Reflecting on my Internship with the Fayette County Cultural Trust

Throughout my time working with the Fayette County Cultural Trust, I have learned numerous valuable skills surrounding asset-based community development and working with community organizations. This internship experience began with the overarching goal of doing preliminary research on entrepreneurship centers around the country and how the FCCT’s version of these centers can come to fruition…

Update on My Internship with the Fayette County Cultural Trust

Throughout these few months working with the Fayette County Cultural Trust, my fellow interns and I have been working on much of the preliminary research on small business and entrepreneurship centers in other areas around the country that have applicable qualities to the entrepreneurship center being created in Downtown Connellsville. This research has been very…

Interning with the Fayette County Cultural Trust

Hello! My name is Natalie, and I am a senior at Pitt majoring in Urban Studies and Anthropology, minoring in Political Science, and getting a certificate in Public and Professional Writing. In addition to my studies, I am an intern with the Fayette County Cultural Trust for this Spring semester. The Fayette County Cultural Trust…

About the Appalachian Teaching Project

Our group’s project timeline involved a site visit to both Connellsville and Uniontown, where we met with local community members and leaders, gained community input, and experienced the distinctive features of both towns. The main assets my group and I identified during our site visit, particularly in Connellsville, was the Great Allegheny Passage, and the…

My Time with the Appalachian Teaching Project

Hello! My name is Natalie Frank, and I am a senior at Pitt majoring in Urban Studies and Anthropology, minoring in Political Science, and getting a certificate in Public and Professional Writing. Through one of my Urban Studies classes this past semester, I had the opportunity to work with a great group of fellow students…