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How Keesha Bennett is Inspiring Hope for Pittsburgh’s Unhoused
After joining the 2024 Catapult Culinary cohort, Kesha Bennett started her catering business, Peacefulplatez, and feeding Pittsburgh’s unhoused population.
Please be advised that Catapult will be closed September 2nd through 6th as our staff takes advantage of professional development opportunities. Please feel free to send us a message or complete the Intake Form, and someone will follow up with you when we return the week of September 9th!
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.
Catapult Greater Pittsburgh engages in connecting families to emergency resources, peer-to-peer support, wealth building, trauma-informed financial counseling, and policy advocacy to ensure that systematically disenfranchised communities can meaningfully achieve economic justice and lead dignified and equitable lives.
Pursuing economic justice one individual at a time through compassion, flexibility, innovation, dignity, and creating opportunities for personal growth in fair and equitable communities.
Individuals or families who live at or below the poverty line or otherwise feel disenfranchised by a system that perpetuates economic injustice. Our participants choose programs that are the best fit for them and work with the team at Catapult Greater Pittsburgh for support and guidance throughout the experience.
After six wonderful years of partnership with Circles USA, Catapult Greater Pittsburgh, formerly Circles Greater Pittsburgh, launched as an independent organization on January 4th, 2021. Although the leadership, professionals, and many of the programs remain the same, our mission changed slightly from “ending generational poverty” to “economic justice opportunities for individuals seeking generational stability”. The program offerings will be more robust and more suited for the urban clientele that we serve. Additionally, this separation will allow us to move from a chapter of a national model into an independent and scalable non-profit organization.
in many Pittsburgh neighborhoods
live at or below the income limit for federal poverty guidelines
The divide between lower-income populations and the middle-to-upper income populations is growing and not just in numbers. We desire a smart, and personal solution to these problems, which is why Catapult works great in this very relational community. Here, neighborly connection and innovation are key components of what makes Pittsburgh the great place that it is.
After joining the 2024 Catapult Culinary cohort, Kesha Bennett started her catering business, Peacefulplatez, and feeding Pittsburgh’s unhoused population.
Thanks to the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh, Catapult’s second Gallery Retail Incubator storefront was renovated and reopened on May 17th.
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