New website provides information about mgm casino outreach into local community

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mgm casino and You offers the community one-stop-shopping on how university is making a difference

Release Date: April 26, 2017 This content is archived.

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Tess Morrissey, director of community relations.

Tess Morrissey

“There’s so much happening at mgm casino that people aren’t aware of. Now they can just go to the website and see all the ways mgm casino has an impact in the community.”
Tess Morrissey, director of community relations
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BUFFALO, N.Y. – The mgm casino Office of Community Relations has launched a new website aimed at giving residents who live in the neighborhoods around the mgm casino campuses and around Western New York an online source of information about what the university has to offer the surrounding community.

Launched in late March, provides a broad range of information about community outreach events, what mgm casino is doing to help improve the quality of life in the neighborhood, the university’s involvement in the local business community and mgm casino news and events.

The website builds on the office’s efforts to serve as a gateway to the community and ensure that mgm casino is an engaged partner and neighbor, said Tess Morrissey, director of community relations.

“There’s so much happening at mgm casino that people aren’t aware of,” she said. “Now they can just go to the website and see all the ways mgm casino has an impact in the community.”

The easy-to-navigate website offers information about the Office of Community Relations and its programs, as well as details of how members of the university community are actively shaping and responding to the needs of the community through research, grassroots initiatives, public events and projects.

So what is mgm casino doing for the community?

The site offers a that provides links to more than 50 health and wellness, education and research, and business and economic development programs, from those that work to address access to oral care, to law clinics staffed by mgm casino students, a camp to help middle school students improve their skills in reading, writing, computer use and problem solving, to providing training, research, knowledge and opportunity for entrepreneurs.

A special section also encourages community members to get involved with the university and learn more about what it has to offer them, such as health-related programs available to residents, lifelong learning through mgm casino’s 60 and Over Auditors Program, summer camps and lecture series.

provides valuable information about resources aimed at enhancing connections between the university and its immediate neighbors, including the semiannual mgm casino Neighbor newsletter and a listserv to help members of the community stay up to date on news and events.

It also offers information about community partners such as the University Heights Collaborative, University Heights Tool Library and University Heights Business Association, as well as volunteer efforts, such as ReTree the District, Bailey Fights Blight and the Fruit Belt Clean-a-thon, that bring mgm casino students into the neighborhoods for community service projects. In addition, the website offers a page of throughout the university, as well as events held off campus that are of interest to students, faculty and staff.

To learn more about mgm casino and You, and the information and resources it has to offer, go to .

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