Beneficent Technology, Inc.

Deepening the Impact of Bookshare for the Success of Students with Learning Disabilities

“This three-year grant of $200,000 will expand access and use rates for Bookshare, an extensive library of accessible texts.” Funds used specifically for Erie, Niagara, Barnstable, Dukes, Nantucket and Essex Counties.

CATEGORY: Programs & Services
LOCATION: Buffalo, NY (Western New York) and Eastern Massachusetts
AMOUNT: $200,000 over Three Years
YEAR AWARDED: 2016
WEBSITE: http://benetech.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