Your Support Saves Lives
In 2025, Erie County averaged 21 preventable overdose deaths every month. Behind every number is a person. Someone's child, parent, neighbor, friend. At CGB, we believe those lives are worth fighting for every single day.
Your donation funds the direct services, supplies, and peer support that make that fight possible, reaching the people most often overlooked by traditional systems.
Source: Erie County Medical Examiner's Office, via BRIDGE Erie Harm Reduction Overdose Data Updates, November 2025.
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Every kit we distribute is a potential life saved. Your contribution ensures we never run out.
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Fuel, supplies, and staff time for mobile outreach across Buffalo and Western NY.
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Meals, clothing, toiletries, wound care, and hygiene supplies for people experiencing homelessness.
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Supporting people with lived experience to fill paid, meaningful roles at CGB. Not just as clients, but as leaders.
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Expanding our reach to train communities and organizations in harm reduction principles and practice.
What Your Support Funds
Connections to Giving Back welcomes partnerships with government agencies, foundations, and institutional funders who share our commitment to equity, lived experience leadership, and evidence-based harm reduction. We are a 501(c)(3) organization.
We are a 501(c)(3) organization, EIN 37-2054323. For grant opportunities, funding inquiries, multi-year funding partnerships, or to request our latest program data and impact reports, please contact us directly at connectionstogivingback@gmail.com.
For Agencies and Institutional Funders
When you give to Connections to Giving Back, you are investing in people who have been told their lives don't matter. We're here to prove otherwise.