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New data show the number of Boston Public Schools grads going to higher educaton after graduation has dropped sharply, but that Success Boston coaching provides critical supports.
Great Migration to Global Immigration: A Profile of Black Boston explores how Greater Boston's Black communities have changed – and grown – to become one of the most diverse in the nation, with the largest growth coming in communities outside of Boston.
Knox arrives at TBF with over two decades of experience with Boston-area nonprofits, most recently as Executive Director of Root, the Salem, Mass.-based nonprofit that trains young people for jobs in the culinary sector. Since 2012, the Equality Fund has given nearly $1.5 million to LGBTQ+-led and -serving nonprofits.
In 2022, Citizens Housing and Planning Association (CHAPA), , with expanded funding by TBF and the United Way of Massachusetts Bay, launched the Neighborhood Emergency Housing Support Program, a one-time grant for community-based organizations to conduct proactive outreach to residents about housing stability resources. Following the program, the Metropolitan Area Planning Council analyzed the efficacy of emergency rental relief and the vital role of community-based organizations. Join us for a review of the recommendations as well as a panel discussion featuring community-based organization representatives sharing their experiences.
The latest update to the Boston Opportunity Agenda's study of supply and demand for early education and care in Boston finds pandemic-related investments helped avert a crists, but a continuing shortage of places for children in infant and toddler classrooms.
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Written by Luc Schuster and Peter Ciurczak of Boston Indicators with James Jennings, Ph.D., in partnership with Embrace Boston, this report explores the changes in demographics of Greater Boston's Black communities - and a population that today is among the most diverse Black populations in the country.
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This update of the college enrollment and completion trends for Boston Public Schools graduates finds the pandemic accelerated a decrease in postsecondary enrollment among students, while completion rates held at the same level of prior years.
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The final report in a study of Success Boston finds that Success Boston's transition coaching has a significant impact on students' ability to complete their postsecondary education, increasing the likelihood of completion by as much as 21 percent in some cases.
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An in-person forum at Roxbury Community College provided a moment to present Boston Indicators' latest report with James Jennings, and more deeply explore and celebrate Greater Boston's growing and diversifying Black population.
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The simultaneous release of two new reports on efforts to get Boston Public Schools graduates into and through postsecondary education provided great subject matter for discussion at a well-attended online forum.
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TBF hosted a webinar to review a new report about the complex early childhood education and care subsidy system in Massachusetts. Following the research presentations, panelists representing different segments of the early childhood ecosystem discussed the implications of these findings and recommendations to strengthen the subsidy system in Massachusetts.
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Co-Sponsored by Boston Indicators, the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center and Massachusetts Voter Table, the event featured three presentations on the history and importance of data to drive solutions to critical problems, and ongoing efforts to ensure that Census data now and heading toward Census 2030 reflects a complete count of residents.
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