Young Audiences of Western New York

Fighting Systems of Inequity: Young Audiences Teaching Artist Professional Development Opportunities

Young Audiences seeks support to provide a series of professional development opportunities for our Teaching Artists focused on racial equity and social justice and to equip them with the necessary tools to create, modify, and adapt programs so they are culturally responsive, accessible, and inclusive.

CATEGORY: Strengthening Partner Capacity
LOCATION: Buffalo, NY
AMOUNT: $25,600
YEAR AWARDED: 2021
WEBSITE: https://www.yawny.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