Lettie Toujours is a creative design maven who will design and decorate your home, help you host a fabulous event, give you gentle guidance to learn something new; a modern day Auntie Mame giving you courage to throw your first dinner party or paint your dining room bright orange—and can arrange flowers for every event that you can throw at her.
For over a decade, Lettie has conceptualized, produced and executed high end social and corporate events in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia and New York. Her design aesthetic is called upon for floral and interior styling, imaginative set design for fashion shows, concerts and conferences. Lettie is also sought after by her for residential design projects, color consultations and selection of finishes. She is influenced by Paris, London, art, history and individual style.
Lettie has styled editorial design shoots for local and national magazines and blogs such as Green Wedding Shoes, The White Wren, Grey Likes Weddings, Pittsburgh Magazine and Whirl Magazine. Lettie is proud to be a Mom, an independent business owner, flaneur and ardent supporter of all that is local, sustainable and reusable.
Event Planning and Gifts & Incentives
Toyz Electronics is an Ed-tech company focused on building a more diverse workforce for the future. We have an App that empowers diverse and disadvantaged students to become the Superhero versions of themselves and get to select Universities like Carnegie Mellon and MIT or pathway to sustainable careers in creative, hardware, software, manufacturing, or entrepreneurship. It’s based on our Black Superhero Father and Son co-founder duo. Father Damola Idowu enrolled at Syracuse University at 16 studying Mechanical Engineering and Economics. Son Wole Idowu enrolled at Carnegie Mellon University at 15 studying Electrical and Computer Engineering. We are based at the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University.
Education
Communications, Assistive, Life Sciences, DME
Telecommunications
Campos is a customer experience and brand planning firm that puts research at the forefront of strategy to help organizations thrive.
Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Campos specializes in working with clients to understand their customers and prospects using customized research methodologies, uncovering the current state of a brand or customer experience and exploring opportunities to engage customers and differentiate from competitors. Our strategists translate research insights into actionable strategies that drive growth for our clients.
Campos has been a market research leader in the Pittsburgh region for nearly 35 years. We pride ourselves not only on unearthing meaningful insights, but translating them into clearly defined strategies whose impact can be measured over time.
Artificial Intelligence, Engineering and Insurance
Physical and cyber security assessment, consulting, and solutions. In a digitally powered world, threats can enter anywhere. Segregating your security into “cyber” and “physical” only exacerbates those vulnerabilities. Arch Access uses our proprietary assessment to expose and resolve porous entries across your digital and physical infrastructure. By examining not just your system and practices, but that of your supply chain and integrated partners, we provide an advanced view of your environment, working with you to implement comprehensive access control.
Security
Kabeyia & Kompany LLC is a Professional Business Services firm, located in Squirrel Hill within the City of Pittsburgh and McKeesport. We provide Bookkeeping, Payroll, Tax Preparation/Consultation, Business Administration, Risk Management, Notary and DMV (PennDOT) Services. Our services are provided to a wide range of industries to include technology, insurance, manufacturing, healthcare, retail, trucking and much more. We tailor professional solutions that are perfect for self-employed, small business, non-profit and government clients to help streamline processes, improve profits and meet internal/external regulatory requirements. Our diversified business solutions makes us ‘your preferred source for professional business and government services’.
Finance Accounting, Bookkeeping, Legal Services, Payroll, Tax Services, and Tax Consultation
I.T. Service Provider, Talent Management, I.T. Staffing, Software Quality Assurance
Printing and Promotional Products
Founded in 1997, Astyra Corporation is an award winning staffing, outsourcing and technology integration firm. We offer highly skilled people and are experts in successfully matching out associates to solutions. Our clients range from Fortune 500 companies to state and municipal government agencies; financial institutions to major systems integrators. At Astyra, we adapt quickly to meet the ever-changing needs of our clients; and we are a company who has evolved as we’ve grown. Outside-the-box ideas, ingenuity, and never settling for failure are the hallmark traits of our firm. Astyra means Smart Solutions: whether people, process, or technology.
Astyra Corporation is a state-certified MBE and federal-certified DBE company.
