland. There will be food, fun, games, crafts, prizes, a bounce house, and much more.
GTECH will be there collecting information from neighbors in support of our GTECH GSI project.
The event is free for adults and $5 for kids.

Green Playces: Hill District Volunteer Day
2016-10-25 10:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | PA
Join GTECH and the Jeron X. Grayson Community Center to help build out our outdoor classroom and learning space.
If interested in attending please email:
Ian M. Brown
Project Manager
Growth Through Energy & Community Health [GTECH] Strategies
6587 Hamilton Ave #1W, Pittsburgh 15206
o. 412.361.2099 ext. 6

Green Playces: Hill District Volunteer Day
2016-11-01 15:00 - 18:00 (America/Halifax) | Hill District Green Playce, 1852 Enoch St, Pittsburgh, PA, 15219, United States
Join GTECH and the Jeron X. Grayson Community Center to help build out an outdoor classroom and educational space.
If interested in attending please contact:
Ian M. Brown
Project Manager
Growth Through Energy & Community Health [GTECH] Strategies
6587 Hamilton Ave #1W, Pittsburgh 15206
o. 412.361.2099 ext. 6

Citizens Toolkit
2016-11-03 06:00 - 19:30 (America/Halifax) | PA
Join PublicSource to learn how to use publicly available data to answer questions about your city and your neighborhood.
PublicSource’s Eric Holmberg will help you answer:
*How safe is my neighborhood?
*How clean is my favorite restaurant?
*How much do city officials make in salary?
*Thinking of buying a house? We’ll help you find independent data.
*What do you want to know? We want to hear from you!
Suggest additional topics using our google form here: https://goo.gl/forms/2AYir4VT7GeJFD8T2
or email us at info@publicsource.org

Velocity: Accelerating Fundraising for Your Nonprofit Session
2016-11-04 10:30 - 12:00 (America/Halifax) | PA
Join nonprofit expert Derrick Feldmann, author of Social Movements for Good and president of research and cause marketing agency Achieve, in a 90-minute session on how to choose a concept and theme for a campaign, and how to execute campaigns using multiple channels.
This session is part of the popular program –
Velocity: Accelerating Fundraising for Your Nonprofit.
Register today: Successful multichannel campaigns for your cause
Are you using multiple channels to
capture donors in fundraising campaigns?
Is your cross-channel message effective and consistent?
Are you using variable data and segmentation
— and if so, is it effective?
Your audience likely has its attention split among a myriad of communication channels. That means your fundraising efforts not only need to be heard through the clutter, but they also need to be delivered wherever your audience is listening.

GGH: Winter Workshop
2016-11-05 11:00 - 15:00 (America/Halifax) | PA
November 5 is the Grassroots Green Home Program’s “Winter Workshop” hosted at Blind and Vision Rehabilitation Services of Pittsburgh (1816 Locust St. in Uptown). The event will include informational presentations from team members and partner organizations. Attached is a flyer for the Winter Workshop.

Homewood Volunteer Day
2016-11-09 10:00 - 15:00 (America/Halifax) | PA
Join the GTECH team at the corner of Race St and Collier in Homewood.
10am-3pm
Wednesday Nov 9th
Email l.kramer@gtechstrategies.org to volunteer or for more information!

GTECH Benefit night at Franktuary!
2016-11-09 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Halifax) | Franktuary, 3810 Butler St, Pittsburgh, PA, 15201, United States
Hot Dog! Join us on Wednesday, November 9th at Franktuary in Lawrenceville! Open a tab between 5 and 7pm and a 10% of your bill will benefit GTECH!

Root Shock Book Launch
2016-11-09 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Halifax) | PA
Root Shock Book Launch
November 9 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST
Join Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove as she launches the new edition of her seminal work Root Shock at the Hill House Association!
For more information, contact Terri Baltimore at 412-392-6479
“People who have been displaced experience “root shock,” the traumatic stress reaction to the loss of some or all of one’s emotional ecosystem. Root shock can follow natural disaster, development-induced displacement, war, and changes that play out slowly, such as those that accompany gentrification. The idea of “root shock” has helped people conceptualize both the prevention of displacement and recovery from it.
Root shock is a condition mirrored at different levels of life. At the individual level, root shock is the emotional trauma a person experiences when his or her environment is devastated, such as in events of natural disaster or military conflict. It increases the risk for stress-related diseases like depression and heart attack and diminishes social, emotional, and financial resources. At the community level, root shock is defined by the loss of interpersonal ties and the “capital” — social, cultural, political and emotional — that is vested in the collective connections.
Dr. Mindy Fullilove’s Root Shock focuses on the presence of root shock in African-American neighborhoods that experienced urban renewal. Based on case studies of three historically black communities–Newark, NJ; Roanoke, VA; and Pittsburgh’s Hill District–Dr. Fullilove also draws on residents’ personal memories, useful theories of person and place, and historical accounts. Root Shock is an account of the invaluable things that Black America, and America generally, lost to urban renewal, and a guidebook for anyone interested in their recovery.
Given that the Hill District has been such a crucial part of her work since 1997, Dr. Fullilove will be coming “home” to the Hill to read from this new edition. A book signing and light refreshments will follow and books will be available for sale.”
https://www.go-gba.org/events/root-shock-book-launch/?utm_source=Master+List&utm_campaign=83907ac9a4-November+8%2C+2016+newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_458e074771-83907ac9a4-392402781

Hill District Work Day
2016-11-11 10:00 - 14:00 (America/Halifax) | Jeron X. Grayson Community Center, 1839 Wylie Ave., Pittsburgh, PA, 15219, United States
Come volunteer with GTECH and the Jeron X. Grayson Center to build out our outdoor classroom.

Green Playces: Wilkinsburg Dedication
2016-11-21 13:30 - 14:30 (America/Halifax) | Hosanna House, 807 Wallace Ave, Wilkinsburg, PA, 15221, United States
Join GTECH, Hosanna House and Holy Family Academy to celebrate the opening of our 5th Green Playce.

Thanksgiving
2016-11-24 - 2016-11-25 | PA
The GTECH office will be closed on November 24 and 25, 2016, in observance of Thanksgiving.

Equity Summit Follow Up Meeting - Moving Forward
2016-12-01 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Halifax) | Hill House Kaufmann Center, 1835 Centre Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15219, United States
On behalf of the service providers, systems, families, community members, and other stakeholders who work with girls, Gwen’s Girls will convene a meeting to debrief about the October 14 equity summit, “See the Best in Me: Equity Through the Lens of Resilience,” share the feedback from surveys completed at the summit, discuss recommendations regarding next steps, and define the working group process in order to move forward collectively in addressing the identified issues.
The event is open to the public and light refreshments will be served. Register here.
