Past Grant Awards

Past Lunenfeld Awardees

2024

• Armory Hill Association

• Blessed Trinity R.C. Church Society

• Buffalo Academy of Science Charter School (BASCS)

• Center for Urban Studies

• Central Park United Methodist Church

• Claremont Community Block Club

• Concordia Foundation, Inc.

• Corpus Christi Church

• Days Park Block Club

• Durham Memorial Outreach Center

• East Lovejoy Coalition of Neighbors

• Florida, Elton, Victor, Pleasant & Hager Block Club

• Friends of Sisti Park

• H.E.A.L.

• Home Beneath Our Feet, Inc.

• Imagine Community Gardens, Inc.

• Journey’s End Resettlement Services

• Kleinhans Community Association

• Minnesota Avenue Block Club

• Muslim Society of Buffalo, Inc.

• Northwest Buffalo Community Center, Inc.

• Omega Mentoring Program

• Saranac Central Block Association

• Trinity Episcopal Church

• Unity of Buffalo

• West Side Community Services

2023

• Armory Hill Association

• Celtic Place Community Garden

• Center for Urban Studies

• Concordia Foundation, Inc.

• Dnipro Ukrainian Cultural Center UAFF

• Durham Memorial Outreach Center

• East Lovejoy Coalition of Neighbors

• Family Promise of WNY

• Friends of Sisti Park

• Groundwork Buffalo, Inc.

• Home Beneath Our Feet, Inc.

• Kids Neighborhood Initiative

• Kleinhan’s Community Association

• Main Street Garden Group

• Minnesota Avenue Block Club

• Monument of Faith Fellowship dba Fellowship World

• Muslim Society of Buffalo, Inc.

• Net Positive Inc dba The Foundry

• NoneLikeYou Family Educational Community Outreach

• Northwest Buffalo Community Center, Inc.

• Old First Ward Community Association

• One Symphony Circle

• Parkside Lutheran Church

• Saranac Central Block Association

• Trinity Episcopal Church

• Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo

2022

• Allentown Association

• Armory Hill Association 

• Artspace Buffalo Community Garden

• Buffalo Collegiate Charter School

• Celtic Place Community Garden

• Claremont Community Block Club

• Commodore Perry Community Garden (BMHA)

• Fillmore Forward

• The Foundry (Net+Positive)

• Fruit Belt Community Land Trust

• Gerard Place

• Groundwork Buffalo

• Judges Row Block Club

• Kids Neighborhood Initiative

• Main Street Garden Group

• Marine Drive Apartments (BMHA)

• Market Square Garden BRRAlliance (Black Rock Riverside Alliance)

• Minnesota Avenue Block Club 

• Miracle Missions Full Gospel Church

• Niagara Street Block club

• North Park Community School 50

• Saranac Central Block Association

• Spirit of Truth Ministry

• Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo

• West Avenue Block Club

  
  

2021

• 18th Street

• 5 Loaves

• Armory Hill

• Claremont Community Block Club

• First Presbyterian

• HEAL

• Hispanic Heritage Council

• Linwood Preservation

• Oxford Square

• People's Park

• St James

• Unitarian Universalist CB

• Vernon Triangle

2020

•  Claremont Community Block Club

•  Block Association of 16th St

•  Buffalo and Erie County Naval and Military Park

•  Helping Everyone Achieve Livelihood (HEAL)

•  Frank Lloyd Wright's Darwin Martin House

•  People’s Park

•  Elmwood Village Association

•  Middle Highland Block Club

•  Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy

•  Five Loaves Farms

2019

•  Claremont Community Block Club

•  Block Association of 16th St

•  Buffalo and Erie County Naval and Military Park

•  Linwood Avenue Preservation District

•  Chippewa Alliance

•  One Symphony Circle

•  Makeda Corporation

•  Elmwood Village Association

•  Middle Highland Block Club

•  Willowlawn Street Block Club

2018

•  Block Association of 16th Street

•  Buffalo Architecture Foundation

•  Buffalo Naval Park

•  Chippewa Alliance

•  Elmwood Village Association

•  Five Loaves Farm

•  Friends of Sisti Park

•  Middle Highland Block Club

2017

•  5 Loaves Farm right-of-way gardens

•  One Symphony Circle Wadsworth Street garden

•  Richardson Olmsted Campus South Lawn rain gardens

•  Buffalo & Erie County Naval Park esplanade gardens

•  Friends of Sisti Park additions

•  Armory-Hill Association planters

•  Middle Highland Block Club planters

•  Troop I Post raised garden beds

•  Cottage District Neighborhood Association planters

•  Oxford Square Block Club Oxford Square improvements to community lot

•  Bird Herkimer Block Club landscaping around new signage

•  Block Association of 16th Street planters

  
  
