Partnerships
Chamber Partners
Educational Stakeholders
Affiliates
Junior Achievement of Western Pennsylvania (JA) gives young people the knowledge and skills they need to own their economic success, plan for their future and make smart academic and economic choices. Our corporate and community volunteers deliver relevant, hands-on experiences that give students from kindergarten through high school knowledge and skills in financial literacy, work readiness, and entrepreneurship. JA of Western PA reaches more than 73,000 k-12 students with over 3,300 volunteers in 374 schools and 167 districts each year.
Founding Partners
Consolidated Communications became a part of the Chamber’s region through its 2007 acquisition of Pittsburgh-based North Pittsburgh Systems, a public company that included North Pittsburgh Telephone, Nauticom, and Penn Telecom. Consolidated Communications traces its roots to its founding in 1894 as the Mattoon Telephone Company originally serving Mattoon, Illinois. Through three generations of family leadership, the company grew into Consolidated Communications, the nation’s thirteenth largest telecommunications company offering local and long distance telephony, dial-up and high speed internet services, digital television, and other telecommunication services to customers in Illinois, Texas, and Pennsylvania.
Our roots are deeply tied to the people, commerce and values of the western Pennsylvania region. Over more than 160 years, Dollar Bank has grown to become a full service, regional bank committed to providing the highest quality of banking services to individuals and businesses. Dollar Bank has a position of safety and soundness that is envied by other financial institutions. As the largest independent mutual bank in the nation, Dollar Bank has no shareholders to answer to and therefore is not fixated on stock price. We are able to focus solely on Dollar Bank customers – the products that meet their needs, the services that offer them convenience and a banking experience that lets them know that they are what is most important to this institution.
UPMC Passavant is a world-renowned health care provider and insurer, Pittsburgh-based UPMC is inventing new models of accountable, cost-effective, patient-centered care. It provides more than $887 million a year in benefits to its communities, including more care to the region’s most vulnerable citizens than any other health care institution. The largest nongovernmental employer in Pennsylvania, UPMC integrates more than 62,000 employees, 22 hospitals, 400 doctors’ offices and outpatient sites, a nearly 2.3-million-member health insurance division, and international and commercial operations. Affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences, UPMC ranks No. 10 in the prestigious U.S. News & World Report annual Honor Roll of America’s Best Hospitals — and No. 1 in Pennsylvania.
A well-respected and deeply rooted community hospital, UPMC Passavant has transformed into an advanced care center offering services in all medical specialties and many subspecialties, with emphasis in: cardiac, cancer, spine/neurosurgery, gastrointestinal and colorectal, and women’s health programs. UPMC Passavant’s seven-story pavilion in McCandless enhanced the hospital’s ability to provide highly specialized medical and surgical treatment while improving the patient-family experience. The campus in Cranberry includes an Emergency Department, a Comprehensive Breast Center, a complete diagnostic services department, including CT scan, MRI, ultrasound, general and cardiac nuclear medicine and echocardiography, and outpatient surgical services.
La Roche University is the Chamber’s inaugural Founding Partner and its beautiful campus is situated nearly in the center of The Chamber’s footprint. La Roche was found in 1963 by the Sisters of Divine Providence and it conferred its first degrees to five students in 1965. Over the next four decades, the college grew to meet its growing enrollment demands through an expanded curriculum and via the construction of new educational buildings and residence halls. Today La Roche College is fully accredited by several national governing bodies and the college offers more than 50 undergraduate majors, 20 undergraduate minors, and three graduate programs. The college also fields twelve intercollegiate athletic teams competing in Division III of the NCAA and in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference.