Empower

From Farmhouse to Service Center: Creating a New Home for Key Services and Supports

Empower is looking to transform one of its buildings — an 1845 farmhouse currently being used for offices — into a respite and day habilitation center that will make high-demand respite, community habilitation and day services more accessible to young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and their families. A few physical improv

CATEGORY: Strengthening Partner Capacity
LOCATION: Niagara Falls, NY
AMOUNT: $25,000
YEAR AWARDED: 2021
WEBSITE: https://www.empower-wny.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