Alcoa Foundation Supports Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh with $400,000 Grant to Improve Children's Areas.The Alcoa Foundation Gift Will Help Strengthen the Library's System-Wide Revitalization re·vi·tal·ize tr.v. re·vi·tal·ized, re·vi·tal·iz·ing, re·vi·tal·iz·es To impart new life or vigor to: plans to revitalize inner-city neighborhoods; tried to revitalize a flagging economy. Project PITTSBURGH -- Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh is the public library system in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Its main branch is located in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, and it has 19 branch locations throughout the city. and the Alcoa Foundation jointly announce a $400,000 Alcoa Foundation grant to the Carnegie Library Carnegie libraries are libraries which were built with money donated by Scottish-American businessman Andrew Carnegie. Over 2,500 Carnegie libraries were built, including public and university libraries. Carnegie earned the nickname Patron Saint of Libraries. in support of its Libraries for LIFE Capital Campaign. The gift will fund children's areas in several neighborhood libraries. The children's areas in both the recently renovated Homewood facility and future North Side library will be named in honor of the Alcoa Foundation. In 2006, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh officially launched the public phase of a $55 million Capital Campaign, "Libraries for Life: Building Communities, Enriching Lives," to continue the Library's system-wide revitalization project. Since 2001, six neighborhood locations and the first floor of the Main Library in Oakland have been renovated, providing handicapped accessibility, climate control systems and state-of-the-art technology. The visibility of the completed renovations has brought new vitality in the form of increased visitation VISITATION. The act of examining into the affairs of a corporation. 2. The power of visitation is applicable only to ecclesiastical and eleemosynary corporations. 1 Bl. Com. 480; 2 Kid on Corp. 174. and circulation by as much as 187% in some libraries. The gift from the Alcoa Foundation will help to strengthen this trend. "Our newly renovated libraries include areas that provide children and teens with their own meeting spaces that encourage them to think of the library as their own special place to visit, meet their friends and read good books See how to find a good computer book. ," states Dr. Barbara K. Mistick, President and Director, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. "By providing early literacy programs and services to young children, Carnegie Library helps ready children for school and the benefits of a solid education." "The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh is one of the most valuable resources we have in this community. The library's reference and leisure reading collections serve as a resource that simply is not available at home. Computer access, availability of information, databases, and professional assistance are important tools on hand to help children with their homework," said Meg McDonald, President, Alcoa Foundation. "With this contribution, the library can continue its efforts to engage Pittsburgh communities in literacy and learning." In 2006, CLP 1. CLP - Cornell List Processor. 2. CLP - Constraint Logic Programming. librarians presented more than 8,000 programs, including many outreach Outreach is an effort by an organization or group to connect its ideas or practices to the efforts of other organizations, groups, specific audiences or the general public. initiatives for pre-schools and area Head Start programs. The demand for storytimes and other children's activities increases each year, as these activities are valued by parents, caregivers and teachers for the enrichment enrichment Food industry The addition of vitamins or minerals to a food–eg, wheat, which may have been lost during processing. See White flour; Cf Whole grains. that they bring to children. About Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh "Free to the People" since 1895 Established as a public trust in 1895, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh serves the citizens of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County with a distinguished history of leadership among the country's great public libraries. Through its 19 neighborhood locations, including Main Library and the Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh is the region's most visited asset. Each year the Library provides more than 6,000 free programs, classes and other learning and training opportunities that are tailored to meet the dynamic and diverse needs of people living in Western Pennsylvania Western Pennsylvania consists of the western third of the state of Pennsylvania in the United States. Pittsburgh is the largest city in the region, with a metropolitan area of about 2.4 million people, and is the cultural center for Western Pennsylvania. . About Alcoa Foundation Alcoa Foundation is a separately constituted nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. U.S. corporate foundation with assets of approximately $534 million. Its mission is to actively invest in the quality of life in Alcoa communities worldwide. Throughout its history, the Foundation has been a source of positive community change and enhancement, with nearly $437 million invested since 1952. In 2006, Alcoa and Alcoa Foundation invested a combined total of $42.3 million in community programs in 32 countries, focusing on four areas of excellence: conservation and sustainability, global education and workplace skills, business and community partnerships, and safe and healthy children and families. Alcoa Foundation manages the Alcoa employee volunteer programs ACTION and Bravo BRAVO Cardiology A clinical trial–Blockade of the GP IIB/IIIA Receptor to Avoid Vascular Occlusion– which evaluated lotrafiban in preventing strokes and acute MI. See GP IIB/IIIA. ! For more information, visit www.alcoa.com, under Community |
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