Fantastic Friends of WNY, Inc.

Fantastic Friends Cosplay Program

Fantastic Friends will leverage the unique qualities of cosplay to provide participants with autism and other developmental disabilities an opportunity to exercise self-expression, creative expression, and sociability to enhance their interpersonal skills and physical endurance while reducing social isolation, anxiety, and stress.

CATEGORY: Programs & Services
LOCATION: Depew, NY
AMOUNT: $23,616
YEAR AWARDED: 2024
WEBSITE: fantasticfriendswny.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