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| The Boston Foundation’s civic leadership is conducted through our Understanding Boston formula for positive change. 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 Greater Boston Housing Report Card, 2006 - 2007
The fifth annual survey of the state of housing in Greater Boston provides a sobering overview of the region’s economy at a time when stresses—eroding home values, a tighter mortgage market, flat or falling incomes and a sharp decline in housing starts—add up to a “perfect housing storm,” according to Barry Bluestone, a co-author of the report.
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Geography and Giving: The Culture of Philanthropy in New England and the Nation
High-income Massachusetts residents give more than twice the average given by comparable households nationwide, but middle and lower income residents here, burdened by the high cost of living in the Commonwealth, give less than their peers elsewhere in the country, And when area residents give, they give far more to secular causes than to religious institutions. Those are among the key findings in a study of charitable giving released today by the Boston Foundation.
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The Boston Paradox: Lots of Healthcare, Not Enough Health
Despite its status as a world-class healthcare hub with unparalleled assets—universities, teaching hospitals and research facilities routinely hailed as setting a global gold standard—a rising tide of preventable chronic disease threatens not only the physical health of Greater Boston residents but is already beginning to crowd out public and private investment in a wide range of regional priorities — including healthcare itself. That is the news contained in a groundbreaking report released by the Boston Foundation and the New England Healthcare Institute.
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| Boston Indicators Project |
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Providing high quality charts, analyses and downloadable data about Boston and the region in ten categories.
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Web Specials, Events & Forums
Founded in 2005, the John LaWare Leadership Forum is a flexible civic mechanism that informs and convenes Greater Boston’s business and civic leaders to respond to the region’s competitiveness challenges and opportunities.
Few issues are as critical to the region as the lack of affordable housing. Visit the CHTF website to learn about the ongoing efforts to address the housing crisis.
The Carol R. Goldberg Seminar is a periodic convening of local business, government, academic, civic, and community leaders that raises awareness about critical civic issues and offers a roadmap by which leaders might achieve progress against those issues. |
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