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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. |
Passion & Purpose: Raising the Fiscal Fitness Bar for Massachusetts Nonprofits is both a primer on the state's nonprofit organizations and a call to action. It aims to further the understanding of Massachusetts nonprofits and the values they provide, as well as take a hard look at the sector to underscore the importance of financial health as a necessary and critical condition to meeting its public purpose. The report calls upon all stakeholders-government, foundations, investors and nonprofits themselves-to raise the fiscal fitness bar by looking at strategies, practices and policies to strengthen the Massachusetts nonprofit sector so that it can continue to serve as a powerful 'glue' for our communities, an expression of our values, and an important contributor to our state's competitive edge.
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Preparing Our Kids for Education, Work and Life: Youth Aging Out of DSS Care
Children and teens in the Massachusetts foster care system are among the most vulnerable residents in our communities, but if they are given the supports they need while in foster care — and while ‘aging out’ of care — they can lead positive, fulfilling lives and become tremendous community assets.
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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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