Building Pride/Building Character with PPS Students

Thanks to contributions from 11 corporations through the State’s Educational Improvement Tax Credit Program (EITC), PHLF is involving 12 Pittsburgh Public Schools in its “Building Pride/Building Character” program of field trips, art activities, and book-publishing projects this January through June.

In March, 60 students from Pittsburgh Perry High School participated in a college tour with PHLF; 150 students from Pittsburgh Phillips explored their neighborhood and created murals; and several students from Pittsburgh Banksville were invited by SLB Radio to read the poems they had written during a February field trip with PHLF.

We thank the following corporations for contributing to PHLF in 2012 through the EITC program: Huntington Bank, PNC Bank, BNY Mellon, Allegheny Technologies Incorporated, Frank B. Fuhrer Wholesale Company, ESB Bank, UPMC, Eat’n Park Hospitality Group, Inc., Hefren-Tillotson, Inc., Maher Duessel, CPA, and Bridges & Company, Inc.