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Membership entitles businesses to attend Buffalo First! Business Workshops during the time of their active yearly membership. The workshops, which cover practical topics ranging from social networking to energy efficiency to sustainable triple-bottom-line practices, will occur quarterly, or as topics become pertinent.
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Comprehensive Listing in the Buffalo First! Online Local Directory
All member nonprofits are listed in the Buffalo First! Online Local Directory free of charge. The directory provides a customizable profile page which can be linked to your website. All nonprofits in the directory must meet the Buffalo First! requirements for a local and independent enterprise.
Promotion on the Buffalo First! website and Facebook page
Member nonprofits are acknowledged as Buffalo First! supporters and are proudly featured on the Buffalo First! website, at events, and on our Facebook page.
Eligibility to participate in the Buffalo First! Coupon E-Book
Membership entitles nonprofits to participate in the new Buffalo First! Coupon E-Book. Coupons will be available to customers through the Buffalo First! Online Local Directory, and will also be sent as email promotions to our individual members and e-newsletter subscribers.
Eligibility to attend Buffalo First! Business Workshops
Membership entitles nonprofits to attend Buffalo First! Business Workshops during the time of their active yearly membership. The workshops, which cover practical topics ranging from social networking to energy efficiency to sustainable triple-bottom-line practices, will occur quarterly, or as topics become pertinent.
Buffalo First is a nonprofit whose mission is to foster a strong, self-determined local economy in Western New York through consumer education, advocacy and programs that further the impact of local and sustainable business in the region.
The nonprofit group Buffalo First will hold a 1 p.m. rally this afternoon at the office of the Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation (ECHDC). The group wants to send a message about Canalside.
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The debate continues over which businesses should be established along the waterfront in the Queen City. Planners have focused on luring big name outlets, like Bass Pro. Now, there is a push for leaders to keep it local. A group known as “Buffalo First” will hold a rally outside the headquarters of the Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation, which is in charge of waterfront development.
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January 26, 2012 Hannah Hanover The Good Neighborhood
The ongoing conversation about redevelopment at Canal Side is only one prominent aspect of a larger issue concerning the region and its approach to economic development. Our present concern is the shape the Canal Side project will take. Will it be filled with small, independent businesses promoting local history and contemporary Buffalo culture, or with big-box retailers whose business goals are solely profit-driven? These concerns reflect larger questions in the region, including how the $1 billion pledged by Governor Cuomo for Buffalo might be utilized and allocated.
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January 18, 2012 Hannah Hanover The Good Neighborhood
The results of Canal Side redevelopment are not predestined to sport large neon signs advertising goods from sweatshops across the globe, nor does the revenue resulting from the project even need to spread past Western New York. There is an alternative. By refusing to allow Canal Side to be anchored by large businesses whose profit and revenue is thrown into a pool of resources benefitting high-paid executives around the country, Western New York residents can ensure that local entrepreneurs are given the opportunity to bring their innovation and passion to the Buffalo-Niagara region with tangible, revenue-producing, and community capital-building methods.
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