In November, FISA Foundation’s board awarded $788,321 in grant funding to improve the lives of women, girls, and people with disabilities in southwestern Pennsylvania.
- Achieva – Continued support for advocacy to improve access to health care and dental care for people with disabilities
- Advisory Board on Autism and Related Disorders (ABOARD) – Support for marketing and increasing capacity to serve more families of children with autism
- Allegheny Valley School – Support for creating a program to integrate sensory experiences into dental care for consumers with complex intellectual and developmental disabilities
- Best Buddies Pennsylvania – Continued support to foster friendships among students with intellectual disabilities and their non-disabled peers in six Allegheny County high schools
- Blind and Visual Rehabilitation Services of Pittsburgh – Support for the Employment Opportunities Program for youth with complex disabilities
- Center for Theater Arts – For continued support of musical theater classes and performances for adults with disabilities
- The Children’s Home of Pittsburgh – Support for Child’s Way, a program
to provide childcare for medically fragile infants and children with disabilities - The Children’s Institute – Support for a capital campaign to renovate the grounds to provide accessible recreation for children with disabilities
- Consumer Health Coalition – Support for Health Committee for People with Disabilities and its consumer-led agenda to identify and eliminate barriers to quality, affordable health care
- Holy Family Institute – Support for the SNAP for Girls Program, to prevent middle school girls from becoming involved with the justice system
- McGuire Memorial Foundation – Support for a capital campaign to renovate the intermediate care facility to prove a more home-like environment for people with complex disabilities
- Pennsylvania Elks Major Projects, Inc. – General operating support for the Home Service Program, providing free in-home support and advocacy services to people with disabilities
- Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence – Support for the planning stage of a regional initiative to prevent domestic violence in southwestern Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvania Health Law Project – Support for advocacy and education efforts to improve access to healthcare for people with disabilities
- THE PROGRAM for Offenders, Inc. – General operating support for
services to female offenders who are in the residential alternative to
incarceration program - Rankin Christian Center – Support for after school empowerment programming for middle school girls in Rankin
- UCP/CLASS – Support for the renovation of an expansion office to improve coordination of services to people with disabilities
- Victim Outreach Intervention Center – Strategic planning and general operating support for services to victims of domestic and sexual violence