NO EXCUSE ABSENTEE VOTING NOW!

The Black Political Empowerment Project (B-PEP) extends a THANK YOU to Common Cause for organizing the second PA Voter Rights Symposium.  We spent the morning with Secretary of State Pedro Cortes and his staff.  We spent the afternoon with a bi-partisan panel of State Legislators. Non-partisan voter advocates from all over the state were together.  [...]

Join the Guyasuta Fellowship Program

RECALL FOR FELLOWS – WE WANT YOU! CLEAN ENERGY, GREEN JOBS, COMMUNITY RECOVERY
WHAT? Councilman Bill Peduto’s Guyasuta Fellowship Program, a policy forum for young people and citizens who want a voice in creating public policy, will engage experts and move policy from community needs to informed and actionable recommendations that link the green [...]

Tuesday ARRA Weatherization Hearing - H’burg

This in from our partners at PA VOICE and League of Young Voters Education Fund.

Urgent! Please consider attending this meeting on Tuesday and testifying in support of using weatherization capacity to: improve the quality of jobs created, develop more robust career pathways for workers, bundle weatherization work in specific areas and allow for weatherization of [...]

B-PEP, REMP & Green Innovators partner on ARRA Priorities

Everybody VOTE & PA VOICE partner B-PEP’s Regional Equity Monitoring Project (REMP) played a lead role with Pittsburgh Green Innovators and Penn State University’s Extension Service in leading a facilitated planning session focused on identifying community-driven, sustainability-based priorities for portions of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding. Over 50 people from across Pittsburgh [...]