Garfield Gives
Donating to the Garfield Gives campaign helps provide resources, including funds to help pay bills, to those who are affected by Covid-19 that live and work in the East End of Pittsburgh!
Leader
Nina Gibbs (Bloomfield-Garfield Corp)
Location
5419 Penn Ave Pittsburgh, PA 15224
Impact areas
About the project
Help provide your neighbors with free food, access to information, small grants to pay bills, and help for our youth to be ready for college and careers during these uncertain tmes. These funds are more important than ever!
The Garfield Community Action Team is raising funds to help the mutual aid programs administered by the Bloomfield-Garfield Corporation.
Donors and volunteers, like you, have been serving the Bloomfield-Garfield community for 45 years!
The cannot do this work with out you!
The Garfield Community Action Team is made up of Garfield residents who volunteer in the neighborhood. The Bloomfield-Garfield Corporation is community based volunteers and board driven!
The Steps
These funds will help continue services that already exsist and have seen increased usage during the pandemic.
Funds will be raised by community volunteers with the Garfield Community Action Team. Released to the BGC as fiscal sponsor. Used to provide services.
A highlight of services and programs provided:
1. High School Academic Resources
2. Emergency Grants for Neighbors in Need
3. Employment Help for Adults & Teens
4. Community Engagement around Resources including Free Food
Why we‘re doing it
It is necessary! People are struggling during these uncertain times. The BGC has a 45 year history of working for physical imporvements, greater economic opportunity, and a strengthened sense of well-being for all our neighbors. The past months have proven the need of community based support more than ever! Access to housing, food, education, and employment are the basic requirements that our community needs to be successful and with your help we can help close the gap and provide these programs.