The Partnership for the Public Good builds a more just, sustainable, and culturally vibrant community through action-oriented research, policy development, and citizen engagement.

About Us

The Partnership for the Public Good provides research and advocacy support to a broad array of partners that share a community-oriented vision of a revitalized Buffalo-Niagara. We help community groups have a stronger and better informed voice in public policy debates.  We help Buffalo-Niagara to build on assets such as diversity, historic neighborhoods, and natural resources, make progress on problems such as poverty, inequality, and pollution, and bring greater accountability and democracy to local government.

PPG advances its principles with a wealth of publications and an annual community agenda. Our citizen tool-kit offers a one-stop shop for anyone who wants to become more informed and engaged on local issues. We host public forums and a radio show, The Public Good, which airs every Tuesday from 1:00-1:30pm on WUFO AM 1080.  Each summer PPG works with the Cornell University ILR School to bring 20 Cornell students to Buffalo to intern with PPG partners in the High Road Fellowship Program.

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Buffalo Briefs

Buffalo Briefs is a new series of fact sheets designed to put some of the most important data about Buffalo at your fingertips.  We will be updating and revising them often, and so we welcome corrections, suggestions, and additions; you can email them to megan@ppgbuffalo.org.

Current briefs include:

Community Agenda

Each year, the Partnership for the Public Good leads a broad-based, democratic process to craft a Community Agenda for the coming year: ten or so public policy changes that state or local government can make to help build a better Buffalo.  The Community Agenda is a useful tool for education and advocacy with media, elected officials, and the general public.  It also guides the work of PPG throughout the year (for example, our monthly forums are tied to the Agenda planks, as is much of our research and advocacy).

2013 Community Agenda [pdf]

More Ideas for a Better Buffalo

2012 Community Agenda

2011 Community Agenda

2010 Community Agenda