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Community Nutrition and My Grandmother's Garden: Kamilah Whitfield on The Public GoodMay 23, 2023, 10:30-11 am

Dejia James

Join us on The Public Good with this week's guest Kamilah Whitfield. Kamilah is the founder of My Grandmother's Garden. In this episode, she discusses her initiative to open a "community nutrition hub" on the East Side of Buffalo in honor of her late grandmother, Ruth E. Whitfield, who she …

Media Advisory: Community Groups to Call for Three Priorities in the City of Buffalo BudgetMay 11, 2023, 9-9:30 am

PPG and Community Leaders

MEDIA ADVISORY May 8, 2023 Contact: Dejia James, 716-507-7295, dejia@ppgbuffalo.org  Community Groups to Call for Three Priorities in the City of Buffalo Budget WHAT: Partnership for the Public Good and its partner organizations are calling for three priorities to be included in the City …

Good Food Purchasing Program Benefits Everyone: Jess Gilbert and Loc Tran on The Public GoodApril 18, 2023, 10:30-11 am

Sarah Wooton

What is Good Food Purchasing? Jess Gilbert, Campaign Director of the Good Food Buffalo Coalition, and Loc Tran, Secretary of the Good Food Coalition Leadership Council and Program Manager at Grassroots Gardens, will explain how good food purchasing benefits communities and local economies and what …

Vacant Lots Task Force: Donna Latham-Edwards and Tim Chen on The Public GoodFebruary 14, 2023, 10:30-11 am

Sarah Wooton

Buffalo has thousands of city-owned vacant lots, especially on Buffalo’s East Side. What are the next steps for positive, community-oriented development for these lots? Donna Latham-Edwards, founder of the Impacted Families Project, and Tim Chen, Executive Director of Grassroots Gardens, are …

Electrify 2.0: Rick Steinberg and Whitney Skeans on The Public GoodSeptember 20, 2022, 10:30-11 pm

Sarah Wooton

Join us on The Public Good. This week, Rick Steinberg with the Sierra Club Niagara Group will be joined Whitney Skeans, Senior Program Manager of Electric Vehicles at National Grid. They’ll be discussing the electrification of vehicles as well as the upcoming event Electrify

Electrify 2.0: Rick Steinberg and Whitney Skeans on The Public GoodSeptember 20, 2022, 10:30-11 pm

Sarah Wooton

Join us on The Public Good. This week, Rick Steinberg with the Sierra Club Niagara Group will be joined Whitney Skeans, Senior Program Manager of Electric Vehicles at National Grid. They’ll be discussing the electrification of vehicles as well as the upcoming event Electrify

Electrify 2.0: Rick Steinberg and Whitney Skeans on The Public GoodSeptember 20, 2022, 10:30-11 pm

Sarah Wooton

Join us on The Public Good. This week, Rick Steinberg with the Sierra Club Niagara Group will be joined Whitney Skeans, Senior Program Manager of Electric Vehicles at National Grid. They’ll be discussing the electrification of vehicles as well as the upcoming event Electrify

Youth Education at MAP: Neena Hussey and Echo Martinez on The Public GoodAugust 30, 2022, 10:30-11 am

Sarah Wooton

Join us on The Public Good. This week’s guests are Neena Hussey, Youth Education Director at Massachusetts Avenue Project (MAP). She’ll be joined by MAP Youth Echo Martinez. The Massachusetts Avenue Project’s (MAP) mission is to nurture the growth of a diverse, accessible, …

African Heritage Food Co-op: Alexander J. Wright on The Public GoodJuly 12, 2022, 10:30-11 am

Tanvier Peart

Join us on The Public Good. This week we’re talking with Alexander J. Wright, Founder and President of the African Heritage Food Co-op. We’ll be discussing food equity issues, particularly in communities of color and Buffalo’s East Side. We’ll be discussing what a food …

Segregation by Design - History and Impacts of Segregation in Buffalo: Anna Blatto on The Public GoodMay 24, 2022, 10:30-11 am

Tanvier Peart

Join us on The Public Good. This week we speak with Anna Blatto, Research Associate at PPG and author of PPG report “A City Divided: A Brief History of Segregation in Buffalo.”  The heartbreaking tragedy at the Tops on Jefferson on May 14 reminds us of the decades of historical …