For the Media
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Below, please find the latest news about the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, our clients, partners and grantees.
News
Nonprofit Opens Free Children’s Academy [WIVB-Channel 4]
The Buffalo Promise Neighborhood made the new $3.5 million state-of-the-art building possible, with significant support from sources including the John Oishei Foundation, the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, and HealthNow Healthy Living Fund.
Valley Association Reports Nearly $1.5 million in Grants [Buffalo News]
Support includes a grant from the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo.
The Stories Behind Kiddieland [Tonawanda News]
The new exhibit came to fruition in part thanks to funding obtained from the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, the Niagara County Greenway Fund, Lumber City Development Corp., and others.
Niagara County Early Child Care Quality Improvement Project to Award Certificates to Third Cohort
Established in Fall 2010 as a collaborative initiative by Niagara University, the United Way of Greater Niagara, the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, the Niagara Area Foundation, and local business leaders, the Niagara QIP has made significant strides in enhancing the kindergarten readiness skills of more than 715 preschool age children in 44 preschool age classrooms.
BPN Children’s Academy Receives $90,000 Award [Buffalo Promise Neighborhood]
The Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo and the HealthNow Healthy Living Fund will be providing support for the BPN Children’s Academy
Buffalo Center for Arts and Technology Plans Fall Opening at Artspace Buffalo [Buffalo Rising]
The Oishei Foundation and First Niagara Financial Group were joined by the Empire State Development Corporation and Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo to establish the Buffalo Center for Arts and Technology, which will offer a unique mix of after-school arts programs for at-risk urban high school students, as well as health sciences career training for under-employed and unemployed adults.
Wyoming Foundation Awards over $12,000 in Grants for County Programming
The Wyoming Foundation awards over $12,000 to nine nonprofit organizations for its 2013 grant cycle.
Community Foundation Awards over $400,000 to Area Organizations
The Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo today announced awards of over $400,000 to 22 Western New York nonprofit organizations through the Foundation’s Competitive Grant Cycle.
Community Foundation Fund Awards over $36,000 for Arts & Culture
The Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo’s Oliver G. & Sarah Sloan Bauman Fund for the Arts, have awarded over $36,000 to four nonprofit organizations for its 2013 cycle.
WNY’s Most Toxic Site Defies U.S. Effort, Threatens Water (Part 3 of 3) [Buffalo News]
Part 3 in a series on a recently completed study by the Western New York Environmental Alliance, the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, and the University at Buffalo’s Urban Design Project, believed to be the most comprehensive look ever at hazardous waste sites in Western New York.
As Activists Try to Shut Landfill, CWM Ponders Expansion (Part 2 of 3) [Buffalo News]
Part 2 in a series on a recently completed study by the Western New York Environmental Alliance, the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, and the University at Buffalo’s Urban Design Project, believed to be the most comprehensive look ever at hazardous waste sites in Western New York.
Toxic Legacy’s Time Bomb (Part 1 of 3) [Buffalo News]
Part 1 in a series on a recently completed study by the Western New York Environmental Alliance, the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, and the University at Buffalo’s Urban Design Project, believed to be the most comprehensive look ever at hazardous waste sites in Western New York.
Wyoming Foundation Accepting Grant Applications
The Wyoming Foundation, a division of the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, is accepting grant applications from nonprofit organizations for the 2013 grant cycle.
Read to Succeed Buffalo Receives $75,000 Grant from Community Foundation [WGRZ-Channel 2]
The Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo announced today a $75,000 grant to Read to Succeed Buffalo. The grant will assist the literacy organization in fulfilling its mission to increase third grade reading scores among low-income students in the Buffalo Public Schools.
Community Foundation Fund Awards over $300,000 to Programs in Wyoming County
The Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo’s William F. Thiel Fund announced awards of over $300,000 to six Wyoming County nonprofit organizations in the health services sector.
