116 0 Kommentare U. S. Steel, Pittsburgh Penguins Team Up in Support of Braddock Carnegie Library - Seite 2

“The Pittsburgh Penguins are eager to partner with U. S. Steel and the Braddock Carnegie Library to champion the region through the Penguins Foundation’s pillars: community, education, wellness and youth hockey,” said Jim Britt, executive director of the Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation. “Mirroring the Penguins’ investment in the historic Hunt Armory as the home of our diversity hockey programing, we envision this space housing Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation educational programs like the Reading Champions program, built in partnership with U. S. Steel, continuing to add available local literacy resources for schools and families.”

The BCLA serves approximately 15,000 residents in five communities - Braddock, North Braddock, East Pittsburgh, Chalfant, and Turtle Creek – with tools for dynamic, engaged learning, and resources for meeting life’s challenges. In addition to an extensive lending collection, BCLA offers arts and culture programs in its Neighborhood Print Shop and Bathhouse Ceramics Studio; hosts the Artist in the Library Series and Resident Artist in Residence, provides education and workforce development opportunities that connect patrons to jobs, offers meeting spaces for community groups of all types and serves as a safe haven for children and adults. The BCLA is a vital organization to the community, but the current state of its facility is limiting the larger impact it could make.

Right now, only 50% of the building is accessible, but the renovation will create universal accessibility to all floors of the library, including the Music Hall, accommodating all guests with dignity. The renovation will adapt a structure that has already served area residents across the 19^th, 20^th, and 21^st centuries so that it can continue to sustain itself and evolve for many years to come.

Since the formation of the campaign, BCLA has raised more than $8 million in support of the Braddock Carnegie Library renovation project including lead grants from the Eden Hall Foundation, Allegheny Foundation, and Richard King Mellon Foundation, as well as from the Pennsylvania Redevelopment Capital Assistance Program and the Pennsylvania Department of Education Keystone Grant for Public Library Facilities.

If you would like to learn more or donate to the Carnegie One Capital Campaign in support of BCLA click here.

Founded in 1901, United States Steel Corporation is a leading steel producer. With an unwavering focus on safety, the company’s customer-centric Best for All strategy is advancing a more secure, sustainable future for U. S. Steel and its stakeholders. With a renewed emphasis on innovation, U. S. Steel serves the automotive, construction, appliance, energy, containers, and packaging industries with high value-added steel products such as U. S. Steel’s proprietary XG3 advanced high-strength steel. The company also maintains competitively advantaged iron ore production and has an annual raw steelmaking capability of 22.4 million net tons. U. S. Steel is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with world-class operations across the United States and in Central Europe. For more information, please visit www.ussteel.com.