Description: | Since 2008, the Fruit Belt Clean-a-thon serves to bring students, teachers, residents and community partners together to work together cleaning vacant lots and planting community gardens, all with the goal of making the Fruit Belt neighborhood and City of Buffalo a better place to live. It is brought to fruition through collaboration with the Futures Academy faculty, staff and students; UB’s Department of Urban and Regional Planning; Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus Inc. (BNMC); and neighborhood residents and stakeholders. Additional locations: Downtown Campus; Fruit Belt |
Project/Activity Leader(s): | Linwood Roberts, Director |
Unit: | Government and Community Relations |
Department: | Community Relations |
City: | Buffalo |
State: | NY |
External Funding: | No |
Start Date: | 2008 |
End Date: | active |
Internal Partners: | Department of Urban and Regional Planning, School of Architecture and Planning |
External Partners: | Fruit Belt; PS 37 Marva J. Daniel Futures Preparatory School; Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus Inc. (BNMC) |
Are UB students involved? | No |