The Peter and Elizabeth Tower Foundation is offering 2022 Strengthening Partner Capacity Grant Program to improve the lives of young people in their geographic footprint of Erie and Niagara Counties in Western New York, and Barnstable, Dukes, Essex, and Nantucket Counties in Eastern Massachusetts.
Donor Name: Peter and Elizabeth Tower Foundation
States: Massachusetts, New York
Counties: Barnstable County (MA), Dukes County (MA), Essex County (MA), Nantucket County (MA), Erie County (NY), Niagara County (NY)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 02/02/2022
Grant Size: $40,000
Details:
The Tower Foundation is a family foundation that helps children, adolescents, and young people affected by intellectual disabilities, learning disabilities, mental health issues, and/or substance use disorders.
As grantmaker, partner, and advocate, the Tower Foundation strengthens organizations and works to change systems to improve the lives of young people with learning disabilities, mental illness, substance use disorders, and intellectual disabilities.
Funding Information
- The maximum grant award for this opportunity is $40,000.
- A total of $1,600,000 is available, with $400,000 awarded in each grant cycle.
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.
- The Foundation 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 autism spectrum disorders)
- People with specific learning disabilities
- People with mental illness/mental health challenges
- People with substance use disorders
- Their ideal grant partners serve one or more of the populations listed above and intentionally work to improve equitable outcomes for individuals with a host of individual identities relating to — alone or in combination – race, sexual identity, gender identity, immigration status, housing status, and other disability status.
- Note: Organizations awarded a Small Grant in the past 12 months are not eligible to apply for another Small Grant. This doesn’t apply to Programs & Services or Community Change grants.
For more information, visit Peter & Elizabeth Tower Foundation.
