The goal of the contest is to challenge young adults to develop short social media videos that highlight the importance of clean, safe, reliable, and accessible transportation options for everyone.
Information gathered from the survey will help Clean Mobility Buffalo and its many community partners strategize ways to make transportation cleaner, safer, and more reliable and accessible for everyone.
Hurricane Milton and persistent superstorms are what it looks like for the Earth to fight back against human-driven climate change.
Open Buffalo salutes the life and bravery of Ruby Bridges and the battles she waged and continues to wage. Her courage gives us the strength to carry on our mission.
it is myopic to believe that car ownership should afford one a greater claim to roadways and safe travel than any other form of transportation.
In its July "O Newsletter," John R. Oishei Foundation relayed its Race, Power, and Privilege training experience with Open Buffalo.
This year’s Opening Weekend Retreat focused on healing and self-care practices and provided our Emerging Leaders with an opportunity to rest and build their own personalized self-care plans.
The Color Run is all about free food, awesome music, and (washable) color dust for everyone!
In this role, Golden will spearhead Open Buffalo's contributions to the Clean Mobility Buffalo initiative, a coalition-based project funded by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA). We are thrilled to welcome Golden, a longtime supporter of OB's ecological justice projects, to the team!
Without all of your help, our Open Buffalo family would not have had such an empowering and uplifting time together. We Look forward to creating more success with you next year.
On Monday, May 13, Open Buffalo hosted a press conference commemorating the two-year mark after the white-supremacist terrorism attack that claimed the lives of 10 Black people in Buffalo at the Tops market on Jefferson Avenue.
Two Years After the 5/14 Attack, Open Buffalo Marks Racial Justice Achievements and Current Priorities at Press Conference
Her speech was entitled "How Racial Bias Shows up in Access to and Quality of Maternal Care."
In the span of four short days last week, The Race Power and Privilege (RPP) Program completed an outstanding week of five distinct trainings and community engagements throughout Buffalo.
Open Buffalo's "Race, Power, and Privilege" training team (Franchelle Parker, Dr. Kush Bhardwaj, and Max Anderson) had an amazing experience delivering four-days of intensive anti-racism training to Community Services for Every1.
The Open Buffalo Emerging Leaders Program is again recruiting up-and-coming change agents.
Environmental Site Assessment Will Support Development of the Open Buffalo Urban Ecology Center
The panel discussed how the underfunding of Medicaid contributes to poor health outcomes largely in the Black and Latino communities, particularly affecting low-income seniors, expectant mothers, young children from low-income families, and people with disabilities.
For our 2024 MLK Day of Service, Open Buffalo was accompanied by Nickel City Ultimate and the Buffalo Urban League Young Professionals.
In the state of New York, there is concrete evidence of the long-term psychic damage inflicted upon the Black community, including the subsequent effects on housing discrimination, biased policing, income inequality and mass incarceration of African Americans.
Open Buffalo is proud to help bring to the public a new data-mapping tool that will help our community develop a clearer picture of the problem of lead pipes delivering water to city homes.
Training sessions designed to not be a sixth day of school, but a hands-on workshop where your real-time learning can be applied as soon as you walk out the door.
These graduates join the ranks of over 150 Emerging Leaders alumni in building a more just, connected, and equitable Western New York.