by Andrea Peirce | Dec 21, 2023
Cities, solutions, and journalism were major ingredients in my father’s life. In making stories happen through this foundation, we honor that part of his legacy and add to a rising wave of interest and attention in these topics. He’d love that! We’re in...
by Andrea Peirce | Sep 20, 2023
When it came to telling funny stories, my Dad, Neal Peirce, always envied friends and colleagues who could really hold the room and make people double over in laughter. “I just wish I could do that!” he would say. In truth he was pretty good at it, and his...
by Andrea Peirce | Dec 22, 2022
I’m thrilled to announce the winners of the Neal Peirce Foundation’s 2022-23 journalism travel grants! Our support of up to $1,500 each will enable seven journalists to go out on the road, as my father did for so much of his career, to report stories about how cities...
by Andrea Peirce | Dec 27, 2021
Today, on the second anniversary of the death of my Dad, Neal Peirce, I keep thinking about how he was always home for the holidays — and how this stood in contrast to the rest of the year, when he was always on the road. As a kid, the sight of Dad’s leather suitcase...
by Andrea Peirce | Dec 12, 2021
On a bright afternoon in October, I telephoned three journalists to let them know that our brand new foundation — started in memory of my dad, Neal Peirce — was giving each of them a travel grant of up to $1,500. I was delivering good news… so why were my hands...