Employment & Staffing Services
Information Technology
Copiers, Printers, Postage Machines, Document Storage, Destruction of Documents
Printing
Family Business & Entrepreneurship Training & Consulting
Information Technology
Telecommunications
Partnership with Cisco, Palo, Alto & Aruba as well as other “best practices” Technologies & Software
Partnership with Cisco, Palo, Alto & Aruba as well as other “best practices” Technologies & Software
Higher Education
EnterChange Group, LLC is a small, genderqueer woman-owned research and consulting firm dedicated to elevating people and advancing organizations through equity-driven and inclusive change strategy. This firm is certified as a Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB), Women’s Business Enterprise (through WBENC), and LGBT Business Enterprise (through NGLCC). We are committed to a human-centered approach to strategic growth that centers Inclusion, Insight, Integrity, and Innovation. Intersectional equity is at the heart of our work. Appreciating difference and promoting the full contribution of all can only help us achieve the richest potential of humanity and organized work. These are the qualities that we aspire to personally and professionally. We listen first, then we use what we learn to build a strategic, equity-driven process to drive the change forward with everyone onboard!
Lead Consultants Sarah and Amanda have a combined 25 years working to advance equity and inclusion across government, arts, education and workforce development in the Pittsburgh region. Sarah holds a PhD in Administrative and Policy Studies from the University of Pittsburgh School of Education, and Amanda holds an MBA from Robert Morris University. Both have completed diversity, equity, and inclusion training through organizations like the Aspen Institute, Courageous Conversation Academy, Mid-Atlantic ADA Center, YogaRoots on Location, and the American Association of University Women. Our work has focused on strategic and innovative development that promotes equitable, inclusive, and sustainable access to opportunity and mobility. As consultants, we have worked with both small to medium-sized organizations as well as large nonprofit systems, coalitions, and philanthropic foundations, including American Association of Birth Centers, Pennsylvania Commission for Community Colleges, and The Pittsburgh Foundation. This background well-positions us to provide customized DEI training and strategic support with strong appreciation for diverse audiences, services, and local/national contexts.
Our appreciative inquiry, strengths-based, positive approach to diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) and accessibility/justice work is, in part, about promoting the trust, unity, and accountability needed to begin to heal from racism and other identity-based challenges. We support healing and strategic growth through trainings, resources, and facilitated conversations. We are intentional in centering intersectional identities (race, gender, sexuality, ability, etc.) in our work and the data we collect to inform change efforts. Moreover, we balance the business principles that serve (such as strategy, sustainability, and continual improvement) with trauma-informed, embodied practice that values both how workers think about power and oppression and their lived (physical and emotional) experiences.Overall, EnterChange Group is committed to a person-centered approach to change and organizational growth.
Social Services
Nice 2 Media Marketing and Promotions, LLC is a social media marketing and management agency that caters to small and large businesses needed assistance managing their social media platforms, websites, advertising, and event planning.
Marketing
Lending
Janitorial Services, Windows, Floors, Carpets, Snow Removal
The Northside North Shore Chamber of Commerce works to promote, connect and support the growth and success of Pittsburgh’s Northside businesses.
Chamber Membership
Museum
Trade Association, Technology
Innovation Works introduces, connects, supports and expands the startup and entrepreneurial ecosystem within Southwestern Pennsylvania, making our region a center for innovative startups and tech investors from around the country.
Ecomonic Development
Accounting Firm
Mobile Application Which Provides Safety and Security Through Real-Time Remote Identity for Police and Motorists During Traffic Stops.
Software Development
The Allegheny County Library Association (ACLA) is a federated library system of 46 public libraries delivering service in more than 70 locations. Member Libraries include the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, which has 19 locations, and 45 other libraries and their branches located outside the City of Pittsburgh throughout Allegheny County. Each library is independent and has its own board of directors; as a consortium they share a countywide catalog, jointly offer downloadable books, audios, and videos as well as online databases, and provide a diverse calendar of programming events. The eiNetwork supports the automated library operations, Internet access, and free Wi-Fi services available at all county libraries. Through its coordination, ACLA expands the resources of local libraries beyond what they could accomplish individually.
Library
Asphalt Paving and Production
Gas Company
