Manchester Bidwell Corporation

The Manchester Bidwell organizations are diverse entities that combine to create a model for arts, education, training, and hope to reshape the business of social change.

Highlights

A Better Way Forward: Issue 3

Click the link above for the latest issue of the Manchester Bidwell Corporation newsletter A Better Way Forward. Inside, you’ll find information on news and events as well as explanations of our philosophy and ideology. Take a few minutes to read it and then share this PDF with family, friends and your community at large!

Click the link above to download a PDF.

The Perils and Possibilities of Scaling Nonprofits

Read the NonProfit Times article Manchester Bidwell Corporation's efforts to spread the MBC educational model across the world.

Waiting for "Superman"

Bill Strickland talks about the state of education in America in this upcoming documentary. Watch the trailer.

BTC Culinary Arts Grad Makes Good

Nick Hurley, a Bidwell Training Center Culinary Arts graduate, wows them at a local restaurant.

Turning On Kids at MCG

It’s a sunny Tuesday morning, and 300-plus Pittsburgh Public Schools third-graders are in the Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild auditorium. Listening with rapt attention, they’re watching Roger Humphries, dean of Pittsburgh’s ultra-rich jazz community, slap the skins silly....

Calendar

September

17 Larry Carleton Trio at 1815 Metropolitan Street. 7 & 9 p.m.
30 Julian Lage / Brubeck Brothers Quartet at 1815 Metropolitan Street. 8 p.m.

October

1 BOOM! with Liz Callaway & Ann Hampton Callaway at 1815 Metropolitan. 7 & 9:30 p.m.
6 Bidwell Training Center Open House at 1815 Metropolitan. 2 - 7 p.m.
15 Documentary and Divergence exhibition at 1815 Metropolitan. M-F 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
15 - 16 BNY Mellon Jazz presents Nancy Wilson at 1815 Metropolitan Street.
29 - 31 Hubert Laws at 1815 Metropolitan Street. 8 p.m.

Find out more about Bidwell Training Center

Information sessions are held every Monday and Wednesday at 9 a.m. at 1650 Metropolitan Street, 1st Floor, Student Services. For information call 412-323-4000 ext. 150.

United Way Contributor Choice Numbers

  • Manchester Bidwell Corporation
    1458696
  • Manchester Craftsmen's Guild
    2757
  • Bidwell Training Center
    715

Partners

Good Grief

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