Grantmaking

With a broad interest in community health, the Foundation focuses on six priority areas. The Foundation's service area consists of communities in the South Hills and lower Mon Valley served by Jefferson Hospital. For more information about our grant priorities, guidelines and process, visit the Grants page.

Community Data

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The Foundation seeks to promote health and vitality of communities by gathering and sharing community data. Our Changing Communities focuses on changing demographics, economic mobility, and community health. Community Snapshots issued in 2023 utilize 2020 census data to tell the story of community needs and services.
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Stress, anxiety common among Pittsburgh’s newest refugees

By Diana Nelson Jones / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette May 15, 2016   Posters at the Squirrel Hill Health Center advertise childbirth classes in Nepalese, warn in Spanish about eating too much sugar and offer words of “welcome” in multiple languages. The center can call on translators who speak 120 tongues. With more than 500 immigrants settling […]

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AHN funds fuel Jefferson Regional Foundation’s investment in South Hills wellness, economic issues

Mary Phan-Gruber is executive director of the Jefferson Regional Foundation, which received $75 million when Jefferson Hospital merged with Allegheny Health Network in 2013/ Photo credit: Andrew Rush, Post-Gazette   By Joyce Gannon / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette   While the city of Clairton works to emerge from nearly three decades as a state-designated financially distressed community, […]

Investing in the Health & Vitality of Jefferson Hospital Communities