Category: Opinion

Our View: Help children build resiliency to reduce lasting impact of trauma

By Monica Brown Program Officer As a colleague of mine says, “our collective goal is to help our youngest people grow into the greatest older people they can become.” As…

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Our View: The American Health Care Act—Status and Stakes

By Diane Oyler Program Officer The American Health Care Act was passed by the House of Representatives on May 4 and is now being taken up by the U.S. Senate.  …

Our View: Helping organizations survive and thrive through capacity building

By Lisa Fasolo Frishman Senior Program Officer I have spent a great deal of time recently thinking about nonprofit resiliency in the wake of the current political climate at the…

A message from the president of the Health Foundation

Hello, I am thrilled to be greeting you as the new president of the Health Foundation for Western and Central New York. Since the Health Foundation began more than 13…

Autumn Means Focusing on Another “Fall”

The calendar says autumn has arrived and with it comes attention to another type of “fall” – one that will happen to 140 older adults in New York every day….

Success in school requires more than the three R’s

Dotting the Buffalo skyline are windmills generating solar power and tower cranes rebuilding downtown; these images remind us that new changes are happening in our community almost daily. What’s also…