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Meeting the Moment: Sustaining Families

With SNAP and other programs under continuing threat, it is up to all of us to support our food systems and feed everyone who calls our community home.

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TBF launches Meeting the Moment: Sustaining Families initiative with $1 million grant to Greater Boston Food Bank followed by $900,000 to 9 food nonprofits

Prompted by rising food insecurity and cuts to federal food programs, the Meeting the Moment: Sustaining Families initiative will be a multi-part, multi-million dollar commitment in support of a stronger regional system to address hunger and food insecurity in Eastern Massachusetts.

Learn about Meeting the Moment: Sustaining Families
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When policy fails the people, we must lead with moral courage - Lee Pelton, President and CEO of TBF

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.

Read Lee Pelton's op ed in the Boston Business Journal

New from TBF

"Metro Boston residents of different races are interacting more often than they were decades ago. But as income disparities have grown, so too, has the isolation of higher- and lower-income communities from one another.” Residential Segregation in Greater Boston: Shifting Patterns by Race and Income, Boston Indicators

Boston Indicators data analysis finds Greater Boston becoming less segregated by race; more segregated by income

Read the report

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Next Steps for Boston Dance

Next Steps for Boston Dance Info Sessions

Next Steps for Boston Dance provides multi-layered support for Greater Boston’s choreographers and circus artists. Get a boost to the "next step" in your career with cash, subsidized rehearsal space, advice from experts, and a supportive cohort—all totaling over $12,500 in support. Applications for the upcoming grant cycle are due December 12; get the help you need at these free online sessions! (Click on the dates/times below to register!)

Monday, November 24, 9–10:15am
Saturday, December 6, 10–11:15am
Tuesday, December 9, 5–6:15pm

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Our Approach to Equity

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

Our Work

We 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
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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
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Fueling change through civic leadership

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. 

We are a hub of partnerships and networks that work with and answer to the communities we serve. We collect data, commission research, share knowledge, develop programs, and fuel new ideas.