Joseph Lagana, HCEF Founder, and Nancy Hubley, Western Pennsylvania Director of the Education Law Center, address both the critical educational needs and educational rights of children who are homeless
in this June 1, 2010, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Perspectives"
State Senator Wayne Fontana proposes bill to address the "educational needs and status of the homeless-child population" in Pennsylvania
Learn more about the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act here
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8.31.10 Sheldon Ingram, WTAE TV, speaks with HCEF founder Joe Lagana about the educational challenges children who are homeless face each day.
8.20.10 Joe Lagana is one of six Pittsburgh individuals chosen to receive the 2010 Pittsburgh Pirates Community Champion Award during the team's Heritage Weekend Celebration August 20-21. Awardees were honored in a special pre-game, on-the-field ceremony. An independent panel of judges – community leaders, civic leaders, Pirates employees, and members of the academic community – selected the recipients of this award.
8.14.10 A United Way Day of Caring team of Wyatt Incorporated employees with President Fred Episcopo spent this day reconstructing the Maze at the Haunted House in Hundred Acre Manor, with the company supplying all of the building supplies and the employees donating their time before and after their work days and on this construction day (value beyond counting). The proceeds of the Haunted House benefit HCEF and Animal Friends. See In the Spotlight for a photo story of the build and also Haunted House for information about Hundred Acres Manor. PPG Industries Inc. donated the 60 gallons of paint, also through the United Way Day of Caring.
8.13.10 The Jas. H. Matthews Educational and Charitable Trust honors HCEF with a grant of $500.
7.10 HCEF is the recipient of a $75,000 grant from the Heinz Endowment in support of the Homeless Education Network (HEN).
7.28.10 Steelers defensive end Brett Keisel appears on KDKA's Pittsburgh Today Live, speaking about the 2010 Gear for Grades school supplies drive to ensure that all children experiencing homelessness in Allegheny County and the City of Pittsburgh have the tools they need on that first day of school.
7.12.10 The Pittsburgh Foundation has honored HCEF with a grant of $50,000 in support of the Homeless Education Network (HEN), designed to improve attendance and academic success of children experiencing homelessness.
6.20.10 A group of local artists, poets, singer/songwriters, and an acoustic folk band joined together to raise $445 for HCEF through their "House Called Art" event.
6.16.10 HCEF received a grant of $400 from Pittsburgh Social Venture Partners Kids in support of the expanding volunteer program.
6.13.10 Concerts for Causes – featuring pianist Patricia Prattis Jennings, former principal keyboardist of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra – honored HCEF with proceeds from its June 13th "in-home" concert. This was the concluding event in the 2009-10 concert series.
Links to media coverage of HCEF
Pittsburgh Steeler Brett Keisel appears on KDKA to talk about the August 2010 Gear for Grades event that saw more than 2500 backpacks and school supplies delivered to children living in homeless housing facilities across the city and county on August 16.
"Perspectives piece" by Joe Lagana and Nancy Hubley in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 1, 2010, Homeless kids need good schooling." See also a brief summary of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act here.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette feature story on the rise in children's homelessness in region.
Exec takes pay cut to run Homeless Children's Education Fund (first 4 paragraphs only; full article available to paid subscribers)
Grant Oliphant, President and CEO of The Pittsburgh Foundation, reports in his blog on a conversation with Joe Lagana about a current local challenge to the "moral" educational rights of children who are homeless.
Pittsburgh Steelers at Hundred Acres Manor – a WPXI slide show, October 2009
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