| Description: | The first recommendation in the report, “Opening Economic Opportunity Around UB’s Growing Downtown Presence: Report of the University at Buffalo and St. John Baptist Church Economic Opportunity Panel,” (EOP report), requested that pathways to economic opportunity among UB and its partners be “illuminated.” In response, the Office of Educational Collaboration & Engagement (ECE) created a network of EOP partner agencies and individuals offering employment, education and/or training relevant to workforce opportunities in the downtown medical corridor. Working together with EOP partners, ECE hosted a workshop on the Downtown Campus where leaders from the health care sector, joined by one of the principal architects of the Buffalo Billion initiative, shared information specific to growth plans and employment needs for the region. A follow-up health careers forum provided opportunities for community members to talk with employers who had job openings. As a result of these efforts, a broader workforce plan was initiated that would bring a city-wide workforce strategy that emphasized the involvement of anchor institutions. |
| Project/Activity Leader(s): | Mary Gresham, Vice Provost |
| Unit: | Educational Collaboration and Engagement |
| Department: | Educational Collaboration and Engagement |
| City: | Buffalo |
| State: | NY |
| External Funding: | No |
| Start Date: | 2013-06-15 |
| End Date: | active |
| Internal Partners: | Career Services, Associate Vice President for Campus Life; Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, School of Management; Community Relations, Government and Community Relations; Educational Opportunity Center, Educational Collaboration and Engagement; Family Medicine, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences; Human Resources; Jacobs Neurological Institute; Millard Fillmore College, Educational Collaboration and Engagement; NYS Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences; Office of Economic Development; School of Social Work; UB Regional Institute, School of Architecture and Planning |
| External Partners: | B.U.I.L.D. of Buffalo; Belle Center; Bethesda World Harvest International Church; Black Chamber of Commerce of WNY; Buffalo Center for Arts & Technology; Buffalo Urban League; Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO); City of Buffalo; Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo; Erie Niagara Area Health Education Center (AHEC); Fruit Belt Home Owners and Tenant Council Inc.; Health Sciences Charter School; Hispanics United of Buffalo; International Institute of Buffalo; John R. Oishei Foundation; Leadership Buffalo; Local Initiatives Support Corp; NYS Department of Labor; Orchard Community Initiative (OCI); Partnership for the Public Good; PUSH Buffalo; Salvation Army - Buffalo Area Services; SUNY Board of Trustees; VOICE Buffalo; Willert Park Village Community Association; WNY Area Labor Federation, AFL-CIO; WNY Consortium of Higher Education; Workforce Development Institute; Workforce Investment Board (WIB); Blue Sky Design Supply; Buffalo Hearing and Speech Center; Buffalo Medical Group PC; Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus Inc. (BNMC); Buffalo Niagara Partnership; Catholic Health; Erie County Medical Center (ECMC); Grant Builders Inc.; Kaleida Health; McGuire Development Company; Millstone Advisors; Roswell Park Cancer Institute; Erie Community College (ECC); SUNY Buffalo State |
| Are UB students involved? | No |
