The Pittsburgh Foundation

The Pittsburgh Foundation, along with The Grable Foundation, came together to focus on the issues affecting children and youth of the Pittsburgh Community. They created “Voices of Youth,” a series of three competitions that ask the youth of Pittsburgh to identify issues relevant to them and come up with project ideas on how to impact those issues.

MarketSpace created a website to host the “Voices of Youth” competitions. We started this project by designing a site that would appeal to youth from the ages of 11 to 20. We also created a custom back-end database so that the site could be multifunctional, allowing for entry upload, commenting, voting, and custom reporting.

The site, pghvoicesofyouth.com, has been quite successful. The Pittsburgh Foundation has received so many creative entries for these competitions and will continue to use the site as a venue for open communications with the youth of Pittsburgh.