Hello, Pittsburgh Area Families!
Looking to engage your preschooler or kindergartener in a space where families unite, kids create, and communities grow?
Raise UP (United People) unites children, caregivers and educators in joyful, hands-on STEAM workshops where young children learn, play, and create real-world solutions together—building empathy, unity, and a love for learning across diverse communities.
Registration is open for our 2025-26 Pilot Cohort. Come to one or as many events as you can. We look forward to meeting you and your family!
Children and families engage in collaborative activities.
Students participate in engaging, relevant STEAM activities with an emphasis on early math skills.
Students develop empathy, unity and joy with other children from diverse backgrounds and communities.
Families receive practical home learning extension activities.
Interested families can email pghvillageproject@gmail.com or direct message us on social media for more information! Cohorts in 2025-26 will include students in Pre-K & Kindergarten and their parents/caregivers. We hope you'll join us!
Click here to register for our events!
In this project, we are uniting with three local educators to co-found a project that catalyzes communities toward intersectional justice for all young people in order to promote inclusion, unity and empowerment amongst diverse groups of students. The project aims to educate, promote peace, and celebrate the beauty of individuals while combating gender discrimination, racism, classism, heterosexism, ableism and all -isms, phobias and systems that oppress and ostracize fellow human beings.
This community-centered project will include the development of instructional resources for educators, families, and all who are passionate about facilitating a culture of love, justice and inclusion for scholars across the Greater Pittsburgh area.
We want to hear from you! Are you interested in helping inspire this work? Check out our surveys for families/caregivers, students and educators to help us inspire change!
In collaboration with Women for a Healthy Environment, we have designed a curriculum for 6th through 12th grade students that explores food access in the Greater Pittsburgh region. Students use mathematics, science, technology and English Language Arts skills to research, draw conclusions and take relevant action to address issues of food insecurity.
Interested in using this co-written curriculum for your school or organization?
Email us today at pghvillageproject@gmail.com!
Flourish Ed is a fiscally sponsored educational outreach program in collaboration with the founders of Strong Ambitious Women and Kind-R-Garden.
The mission of this program is to develop and implement a framework for conscious teaching and learning in a post pandemic world. We reimagine the present by nourishing a positive self and community image in support of a flourishing future. Through focusing on soft skills and creative resilience, students grow as meaningful contributors and impactful leaders whose radiance promotes the growth of their communities.
Our goal is to reimagine education to be authentic. We aim to empower learners to be creative contributors through a focus on social and emotional wellness and project-based learning, while nourishing a positive self and community image. By cultivating leadership, learners will be active participants in engaging and empowering their social circles to be positive catalysts for change.
These resources were created in Summer 2020 for local virtual summer programs and families to use. There are project-based and maker activities available for students of all ages to engage with, in or out of school (see our May 2020 blog post for greater detail on these approaches to learning). Click here for access to these resources!
Our first project provided over 300 plants to local students, thanks to generous donations and assistance from local organizations. Due to the generosity of our partners, students of all ages throughout Pittsburgh's North Side had the opportunity to grow flowers or herbs from home during the start of the Covid-19 school closures. Click here to check out some of these activities for students you know, and of course share your photos with @pgh_village on social media!