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CIVIC LEADERSHIP - Understanding Boston

Understanding Boston is a series of forums, educational events and research providing information and insight into Boston issues. Here you will find a growing number of reports about Greater Boston that the Boston Foundation staff has developed through partnerships with government and local institutions.

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Healthy People in a Healthy Economy: A Blueprint for Action in Massachusetts

This is the second report researched and written by the New England Healthcare Institute for the Boston Foundation. The previous report used stunning statistics to draw attention to a growing crisis of preventable chronic disease that not only threatens the physical health of Greater Boston‘s residents but is crowding out investment in other crucial priorities. This Blueprint prescribes a number of reforms to address these issues.

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Passion & Purpose Restructuring, Repositioning and Reinventing: Crisis in the Massachusetts Nonprofit Sector

Passion & Purpose: Restructuring, Repositioning and Reinventing: Crisis in Massachusetts Nonprofit Sector, details the impact of the ongoing economic crisis on the region’s nonprofit organizations, identifying trends toward increased strategic alliances and mergers as financial support form all sources continues to shrink. It builds on the findings of the Foundation’s in-depth report on the sector published in June 2008.

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