Our 2023 Annual Appeal
Dear Friends,
On December 1, one hundred social workers, lawyers, researchers, culture workers, and community advocates came together to set their collective priorities for policy change. They pitched, debated, and voted for our 2024 Community Agenda, which will drive PPG’s work with our partners throughout the year ahead. In their pitches, advocates brought some of the region’s most pressing, urgent, and ingrained challenges to the table, including our lack of healthy housing, human rights violations in county jails, and our chronically underfunded childcare system. And yet, we concluded the annual Agenda Vote with a renewed sense of our collective power and our shared vision for a better Buffalo Niagara. Our partners know what will make our region more just, equitable, sustainable, and culturally vibrant, and we will help them win.
As partners voted for our new agenda, we also celebrated our 2023 policy wins:
With this appeal we have our Winter 2023 edition of The Public Good, our biannual paper of progress, where you can read about some of our recent work in greater detail. Of special note is our renewal of PPG’s founding principles, which a partner endorses to join PPG; this year, we updated them in a participatory process with input from more than one hundred of our partners. You’ll find the updated principles in the center spread of the newspaper.
To continue our work – convening issue-based working groups, completing community-based research, hosting civic education workshops and skills training for our partners, and advocating with elected officials to win policy change – we need your support.
Please consider a donation to support our work together with our 340 partner organizations. Together, we can continue to build a region where community groups and residents have a stronger voice in public policy and are better able to promote the public good.