Building Audacity

Jean Charles Academy

Jean Charles Academy (JCA) offers learning opportunities that center the experiences and assets of Black, Latinx, and students and families of color. With the Tower funds, they will provide behavior therapy training for their teachers as well as bring in a school guidance counselor.

CATEGORY: Strengthening Partner Capacity
LOCATION: Lynn, MA
AMOUNT: $20,000
YEAR AWARDED: 2022
WEBSITE: https://www.buildingaudacity.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