Black Contractors Empowerment Association

NonProfit description

Founded in 2005, Dress for Success Pittsburgh was established to empower women to become self-sufficient and exit poverty. From our beginnings in a church basement serving 69 women the first year, we have grown to four branches serving five SW Pennsylvania counties and working with over 150 referral partners. Today, we provide clothing and employment readiness support to women across the region.

While we may be best known for providing suits and professional clothing to women, we are first and foremost an anti-poverty organization that focuses on providing a continuum of support and opportunities for vulnerable, low-income women to compete, advance, and support themselves and their families without the need to rely on public assistance.

We achieve our mission through providing suiting and uniform items for women. Women are referred to us who are currently interviewing or who have secured work and need appropriate clothing items. The women we serve work with suiting specialists to choose appropriate clothing for their needs. Additionally, during these consultations, women are provided with interview preparation skills.

Entrepreneurs Forever is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to empowering growth-ready entrepreneurs with the knowledge, support, and accountability needed to scale their businesses. Through our unique three-year, facilitator-led peer-learning program, we help small business owners build confidence, competence, and sustainable growth. We serve entrepreneurs who have been in business for at least one year, generate $30,000+ in revenue, and are actively seeking growth. By offering expert guidance and a trusted community, we empower entrepreneurs to overcome challenges, increase revenue, create jobs, and move beyond the startup phase. Supported by generous donors, Entrepreneurs Forever is the premier program of the Mansmann Foundation. As we grow nationally, we remain committed to helping small businesses succeed and strengthen communities.

Foster Love Project (FLP), a Wilkinsburg-based 5013c, exists to show love in action to children impacted by foster and kinship care through the provision of goods, services, and support to ensure all children, no matter their family composition, will be treated with dignity and self-worth, so they are empowered to thrive.

The Foster Love Project Bag program was launched in 2014 by founder and current Executive Director Kelly Hughes, a foster and adoptive parent, to care for children in foster care and support kinship and foster families residing in western Pennsylvania and those within driving distance. Since its establishment as a 5013c organization in 2016, and thanks to generous partners and volunteers, Foster Love Project has supported over 17,000 children and 3,000 children annually through seven intentionally designed and critical programs.