Buffalo,
New York
Healing Community
While Buffalo is the second-largest city in New York State, it’s also one of the most segregated cities in America. Historical and ongoing discrimination has left neighborhoods like Emerson and Emslie facing intense challenges like poverty, limited access to nutritious food and health inequity. By joining forces with local-level programs like The Buffalo Center for Health Equity, we’re working hard to provide members of Buffalo communities with the resources they need to lead healthier, more equitable lives. Programs will particularly focus in East Buffalo. Most of the city’s food deserts are clustered in the city’s eastern neighborhoods, where at least 3 in 4 residents are people of color.
The Strengthening Cities Initiative supports collaboration between the Buffalo Grassroots Garden WNY and Massachusetts Avenue Project’s Buffalo Food Justice Project
These programs are focused on building food equity for underserved East Buffalo neighborhoods. The project will strengthen family and youth engagement and resources at East Buffalo community gardens, expand urban agriculture workforce development programs, expand food access and establish food-based micro-enterprise training and opportunities.
(image: Massachusetts Avenue Project)
Partners
