Allegheny County – October 23, 2026 – Today, State Senator Wayne Fontana announced awards totaling $4,082,161 in Neighborhood Assistance Program (NAP) funding to community initiatives and projects serving the constituents of the 42nd Senatorial District.
“Once again, the business community’s commitment to the essential work that our nonprofits are doing is on display with these awards,” said Sen. Fontana. “The Neighborhood Assistance Program is a prime example of government, business, and non-profits working together to improve our community.”
NAP encourages private sector investment into projects that helps improve distressed communities by providing state tax credits to businesses that donate capital to support projects. The funding can be used for projects in categories including affordable housing, community services, crime prevention, education, job training, food access, blight, special population issues, veteran’s initiatives, and long-term community revitalization.
Funding recipients include:
- 412 Food Rescue, Inc.
$61,750 from UPMC Health Benefits, Duquesne Light Company, First National Bank
The Good Food Project’s transforms bulk, hard-to-distribute surplus food into nutritious, heat-and-eat meals. Using recovered ingredients, they prepare more than 2,000 meals each month.
- ACH Clear Pathways
$32,500 from TriState Capital Bank, UPMC Health Benefits
ACH Clear Pathways’s new youth program will focus on leadership, financial literacy, and entrepreneurship.
- ACTION-Housing, Inc.
$90,000 from Dollar Bank, TriState Capital Bank
ACTION-Housing’s Housing Connector expands access to affordable, accessible housing for people with disabilities in Allegheny County, reducing homelessness and increasing stability.
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Western Pennsylvania
$148,500 from Citizens Bank Association, First National Bank, KeyBank, TriState Capital Bank, UPMC Health Benefits
The Boys & Girls Club is opening a new, expanded Downtown Teen Center that addresses the urgent need for safe, welcoming spaces where at-risk teens can learn, attend workforce training, and access needed social services.
- Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pittsburgh
$90,000 from Huntington Bank, KeyBank
St. Joseph House of Hospitality provides safe housing and supportive services for older men experiencing homelessness, helping residents achieve stability and permanent housing.
- Global Links
$45,000 from First National Bank, UPMC Health Benefits
Addresses the increasing need for personal hygiene supplies to improve health by providing Personal Care Kits to SNAP-eligible recipients via its community partner organizations.
- Holy Family Institute $32,500 from UPMC Health Benefits, Inc
Funds will be used to purchase a school bus to eliminate transportation barriers and access to education opportunities.
- Hill Community Development Corporation
$641,250 from First National Bank, Duquesne Light, KeyBank, Dollar Bank, UPMC, PNC Bank
The Hill CDC provides programs including Mainstreet: Black Commerce and Culture, Housing Stability & Equity, Advocacy & Partnership, Commercial Anchors and Innovators, and Organizational Stability & Growth.
- Jubilee Association, Inc
$143,000 from Dollar Bank, Hammel Companies Inc, Huntington Bank, PJTC Holdings Inc, TriState Capital Bank, UPMC Health Benefits
Jubilee is working to combat food insecurity by expanding access to healthy and affordable food options through Jubilee’s daily meals and network of food pantries.
- Light of Life Ministries, Inc.
$16,250 from Dollar Bank
Responding to Allegheny County’s homelessness crisis by purchasing and distributing food through our daily Meal Ministries, client-choice Food Pantry, and Mobile Meal Ministries.
- McKees Rocks Community Development Corporation
$546,250 from Hammel Companies Inc., KeyBank, Dollar Bank, TriState Capital
McKees Rocks Community Development Corporation is working to reverse economic decline through business restoration, affordable housing, and community-driven wealth building.
- Mid-Atlantic Mothers’ Milk Bank
$112,500 from UPMC Diversified Services
The Mid-Atlantic Mothers’ Milk Bank plans to increase its capacity to collect and pasteurize donor milk to meet the growing need for its services for premature and medically fragile infants.
- North Hills Community Outreach
$81,000 from Davis Grows Pgh LLC, Hampton Mechanical, Huntington National Bank, Keystone Adviser Compliance LLC
North Hills Community Outreach will increase emergency assistance to reflect rising housing costs and connect clients to stability and self-sufficiency supports to reduce eviction, homelessness, and repeat financial crises.
