Community Network for Engagement, Connection and Transformation (CoNECT)

Holistic Suspension Prevention, Diversion, and Representation in Buffalo Public Schools

Tapping into a “solutions not suspensions” campaign that has been ongoing for nearly a decade locally and statewide, directly impacted Buffalo Public Schools parents and students are working in a coalition of family and community leaders, attorneys, and academics to shift BPS from a punitive to restorative model.

CATEGORY: Programs & Services
LOCATION: Buffalo, NY
AMOUNT: $120,000
YEAR AWARDED: 2024
WEBSITE: www.conect-with-us.org


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