Advocacy Partners
The Intercultural and Diversity Center values advocacy as a means to learn about ourselves as individuals and the rich diversity of our surrounding community. As such, we challenge both ourselves and our students to apply what we have learned in the classroom to our daily lives through workshops, classes, and developing on and off-campus partnerships with like-minded organizations.
Opportunities On-Campus
UB Green 
- Be involved with the Green initiative on campus or check out their new library.
Location: 220 Winspear (South Campus)
Phone: (716) 829-3535
Wellness Education Services - Become a Wellness Peer Educator or an LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning) Ally.
Location: 114 Student Union
Phone: (716) 645-2837
- Men's Group - The UB Men's Group is a rape and sexual assault prevention education program that provides training, presentations, and awareness raising events with a focus on cultivating men as allies in preventing sexual violence. The Men's Group is a peer-run, university-advised group sponsored by UB Student Affairs' Student Wellness Team. The group is comprised of men and women trained in peer education and advocacy.
Contact: well-mensgroup@vpsa.buffalo.edu
Phone: (716) 829-3316 ext. 204 - Student Survivors Advocacy Alliance - The Student Survivor Advocacy Alliance is a peer-run, university-facilitated group that seeks to unite survivors of sexual assault with allies here at UB and take a stand against rape, sexual assault, and intimate partner violence. The Alliance is working to change rape culture through advocacy and activism by:
- Petitioning local, state, and national politicians
- Working with university officials for policy change and services
- Organizing protests, letter writing campaigns, and boycotts in response to contributors of the rape culture
- Participate in rallies and marches on campus to raise awareness
Contact: well-alliance@vpsa.buffalo.edu
Accessibility Resources - Learn more about advocating for yourself, or for someone else, as a university student with a disability.
Location: 25 Capen Hall
Phone: (716) 645-2608 or TTY: (716) 645-2616
Opportunities Off-Campus
Bristol Homes
- Historically a home for elderly women, Bristol Home in Buffalo, NY houses elderly, low and middle-income women. This organization needs advocates, volunteers, and allies who can assist them in their day-to-day operations, visit the residents as companions, or work as an advocate for elderly rights.
Address: 1500 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14209
Phone: (716)-884-4371
Buffalo Reuse
- Buffalo ReUse, Inc. is committed to creating an economic and community development program related to deconstruction and re-use that provides quality job and educational opportunities; cross training in the trades, marketing, sales, and small business entrepreneurship; and a community collaboration process that considers both current and future use of our collective land resources.
Address: 298 Northampton Street, Buffalo, NY 14208
Phone: (716) 882-2800
Jericho Road
- Focused on assisting refugees on the west side of Buffalo, NY, Jericho Road’s programs span a wide spectrum, from mentoring pregnant refugee mothers to helping clients navigate Social Services, from providing interpretation support to modeling parent-child interaction, from showing people how to manage a bank account to providing support for them as they learn English.
Address: 184 Barton Street, Buffalo, NY 14213
Phone: (716) 348-3000
Wilson Street Urban Farm
- Wilson Street Urban Farm is a family-operated urban garden whose goal is to make fresh, local, naturally grown produce readily available to residents on the East Side. They encourage community participation and desire to help people in the neighborhood reconnect to the environment and to each other.
Address: 812 Fillmore Ave Buffalo, NY 14212
E-mail: woodmasstev@gmail.com
Phone: 1-716-853-7316
Vive La Casa
- VIVE INC is the largest refugee shelter in the United States. Since their founding in 1984 VIVE has served more than 68,000 asylum seekers from 106 countries. VIVE is the only organization in the country with the primary focus of serving refugees as they begin the process of seeking asylum. Last year VIVE served more than 3,800 refugees, 60% of whom were women and children. VIVE operates La Casa shelter with 112 beds, a kitchen, a legal clinic, and a free “store” to distribute donated clothing.
Address: 50 Wyoming Ave. Buffalo, NY 14215
Email: info@vivelacasa.org
Phone: (716) 892-4354
Massachusetts Avenue Project (MAP)
- MAP nurtures the growth of a diverse and equitable community food system to promote local economic opportunities, access to affordable and nutritious food, and social-change education. They work a lot with their urban community garden to teach students to grow food organically to support their community.
Address: 271 Grant St. Buffalo, New York 14213
Phone: (716) 882-5327
People United for Sustainable Housing (PUSH)
- PUSH Buffalo is to mobilize residents to create strong neighborhoods with quality affordable housing, to expand local hiring opportunities and advance economic justice in Buffalo. They work with volunteers on green housing initiatives, street cleaning and tree planting. They also offer internships to individuals interested in assisting research projects in Buffalo, coordinating community gardens and organizing fundraising events.
Address: 271 Grant St. Buffalo, NY 14213
Email: info@pushbuffalo.org
Phone: (716) 884-0356
Pride Center of Western New York
- The Pride Center works with the community to make Western New York a safe, healthy, and satisfying place for LGBT people to live, work, and establish their families. They look for volunteers to assist with advertising, mentoring, general office work, flyer distribution and event set-up/tear-down among other things.
Address: 206 S. Elmwood Ave. Buffalo, NY 14201
Phone: 716-852-PRIDE