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.
The new program, announced at an event in Lynn with Mass. Governor Maura Healey and Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll, begins with $11 million in philanthropic and public commitments, including over $7 million from Partnership members including TBF, Eastern Bank Foundation and the State Street Foundation.
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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 grants bring the Fund’s total grantmaking to over $2.3 million since 2013, with $1.2 million distributed since Javier Juarez became the Fund’s Director in early 2023.
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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.
Explore the reportWe 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
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.
The next event in the Racial Wealth Equity Research and Conversation Series will focus on intergenerational wealth transfers and feature Michael Neal, Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute’s Housing Finance Policy Center. The event will explore Neal’s recent report, "Potential Implications of the Great Wealth Transfer for the Black-White Homeownership Rate Gap," which investigates the impact of the upcoming Great Wealth Transfer on the Black-White racial wealth gap.
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.
