Sustainable Development
Some recent examples of Sustainable Development projects can be found below.


Planning and development of the Civic Design Program, and the facilitation of the Pittsburgh Civic Design Network, The Heinz Endowments.
OMG worked with program officers from the arts and culture, economic opportunity, education, environmental, and children youth and families programs to create a formal plan and logic model for the civic design program, a new interdisciplinary grantmaking program. Its objectives include creating a strong civic and policy infrastructure for enhancing and sustaining Pittsburgh's built and physical environment. OMG also facilitated the start-up of a region-wide network of organizations currently engaged in civic design work to think together about increasing their scale of work as well as aligning their objectives for policy impact.

Grantmaking strategy development for the restoration of the Schuylkill River Watershed, The William Penn Foundation.
OMG worked with the Communities an d Environment Program to develop an implementation plan, an RFP and Theory of Change for a new cluster strategy to restore the Schuylkill River Watershed. The team also managed the grantmaking review and final selection process of the grantees along the watershed.

Program Evaluation, The Countryside Institute's International Stewardship Exchange Program, Glynwood Center, Cold Spring, NY.
OMG did an assessment of the Countryside Institute's International Stewardship Exchange Program. Having the education of professionals and communities in sustainable development as its primary objective, the assessment explored the impact of the Exchange on participating professionals and on six host communities. It addressed issues of local and regional public-private systems change, and made recommendations that included shifting the model to improve the program's ability to facilitate community capacity for change.

Evaluation of Philadelphia Green's Community Greening and Parks Programming, The William Penn Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Staff have conducted a multi-year formative and summative assessment of the community-based activities of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. The work included extensive interviewing, case studies, quantitative and qualitative data collection and review, and analysis incorporating GIS formats. The findings are being used by PG's staff to strengthen its overall programming.