Massachusetts Advocates for Children

Lawrence Inclusion Initiative

With the risk of increased segregation and exclusion of students with disabilities following the pandemic, MAC will launch a community engagement process in Lawrence to create system-wide changes to successfully include students during the recovery and beyond. Lawrence is at a crossroads, with an urgent need to expand inclusive options.

CATEGORY: Community Change
LOCATION: Boston, MA
AMOUNT: $300,000
YEAR AWARDED: 2021
WEBSITE: www.massadvocates.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