As Greater Boston's community foundation, the Boston Foundation is focused on the myriad of factors which make our city unique and successful. With an emphasis on strengthening this region's competitiveness in the global economy, the Foundation works with many partners to publish cutting edge research, hold public forums, and convene task forces of experts and stakeholders to create action agendas for real change.
The Latino Equity Fund pays tribute to co-founder and advisory board co-chair Aixa Beauchamp for her vision and leadership making the fund an influential and important grantmaker for Massachusetts' Latino communities.
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In the first of a new series of posts from VP/Chief Program Officer Orlando Watkins, he and Candace Burton, Program Officer for our Safety Net Grants program, lay out the years of work leading up to our efforts to engage (and reward) community review processes as a part of our discretionary grantmaking process.
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Vetto Casado, TBF's Director of the new Shifting Power, Advancing Justice partnership, traces a pathway that began in his mother's living room to a powerful evening with six remarkable leaders and a new effort to amplify their leadership.
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The six Shifting Power, Advancing Justice partners will work together in a three-year effort to strengthen their leadership and move their organizations forward in their efforts to spark social, economic and political change.
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As a Guest Contributor for Inside Philanthropy, TBF Senior Associate for Nonprofit Sector Infrastructure at TBF Carlos Muñoz-Cadilla writes on burnout, trauma, high turnover and hiring challenges that persist across the nonprofit sector, highlighting two important efforts TBF has funded to directly support wellness in the sector.
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The Boston Foundation’s Lee Pelton joined Jim and Margery for Boston Public Radio Live from the Boston Public Library on May 7, 2024, offering his perspective as a former college President amidst the current climate of college encampments and protests.
Read MoreYoung people are moving out of MA at high rates seeking jobs, affordable housing, and more. Offering key data points, Boston Indicators Senior Research Associate Peter Ciurczak joined Crystal Haynes on GBH News Greater Boston to discuss how outward migration is impacting the state and what could be done to get people to stay.
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Boston Magazine's 150 Most Influential Bostonians List of 2024 recognizes a remarkable and diverse list of distinguished Bostonians, including TBF President and CEO Lee Pelton and Danielle Kim, Executive Director of the Asian Community Fund, along with many current and former staff and board members and and key partners.
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A new report from the Boston Opportunity Agenda captures the results of a survey of more than 600 early education professionals, and highlights demographics, education, turnover, and experience of the current workforce - as well as policy opportunities to attract and retain these vital workers.
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For Global Greater Boston, the Boston Indicators team partnered with the Immigration Research Initiative to explore in greater depth just who makes up Greater Boston's immigrant population, and the economic impact of immigration on the region, the immigrants and their families. The report finds that immigrants today are from vastly different regions than they were decades ago, but their positive impact on Greater Boston remains strong.
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Criminal Justice Reform in Massachusetts, written in partnership by Boston Indicators and MassINC, is the first systematic look at the impact of two landmark criminal justice reform laws passed in 2018.
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The 2023 Boston Foundation Annual Report, 'Pathways to Equity' introduces you to a dozen remarkable people who personify both TBF's four pathways, and the many ways that TBF and its communities are working to create a more equitable Boston.
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This is the first in a series of newsletters exploring our four pathways to equity, beginning with Advancing Community Wealth. Through affordable housing preservation, establishing and strengthening pathways to home ownership, helping to build and grow thriving cultural spaces, and fostering opportunities for Asian, Black, Indigenous and Latino-owned small businesses to thrive, TBF is focused on building stable, enriching and equitable communities across our region. These stories reflect our work in this area.
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