University Times

The Howard Heinz Foundation has approved a grant for $50,000 to Pitt’s Greensburg campus for the operation of the Smart Growth Partnership of Westmoreland County.

The Smart Growth Partnership is a community-based private non-profit located at Pitt-Greensburg. The partnership seeks to help communities make decisions about development that benefit the community, the economy and the environment.

“The grant from the Heinz Foundation will help to ensure that the quality of life in Westmoreland County can be improved,” said Alexander J. Graziani, the executive director of Smart Growth.

The Heinz Endowments supports efforts to make Southwestern Pennsylvania a premier place to live and work, a center of learning and educational excellence and a home to diversity and inclusion. Committed to helping its region thrive as a whole community — economically, ecologically, educationally and culturally — the foundation works within Pennsylvania and elsewhere in the nation to develop solutions to challenges that are national and even international in scope. One of the largest and most innovative independent philanthropic foundations in the country, the endowments awarded more than $54 million in grants in 2003.