Today, we remember Mel King, whose image provided the backdrop for the cover of our 2020 Annual Report. The mural in his honor at Madison Park High School – and his message of determination, strength, resilience and community – seemed the perfect setting for a cover recognizing the generation of leaders shaping a new Boston in the post-pandemic era. His impact on the city will not be forgotten.
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.
In this op-ed for the Boston Globe, President and CEO Lee Pelton and Bunker Hill Community College President Pam Eddinger highlight how needed investments in higher education can lead directly to better outcomes for students.
We look back at the dedication of the Embrace. Plus, learn more about TBF's new recoverable grants opportunities for donors, and how one TBF donor is providing direct assistance to some of the millions of people displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine. Click here to subscribe!
This new report analyzes the region’s unique and growing intra-Black diversity, maps how residential patterns have shifted, and details how disparities by income and wealth manifest across Black communities. Discussion at the event will unpack what these trends mean for our shared efforts to move forward toward justice. The event will include music, food, drink and opportunities to connect at receptions both before and after the program.
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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A new report from a partnership of housing groups finds that MA could provide affordable housing for 240,000 families by investing in an expansion of the state’s housing voucher program, Massachusetts Rental Voucher Program (MRVP), answering key questions about how the expansion might work, how many could benefit, what it would cost, and how we could meet the implementation challenges.
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A new bipartisan position paper explores the educational opportunities available to the incarcerated in Massachusetts, and calls on lawmakers to make genuine, transformative, ambitious college education a central component within the state prison system.
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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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Held in conjunction with the release of the first in a series of biennial report cards on the state of the city in a changing climate, our virtual forum dug in on the barriers to change, and highlighted where Boston can continue to be a world leader in climate response
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