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THIS GRANT’S FOCUS: Youth w/ Disabilities, Youth Mental Health, Substance Abuse, Learning Disabilities, Special Education
Deadline: Jan. 15, 2020 | Apr. 29, 2020
“The Tower Foundation is a family foundation that supports and collaborates with nonprofit organizations and community partners that share our mission of helping children, adolescents, and young people affected by intellectual disabilities, learning disabilities, mental health issues, and substance use disorders. Our work is focused in Western New York and Eastern Massachusetts, areas that are important to the Tower family.
The Tower Foundation supports organizations through funding from three portfolios: (1) Programs & Services, (2) Community Change, and (3) Strengthening Partner Capacity. The Foundation accepts requests for funding from each of these portfolios three times per year.
- Programs & Services Grants – The Foundation provides direct grants to fund programs and services in our four focus areas of intellectual disabilities, learning disabilities, mental health, and substance use disorders. Programs & Services grants support organizations working to improve the lives of children and young adults in our geographic footprint of Erie and Niagara Counties in Western New York and Barnstable, Dukes, Essex, and Nantucket Counties in Eastern Massachusetts.
- Community Change Grants – We understand that many issues can be best addressed when communities work together, pooling resources and expertise, and developing collaborative and creative solutions. By funding cross-organizational initiatives, we can help organizations broaden their outlook and their reach. The Tower Foundation’s Community Change Portfolio consists of grants supporting communities in establishing accessible, holistic, integrated, collaborative services. In keeping with our mission, these are services that benefit children, adolescents, and young adults affected by intellectual disabilities, learning disabilities, mental illness, and/or substance use disorders. Community Change grants generally support collaborative work intended to effect community-wide and/or systems-level change, such as efforts to eliminate structural barriers that can preventing young people and their families from receiving services.
- Strengthening Partner Capacity Grants – The Foundation recognizes nonprofits can benefit from support for their operational needs. It can lead to more effect delivery of high-quality programming and organizational sustainability. Strengthening Partner Capacity grants are available for small capital projects/equipment; organizational development; program planning; organizational professional development; convening/field-building events; mergers and affiliations; and technology planning/purchasing. We accept applications for Strengthening Partner Capacity grants three times a year. All other grants in this category are by invitation only.”
Funder: The Peter & Elizabeth Tower Foundation
Eligibility: “Applicants must be: (1) not-for-profit organizations with a 501(c)(3) designation that are not private foundations, or (2) not-for-profit public benefit corporations, or (3) public and diocesan school districts, or (4) private and charter schools. The Tower Foundation supports work in Erie and Niagara Counties in Western New York, and in Barnstable, Dukes, Essex, and Nantucket Counties in Eastern Massachusetts.”
Amount: $10,000 – $40,000 per year
Contact: Link.
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