  

2016

•  Buffalo & Erie County Naval and Military Park Naval Park Planting beds

•  Johnson Park Association Johnson Park public gardens

•  Friends of Sisti Park Sisti Park gardens

•  5 Loaves Farm DeWitt St right-of-way garden

•  Block Alliance of 16th Street 16th St planters

•  One Symphony Circle Wadsworth St garden

•  Cottage District Community Association Cottage District Planters

•  Armory Hill Association Planters

•  Buffalo in Bloom (Niagara Square) Niagara Square gardens

•  Allentown Association

•  Elmwood Village Association Hanging planters

2015

•  Ardmore Place Block Club

•  Armory Hill Neighborhood Association

•  Buffalo In Bloom, Niagara Square

•  Buffalo Shakespeare Garden

•  Cottage District Neighborhood Association

•  Fargo Estate Neighborhood Association, 220 Jersey Garden Project

•  Grant Ferry Association

•  Johnson Park

•  Ketchum Place Block Club

•  Sixteenth Street Alliance

•  West Side Community Organization

2014

•  5 Loaves Farm

•  Allentown Association (Welcome to Allentown Sign Project)

•  American Red Cross

•  Ardmore Place Block Club

•  Armory Hill Neighborhood Assn.

•  Block Alliance of Sixteenth Street

•  Buffalo In Bloom, Niagara Square

•  Claremont Community Block Club

•  Cottage District Neighborhood Assn.

•  Days Park Block Club

•  Elmwood Village Association (Bidwell and North Street Gardens and Dancing Ladies hanging planters)

•  Elmwood Village Charter School

•  Evergreen Health Services, Inc (New memorial for the Life Memorial Park)

•  Fargo Estate Neighborhood Association (220 Jersey Garden Project)

•  Journey's End

•  Linwood Preservation District (Lilies on Linwood project)

•  One Symphony Circle, First Pres. Church

•  Unity Church of Buffalo

2013

•  Argyle Park Neighborhood Association (Island Restoration Project)

•  Block Alliance of 16th Street (Block Planter Project)

•  Friends of the Japanese Garden of Buffalo (Mirror Lake Islands and Banks Project)

•  Cottage District Neighborhood Association (Cottage District Planter Project)

•  Elmwood Village Association (Dancing Lady Hanging Baskets Project)

•  Evergreen Health Services (Sidewalk Planter Project)

•  Linwood Preservation District and Friends (Sisti Park Adjacent Area Project)

2012

•  Kleinhans Community Association KCA Planter Project (Porter and Hudson Avenues)

•  Argyle Park Neighborhood Association (Argyle Park Island Restoration Project)

•  Claremont Community Block Club (Claremont Planter Project)

•  Elmwood Village Association (Hanging Flower Basket Project)

•  Child & Family Services Connor Children’s Center Landscaping Garden Project (824 Delaware Avenue)

2011

•  AIDS Community Services (Bed and Container Garden Project)

•  Argyle Park Neighborhood Association (Park Islands Project)

•  Arnold Street Block Club (Neighborhood Planter Project)

•  Block Alliance of 16th Street (Block Planter Project)

•  Buffalo in Bloom (Niagara Square Project)

•  Buffalo Vineyard (Grace Community Garden)

•  Claremont Community Block Club (Neighborhood Planter Project)

•  Connecticut Street Association (Neighborhood Planter Project)

•  Elmwood Village Association (Dancing Lady Basket Project)

•  Kleinhans Community Association (Bus Shelter Gardens Project)

