The Pittsburgh Leadership Foundation (PLF) is a faith-based, nonprofit organization that was founded by Reid Carpenter in 1978 sparked by the words of hope spoken by Rev. Sam Shoemaker, “I have a vision that Pittsburgh will one day be as famous for God as it is (today) for steel.” PLF is honored to be a founding member of Leadership Foundations, Inc., a worldwide group of organizations developing leaders to “drive the wheel of change in their cities.”

In our early years, the Pittsburgh Leadership Foundation helped to establish dozens of other nonprofit organizations that are still making a profound difference in the lives of people throughout Southwestern Pennsylvania, organizations that include the Pittsburgh Kids Foundation, Amachi Pittsburgh, and The Education Partnership. In recent years, PLF has focused on bringing leaders together to learn, to pray, and to serve—all for the good of our city.

• We bring leaders together to learn in two faith-based leadership development experiences – the Senior Leaders Collaborative (SLC) and the Emerging Leaders Collaborative (ELC).

• We bring leaders together to pray through Pittsburgh Prays, which includes the Greater Pittsburgh Community Leaders Prayer Breakfast and the National Day of Prayer.

• We bring leaders together to serve through Amen to Action food packing events to address food insecurity in our city and School Supplies for Kids events that help students from under-resourced communities.

When you donate to PLF, you are helping to bring leaders together for the good of our city—an answer to the prayer of Jesus for His followers, that “they may all be one.” Thank you for your generosity.