$20,000 to the University of Pittsburgh’s Office of Child Development (OCD) to support P3, the PRIDE Pop-Up Project. PRIDE Pop Ups (P3) is a project that will present three mini-arts festivals for families and children of African descent, in multiple communities, with the goal of building PRIDE (Positive Racial Identity Development in Early Education) in children by immersing them in the Africana Arts.

P3 will build young African American children’s positive racial identity as a protective factor against racism through messages of racial and cultural pride delivered by locally recruited Africana artists during these 3 community-based mini-festivals. To support continued learning, artists, early care and education providers and parents will gain skills and knowledge enabling them to replicate activities in child care and home settings.

OCD facilitates and develops — through mutually-beneficial partnerships with its constituencies — new knowledge, services, and policies to improve the lives of children and families in five domains:

• Interdisciplinary education and training.
• Interdisciplinary research and scholarship.
• Human service demonstration programs, networking, and strategic planning.
• Program monitoring and evaluation.
• Needs assessments and policy studies.