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Buffalo Niagara suffers from serious health problems closely linked to poverty, environmental problems, and systemic inequality. Problems like lead poisoning and asthma, for example, disproportionately affect people of color and people with low incomes. Like other regions, Buffalo Niagara also suffers from our broken health insurance system, which excludes many working people from coverage and imposes unnecessary costs on employers.

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March 8, 2024

Buffalo News Editorial Board: "Needed: Greater focus on the threat of lead paint"

The Editorial Board | March 8, 2024 A group of 39 community organizations had every right to be frustrated. Their members gathered in front of City Hall on a chilly February day to protest the continuing exposure of Buffalo’s children to toxic lead paint. Lead paint is mainly a problem …

February 27, 2024

SAVE THE DATE: Uniting on the High Road Conference

Uniting on the High Road: A Conference on Economic Justice at the Local Level will take place on June 20-22, 2024 in Buffalo, NY. Hosted by Cornell University ILR Buffalo Co-Lab and Partnership for the Public Good, with community and academic partners from across Buffalo and nationwide, the …

February 13, 2024

Demand Letter to Comply with Proactive Rental Inspections (PRI)

On February 13, 2024, we delivered a letter signed by a total of thirty-nine partners to Mayor Byron Brown and Department of Permits and Inspections Commissioner Cathy Amdur demanding that they implement the City's proactive rental inspection (PRI) law. This is the full text of that letter.

February 13, 2024

WIVB: "Community groups call on Buffalo to reduce lead poisoning among children"

Dillon Morello | February 13, 2024 Community advocates and health professionals called on Buffalo leaders Tuesday to take action to reduce lead poisoning among children. They are also asking leaders to comply with the city’s rental inspections law, prompting the city to go back and forth with …

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Creating Safe Spaces: Black Men’s Role in Community Growth on The Public GoodFebruary 13, 2024, 11:30 am-12 pm

Dejia Marie James

Join us on The Public Good! Our guests are Sherman Webb-Middlebrooks, Men's Health Project Manager at the Buffalo Center for Health Equity, and Jimmy Darby, community organizer, Board President for Voice Buffalo, and founder of Just for Us, and Buffalo Peacemaker.

Creating Safe Spaces: Black Men’s Role in Community Growth on The Public GoodFebruary 13, 2024, 11:30 am-12 pm

Dejia Marie James

Join us on The Public Good! Our guests are Sherman Webb-Middlebrooks, Men's Health Project Manager at the Buffalo Center for Health Equity, and Jimmy Darby, community organizer, Board President for Voice Buffalo, and founder of Just for Us, and Buffalo Peacemaker.

Stan Martin Consulting: Stan Martin on The Public GoodDecember 19, 2023, 10:30-11 am

Dejia Marie James

Join us on The Public Good! Our guest is Stan Martin with Stan Martin Consulting.

Stan Martin Consulting: Stan Martin on The Public GoodDecember 19, 2023, 10:30-11 am

Dejia Marie James

Join us on The Public Good! Our guest is Stan Martin with Stan Martin Consulting.