Jewish Family Service of Buffalo & Erie County

Survivors of Torture

The SOT seeks support to continue core program activities responding to the aforementioned (1) need for service among the target torture survivor population in Western New York and (2) need for professional training and capacity development among SOT partners and local community organizations that regularly interact with local torture survivors.

CATEGORY: Programs & Services
LOCATION: Buffalo, NY
AMOUNT: $75,000
YEAR AWARDED: 2023
WEBSITE: www.jfsbuffalo.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