Health Law Advocates (HLA) is a nonprofit public interest firm providing pro bono legal services for low-income Massachusetts residents who need help accessing or paying for medical services. The organization is committed to ensuring access to high-quality care, particularly for those who are most at risk due to such factors as race, gender, disability, age, or geographic location.

The Institute for Nonprofit Practice (INP) was founded in 2007 to provide management and leadership development to current and future nonprofit sector leaders, fueling a more effective, connected, equitable, and diverse social impact sector. Growing from a 13-person cohort of Boston-area nonprofit leaders to a national organization with thousands of graduates, INP in cities around the country, including those within the Tower Foundation’s footprint in Massachusetts and Western New York. The Tower Foundation began supporting INP in 2010, a partnership that continues to this day.

Liftoff Western New York is an Aligned Action Network of more than 30 funders addressing the biggest challenges facing Western New York’s early childhood system. Liftoff works with its community partners to connect children and families with developmental resources, accessible and affordable child care, and transportation assistance. The organization’s goal is to ensure all children are meeting critical milestones and reach their full potential by the time they begin kindergarten.

Power of Place Learning Communities, originally a project of Full Frame Communications, took shape in 2018 to empower educators to better support all students, regardless of how they learn. Power of Place grew from relationships first formed in 2013 when the Tower Foundation joined a network of social entrepreneurs and funders that had come together under the Reimagine Learning Fund, a broad collaborative supported by venture philanthropy advocate New Profit. Reimagine Learning set out to generate new strategies for educating complex learners across the country.

Initially supported by the Tower Foundation to expand access for children’s mental health services in Western New York, the Rapid Pediatric Psychiatric Consultation program laid the foundation for Project TEACH, a state-wide program that provides psychiatric expertise to health care clinicians, helping them meet the mental health needs of their pediatric and perinatal patients. Now funded by New York State Office of Mental Health, this innovative program provides mental health education, consultations, patient evaluations, and referral assistance to help clinicians respond to their patients’ mental health needs in the primary care setting.