•  Potomac 400 Block Club (Neighborhood Perennial Project)

•  Putnam Street Community Garden (Putnam Street Community Garden)

•  Vermont Triangle Block Club (Vermont Street Garden)

2010 

•  AIDS Community Services of WNY (Hope Blooms Walkway Garden Planters)

•  Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Clifton Hall Entrance Garden)

•  Block Alliance of Sixteenth Street (Street Planters Project)

•  Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy (Delaware Park Steps Bed Prep and Plants)

•  Connecticut Street Association (Connecticut Street Community Garden)

•  Elmwood Village Association (Dancing Lady Basket Hangers)

•  Gilda’s Club WNY (Main Bed Garden)

•  International Institute of Buffalo (Front Lawn Garden Project)

•  Potomac 400 Block Club (400 Block of Potomac Flower Pots)

•  PUSH Buffalo (Good Neighbors Park Community Garden)

•  Women & Children’s Hospital of Buffalo (Adopt-a-Garden Project)

2009

•  AIDS Community Services (Concrete Planter Project)

•  Albright-Knox Art Gallery (East Grand Staircase Plantings)

•  Allentown Association (Hanging Basket Project)

•  Argyle Block Club (Argyle Park Island Restoration)

•  Bird-Granger Block Club (Hanging Basket Project)

•  Block Alliance of 16th Street (Hanging Basket Project)

•  Buffalo Olmsted Parks (Ferry Circle Quadrant Project)

•  Cottage District Safety Committee (Neighborhood Planter Project)

•  Days Park Block Club (Days Park Community Park Restoration)

•  Dewitt Street Block Club (Lafayette Dewitt Four Corners Garden)

•  Elmwood Village Association (Elmwood Hanging Basket Project)

•  Gilda’s Club WNY (Main Garden Bed Project)

•  Grassroots Gardens (10th Street Community Garden Project)

•  Manchester Block Club (Hanging Basket Project)

2008

•  Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Fountain Garden Project)

•  Bird-Granger Block Club (Hanging Basket Project)

•  Cottage District Safety Committee (Neighborhood Planter Project)

•  Elmwood Village Association (Hanging Basket Project)

•  Gilda’s Club WNY (West Ferry Perennial Bed Project)

•  Kleinhans Community Association (Plymouth Avenue Bus Shelter Improvement Project)

•  Lafayette Presbyterian Church (Corridor Garden)

•  Massachusetts Avenue Greening Project (Garden Project along Massachusetts Avenue)

2007

•  AIDS Community Services (Concrete Planter Project along S. Elmwood from ACS to Chippewa)

•  Allentown Association (Allen Street Hanging Flower Basket Project)

•  Arlington Park Block Club (Park Restoration from October 13th Storm)

•  Elmwood Village Association (Elmwood Avenue/Bidwell Parkway Community Garden)

•  Gilda’s Club WNY (Gilda’s Club Sign Perennial Bed)

•  Greening Collaborative (18th Street Park Project)

•  Kleinhans Community Association (Welcome Sign Garden at Plymouth and Hudson)

•  York Street Community Association (Summer Street/York Street/Union Place Planter Project)

2006

•  AIDS Community Services (Victorian Garden Expansion Project)

•  Allentown Association (Allen Street Planters Project)

•  Ashland-Hodge Block Association (Neighborhood Planter Project)

•  Connecticut Street Association (Gardens Expansion Project)

•  Elmwood Task Force (North Elmwood Planter Project)

•  Kleinhans Community Association (Orton Garden Project)

•  Lancaster Avenue Block Club (Daffodil Bulb Project)

•  York Street Community Association (Neighborhood Planter Project)

  
  
  

2005 

•  Kleinhans Community Association (Fargo Estate Neighborhood Community Garden)

•  Lafayette Presbyterian Church (Corridor Garden)

•  Massachusetts Avenue Greening Project (Garden Project Along Massachusetts Avenue)

•  United Voices: Atlantic-West Utica Block Club (Utica Garden)

•  York Street Community Association (York Street/Summer Street/Union Place Curbside Planters Project)

Major Gifts

•  Re-Tree WNY, 2011

•  Martin House Complex, 2008