University at Buffalo Regional Institute

11/18/2025

11/08/2025

🌳Want a tree in front of your home?🌳
✔Homeowners and ✔renters can request a free street tree!
➡Visit buffalotrees.org
or call 311 to request a tree for the streetscape outside your home.

The City of Buffalo

10/27/2025

🌲Stay connected with Buffalo Street Trees!🌲
Want to know when new trees are coming to your neighborhood?

Visit buffalotrees.org to:
✔Request a street tree
✔Learn how to apply as an Ambassador
✔Get updates on planting events and volunteer opportunities
✔Learn about benefits of trees and how to care for your trees.

10/21/2025

Learn more about trees from Buffalo Street Trees - BST

🌳Trees do more than look beautiful🌲
They cool our homes, clean our air, and make our streets safer and more inviting.
Every tree planted helps strengthen Buffalo’s neighborhoods.
Find out how to bring one to your front door at www.buffalotrees.org and learn more about The City of Buffalo's new initiative, Buffalo Street Trees.

10/20/2025

We are partnering with the City of Buffalo to work on Buffalo Street Trees, a new educational initiative that helps residents learn about the benefits of trees and request free street trees for their neighborhoods — especially in areas that need them most.
This community-focused program will meet residents where they are — at block club meetings, neighborhood gatherings, and community events — to share resources, answer questions, and expand Buffalo’s tree canopy.

Visit www.buffalotrees.org to learn more!

🌲Introducing Buffalo Street Trees!🌳
The City of Buffalo is working with residents to bring more street trees to the neighborhoods that need them the most - making our streets greener, cooler, and healthier.
Learn how you can request a free tree for the streetscape outside your home.
📣Follow this page and visit ➡️www.buffalotrees.org to learn more.

10/20/2025

10/10/2025

08/30/2025

12/17/2024

This month, UBRI partnered with the Center for Regional Strategies to co-host the annual RRP Summit with 70+ program grantees, funders, and local/state representatives in attendance. It was a day of shared learning across the program’s three geographies. Held at NextCorps in Rochester, the event featured the release of the 2024 RRP Annual Report which tracks project implementation and economic indicators.

Learn more and read the latest annual report: https://regional-institute.buffalo.edu/work/regional-revitalization-partnership/

09/27/2024

Helping people prepare for, find, and keep good jobs is what Goodwill is all about. That’s why we created a new workforce readiness program called Goodskills Career Builder.

09/25/2024

09/24/2024

The University at Buffalo's Regional Institute (UBRI), within the School of Architecture and Planning, is supporting Goodwill Industries of WNY’s long-term workforce strategy that meets the needs of underserved residents, especially those who are out of work or underemployed.

Through research, UBRI is sharing insights on workforce needs and gaps to support the development and fine-tuning of the Goodskills Career Builder program. UBRI analyzed job posting data to identify skills, qualifications, and credentials that hiring employers seek. UBRI is also examining industry and occupational trends as it considers jobs of the future and career pathways, along with microdata to quantify and characterize Goodwill’s target populations.

UBRI is serving as a guide to Goodwill, through strategic planning and partnership building, in forging connections that strengthen ecosystem pipelines—while leveraging Goodwill’s unique strengths. Stay up-to-date on project progress here: https://regional-institute.buffalo.edu/work/goodwill-workforce/

Photo: Douglas Levere