On Thursday, July 6th at 4:00PM in the Auditorium of the Merriweather Library, the PPG is planning a press conference to announce an update to the Jobs and Equality Report sponsored by WNYALF, NYS AFL-CIO, CBTU, NAACP, Concerned Clergy, Baptist Ministers, LCLAA, and National Urban League, regarding …
Transit riders unions have organized and seen successes in other areas. Join Buffalo Transit Riders Union (BTRU) in a documentary viewing and discussion to learn form other's experiences. Free and open to the public. Thursday, June 29th 5 PM - 7:30 PM Niagara Branch Library 280 …
Professor Louis Hyman’s current focus is the history of temp labor and the gig economy in the United States. Building on this, Professor Hyman will discuss how the gig economy came to be such an outsized part of the work force, and how it has created both insecurity and opportunity. The …
On May Day, the community came together to envision and celebrate our shared vision for a just and vibrant economy. We recognized that a new economy must be founded on worker's rights, responsible management of resources, democratic-decision making, sacredness, the arts, and equity for all …
The Democracy Fellows Program is an intensive, yearlong leadership development program designed to empower residents in the city of Buffalo with the skills and resources required to drive organizations and institutions toward equity, inclusion, and long-term systems change. Democracy Fellows will …
In a wonderful example of community-engaged teaching, Dorothea Braemer assigned her media studies students from the University at Buffalo to work on planks from PPG’s 2017 Community Agenda.
PPG is working with a Rochester-based think tank, CGR, on a community action plan to help Buffalo prevent lead poisoning.
PUSH Buffalo, a PPG partner and one of the lead organizations in the Crossroads Collective, has just published an op-ed on state energy policy. Meanwhile, local environmental attorney Laura Evans has a new podcast series called Keeping Things Alive. Check out her recent interviews with leaders in …
The Board of Education will be voting on a revised District Wellness Policy on June 20 at its 5:30pm meeting (City Hall, Room 801). The Community Health Worker Network of Buffalo has worked long and hard on this much improved policy. PPG partners have made school wellness a top priority in past …
There will be a town hall on lead poisoning prevention Thursday, June 8, from 6pm to 7:45pm at the Merriweather Library, 1324 Jefferson Avenue.
Historian John Marsland has completed a project on the Fruit Belt neighborhood and its quest for a community land trust. Marsland, a 2016-2017 Humanities New York Public Humanities Fellow, is presenting his work at a conference in New York City in June.
PPG and the Greater Buffalo Recycling Alliance have called on the Buffalo Public Schools to come into compliance with recycling laws. Currently, many schools recycle only paper – not glass, plastic, and metal. The School District makes a single contract for waste pick-up from the schools, but …