Non-profit organization Hope Rising Together is converting the Spencer Kellogg & Sons Inc. complex at 395 Ganson Street into its new headquarters. The group serves the underprivileged in the Buffalo area and in Sierra Leone in West Africa. The complex is located north of Buffalo Riverworks.
Founded in 2009 by Kate and Joe Vacanti, Hope Rising Together serves mostly children on education and health care issues. In Sierra Leone, the organization is focused on projects such as digging water wells and implementing agricultural programs. Their work in Sierra Leone has been so impactful to date, that it has resulted in the creation of a 30-acre campus – “Hope Rising Campus – it’s own little city” – with a new school, bakery, resource center, computer lab, an orphanage home, and a dormitory for at-risk girls.
Renovations to the Kellogg complex, purchased from Earl Ketry two years ago, are focused on reuse of the first floor and contain the organization’s headquarters, volunteer center, café, and meeting rooms. A new main entrance is planned and parking and landscaping upgrades are planned. K2 Architecture is the architect.
Kate and Joe Vacanti also own Wonder Coffeehouse south of the silo site on Ganson Street.
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