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Now is the time to move equity.

Now is the time to move Boston.

Powering a Culture of Philanthropy

TBF's 2024 Annual Report is built around the remarkable and moving stories about our community of donors and the inventive and very personal ways in which they partner with the nonprofit organizations and causes they support. To complement that work, we're also pleased to highlight a new video series that captures our partnerships with nonprofit leaders and organizations across our Pathways to Equity, and the collaborative work at the heart of creating a stronger, more equitable Boston.

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Closing Wealth Gaps

Lee Pelton gives remarks at the ONE+ Launch event with the Lt. Governor and Governor behind him onstage
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TBF's Wealth Gap Partnership sparks launch of ONE+ Mortgage Program to unlock homeownership for Low- and Moderate-Income First-Time Homebuyers

The new program, announced at an event in Lynn with Mass. Governor Maura Healey and Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll, begins with $11 million in philanthropic and public commitments, including over $7 million from Partnership members including TBF, Eastern Bank Foundation and the State Street Foundation.

Read more about the announcement

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"This is our promise to you. There is no other way."

More than 300 friends and partners gathered at TBF’s Annual Meeting, where Lee Pelton, President and CEO, shared his vision of the Foundation's role in facing the challenges ahead and where we can and must go to build a more equitable future for Greater Boston.

Read Lee Pelton's remarks from the Annual Meeting
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The Latino Equity Fund announces $450,000 in grants to 13 Latinx-led and Latinx-serving organizations

The grants bring the Fund’s total grantmaking to over $2.3 million since 2013, with $1.2 million distributed since Javier Juarez became the Fund’s Director in early 2023.

Read the announcement

Greater Boston Housing Report Card explores high prices, slow pace of construction - and an untapped opportunity

The 2024 Report Card tracks the core metrics across Greater Boston, and takes a closer look at whether freeing up vacant public lands in Eastern Mass. could provide space for 85,000 new units or more.

Explore the report
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Powering Up Together calls for partnership to design plans for climate-friendly retrofits of Boston's small buildings

The new report looks at the slow progress of getting new climate technology into Boston's small buildings, and looks to philanthropists and other partners to accelerate adoption.

Explore the report

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
Pathways Venn Diagram - Child Well Being, Economic Opportunity, Community Wealth, Community Leadership
The Resource Organizing Project’s staff at the 2024 summer Grassroots Celebration (from left): Ashley Blount, Dave Jenkins, Liza Behrendt and Katherine Asuncion.

You by our side. Equity at the center.

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

Upcoming Events

Visit our Events page for even more upcoming opportunities.

 

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Pathways to Opportunity: Non-Traditional Pathways to Career Success

TBF and United Way of Massachusetts Bay invite you to our next convening on career-connected learning for young people in Boston. Featuring new and non-traditional pathways to success for students and young adults in Greater Boston, leaders from nonprofits, schools, and philanthropy will come together to discuss the importance of providing versatile, flexible, high-quality secondary and postsecondary career-building paths to young people.

Register for this hybrid event
A photo in the atrium at the TBF office during the 2023 Shop AAPI holiday night market shows a large crowd of people shopping from tabled businesses selling merchandise.
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#ShopAAPI Holiday 2024

Join us for the 2024 Annual #ShopAAPI Holiday festivities, a vibrant celebration of local AAPI small businesses and a perfect way to kick off the holiday season! Kicking off at 4:30 pm, the AAPI Intergenerational Entrepreneurship Panel will explore how values, culture, and approaches to business have evolved. Then, starting at 5:00 pm, the festive night market will feature 40 AAPI-owned vendors with everything from handcrafted goods to pop-up food court treats.

Register for this in-person event

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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.