A fun and happening annual fundraiser is coming up that will support the ongoing efforts of the Matt Urban Center. The event is to take place in the Atrium of the 500 Seneca Building – one of most spectacular venues in the city.
The center is responsible for myriad public services including weatherization, crime victims assistance, senior services, GED and housing programs, family-focused programming, running an urban diner, workshops, volunteer tax preparation, benefit screening, and housing and job placement assistance to homeless individuals and families. All of these efforts are conducted between two operational sites – 1081 Broadway and their Hope Center on Paderewski.
A multi faceted non-profit organization serving the Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood, Lovejoy and Fillmore Districts and Buffalo’s East Side.
The non-profit human services agency also has:
- A youth program
- Four affordable housing buildings
- General low-income apartments on Rother
- Apartments on Monroe Street for youth aging out of foster care who are in danger of becoming homeless
- Apartments for low income seniors on Lewis Street
- Apartments for chronically homeless women on Oberlin Ave
- Hope House – a shelter for homeless women and children on Genesee Street
- Scattered site Housing First program, where case managers help connect homeless clients with an apartment in the community
- A housing program that does rehab work in the Fillmore and Lovejoy districts, so they have programs where low-income homeowners can get emergency repairs done
- A first-time homebuyers program and a CHDO program where they rehab houses in the community and sell them to low-income buyers
- Seven properties currently being rehabbed
- Food pantries at the two community centers
In order to raise funds for these efforts that help 21,000 residents in our community, each year Matt Urban Center hosts fundraisers, including Buffalonia!
Matt Urban Center Presents: Buffalonia
Friday, October 21, 2016 | 5pm
500 Seneca Building Atrium
Tickets: $25.00 – $30.00
Live music from Those Idiots, drinks, food, raffles, prizes & fun
See Facebook event for details
Atrium photo: Savarino Development