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A Family Foundation focused on improving the lives of children, adolescents, and young adults. The Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower Foundation believes every young person should have the chance to achieve their personal goals, regardless of the challenges they face. We also know that some young people face more challenges than others because of systemic inequalities. Thus, equity is a critical component of our work.


Perpetual Motion

Have you heard the Tower Foundation’s origin story?  It has now been freshly told by Cassandra Gainer in the recent issue of Traffic East, a Western New York journal celebrating entrepreneurial and creative energy.  Gainer interviewed daughters Mollie Byrnes and Cynthia Doyle in telling the story of Peter and Elizabeth Tower’s life together and how they came … Continued