2700 Monroeville Blvd.
Monroeville, PA 15146
2700 Monroeville Blvd.
Monroeville, PA 15146
Forbes Hospital’s trauma unit received a $2,500 donation from the Monroeville Foundation on Friday that helped the hospital stock up on new clothes and activities for trauma patients.
Jesse Miller, a hospital spokesman, said patients often need new clothes after a visit to the trauma unit. When the Monroeville Foundation learned about the need, they donated $2,000 so the hospital could buy clothes to be handed out to patients.
Monroeville Foundation board member, Janis Burley Wilson, is one of this years’ picks included in the “12 Women to Meet in 2019” from the Post Gazette. We are pleased and honored to have Ms. Burley Wilson as part of the Monroeville Foundation’s Board. Click here to read the story.
Northcentral Maltese Rescue recognized The Monroeville Foundation as a Top Dog sponsor of the Friends of Jupiter Pet Walk..
In a note written to the Monroeville Foundation from the Northcentral Maltese Rescue:
“Thank you so very much for the donation to Northcentral Maltese Rescue. We appreciate greatly the kindness and efforts that businesses like yours make to help us continue our mission.”
–Mary Palmer, President
From the Friends of Jupiter:
“Your support as a new Friend of Jupiter means so much. Thank you for being a Top Dog Sponsor. Your generosity helped raise over $8,000! The proceeds from this years work will provide Northcentral Maltese Rescue and 6 other Pittsburgh Rescues funds to save even more animals in need. Looking forward to your continued friendship in 2019.”
–Nicole Orlando
Monroeville, PA – The Monroeville Foundation is pleased to organizing the 1st Annual Monroeville CommUNITY Day to be held at the Monroeville Community Park West on Tilbrook Rd. Saturday July 28, 2018. The event will kick-off with an early morning 5K Run/Walk “Run for Your Life and Walk with the Doc” along with a health fair and screenings from Forbes Hospital celebrating its’ 40th Anniversary in Monroeville.
The day-long celebration will continue and provide opportunities for local business and entrepreneurs, food and craft vendors, stage performances, kid’s activities and entertainment for all ages. Working together, The Monroeville Foundation and Forbes Hospital are planning to celebrate with a CommUNITY Day to bring the entire community together.
Since 1978 Forbes Hospital has been a dynamic community partner and asset to the people of the eastern suburbs. Their goal is to help people to live their best and healthiest lives. Today, as part of Highmark Health and the Allegheny health Network, Forbes Hospital continues to grow an integrated health care delivery system serving the greater western Pennsylvania region and have received numerous national, regional, and local accolades for our high-quality care, superior outcomes, and overall positive impact on the communities we serve.
According to Ernie Groover, President of The Monroeville Foundation, “We are pleased to be able to bring our business community and the residents of Monroeville together for a CommUNITY Day that will focus on and highlight the best that Monroeville has to offer. This is the first year for this community-wide, family –friendly event. Our goal is to create an annual event that celebrates unity, diversity in Monroeville.”
Admission and parking to Monroeville CommUNITY Day is free and open to the public.
This is a rain-or shine event.
The Monroeville Jazz Festival is looking to get bigger and better under the new leadership of an area nonprofit.
“We officially took over on Jan. 2. We’ve only engaged in this for about a week now,” said Monroeville Foundation President Ernie Groover.
Thanks to its founder, Chuck Summerville, the annual Monroeville Jazz Festival has become a part of the Monroeville cultural community. Due to Chuck’s retirement, the Monroeville Foundation will assume the role that Mr. Summerville performed so well for so many years, that of producing and facilitating this wonderful event. Chuck has made the Jazz Festival a part of Monroeville’s heritage and the Monroeville Foundation would like to maintain and expand on that heritage.
The Monroeville Foundation is excited to continue the tradition of the Monroeville Jazz Festival and with the support of the community and local businesses we look forward to making this event bigger and better. To obtain additional information concerning the next event and to support the Monroeville Jazz Festival, please contact the Monroeville Foundation.
Anna Bernat Butson of the Monroeville Foundation delivered a check to the Cross Roads Church Food Pantry. Anna met with Pat Sinback, the director, and her husband, Tim, who work hard to keep the food pantry running and supporting the Monroeville Community and residents. With the help of a number of volunteers and local businesses, the food pantry served 223 families in Monroeville, regardless of faith, in 2017.
ONeighbors in Monroeville’s Third Ward came together over concern of the way their their neighborhood entrance plan had deteriorated. Years of forgotten upkeep around twin brick entrance walls resulted in heavy weed and vine overgrowth. They learned of the Monroeville Foundation’s neighborhood grants through their member of council and applied for a grant to cover refurbishing costs (up to $350). They decided drought resistant perennials, some bulbs and other colorful ground covers would require less upkeep, once neighbors came together. Grant costs still came in under budget to acquire weed barrier materials, plantings and ground cover planting purchased from a local nursery. The result was a success. During the work, the entranced problem also called attention to the steep slopes that were felt a danger. This prompted the municipality to install guide-rail (obtained from the country at no cost). Meadowdale neighbors got a brand new entrance look and safer entry to the neighborhood. Neighbors who were not physically able to dig the soil helped to raise money for a new “Meadowdale” sign for both brick walls.
One of the initial projects of the Monroeville Foundation was to provide a mechanism for naming rights to accompany the new Monroeville Community Park West. Persons or businesses on a can have a space or facility named after them and have their own historical landmark of in Monroeville.
Residents or business can sponsor a piece of the park for dedication. Interested?
With a need to give the garden a new sense of the same purpose, the Food Pantry Garden directed itself for 2015 as a Bee Pollinating Garden. More volunteers joined, some had to do less work. This led to a growing number interested in how the local bee population could be supported. Therefore, the garden area is now transformed into a gentle and beautiful garden space for pollination. A variety of bees, and other pollinators can be seen flocking to these herbs.
For years, the Monroeville Foundation granted funding for a master botanical gardener to provide the spectacular arrangement of annuals that is a vibrant section of horticulture at the Community Park West. The Monroeville Foundation hopes to continue funding this in the future. Many weddings take place in this lovely area of the Community Park West.
The Monroeville Animal Shelter is one of the few municipality-supported shelters in Allegheny County. They provide Animal Control for domestic animals and wildlife in both the Monroeville and Pitcairn areas. The shelter also provides homeless dogs and cats with a temporary residence until a permanent loving home is found.
In 2014, The Monroeville Foundation teamed up with the Monroeville Animal Shelter and is dedicated to assisting the shelter with its fundraising needs.
If you are considering adopting a pet…please contact the Monroeville Animal Shelter at 412-856-3355.
In 2011, The Monroeville Foundation was approached by one of the scouts in Troop 143 with plans for his Eagle Scout Leadership Service Project. His project consisted of constructing a water irrigation system at theBotanical Gardens in Monroeville’s Community Park West. The Monroeville Foundation granted $657 of the funding for his project, which provides a watering system for the botanical garden area of the park. the project benefited the community and helped the Scout earn his Eagle Scout.
For the project, the Monroeville Foundation helped Jonathan complete the work on the community park’s botanical gardens for tapping into the park’s current water system and running irrigation to eleven of the twelve floer beds. Each bed had an underground valve box to host the values so that the people who water the plants could connect up soaker hoses to run and water the gardens. The Foundation funded all materials for Vinyl Pipe, Valves, Trencher, Valve Box, Soaker Hose and Adapters.
