The Better Schools /Better Neighborhoods Collaborative
The Better Schools Better Neighborhoods Collaborative (BSBN) is a consortium of businesses, institutions, community-based organizations, faith-basd organizations, block clubs, schools, property owners and residents that live or work in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Park neighborhood, or stakeholders outside the community that are concerned about its growth and development. Thus, BSBN is an umbrella under which groups, residents and stakeholders assemble to plan and work together to bring about positive community change.
The BSBN concept represents a strategic approach to attacking the problem of poverty and neighborhood distress in Buffalo that is initially being developed in MLK Park. Here, the goal is to construct a model of neighborhood development, which will then be implemented in other parts of the city and region.
BSBN
- Coordinates activities related to planning and formulating short and long term development strategies designed to transform distressed communities into great places to visit live, work play and raise family.
- Promotes and develops the community by expanding the collaborative and other neighborhoods, groups and residents across Buffalo and the metropolitan region.
- Facilitates collaboration among members of the BSBN, community organizations and residents.
- Addresses issues of common concern to members of BSBN and the broader community.
- Builds unity by bringing together members of BSBN and the broader community to create a unique, health and safe environment that provides children, families and individuals with opportunities to learn, work, play entertain and become the best they can be.
- Identifies missing gaps in the community development process and then works with groups and residents to initiate programs nd activities to fill those gaps.
- Works with members of the BSBN and broader community to create a neighborhood that is anchored by the values of unity, collective work and responsibilty, collaboration, reciprocity, racial and socioeconomic jusitce and building a better more just Buffalo, Niagara Frontier, nation and world.
This is the framework that the BSBN will use to transform the MLK Park neighborhood into a great place to visit, live, work, play and raise family. By bringing together groups and individuals to plan and work as a team, we will realize this dream in practice.
Institutional Members
- Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority (BMHA)
- Buffalo Museum of Science
- Community Action Organization of Erie County, Inc.
- CAO-UB Wellness and Neighoborhood Development Center
- City of Buffalo
- East High School
- Good Neighbors PlanningAlliance (GNPA)
- Fillmore Business District Association
- Groundwork Buffalo
- HSBC Bank
- King Urban Life Center
- Masten District Office
- MLK Block Club
- Olmsted Park Conservancy
- Outsource Center
- University at Buffalo, Center for Urban Studies
- University at Buffalo, Educational Opportunity Center
- Glenwood Avenue Block Club
Board Members
- James Allen
- Donna Brown
- David Collins
- Richard Cummings
- Spencer Gaskins
- Jacqueline Hall
- Thomas Herrera-Mishler
- Geraldine Horton
- L. Nathan Hare
- Denise Luka
- Duane Madyun
- Claity Massey
- Kawanza McCall
- Mark Mortenson
- Darius Pridgen
- Ramona Reynolds
- Dawn Sanders
- Demone Smith
- Allita Stewart
- Henry Taylor
- Sherryl Weems
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