Buffalo – Toronto Public Media

Disability Desk

Disability News Desk to provide substantive and comprehensive media coverage about this large, underserved population and to help listeners understand the complex problems that, despite the ADA, can keep people with disabilities from being a part of mainstream American life.

CATEGORY: Community Change
LOCATION: Buffalo, NY
AMOUNT: $40,000
YEAR AWARDED: 2020
WEBSITE: wned.org

FEATURED IMPACT STORY


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