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Save the Date: Upcoming Events with the BRRAlliance

  • April 06: Spring Speaker Series #1
  • April 08: Eclipse viewing at Riverside Park, stay tuned for details!
  • April 13: Spring Speaker Series #2
  • April 20: Spring Speaker Series #3
  • April 27: Spring Speaker Series #4

The 2024 BRRAlliance Meat Raffle

Whew!  What a night!  Thank you to everyone who attended this year’s Meat Raffle!  Your support means the world for us and will be a huge help as we launch into Spring 2024!
Here is our full list of raffle sponsors and supporters. Thank you so much to ALL of these companies and individuals!
American Legion Post #1041 – our gracious venue!
AKG Art Museum
Amherst St. Wine & Liquor
Buffalo Fresh
Buffalo Museum of Science
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Carol Ann Hayes
Celestial Originals
City of Light Publishing
Darwin Martin House
Flying Bison Brewery
Fowler’s Chocolates
Harmonie Lodge no. 699, F&AM
Joe’s Service Station
Key Bank
Marti Gorman
Mary Ellen Rickard
Mister Pizza
Olmstead Parks Conservancy
River Rock Times
RPSS Publishing
Evelyn & Jim Vossler
WNY Meat Raffles
An equally big thank you to our event committee and all our volunteers and supporters!

Twelve Years of Transformation

As we get close to the end of 2023, we want to thank all of our supporters for our past “12 Years of Transformations”. We’re going to continue that transformational energy into 2024, and to do so we need your help with a donation to our year end campaign.
Please click on the “Donate” link above to help us continue to focus on the environmental health and the economic development of our community. As a special thank you for donations of $30 we will send you a 2024 “12 Years of Transformation” calendar with photos of Charlie our Community Dog and our favorite community transformations. If you donate $50 or more, we will also throw in a “We Are Black Rock” pennant as an additional thank-you gift. Donations of any size are deeply appreciated!
And do keep following us for more transformations to come in 2024 and beyond!

A Message From our President

Greetings from the Black Rock Riverside Alliance Board of Directors!

It has been a little while since our neighbors heard from me so I thought I would check in with an update on some of our progress during 2023.

Over the past several months, the BRRA has been fast at work getting our new headquarters, the Black Rock Harbor Center, up to its “fully armed and operational” status. We have tenants, including key partnerships with like-minded nonprofits, and are actively running programming and community events from our very own space. These efforts run in tandem with our curation of the other community spaces under our charge, including regular events at Market Square Park and the maintenance of our beloved community gardens.

In terms of programming, the Alliance successfully recertified Erie County and the City of Buffalo as NWF Wildlife Habitats, as part of our ongoing support of the Habitat Project. We also continue to support Niagara County and other neighboring counties in their certification efforts. Efforts to implement our most recent Main Street Grant revitalization initiative are in full swing and should wrap up this summer. In the meantime, we had time to hold an outrageously fun meat raffle, participated in the Give716 event for 7/16 Day, and are planning the Second Annual River Rock Run in the fall.

If you are interested in getting involved please let us know. We are always on the lookout for new volunteers at every level, especially more community volunteers to help maintain the gardens and particularly engaged (or vocal) stakeholders at the Board Committee and Board of Directors level. Your help is greatly needed and appreciated!”

-Deneb Pirrone
President, Black Rock Riverside Alliance

Our Latest News & Events

Spring Environmental Speaker Series #1

April 6 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am

April 06 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Black Rock Harbor Center, 52 Amherst St Buffalo, 14207 The BRRAlliance is hosting a Spring environmental speaker series.  This is the 1st in a series of four engagements. Speakers and topics to be announced soon.

Well deserved recognition for our volunteers:

By |March 1st, 2022|

Longtime Alliance Volunteers Recognized by the White House On February 17th the BRRA held a volunteer appreciation event to express our deep gratitude towards our incredible community volunteers. As the BRRA is a [...]

A Day for Celebration!

By |May 6th, 2021|

Yesterday we celebrated the certification of the City of Buffalo as a National Wildlife Federation Community Wildlife Habitat, making our city the 16th largest in the entire country!! We also launched our project to [...]