Manchester Craftsmen's Guild

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Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild is a nonprofit multi-discipline learning community established in 1968 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

It offers programs in ceramics, photography, digital arts, and painting to over 500 young people each year, as well as 3,400 additional students in the Pittsburgh inner-city school district. Ninety percent of the students receive high school diplomas of which 85% go on enroll in college or secondary education. Its programs also include MCG Jazz, MCG Youth, and the Denali Initiative.

The organization is the brainchild of Bill Strickland. In 1987 he grew MCG with a 7.5 million dollar capital campaign to construct a 62,000 square foot vocational training and arts center. It features a 350-seat concert hall, classrooms and workshops.

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Strickland, Bill (with Vince Rause) (2007). Make the Impossible Possible: One Man's Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary. New York: Currency Books of Random House. ISBN 978-0-385-52054-6.