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 …
Community-based organizations and advocacy groups in Buffalo have partnered with national research institute PolicyLink to develop a groundbreaking new profile of the city. Advancing Health Equity and Inclusive Growth in Buffalo, released today, highlights the persistent inequities in income, …
Buffalo, NY ⏤ The Crossroads Collective is building an intersectional movement for energy democracy and climate, economic, and racial justice in Buffalo and Western New York that is led by working-class and low-income communities and communities of color. Over the past several weeks, Crossroads …
The Environmental Education Associates recently created a petition to demand that New York State take on management and enforcement of the Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule, which establishes safe work practices for contractors, landlords and others that disturb lead paint in homes and child …
Two day-long puppet-making workshops will be held on April 23rd and 30th. Community members will bring May Day's regenerative economic principles to life by creating puppets and participating in coloring and story-telling. Your work will be the centerpiece of May Day's parade, rally, and skate …
Open Buffalo is now accepting applications for the 2017 Emerging Leaders cohort. The Emerging Leaders program is a distinctive social justice curriculum aimed at building a stronger Buffalo by preparing new grassroots leaders in our city. If you are accepted into the program, you will participate …
The ILR School and Cornell in Buffalo seek a full-time Social Sector Research and Outreach Specialist with an advanced degree for an eighteen month appointment beginning June 2017. This focus of this opportunity is on applied research and public education on community and economic development …