With a new fund and working in partnership with donors, nonprofits, philanthropy and others, we join Greater Boston in taking on the inequities made evident by COVID-19.
COVID-19 Response Fund
Cheryl Dorsey, President of Echoing Green, and Orlando C. Watkins, Vice President for Programs at the Boston Foundation, will discuss Cheryl’s research on racial bias in funding, Orlando’s efforts to tackle the issue as a Black executive in philanthropy and how the philanthropic sector in Greater Boston can reform its funding practices with a racial equity lens.
The Boston Foundation, together with Project Bread and Children’s HealthWatch, is pleased to join Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley for an exploration of pre-existing racial and ethnic inequities in food access, now dramatically exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The discussion will include data from before and during the pandemic, with a focus on opportunities to achieve equity in food access as part of recovery for all.
Join us online as the Boston Foundation and Animating Democracy share a review of the Live Arts Boston program's first three years of impact, featuring a panel discussion with LAB grantees Karen Young, Ana Masacote and Billy Dean Thomas, ans a performance from LAB grantee Naseem Alatrash.
The third installment of the Greater Boston Housing Report Card 2020 series looks at the looming challenges facing housing equity and stability even after the COVID-19 pandemic, and floats some policy ideas for protecting renters, landlords and homeowners
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Boston Indicators teams up with the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center and the Economic Security Project to explore how an expansion of the state Earned Income Tax Credit could provide a guaranteed income stream, and improved financial security, to over 1.7 million Massachusetts residents in families earning less than $70,000 per year.
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In the second installment of the Greater Boston Housing Report Card report series, researchers from the UMass Donahue Institute highlight the links between decades of housing inequity and lack of affordability and the spread of COVID-19 in 2020.
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A new study from the Housing Discrimination Testing Program at Suffolk University Law School, supported by the Boston Foundation, finds strong evidence of discrimination against Black and lower-income renters by agents and housing providers in Boston.
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The Boston Foundation’s 17th Greater Boston Housing Report Card, formatted into a webinar series in this pandemic year, presented its third and final research brief on September 23. Alicia Sasser Modestino, Research Director at Northeastern University’s Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy, shared data she had analyzed for a look ahead at what lies on the housing horizon as our region begins an economic recovery after COVID-19.
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The Boston Indicators team and partners from the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center and the Economica Security Project discuss a big idea for giving hundreds of thousands of state residents a guaranteed minimum income - and a ready-made vehicle to do it.
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The results of a major report funded by the Boston Foundation and the Racial Justice Fund, with research led by the Suffolk University Law School Housing Discrimination Testing Program and Analysis Group, Inc., revealed such extreme degrees of race and voucher discrimination in the Greater Boston rental market that it surprised even the researchers.
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