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The Summer 2022 issue of TBF News was mailed to our community members and is also now available online. Visit our sign up page to subscribe or receive invitations to our events and more.
We invite you to our first nonpartisan conversation on voter engagement. We will begin with some grounding data on the state of voting in Massachusetts and then move into a panel discussion where we will hear from experts in the field and answer the question: What can we as individuals and institutions be doing to get the vote out?
Join The Boston Foundation and fellow nonprofit partners to learn about impala, a groundbreaking new startup being built to democratize access to critical social impact data and connect grantmakers and grantseekers to foster greater collaboration. During this webinar, you will not only learn how to use the free platform, but the impala team also hopes to hear your questions and feedback to inform the ways in which the impala tools can impact and support your relationship-building and resource generation efforts.
Join us for a conversation with our President and CEO M. Lee Pelton and American historian and journalist Jill Lepore. The Foundation's Annual Campaign for Civic Leadership relies on the support and interest of donors who care deeply about civil society, and Dr. Lepore's focus on the fragility of democracy and the ways in which national historical trends influence our efforts to build a more equitable Greater Boston will provide for a timely and important conversation.
Please join us at our first in-person forum in two years, for the release of the 2022 Greater Boston Housing Report Card. This year’s Greater Boston Housing Report Card explores current trends in housing availability as well as barriers to accessing existing subsidized housing. The research presentation will be followed by a panel discussion of experts, each with a unique perspective on the interwoven housing access inequities.
The Boston Foundation is partnering with the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (Boston Fed) to conduct a survey of wealth inequality across Massachusetts. We are soliciting proposals from survey firms for testing, sampling, and implementing the survey.
A new report from Boston Indicators and SkillWorks highlights the historical inequities in our 'care work sector' and the continued issues that make attracting and keeping child care, home care and long-term care workers more difficult in the face of growing needs.
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This report strives to capture the scope and timeline of the COVID-19 Response Fund's work, and the lessons we have learned over the past two years that are helping us reshape our work with community leaders and nonprofits as we venture out on Our New Pathway, TBF's new strategic plan.
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The new report by Boston University Professors Katherine Levine Einstein and Maxwell Palmer takes a unique look at how Massachusetts housing policy is shaped by those with the time and access to take part - and the impact that has on bringing diverse voices to the table to address critical housing needs.
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The tenth annual edition of the Boston Opportunity Agenda report card finds that the pandemic had a significant impact on a number of key education indicators from early childhood to college graduation rates, but the level of impact varied between levels
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At a town hall-style presentation, Vital Village Networks, in partnership with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Ariadne Labs, shared their progress to date bringing together a new coalition around increasing equity for birthing familes, and shared some of the powerful stories of why the coalition is needed now.
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The third piece in our series of discussions on reparations looked at the role key institutions in health care, higher ed and philanthropy can have in addressing centuries of inequity, even beyond financial commmitments.
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Held a week after the release of the Care Work report, this forum brought the stories of the "care work economy" to bear on the data that shows the sector's historic inequities in pay, benefits and working conditions.
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SkillWorks and the Boston Foundation launched the inaugural cohort of the SkillWorks Fellowship Solution & Design Lab for Workforce Innovation and introduced the first round of SkillWorks Fellows, followed by a discussion moderated by President & CEO, Dr. Lee Pelton, on the future of workforce and economic equity.
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