Posts by Laura Kelly
BBF Funds New School Bathrooms In Guatemala
By Kaitlyn Nuebel For the past two years, students attending the Monja Blanca School in Chisec, Guatemala, have learned a curriculum that extends beyond the classroom. They learned to live through a pandemic and two devastating, back-to-back hurricanes. These difficulties are in addition to the daily challenges they face as residents of one of Guatemala’s…
Read MoreBBF Grant Provides Aid And Shelter After Typhoon
After Typhoon Rai swept through the Philippines last December, Brother’s Brother Foundation responded with a grant to provide funding for relief efforts in the area. Making landfall with wind gusts up to 150 mph, the typhoon impacted more than 2.5 million people, leaving over 600,000 people displaced and more than 159,000 houses destroyed. In partnership…
Read MoreBreast Cancer Awareness Fund Supports St. Luke’s Cornwall Health System Patient Care
Brother’s Brother Foundation is pleased to announce the most recent beneficiary of funds from the Breast Cancer Awareness Fund. In June, Laura Kelly, BBF’s Vice President of Communications and Development, presented a check for $10,000 to St Luke’s Cornwall Health System in Cornwall, New York. Kelly gave the check to staff and nurses from the…
Read MoreDozens Of Golfers Support BBF’s Mission In Annual Fundraiser
Golfers putting at Fox Chapel Country Club June 20 weren’t just shooting for par. Brother’s Brother Foundation’s 2nd Annual Golf Classic drew a total of 80 people to the course, where they supported the organization by playing 18 holes of golf in – thankfully – cool and dry weather. In addition to playing Fox Chapel’s…
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A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words!
By Ozzy Samad As we were working on finishing BBF’s 2021 Annual Report after successfully completing our yearly internal audit process, the effectiveness of data visualization to understand BBF’s work became all the more apparent. Along with a summary of our work, the map below highlights geographic areas where we are already making an impact.…
Read MorePowerful Partnership Is Making Strides In Haiti
By Emily Umble, BBF Program Associate Continued partnership between Food for the Poor (FFTP) and Brother’s Brother Foundation demonstrates the power of teamwork. The combination of FFTP’s ability to identify need and BBF to obtain resources saves lives. Notable donations by Viatris and Nephron pharmaceutical companies to BBF have made critical medications such as dexmedetomidine…
Read MoreIncreasing Access To Dental Care For Pittsburgh Youth
By Liam Carstens BBF provided a grant this spring to support Casa San Jose and their program that provides dental treatment for children in need in Western Pennsylvania. The families who mainly benefit from this program are uninsured or underinsured. Treatment is routinely provided through several clinics which include the Squirrel Hill Health Center and…
Read MoreFifth Grade Students Donate $2,300 To Ukraine Relief Fund
Story & Photos By Kaitlyn Nuebel Graduating fifth graders at Dormont Elementary School high-fived one another as they walked across the cafeteria stage to receive their diplomas at the beginning of June. The next stop on their journey will be middle school, but not before making a significant impact on the relief efforts in Ukraine.…
Read MoreGrant Provides Clean Water For Todee Vocational Institute In Liberia
By Liam Carstens BBF funded the purchase of a water tower for a school in Liberia through a partnership with Hearts 4 Kidz, an organization that works with the Todee Vocational Institute and Soccer Academy to provide housing, education, and opportunity to the children under their care. The school serves 50 boarding students and 150…
Read MoreCity Officials Visit BBF
This spring, BBF welcomed Pittsburgh city and county officials to our warehouse on Galveston Avenue. The visit followed a collaborative effort to collect items to make hygiene kits for Ukrainian refugees and other individuals displaced by the war. City of Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey, President of the Allegheny Fayette Labor Council Darrin Kelly, and County…
Read MoreThank You Volunteers!
BBF would like to thank all the recent volunteers who have donated their time to collecting items for and assembling hygiene kits. Volunteers include individuals from Cisco, Shell Corp, Highmark Wholecare and UPMC Pharmacy Department, and donations have been received from members of the Point Breeze community and students and staff from Sewickley Academy. If…
Read MoreUnited In The Face Of Adversity
Article by Ozzy Samad The crisis in Ukraine perhaps exemplifies both the worst in humanity and our best in coming together to face such adversity. As the humanitarian situation continued to worsen and images of terrorized communities, displaced families, and mounting loss of life flashed across our screens, BBF became increasingly aware of the dire…
Read MoreBrother’s Brother Foundation (BBF) in partnership with The Pittsburgh Technology Council (PTC) Ukraine Relief Response Timeline
February 28th – Support for Mobile Clinic and Medical Teams operating in Ukraine. Assessment of needs of refugees arriving in Poland and Romania. March 5th – BBF and PTC launch drive to raise $250,000 for BBF’s Ukraine Relief response. March 7th – Eden Hall Foundation gives $100,000 grant toward relief efforts. Initial $250,000 target surpassed…
Read MoreNew Partnership Brings Hope & Opportunity To Ghana
Article by Steve Greene, MD, Founder and CEO of Hope for Ghana My recent five-week journey in Ghana was exhilarating, leaving village after village with a new sense of joy and hope. Eleven years after establishing Hope for Ghana, new projects and new partnerships have allowed Hope for Ghana to reach new heights. I had…
Read MoreBBF Supports Community Forge & Their Work In Pittsburgh
Article by Liam Carstens BBF recently donated 110 Apple iPads and 45 Apple iPhones, along with cases and chargers to Community Forge in Pittsburgh, PA. Community Forge provides technical training, after school programming, community events, and more to youth and adults of Wilkinsburg and the Greater Pittsburgh region in a state of the art, tech-enabled…
Read MoreMobile Health Clinic, Ready To Serve
Brother’s Brother Foundation unveiled the mobile health clinic at the recent board meeting in April. The free mobile vision and diabetes screening and community clinic program is being run in collaboration with Highmark/AHN and Project Theia. It will assist underserved and in-need members of our community who can often not afford to see physicians for…
Read MoreNew Partnership With Intas Pharmaceuticals / Accord Healthcare
Article by Liam Carstens BBF is pleased to announce a new partnership with Intas Pharmaceuticals / Accord Healthcare. In early April, BBF received the first donation of medicines from Accord Healthcare and by mid-April, they were already prepared for shipment to partners in Latin America and the Caribbean. The donated pharmaceuticals included medicines for conditions…
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