Agricultural Entrepreneurship Sponsors
The Agricultural Entrepreneurship Program could not continue to preserve and grow our region's valuable agricultural businesses without the generous support of our sponsors. We are grateful for their commitment to the agricultural communities that provide the foundation for life, culture and business in Western Pennsylvania.
The Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation strives to encourage human development in West Virginia and Southwestern Pennsylvania through strategically placed charitable resources. Driven by Michael and Sarah Benedum's belief in "helping people help themselves," the organization seeks opportunities to cultivate the creativity of people and communities. Believing that our region is blessed with natural assets offering economic options that complement Pittsburgh's urban economic development strategies, the organization has identified rural tourism and agribusiness as one focus of its Economic Development Grants Program in Southwestern Pennsylvania.
PNC Bank is a highly diversified and growing financial services organization spanning the retail, business and corporate markets.
The Heinz Endowments supports efforts to make Southwestern Pennsylvania a premier place to live and work, a center of learning and educational excellence, and a home to diversity and inclusion. Committed to helping its region thrive as a whole community – economically, ecologically, educationally and culturally – the foundation works within Pennsylvania and elsewhere in the nation to develop solutions to challenges that are national and even international in scope.