#ShopAAPI Holiday Night Market
Wednesday, December 3, 2025, 5:00 - 8:00 OM
Events
The Boston Foundation sponsors a series of popular events designed to engage the community with the challenges facing our city and region. These are attended by thousands of dedicated people every year.
Upcoming Events
Food as Medicine: Reimagining Pediatric Health Beyond the Doctor’s Office
Friday, December 12, 2025, 9:30 - 11:00 AM
Autism and Mental Health: Shifting the Lens Through Lived Experience
Tuesday, December 16, 2025, 10:00 - 11:30 AM
CDCs and Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing
Wednesday, December 17, 2025, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Next Steps for Boston Dance Info Sessions
Next Steps for Boston Dance provides multi-layered support for Greater Boston’s choreographers and circus artists. Get a boost to the "next step" in your career with cash, subsidized rehearsal space, advice from experts, and a supportive cohort—all totaling over $12,500 in support. Applications for the upcoming grant cycle are due December 12; get the help you need at these free online sessions! (Click on the dates/times below to register!)
Saturday, December 6, 10–11:15am
Tuesday, December 9, 5–6:15pm
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Selected Recent Events
A Massachusetts Model for Medicaid Work Requirements
Thursday, November 20, 2025, 9:00 - 10:30 AM
The 2025 Greater Boston Housing Report Card Release
Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 9:00 - 10:30 AM The 2025 Housing Report Card event featured an exploration into supply, housing affordability and a conversation on the diverging paths of towns implementing the MBTA Communities Act.
Promises in Practice: The Momnibus Bill, One Year In
Thursday, November 6, 2025, 9:30 - 11:00 AM This event explored the progress and challenges for maternal health in the one year after the Commonwealth's landmark maternal health legislation.
From Classroom to Career: A New Vision for High School in Mass.
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from 9:00 - 10:45 AM This event emphasized the need for Massachusetts to set a clear vision and strategy for better preparing high school students for college and careers.
Building the Workforce to Power MA’s Climate Future
Wednesday, October 8, 2025 from 9:00 - 10:30 AM MA top climate official and other leaders gathered at TBF for a lively discussion of how to attract, train and employ the thousands of people the state will need to further our climate goals.
The Asian Community Fund's 2025 Gala
Friday, October 3, 2025 from 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM More than 700 people joined us for a night of celebration and networking for the Asian Community Fund’s 2025 Gala: Rising Together, a vibrant celebration of AAPI leadership, connection, and belonging across our region.
Coffee and Conversation - Parents as Civic Leaders: Reimagining Family Engagement in Today’s Climate
Friday, September 19, 2025, 9:30 - 11:00 AM Our first Coffee and Conversation of 2025-2026 highlighted opportunities to strengthen the role of parents as advocates for early education and care.
Immigrant Workers Matter: The Critical Importance of Investing in Vocational ESOL
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 9:00 to 10:30 AM SkillWorks hosted this forum bringing researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to discuss the impact of immigrant workers on MA, and the importance of vocational ESOL programs for unlocking greater opportunities.
2025 AAPI Business Leadership Breakfast
Wednesday, July 16, 2025, 9:00 - 11:00 AM This year’s AAPI Business Leadership Breakfast focused on how we strengthen the infrastructure around AAPI businesses, expand access to capital and contracts, and elevate the role of AAPI leadership in shaping inclusive economic growth.
The Dignity Dividend: Lessons Learned on Guaranteed Income in MA
Wednesday, July 16, 2025, 9:30 - 10:30 AM Boston Indicators released their special report on the growing guaranteed income ecosystem, including a literature review of the strongest GI evaluations conducted nationwide and a detailed catalog and synthesis of programs in Massachusetts.
The State of the AAPI Arts and Culture Sector in Massachusetts
Tuesday, June 17, 2025, 10:00 - 11:30 AM The AAPI Arts and Culture Collaborative at the Asian Community Fund led the release of this new report and arts assets inventories at an event featuring poetry, music and dance alongside the discussion.
Coffee & Conversation: Reflections on a Year of Nurturing Strong Beginnings
Friday, June 13, 2025, 9:30 - 11:00 AM The final Coffee & Conversation of the fiscal year, this quarterly series has brought together advocates, practitioners, professionals with lived experiences, political leaders, community champions, and our donor community.
