| Description: | UB Government and Community Relations offered a free leadership program that provided certified leadership training, mentorship and a $7,500 grant toward a community project to address a Fruit Belt concern about unification in the neighborhood. The program spanned eight leadership training sessions and more than 10 mentor-led sessions where 22 participants (out of more than 40 at the outset) progressed and graduated to found the community nonprofit known as the Orchard Community Initiative (OCI). Additional location: Downtown Campus |
| Project/Activity Leader(s): | Linwood Roberts, Director |
| Unit: | Government and Community Relations |
| Department: | Community Relations |
| City: | Buffalo |
| State: | NY |
| External Funding: | No |
| Start Date: | 2012 |
| End Date: | 2013 |
| Internal Partners: | Suzanne Chamberlain, Senior Director, Office of Vice President for Research and Economic Development |
| External Partners: | Fruit Belt; Orchard Community Initiative (OCI) |
| Are UB students involved? | No |
