Learn more about our presenters and partners below.
Building a thriving, diverse community through equitable engagement
Founded in 2007, Bloomfield Development Corporation (BDC) works to:
preserve and create affordable housing
provide small business resources and promotion
improve access and safety of infrastructure and mobility
provide direct assistance and connection with resources to residents
In 2019, the organization was among the first in Pittsburgh to receive Registered Community Organization status, a process created by 2018 legislation to ensure that community organizations truly represent their focus area as well as adhering to high standards of transparency and equitable access to information.
Role: BDC is the producer of this Asphalt Art Project and AARP Challenge Grant Recipient
Visit BDC website www.bloomfieldpgh.org
Role: Funding Agency
AARP Foundation works to ensure that low-income older adults have nutritious food, access to livable, affordable and safe housing, a steady income, and strong and sustaining bonds. We collaborate with individuals and organizations who share our commitment to innovation and our passion for problem solving. Supported by vigorous legal advocacy, we create and advance effective solutions that help struggling older adults transform their lives. AARP Foundation is the affiliated charity of AARP.
Role: Funding Agency
Awesome Pittsburgh grants money – cold hard cash with no strings attached to people or groups with brilliant ideas. Pittsburgh, already a hotbed of awesomeness, is brimming with smart, passionate, creative, crazy people. Awesome Pittsburgh’s team of trustees wants to hear your best ideas for making the Pittsburgh region stand out in the global economy, for connecting our communities, for celebrating art or technology, for making the community a better place to live, work, and play, or for simply surprising and delighting your fellow Pittsburghers.
Role: Environmental Educator
Maeve Rafferty is Tree Pittsburgh’s Education Coordinator, creating educational programming and supporting education efforts across all Tree Pittsburgh programs.
Tree Pittsburgh is an environmental non-profit organization whose vision is to "create a healthy urban forest for all by inspiring and engaging people to maintain, plant, and protect trees. We believe that all people have the right to benefit from the many health, environmental, and social benefits that trees provide. A greener city will create more vital communities for generations to come."
Role: Role: Environmental Educator
Nick Liadis, founder of Bird Lab, is an avian conservation biologist, a Registered Architect (RA), and NABC certified Bird Bander. He has worked at Powdermill Avian Research Center in Pennsylvania and Point Reyes Bird Observatory in Bolinas, CA as a Banding Technician, maintaining nets and trails, and assisting with bird and window strike experiments. The mission of Bird Lab is to implement bird-focused conservation practices through the integration of research, education, and community science—that together—creates healthy ecosystems.
Art & Environmental Ed
Role: Environmental Educator
Lots of Fish is a K- 12 School program and Summer Youth Employment program for teens from 14 to 23 years. The program focuses on water systems both natural and built, such as watersheds, rivers and stormwater systems focusing on the reducing pollutants from entering our waterways.