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Join the Boston Foundation and Children's HealthWatch, headquartered at Boston Medical Center, as they release findings from their newest report, "Pathways to Stable Homes." This new, innovative research documents the synergistic combination of policies designed to ensure that working families in each low-income county of Massachusetts are able to pay for rent without sacrificing basic needs.
The Boston Foundation's Grassroots Strategy in partnership with Boston Indicators and the Greater Boston Immigrant Defense Fund will release a detailed briefing to the general public highlighting the recent immigration-related developments such as: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, Public Charge, the termination of Temporary Protected Status, and changes to humanitarian protection programs for refugees and asylum seekers.
The Boston Foundation invites applications from place-based organizations in the Boston region to enter the inaugural cohort of the Place Leadership Network. The Network program includes a nine-month fellowship curriculum, where local place-based leaders will learn from one another, access a network of expertise and resources, and advance transformative projects for their communities in an institute setting, followed by opportunities for funding to implement programs and projects that are developed as part of the Institute.
Producer in partnership with children's HealthWatch, this report demonstrates how enacting policies to reduce child care costs and raise the Earned Income Tax Credit, among others, can be a powerful complement to lowering housing costs to reduce family homelessness and improve health.
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The Boston Foundation partnered with the Rennie Center for this exploration of the practices that are increasing college and career readiness at the Edward M. Kennedy Academy of Health Careers, winner of the 2018 Pozen Prize for Innovative Schools.
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Boston Indicators teams up with the UMass Donahue Institute and UMass Boston research teams to explore the dramatic change in greater Boston's demographics since 1990, and the impact on Boston's neighborhoods and the region's cities and towns.
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Using examples from other states and similar programs already in existence in Massachusetts, Richard Kazis and Nancy Snyder present design principles for a new statewide paid internship initiative that would provide community college students with work experience opportunities.
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The new WBUR CitySpace served as the perfect setting for the 2019 Boston EdTalks, a series of brilliant presentations by Boston-area educators on the challenges, opportunities and rewards of life in and around the classroom.
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A capacity crowd filled the Edgerley Center as researchers from Boston Indicators, UMass Boston and the UMass Donahue Institute rolled out new research on the rapid demographic change in Greater Boston - and a panel of local leaders reacted.
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The Massachusetts Commissioner of Higher Education and Board Chair led a discussion of what plans are in place to manage the challenging times for small private colleges and their students - and laid out a framework for accountability and support.
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At the release of a new series of papers on the next generation of workforce development, panelists worked to unpack the challenges and opportunities a tight labor market provides for workforce development, and the tools and strategies smart organizations are already using.
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A new report and powerful panel discussion look at how Boston Public Schools students have compared to peers nationally on achievement tests, and how stakeholders perceive the effectiveness of the district.
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