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The Greater Pittsburgh Nonprofit Partnership
View a special video about nonprofits in The Pittsburgh Region (MPG Video) 
Who speaks for the nonprofits? What are its priorities, its concerns, its hopes?
These and related questions have been asked repeatedly during the past years - by local media, by policymakers, even by nonprofit trustees and staff. While local nonprofit organizations have been able to turn to recognized leaders to offer answers, the nonprofit sector has not always expressed its collective voice well.
The time is now for our area's nonprofit organizations to come together for common purposes - to press our vision for community well-being, to promote philanthropy broadly, and to engage the public and policymakers in honest dialogue about our future.
Locally, nonprofits regularly come together in discrete consortia, as evidenced by, among others, the Mon Valley Providers Council, the Forum of United Way Agencies, the North Hills Nonprofit Consortium, and the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council. These coalitions serve to connect common providers, and their work should continue robustly. From time to time, however, the community's nonprofit sector - disparate as it may be - must come together to encourage collaboration efforts that : (1) identify critical community issues; (2) develop common planning strategies; and (3) implement solutions together.
Like Independent Sector at the national level and the Pennsylvania Association of Nonprofit Organizations at the state level, the Greater Pittsburgh Nonprofit Partnership serves to unify charitable organizations at the metro level. Just as the Allegheny Conference connects corporate Pittsburgh, the GPNP connects nonprofit Pittsburgh.