Office of Engagement and Community Affairs

The Office of Engagement and Community Affairs (ECA) ensures Pitt is a partner in our region's progress—progress that belongs to everyone. We work to improve lives at every scale through powerful collaborations: combining Pitt expertise, resources, and institutional energy with communities’ wisdom, experience, and assets.

Everything that ECA does ultimately has a single purpose: to make it easier for communities, public leaders, faculty, staff, and students to forge meaningful and more effective collaborations. The demand for ECA’s involvement and support has quickly outpaced its resources. We receive requests from faculty, students, and community leaders that we don’t yet have the capacity to meet and have opportunities for community impact we can’t yet act on. Your gift to any area within ECA allows the University to provide support to communities through health and wellness services, technology support, youth educational programming, business assistance, sustainability collaborations, and much more.