News

BCHE’s new 2025 Food Access Report highlights community-driven progress improving access to healthy food on Buffalo’s East Side—from year-round indoor growing to “Food as Medicine” partnerships and student-led wellness initiatives.

The third annual Haudenosaunee flag raising flies at Niagara Square in honor of Native American Heritage Month and the Indigenous people of this land and city.

This year's Igniting Hope conference drew on participant ideas and feedback to plan for a strategic approach to addressing health disparities in the region. Photo: Sandra Kicman

Two leaders of BCHE named Buffalo Business First's 2025 Power 100 Business Leaders of Color

Jazz and Justice, a first of its kind jazz show in Buffalo, will connect the dots between tobacco marketing and the exploitation of the black community via jazz music. 

In this powerful episode of Igniting Hope Radio, Sherman Webb-Middlebrooks, aka The Full-Time Black Man, sits down with Scott and Anubias to explore the raw truth about resilience, overcoming addiction, and breaking free from violent pasts.

History teaches us that stereotyping diversity, equity and inclusion creates an atmosphere of fear, hate and indifference. This is not a partisan political issue, but it is about the choices we make as a society to value every member of the human family. We hope that our fellow community members will see this not as something to divide us but to bring us together.

Executive Director Andrea Sulleabhain announcing the "Buffalo in Transition" series
 

“With the advent of new leadership that’s going to emerge in the city, I think there’s a great opportunity to kind of change how we do things … because what we’ve done really hasn’t helped those who need the help the most,” Nicholas said.

Daytime Buffalo: Alzheimer's Assn Conference | Empowering the Black Community in Aging

CEO George Nicholas reflects on his time in the church

Public officials in the city of Buffalo are considering whether to use significant federal funds to fill in gaps in the annual budget. We encourage our leaders to use those funds for their original intent: to make transformative change that can improve the lives of people here.

BCHE sponsored the 2nd annual Native American Heritage Month flag raising, hosted by Samantha Nephew, our Communications Specialist

Nonprofits champion equity