🎉 3rd Annual Party in the Park! + Community Resource Fair 🎉
📅 Date: Saturday, September 6th, 2025
🕒 Time: 11am-2pm
📍 Location: Inside the Boys & Girls Club & Outside at Mass Avenue Park ( 370 Massachusetts Ave)
Join NYS Assemblymember Jon D. Rivera, Community Canvases' WNY Trash Mob, and Councilmember David Rivera for a FREE day of community fun, resources, and celebration as we kick off the 2025-2026 school year!
✨ Over 40 local organizations will be on site to connect you with vital services, programs, and opportunities.
🎒 Highlights include:
• Free backpack giveaway with school supplies (courtesy of United Way) – children must be present to claim
• Home weatherization kits (courtesy of National Fuel)
• Back-to-school haircuts for kids
• Free food, live music, and entertainment
• Cultural performances from the Burmese Water Festival Dancers
• Music from DJ Ras Muata (Power 96.5), DJ Lonnie B/Oasis Creative Collaborative, and more!
• Bounce House, Basketball, lawn games, arts & crafts, activities and fun for all ages
• Special visitors from the Buffalo Zoo 🐾
🤝 Resource Fair Partners:
Beyond Support Network / Lead716 • Big Big Table Community Café • Board of Block Clubs Buffalo & Erie County • Border Community SERVICE of Niagara University • Boys and Girls Club of WNY • BPS Adult Education • BPS Community Schools • Buffalo AKG Art Museum • Buffalo Home Visiting Program • Buffalo Prenatal Perinatal Network • Buffalo Myanmar Association & the Burmese Water Festival Dancers • Buffalo Recycles (City of Buffalo) • Buffalo Zoo • Catholic Charities WIC • CEPA Gallery • Cinqcare • • Chase the Dreams Sports • City of Buffalo Permits & Inspections • Community Access Services • Community Canvases / WNY Trash Mob • Councilmember Rivera’s Office • ECLIPSE Erie County Low Income Program for Sustainable Energy • Erie County Office of Harm Reduction • Extra Extra Pizza 🍕 (free pizza!) • FeedMore WNY • Field & Fork Network • Girl Scouts of WNY • Good Neighborhood Credit Union • Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield • Hospice & Palliative Care Buffalo • Ladders to the Outdoors • Molina Healthcare • Neighborhood Health Center • Neighborhood Legal Services, Inc. • Northland Workforce Training Center • Oasis Creative Collaborative • Partnership for the Public Good (PPG) • PUSH Buffalo • Scout Buffalo • West Side Business & Taxpayer’s Association • The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) • The Tool Library of WNY • Tobacco Free Roswell Park • WEDI • West Side Community Services • WNY Law Center • WNY Mobile Overdose Prevention Services Inc.
📞 Questions? Contact Alyssa Weiss or Meg Wolfe at 716-885-9630 or email
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🙏 Special thanks to our supporters: Rich’s Products, Extra Extra Pizza, Osteria 166, Wegmans, Sanbor Sports, Guercio & Sons, and Erie County Legislator Taisha St. Jean-Tard.
Come celebrate with your friends and neighbors—let’s make this the best school year yet! 🎶🍔🎨
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