Catchafire Foundation

Tower Foundation Catchafire Platform Launch

“This project is to launch a Tower Foundation Catchafire platform. A cohort of 100 organizations will be invited to utilize a Catchafire membership during the one-year grant period. This cohort will mostly be made up of active Tower Foundation grant partners. We also expect to invite some past grant partners as well as a handful of applicants that have not yet been successful at getting a grant award, but that are well-aligned with our focus areas.” (funds used in Erie and Niagara Counities or Barnstable, Essex, Nantucket, and Dukes Counities)

CATEGORY: Strengthening Partner Capacity
LOCATION: Western New York and Eastern Massachusetts
AMOUNT: $115,000 Over One Year
YEAR AWARDED: 2019
WEBSITE: https://www.catchafire.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