Special Events

ACHIEVA holds several annual special events throughout the year including four fundraising events and an Annual Awards Event.  ACHIEVA is also proud to be a participant in a number of other fundraising events throughout the region each year.

Become a sponsor or buy a ticket to one of our fund raising events.

• Annual Awards Event
• The 10th Annual ACHIEVA Million Dollar Golf Outing
• The ACHIEVA Pittsburgh Promenade
• Walk for a Healthy Community presented by Highmark Blue Cross/Blue Shield
• Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

The 10th Annual ACHIEVA Golf Outing

August 25, 2008
Valley Brook Country Club

This event sells out every year so make your reservations early!  Join us at beautiful Valley Brook Country Club for an 18-hole play your own ball or scramble, and attend an amazing dinner afterward.  The event ends at 8:30 p.m.  All proceeds benefit children and adults with disabilities served by ACHIEVA.

Click here for the 2008 ACHIEVA Annual Million Dollar Golf Outing registration and sponsorship form.

Please contact Deb Malanowski at 412-995-5000 ext. 452 or via email at dmalanowski@achieva.info for additional information.

ACHIEVA's Annual Awards of Excellence Event

December 8, 2008
Sheraton Station Square
5:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Each year, ACHIEVA honors those individuals and organizations in the region whose work or volunteer efforts have made a difference in the lives of people with disabilities.  Awards are presented in the names of strong long time leaders including the Sattler Humanitarian Award, the Joe Ott Award and the Tony Leech Award.  Honorees exemplify ACHIEVA's vision of full inclusion in community life for people with disabilities and may be individuals, families, public servants, or organizations. Click here to learn more about the award catagories and for a printable nomination form. You may also submit your nomination form via email to: cdowns@achieva.info.

Click here to see those honored in 2007.

The ACHIEVA Pittsburgh Promenade

March 29, 2008
Westin Convention Center

ACHIEVA's annual Pittsburgh Promenade Auction, which was held on Saturday, March 29th at The Westin Convention Center Hotel, raised more than $120,000 for supports and services that ACHIEVA provides to more than 7,000 children, adolescents, adults and seniors with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.

A special thank you to the many guests who attended and who bid high and often. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank our families, friends, vendors and volunteers for their generosity and their efforts in making this year's auction a great success.

The auction, chaired by Nick and JoLynn Hoban, was attended by 375 individuals. Guests dined on a salad of baby greens, pears, walnuts and bleu cheese; black cod with roasted vegetable ragout paired with file mignon with green peppercorn sauce; potato and bleu cheese gratin and glazed baby carrots, snow peas and asparagus. the dinner was followed by a dessert of triple chocolate mousse Charlotte.

Tonia Caruso of WQED's "OnQ Magazine" was Mistress of Ceremonies with Leonard Davis of Harry Davis & Company serving as the evening's auctioneer. Finesse provided dinner music for the evening. Baskets of tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, roses and ivy provided by Leslie Park Floral with table linens provided by Victoria Linens.

Click here to see photos from the 2008 Pittsburgh Promenade Auction.

Click here to see photos from Whirl Magazine's coverage of ACHIEVA's Pittsburgh Promenade.

Walk For a Healthy Community presented by Highmark Blue Cross/Blue Shield

May 2009
Heinz Field

ACHIEVA has been a participant in the Walk for a Healthy Community presented by Blue Cross/Blue Shield since its inception, raising more than $50,000 to benefit the individuals and families that ACHIEVA supports.  For information about the walk, please contact Amy Wild at awild@achieva.info or at 412-995-5000 x 515.

Thanks to your support, ACHIEVA raised more than $10,000 at the 2008 Walk for a Healthy Community presented by Highmark Blue Cross/Blue Shield.

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Community Partners Concert Featuring Isaac Hayes

June 26, 2008
Heinz Hall

The Community Partners Concert is an annual collaboration with other greater Pittsburgh non-profit organizations. When you purchase a ticket and designate ACHIEVA as your organization of choice, ACHIEVA receives the ticket revenue. The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra donates the orchestra services and secures corporate sponsors to underwrite out of pocket costs associated with guest artist services and concert production.

This year's featured performer is Isaac Hayes.  Perhaps best known for writing and singing the theme to Shaft, the soulful Hayes has won a Grammy and an Oscar and in 2002 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  Also performing will be the 2008 Sphinx Competition winner Danielle Belen Nesmith.

To purchase tickets please call (412) 392-4900 or toll free 1-800-743-8560.  Your may purchase tickets on-line by clicking here.  Make sure to mention that you are supporting ACHIEVA - our concert code is 6639.

To make a donation so that ACHIEVA consumers may attend or for any other questions, please contact David Tinker, CFRE at 412-995-5000 ext. 436, or at dtinker@achieva.info.

ACHIEVA is registered with the Pennsylvania Department of State Bureau of Charitable Organizations. To receive a copy of the official registration and financial information, please call 800-732-0999 within Pennsylvania or visit www.dos.state.pa.us.