TBF's 2024 Annual Report is built around the remarkable and moving stories about our community of donors and the inventive and very personal ways in which they partner with the nonprofit organizations and causes they support. To complement that work, we're also pleased to highlight a new video series that captures our partnerships with nonprofit leaders and organizations across our Pathways to Equity, and the collaborative work at the heart of creating a stronger, more equitable Boston.
We acknowledge and recognize that we do not all start from the same place. Equity focuses on systemic, systems-level change that works to adjust imbalances and repair historical harms. Together we can improve lives, strengthen communities and build a better—and more equal—Boston.
Who We Are
More than 300 friends and partners gathered at TBF’s Annual Meeting, where Lee Pelton, President and CEO, shared his vision of the Foundation's role in facing the challenges ahead and where we can and must go to build a more equitable future for Greater Boston.
Read Lee Pelton's remarks from the Annual Meeting
The 2024 Report Card tracks the core metrics across Greater Boston, and takes a closer look at whether freeing up vacant public lands in Eastern Mass. could provide space for 85,000 new units or more.
Explore the report
The new report looks at the slow progress of getting new climate technology into Boston's small buildings, and looks to philanthropists and other partners to accelerate adoption.
Read and download the report
The Annual Fund, which supports the Boston Foundation’s research, convenings and policy work on issues of critical importance to Boston and the region, has a fundraising goal of $3,500,000 before June 2025.
Learn more about the new co-chairsWe believe that closing the gap on the region’s greatest disparities opens pathways to opportunity, prosperity and equitable outcomes. This complex, challenging and critical goal requires tackling the individual-, systems- and root-level causes of inequity. Here's where we are digging in.
What We Do
The systemic and structural inequities at the core of our region’s disparities cannot be dismantled without extraordinary perseverance and collaboration among visionary and courageous partners, donors and leaders. Together we can improve lives and strengthen communities.
Our Work with Donors
This webinar, part of the Nurturing Strong Beginnings Coffee and Conversation series, will focus on the state of parents' mental health and its profound impact on the long-term health of children, based on the latest findings from the U.S. Surgeon General advisory. The event will highlight research insights, practical approaches to bolstering support for parents and caregivers, and ways to create community networks that nurture family well-being.
TBF and United Way of Massachusetts Bay invite you to our next convening on career-connected learning for young people in Boston. Featuring new and non-traditional pathways to success for students and young adults in Greater Boston, leaders from nonprofits, schools, and philanthropy will come together to discuss the importance of providing versatile, flexible, high-quality secondary and postsecondary career-building paths to young people.
Join us for the 2024 Annual #ShopAAPI Holiday festivities, a vibrant celebration of local AAPI small businesses and a perfect way to kick off the holiday season! Kicking off at 4:30 pm, the AAPI Intergenerational Entrepreneurship Panel will explore how values, culture, and approaches to business have evolved. Then, starting at 5:00 pm, the festive night market will feature 40 AAPI-owned vendors with everything from handcrafted goods to pop-up food court treats.
Working beyond grantmaking, we collect data, commission research and share knowledge to inform public policy and catalyze conversations on issues with the greatest impact on the people of Greater Boston.