$22,035 from Hampton Mechanical, Loafers Bread Company, Zupp’a Delicatessen
NHCO will expand access to its three food pantries so clients can visit twice a month (instead of once) and strengthen its service navigation pathways to support 1,760 families in crisis, hardship, and poverty.
- Northside Leadership Conference
$475,000 from First National Bank, HM Life Insurance Company, Huntington Bank, KeyBank, North Shore Entertainment Works, LLC, SSB Bank, WesBanco Bank
The NSLC is working to address poverty, housing instability, and disinvestment through housing, business development, infrastructure, parks, and community wellness initiatives.
- Pennsylvania Women Work
$76,500 from Duquesne Light Company, UPMC Health Benefits
PA Women Work is expanding its free workforce development services for residents of Carrick, Baldwin, Brookline, Brentwood, and Whitehall.
- Pittsburgh Business Minority Accelerator
$45,000 from Dollar Bank
Their Main Street Legacy Scholarship Program focuses on keeping existing businesses open by transitioning them to new owners.
- Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership
$522,500 from TriState Capital Bank, Mascaro Construction Co, Huntington National Bank, Dollar Bank, KeyBank, UPMC Diversified Services, Duquesne Light Co
The PDP will continue its work to support economic growth through its Core, Activation, and Transformation programs.
$65,500 from Comcast Holdings Corporation
This investment will be used to grow new and existing Downtown small businesses by creating a practical toolkit, providing consulting, coordinating promotion, and offering peer learning opportunities.
- Pittsburgh Gateways Corporation
$113,126 from Common Dreams LLC, Dollar Bank, Duquesne Light Co, First National Bank, Great Giving LLC, Mincin Insulation Service, Peak Home IQ, UPMC Health Benefits
Programming to meet critical housing needs, by recruiting more entry-level workers into residential construction, training them in building science, and providing on-the-job training with employment opportunities.
- Pittsburgh Hispanic Development Corporation
$3,250 from VGA General Contractor and Roofing LLC
PHDC’s Business Incubator provides individualized assistance for clients launching a business and addresses challenges inhibiting entrepreneurs from maximizing the economic potential of their businesses.
- Pittsburgh Scholar House
$32,500 from First National Bank
PSH will provide childcare, support, and workforce training to boost employment, degree completion, and economic mobility
- Point Park University
$270,000 from First National Bank, Live Nation
Point Park + HXOUSE will expand equitable access to creative workforce and entrepreneurship pathways for historically excluded learners while activating underutilized space Downtown.
- Shepherd’s Heart Fellowship
$3,250 from S&T Bank
Will be used to renovate an aging, inadequate kitchen used to support veterans of all abilities.
- The Greenwood Plan
$32,250 from First National Bank
The Greenwood Plan will renovate a downtown Pittsburgh building into a small business incubator. The funds will be used for critical elevator upgrades, ensuring the space is accessible for 40-50 low-to-moderate income entrepreneurs.
- The Hear Foundation
$40,500 from Equipment Corporation of America, Huntington National Bank
Bridging the Badge expands access to public safety careers for youth from distressed communities via a trauma-informed, community-centered pipeline that strengthens trust and creates opportunities.
- Uptown Partners of Pittsburgh
$142,500 from TriState Capital Bank, Key Bank
Uptown Partners of Pittsburgh is revitalizing the Uptown neighborhood by tackling blight, housing, and environmental issues through art, green space, and innovation.
- Urban Impact Foundation
$198,000 from Dollar Bank, F.N.B. Corporation, Frank B. Fuhrer Holdings, Incorporated, KeyBank, PJTC Holdings TriState Capital Bank,
Urban Impact is renovating and expanding its Northside warehouse into a workforce development hub with classrooms, trades programming space, and STEM Marker Space for local students.
In total, the Department of Community and Economic Development approved 443 awards this week totaling $71.6 million through NAP. Details about the program and a full list of awardees can be found here.
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