We Are Catapult®
Catapult Greater Pittsburgh engages in emergency resource distribution, peer-to-peer support, wealth building, trauma-informed financial counseling, and policy advocacy to ensure systematically disenfranchised communities can meaningfully achieve economic justice and lead dignified and equitable lives.
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Your donation to Catapult Greater Pittsburgh helps families we care about improve their economic and social well-being and moves our community toward economic justice.
A donation of...
Provides a family with personal care products.
Connects a family to partners providing economic, social, and health services.
Provides an infant or toddler with diapers for a month.
provides 5 families with spending logs to track their financial goals
Sponsors 3 culinary entrepreneurs to obtain their ServSafe certifications
Leads 2 families to become first-time home buyers.
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This is How We Care
Catapult® Greater Pittsburgh meets people at their experience through trauma-informed and person-centered support. Our work is grounded in dignity, compassion, access, and equity ensuring individuals and families have the tools they need to stabilize today and build toward long-term opportunity.
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Incubation and Development
We support entrepreneurs with business coaching, education, and resources that help transform ideas into sustainable income generating ventures. By partnering education with incubation, we create opportunities for entrepreneurs to test and adjust their business models in a creative and supportive environment.
Equity Protection
Through legal support, home repairs for health and safety, and advocacy, we help individuals and families protect what they have worked hard to build. This includes removing barriers that threaten long-term asset stability by addressing tangled title/ heir's property issues and creating an estate plan.
Trauma-Informed Financial Education
At the core of every Catapult initiative is our signature curriculum, The Psychology of Poverty (POP). POP recognizes that poverty is traumatic, not merely economic, and equips participants with both the psychological insight and the practical tools to build a stronger financial foundation, develop healthy money habits, and sustain long-term economic mobility.
Catapult® Connect
Catapult Connect is a fee-for-service offering for organizations seeking added capacity to support participant stability and follow through. Through trusted, people-centered engagement, Catapult® helps organizations address barriers that impact progress and strengthen pathways toward economic mobility.
Why It Matters
Our CARE model is designed to break cycles of instability by helping individuals and families build stability, embrace opportunity, and achieve lasting economic security.
