Through its Programs & Services grants, the Peter and Elizabeth Tower Foundation seeks to support projects or initiatives that are new to an organization or that enhance, expand, or adapt existing activities.
Donor Name: Peter and Elizabeth Tower Foundation
States: New York, Massachusetts
Counties: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/01/2023
Size of the Grant: $15,000 to $50,000
Details:
Focus Areas
Intellectual Disabilities
- Children with intellectual disabilities are identified early and receive services that meet their evolving needs.
- Young people with intellectual disabilities are engaged in meaningful, social, vocational, and educational pursuits.
- Families understand intellectual disabilities and secure needed supports.
- Communities embrace young people with intellectual disabilities and provide them with a full range of supports and opportunities to engage in community life.
Learning Disabilities
- Children with learning disabilities are identified early, diagnosed, and connected to services that meet their ongoing individual needs.
- Youth with learning disabilities understand how they learn and pursue resources that support them accordingly.
- Young adults are confident and do not view their learning disability as a liability.
- Young adults with learning disabilities are ready for work and/or educational pursuits.
- Families are informed about learning disabilities and can identify and navigate available services.
- Communities value persons with learning disabilities and accommodate their needs.
- Stigma related to mental illness is eliminated.
- Children with social, emotional, and behavioral challenges are identified early and connected to appropriate services.
- Young people with mental health challenges understand and manage their conditions and behaviors.
- Families understand mental health challenges and help young people live productive lives.
- Communities offer meaningful opportunities and appropriate support to young people with mental health challenges and their families.
Substance Use Disorders
- Community members understand the prevalence and harmful effects of alcohol and drugs on young people and work to address them.
- Resources for substance use disorders prevention, treatment, and recovery are readily available.
- Families provide safe environments that support healthy and informed choices about alcohol and drugs.
Funding Information
- A total of $2.2 million is available, with $1.1 million awarded in each of two grant cycles.
- The Tower Foundation is open to multi-year grants with budgets ranging from (but not limited to) $15,000 to $50,000 per year. The most competitive applications are likely to be no more than three years and fall at or below $150,000 in total.
Eligibility Criteria
- It’s easiest for us to accept grant applications from:
- Not-for-profit organizations with a 501(c)(3) designation that are not private foundations; Not-for-profit public benefit corporations;
- Public or diocesan school districts; or
- Private or charter schools.
- Organizations will be making grants to organizations currently providing services in one or more of these regions:
- Massachusetts: Barnstable County, Dukes County, Essex County, Nantucket County
- New York: Erie County, Niagara County
- At a minimum, grant partners currently provide prevention, treatment, and/or recovery services to people aged 26 years or younger from at least one of these populations:
- People with intellectual disabilities (including those on the autism spectrum)
- People with specific learning disabilities
- People with mental illness/mental health challenges
- People with substance use disorders
- Ideal grant partners serve one or more of the populations listed above who also have intersecting identities as members of historically marginalized communities (e.g., Black/African American, Hispanic/Latinx, Native American/Indigenous Peoples, disability, housing insecure, immigrant/refugee, LGBTQIA+).
- While organizations may have more than one active Programs & Services grant at any given time, the Foundation may give preference to organizations that have not received a grant award recently. If the Foundation declines a funding request, your organization may reapply as soon as the following cycle
For more information, visit Programs & Services Grant.
