clipped from: law.buffalo.edu In another high-impact project, clinic students worked with an East Side group called Fruit Belt United to rehabilitate a dilapidated children’s playground. Bringing together partners including Home Depot, the City of Buffalo, and KaBOOM!, a national playground technical assistance and funding initiative, the clinic helped to create a safe play space for neighborhood children who would otherwise have no place to play within walking distance. The next steps with the East Side group may include opening an after-school community center.
The Community Economic Development Clinic has worked with the Massachusetts Avenue Project’s Growing Green Program. Growing Green is an urban, organic agricultural training program that develops life-skills and provides meaningful work to low-income, at-risk youth. Growing Green develops models for community revitalization through sustainable urban agriculture, youth entrepreneurship, and food systems development.
