OUR APPROACH
Bold, fresh,
innovative.
A new way for a new world
Since we are responding to a crisis that’s been building for decades, we’re using a toolbox built for today. We need to think bigger and redefine what’s possible — to shift perception and change reality. We’re bringing together bright, imaginative, civic-minded people to try something new and achieve different results. We’ve been simmering at the edge of the frontier for too long. It’s time to turn up the heat. 🔥
Learn how we’re…
Our Mission
Light a lamp.
Founded with a vision to catalyze change and provide an example for the nation, Pittsburgh Tomorrow is a social innovator working at the intersection of People and Place, to activate and connect future community leaders who will realize Pittsburgh’s potential, put us back on the map, and get us growing into the world’s most livable place.
Methodology
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Design Thinking
We have an idea for a new future, and we’re putting people at the center of it. We’re using a curious and creative approach to see the world through the eyes of those we’re looking to attract and activate, to co-create a strategic blueprint.
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Systems Change
Our region is a collection of dynamic communities often disconnected. We are creating the conditions for people to plug into Pittsburgh — by building a platform that optimizes their experience with it and their affinity for it.
3
Partnership Networks
The solutions will blossom with the help of regional partners who see and seize the new possibilities. We are building a web of leadership to engage with our mission, amplify our efforts, and provide the energy and resources to pull it off.
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Grit & Perseverance
This problem has plagued us for 40 years, and no one has solved it — yet. We are designing a strategic framework that combines long-term thinking with entrepreneurial action and heaping doses of sweat equity and determination.
Happening now
Empowering young leaders
This fall, 300 students from 15 high schools launched and took part in community conservation projects across Allegheny County. In 2025, we’re dramatically expanding the program, adding schools and students and building their future — here.
Retaining college students
We’ve helped relaunch the Pittsburgh Passport, connecting our area’s 130,000 college students with regional amenities. We’re also demystifying the visa process so regional employers can hire and keep more of our 12,000 foreign-born students.
Showcasing new contributors
To reverse our extremely low percentage of foreign-born citizens, we must first understand the obstacles they face and the contributions they make. Our immigration journalism project is doing just that, creating and placing stories in news outlets across the region.