New Sun Rising

Always a great host, food, and conversation with our friends at Freeman Family Farm & Greenhouse. Be sure to say hello today when you see them at the Longest Table!

Pull up a seat, Pittsburgh!

The Longest Table is bringing neighbors together for an afternoon centered around good food, conversation, and community — plus, in true Pittsburgh fashion, a cookie table🍽️

🗓️ Saturday, October 3
⏰ 1-3pm
📍 1251 Waterfront Place, under the Veterans Bridge
🎟️ FREE to attend

Come connect with the community around you! Register to save your seat - link in our bio!

It's perfect weather for getting outside and connecting with neighbors over a shared meal. Join one of our table hosts today at the Longest Table as NSR launches the initiative! Free tickets are running out so reserve your spot soon.

The Longest Table Pittsburgh Share a meal, build community.

On Tuesday, October 13, the Nonprofit Resilience Program (NRP) is hosting a Relax + Learn Workshop — Reflect, Regulate + Respond: Applying the Framework to Core, Colleagues, and Community.

NRP, Julius Boatwright, Landforce, and The Partnership Network welcome you to participate in a time of mutual learning to gain understanding of the framework, how to apply it to three levels of leadership, and more.

To register, visit https://forms.zohopublic.com/nsr/form/RelexLearnWorkshopReflectRegulateRespond/formperma/siAV9UiOX3n5XrFKYI_YDbnn0YuFjuHL_UxH-xn5rRI

Since last October, Hazelwood neighbors have turned a pile of food scraps into soil, into food, and into Impact Credits that get spent right in the community.

Come see what a year of scraps built at Involvemint's Night of the Living Compost: The Siftening!

Saturday, October 24 from 5:30-8:30 p.m. at Hazelwood Food Recycling Site, 4501 Sylvan Ave.

Register here: https://luma.com/iMEvents

Tickets are still available for Awesome Pittsburgh's 15th Birthday Party tomorrow, September 29 on Riverlife's Shore Thing!

Awesome Pittsburgh has given away $1,000 every single month since their first gathering in October 2011 and they are bringing together past trustees, grantwinners, friends, and family to celebrate.

There will be drinks and food and a birthday cake!

Please RSVP here : https://www.eventbrite.com/e/awesome-pittsburgh-celebrates-15-years-tickets-1999131695717

Get ready to throw it back to the best decades of music, fashion, and fun while supporting a meaningful cause!

Join Womb to World for Drop It Like It’s Haunt, a nostalgic 90’s/2000’s dance party fundraiser on Saturday, October 24, 2026, from 6:00–9:00 PM at Emphico in Coraopolis, PA.

Come dressed in your favorite 90’s or Y2K look for a chance to win Best 90’s Costume, Best 2000’s Costume, and Best Couple Costume prizes!

For more information, visit: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/drop-it-like-its-haunt-a-90s2000s-dance-party-fundraiser

What does an Active Economy sound like?

Stop by the Millvale Food + Energy Hub on a Tuesday morning and you’ll hear the steamer on the espresso machine as Lemon Tree PGH serves up coffees and breakfast sandwiches to coworkers and neighbors who need fuel for their day.

Voices from 412 Food Rescue’s Good Food Project staff and volunteers who are stabilizing bulk food donations into ready to eat meals.

Conversations from people stopping by to meet New Sun Rising, FracTracker Alliance, and The Food Trust.

This former Moose Lodge, which houses small businesses, workforce training programs, a solar array and stormwater management system, employs 25 people, contributes more than $5 million in Gross Regional Product, and adds $600,000 in social value to the region each year.

In the Active Economy Report, the 21 highlighted projects from Allegheny and Beaver Counties are categorized into six clusters with the Millvale Food + Energy Hub identified within Real Estate Development and Energy. This facility and five others named in the report are projected to produce $83 million in total social value over 20 years.

Want to learn more about the Active Economy Report? Click the link in the comments.

RiverWise | Neighborhood North: Museum of Play | Crop and Kettle | Triboro Ecodistrict | Aliquippa Food Co-op | Communicycle | The Genesis Collective | Beaver Falls CDC | Reforest Our Future | Greenhouse Lab | General Sisters | Just Transition Fund | Borough of Ambridge | Baron Batch

What gives you hope right now?
Who is doing work more people should know about?
Whose story needs more space?

On September 29, Pittsburgh’s PublicSource and Fourth Economy are teaming up for You Have the Floor × Agents of Change, a different kind of happy hour centered on the people, ideas, and work making a difference across Pittsburgh and Southwestern Pennsylvania.

Space is limited. Please RSVP by September 25. More info here: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/you-have-the-floor-x-agents-of-change

Wolovich said small projects can be very important to their neighborhoods, but aren’t seen as regionally important. That makes it harder to get funding for those efforts.

“One of the things we wanted to do with this project was really help to lift up these hyperlocal projects and bring more awareness to their importance to the regional economy,” Wolovich said, “and therefore, hopefully, compel a shift in regional economic investment policy to think differently about how we're allocating public funds, how we're working to stimulate the regional economy and markets.”

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Read the full article from 90.5 WESA on the Active Economy Report:

Pittsburgh region should look beyond industrial megaprojects for economic growth, report says The analysis was done by the Center for Social and Urban Research at the University of Pittsburgh and commissioned by nonprofits RiverWise and New Sun Rising.

Why did employers historically solicit immigrant labor, and how did it shape the nation we live in today?⁠ ⁠

Join the Making America Panel Discussion on Sunday, Sept 20, hosted by the Society to Preserve the Millvale Murals of Maxo Vanka.

From 3-5 p.m., a diverse panel of United Steelworkers staff will come together and discuss how labor demand and policy has driven immigration in the United States.

Register here: https://fareharbor.com/embeds/book/vankamurals/items/707657/availability/2020090075/book/