Pittsburgh Interfaith Impact Network (PIIN) - Final Consulting Report

Sep 11, 2026

Final consulting report for the Pittsburgh Interfaith Impact Network (PIIN), describing PIIN’s mission as a multi-faith, interracial urban-suburban coalition working on justice and equity in southwestern Pennsylvania. The engagement over twelve weeks focused on strengthening PIIN’s technical capacity through two key outcomes: an online presence via a website template, including piin.org email setup, and guidance toward sustainability through basic HTML learning or hiring. It also recommends a technology plan and budget to manage current and future technology proactively.

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Pages14

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Executive Summary

Consulting outcomes

Online presence and website template

Technology plan and budget

Background information

The organization

Facilities

Programs

Pittsburgh Interfaith Impact Network (PI IN) Final Consulting Report Tonya R. Groover, Student Consultant Evans Moore, Community Partner Executive Summary Pittsburgh Interfaith Impact Network, PIIN is an interracial, urban-suburban coalition of congregations and other organizations in southwestern Pennsylvania. PIIN draws together people of all faiths and income levels to act powerfully on local and regional issues of justice and equity through community-building, negotiation with decision makers and direct action. PIIN’s office is located on the second floor of the Lavelle Building in the Hill District at 2905 Center Avenue, Pittsburgh PA 15219. The two offices and conference room in the building accommodate most administrative tasks. Activities, meetings and trainings are held throughout the city at various member organization facilities. For the past twelve weeks I have worked with Evans Moore, the Executive Director of PIIN to increase their technical capacity. We identified several areas where technology can be integrated into the organization and its programs. Based upon the problems and opportunities analyzed, we focused on one major consulting task that resulted in two consulting outcomes. Time restrictions limited the scope of work for the partnership. Tasks that could not be completed during the partnership were discussed and included in the recommendations. The first consulting task involved creating an online presence for PIIN. The organization sought to increase communication with the community and contributors through the use of a website. Additionally, the website plans be used in the future as a tool to increase the fundraising efforts; which is vital to any non-profit organization. PIIN now has a template for a future website. This site will increase their impact, reach and communication with the world. Pete McQuillin, a community volunteer acquired the necessary skills and knowledge to create new web pages and maintain the site. Pete is able to make content changes and acquired the knowledge to complete more advanced tasks such as changing the styles defined in the style sheet. Pete and Evans were provided with several print and web resources, if needed in the future. The web site is [located at www.piin.org](located at www.piin.org). In the process of creating the website, we set up piin.org email accounts. Evans is able to add, delete and modify e-mail accounts, using the Ready Hosting control panel. This resulted in the use of Microsoft Outlook as the email client. Before the consulting partnership, Evans had multiple email [clients. After creating the piin.org](clients. After creating the piin.org)[ ](clients. After creating the piin.org)[email account](email account), he now uses Microsoft Outlook to access all three accounts. In order to ensure sustainability of the website template, Evans will need to learn some basic HTML. During the consulting partnership, Pete McQuillin, a volunteer was trained to maintain the website. Since Evans is the only paid staff member, it is important that he is able to create and maintain the site in the absence of a volunteer for long term sustainability. The second option would be to hire a website designer to develop the site. I estimate this would cost PIIN $1,000 or more per year. Dedicating 3 to 5 hours now, can eliminate this cost in the future. In addition, Evans or other dedicated volunteers can enroll at classes at the Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC) or the Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management. Evans and Pete were left with documentation on how to update and maintain the site. The second recommendation was to create a technology plan and budget to strengthen current and future uses of technology within the organization. A focused technology plan will allow the organization to have a proactive, rather than reactive management of technology. The technology planning process will help minimize technologyrelated crises, use staf

FAQs

What consulting goal guided the twelve-week engagement with PIIN?

To increase PIIN’s technical capacity by identifying areas where technology could be integrated into the organization and its programs.

What were the two main consulting outcomes delivered to PIIN?

Creation of an online presence through a future website template (including piin.org email accounts), and recommendations to develop a technology plan and budget to strengthen current and future technology use.

How does the report propose PIIN sustain the website template over the long term?

PIIN is advised for sustainability to have Evans learn basic HTML and to keep documentation for updates; an alternative is hiring a website designer or using training classes for support.

Sep 11, 2026

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