Category: not for profit

Cafe Momentum Pittsburgh Aims to Give Youth More Than a Job

By Gretchen McKay From Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Pittsburgh—Gene Walker knows the road to success has many stops and starts. Consider his path to become executive director of Cafe Momentum Pittsburgh, the soon-to-open nonprofit restaurant and professional training facility in Downtown that gives juvenile offenders a second chance. The East Liberty native graduated from Peabody High School…


Free Sailboat Rides Offer Wellness to Souls in Need

TAMPA–When captain Dan Peretz found out his best friend, Art Nicholson, had been diagnosed with brain cancer in 2011, the two did what they had always done. They went out for a sail. They took Peretz’s 41-foot yacht, the Phoenix. It was the same boat Peretz and Nicholson had sailed on for three decades, the…