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Gerald Chertavian, Adrienne Penta and Audrey Epstein Reny bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to the Board of Directors.

Sixty organizations will share $530,000 to strengthen and support AAPI communities, bringing the ACF's total grantmaking over $1.6 million since 2022.

A first-of-its-kind report merges a survey of 150 AAPI arts and culture leaders with listings of AAPI-led and -representing organizations and events across Massachusetts.

If we are to embrace our full potential as a city and region, says Keith Mahoney, we must recognize, support, and invest in the potential of our region's immigrants through English language education.

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As federal changes threaten the most vulnerable across our region, TBF President and CEO Lee Pelton reflects on moral courage and leadership as TBF plans to lead a coordinated philanthropic response to mobilize resources and galvanize collective action, shared in his op ed for the BBJ.

For Nonprofit Quarterly, Senior Program Officer Support for the Social Safety Net at TBF Candace Burton reflects on her work leading the Safety Net Grants program at TBF and the lessons we've learned about trust-based grantmaking, streamlining systems, and centering equity as we meet this moment.

BU's School of Public Health shares takeaways from BU's event convening key stakeholders to discuss research and policy to address extreme heat and health, noting the B-COOL study, a partnership of TBF, BU, A Better City, and the City of Boston.

Andover News reports on a milestone for the Andover Village Improvement Society (AVIS), acquiring ownership of the Goldsmith Woodlands, preserved in 1966 by Bessie Goldsmith, who established a trust and fund to protect the 140-acre area as a sanctuary for wild species with TBF as its trustee since 1996.

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Prepared in partnership with Children's Health Watch, this new report from Boston Indicators catalogs, compiles research, and shares insights on guaranteed income pilot programs across Massachusetts.

The new report brings together the results of a statewide survey of 150 AAPI artists and creative professionals, 1-on-1 interviews, and listening sessions to highlight the strengths, challenges and opportunities perceived for the sector.

Published in partnership with the Gastón Institute at UMass Boston, this report explores the hurdles facing credentialed workers, such as doctors, lawyers and engineers, who immigrate to Massachusetts and seek to use their professional skills in their new home.

Produced by MassINC Polling Group and a collaborative team of Asian and Pacific Islander American (APIA)-serving organizations, this survey provides new insights about how Massachusetts APIA residents are faring across a wide swath of issues.

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Dwight Poler, Chair of the Boston Foundation, is the founder and CEO of AccelR8 Ventures, a fund investing in early-stage climate change mitigation technologies. A condensed and edited version of this interview appeared in the Spring 2025 Issue of TBF News.

Julia Howard, TBF Senior Program Officer, Climate, shares five reflections on for how she is approaching building the Foundation’s first programmatic climate strategy with parallels to her experience of running the Boston Marathon route.

As the federal government continues to compound its assault on the rights and freedoms of our democratic values, seeking to erase the cultural, social and even human identities of those we serve, while starving vulnerable communities of resources that sustain life and wellbeing, the Boston Foundation has redoubled its efforts to not only advance equity and justice, but to protect and sustain it.

An evolving list of resources and information for nonprofits trying to keep up with the policy changes affecting the nonprofit sector

Even as fire still rages in Southern California, community foundations and other organizations are working to comfort and support the victims. This giving guide includes organizations that could use your support.

In an exceptionally busy year, these are the reports and pieces of research from TBF and Boston Indicators that jumped to the top of the list for 2024, led once again by the Greater Boston Housing Report Card.

A series of significant financial investments by TBF's Business Equity Fund in TARTTs Day Care Centers highlights the wealth-building power that can be unleashed when a company owned by people of color has access to the advice and capital they need to grow.

Designated as National Native American Heritage Month, November finds many Americans reflecting on the historic and present-day harms committed against Native people in our country. We have accumulated information and resources to guide our own education and action this month, and are happy to share for others to explore.

At our 2024 Annual Meeting, TBF President and CEO Lee Pelton shared his thoughts on our work, where we are as a nation and a community, and where we can and must go to build a more equitable future for Greater Boston. Read the full text here.

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