Healthy Community Alliance

Catchafire Pilot

“The Foundation invited ten organizations from across our four focus areas and funding catchment area to participate in a pilot of an online capacity building platform, Catchafire. This platform matches nonprofit organizations to skilled professionals interested in volunteering their time to help with capacity building needs. This cohort of organizations will help to inform the Foundation on the usefulness and applicability of Catchafire in meeting their capacity building needs.”

CATEGORY: Strengthening Partner Capacity
LOCATION: Gowanda, NY
AMOUNT: $2,000 over One Year
YEAR AWARDED: 2018
WEBSITE: www.communityalliance.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