Catapult Greater Pittsburgh

Catapult Greater Pittsburgh engages in emergency resource distribution, peer-to-peer support, wealth building, trauma-informed financial counseling and policy advocacy to ensure systematically disenfranchised communities can meaningfully achieve economic justice and lead dignified and equitable lives. Catapult Greater Pittsburgh 5 areas of concentration: Catapult Peer to Peer Connection: A robust curriculum helping individuals recognize and heal from the trauma of long-term exposure to poverty, create plans for future financial security, expand social capital and develop lasting relationships for support and to realize long term stability. Catapult Asset Building: Supporting wealth building through paths to home ownership and entrepreneurialism. Building generational wealth is an important element in sustainable economic justice. Catapult Door (Developing Ownership Opportunities for Residents): Provides a comprehensive plan to make the dream of first-time home ownership a reality. DOOR addresses the specific needs and challenges prospective buyers may encounter, while providing supporting every step of the way. Catapult encourages home ownership as a means to empower individuals towards growing family assets. Catapult KEY (Keeping Equity Yours): Equips homeowners to maintain their property and build upon their financial fortitude. Homeowners attend seminars on achieving good credit, appropriate budgeting and saving programs. They will learn basic maintenance, how to avoid predatory lending and how to do estate planning. KEY strives to provide homeowners with tangible skills and tools to maintain and sustain responsible homeownership. Catapult Trauma Informed Financial Literacy: Is a strong foundation of personal financial knowledge and planning with workshops, one-on-one guidance and materials to keep our community members financially informed and empowered. We address generational poverty through a trauma informed approach unique to the Catapult model.