2025 Equality Fund's Annual Pride Celebration
Thursday, June 12, 2025, 4:00 - 6:00 PM Thank you for joining us for the annual Equality Fund Pride Celebration, a time when we announce new grantees, celebrate our nonprofit partners’ transformative work, and recognize our donors’ commitment to the Fund’s mission!
Tienen alas, pero no las pueden usar: Stories of Immigrants in Search of Work Credentials
Tuesday, June 10, 2025, 9:00 - 10:30 AM This event featured the release of an new report by the Gastón Institute and the Latino Equity Fund, capturing the lived experiences of immigrants in Mass. who face systemic barriers to reentering their professions due to inequitable credentialing requirements.
Fireside Chat with Reverend Liz Walker and Lee Pelton
Thursday, May 29, 2025, 5:30 - 7:30 PM TBF hosted a fireside chat between President and CEO Lee Pelton and Reverend Liz Walker to discuss her new book, No One Left Alone. Discussion centered around Rev. Walker's personal story of becoming a pastor in Roxbury and helping a community navigate grief and find space in her congregation to heal.
A Mapping of Workforce Assets and Needs: Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health
Tuesday, May 20, 2025, 9:30 - 11:00 AM The release event for a new report and resource map brought practitioners and advocates to provide a deeper understanding of the existing gaps, needs, barriers, and areas of strength across the promotion, prevention, and intervention workforce.
The State of Latino-Serving Community-Based Organizations in MA
Monday, May 19, 2025, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Sharing insights from their latest report, the Latino Equity Fund at TBF, the Mauricio Gastón Institute at UMass Boston, and Philanthropy MA held a conversation exploring the role of Latino-led and Latino-serving organizations in MA.
LGBTQ+ People in Massachusetts
Tuesday, May 13, 2025, 9:00 - 10:30 AM The Equality Fund at TBF and the Fenway Institute released 'LGBTQ+ People in Massachusetts: Strengths, Challenges, and Opportunities in a Diverse Community,' a report featuring new research about our state’s LGBTQ+ community.
The Future of Collective Action for the Arts and Culture Sector
Thursday, May 8, 2025, 5:30 - 7:30 PM How can we organize ourselves to defend, mobilize and expand the role of the arts in society? A panel of leaders and activists took on this question in a discussion the current landscape and models and best practices for building collective action within and beyond our sector.
Voices of Experience: Massachusetts Rental Voucher Program
Wednesday, May 7, 2025, 9:00 - 10:30 AM Be among the first to explore the vivid findings from a new report leveraging surveys, focus groups and interviews to hear directly from tenants and landlords on their experiences with the Massachusetts Rental Voucher Program (MRVP).
The Shifting Federal Landscape: Mass. Nonprofits Raise the Alarm
Monday, May 5, 2025, 12:30 - 02:00 PM TBF, MA Nonprofit Network, and MassINC Polling Group released the MA Nonprofits Federal Impacts Survey results, with responses from 500+ nonprofit leaders highlighting near-universal expectations that Trump administration policies will make work more difficult for their nonprofits and the communities they serve.
Wealth Gaps in the Golden Years: Economic Insecurity for Older Adults in a High-Cost State
Thursday, May 1, 2025, 9:30 - 10:15 AM This event highlighted a new mixed-methods report by Boston Indicators in collaboration with the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College that explored the income and wealth of older households in Mass., with a special focus on low-income, low-wealth seniors.
Undervalued: Appraisal Bias in Massachusetts
Wednesday, April 30, 2025, 9:00 - 10:30 AM This event convened experts, policy leaders, and community members to understand, unpack, and address the occurrence and impact of appraisal bias in MA. The panel discussion provided background, share stories of homeowners’ experiences, and elevate potential solutions.
The Future of Creative and Live-Work Spaces
Thursday, April 10th, 2025, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.Co-hosted by TBF, Artists for Humanity, MassCreative, and Zumix, this event featured conversations with leaders and practitioners in the field exploring ways to develop, protect and stabilize artist live-work spaces.
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The Business of Care: Strengthening Family Child Care as a Path to Wealth Building
Friday, March 28, 2025 For the release of a new report examining the business side of family child-care, TBF, MassBudget and Boston Indicators brought together policymakers, advocates, funders, and providers to explore the essential role of home-based care in MA and ways it can serve as a pathway to wealth building and stability for early educators.
Pathways to Opportunity: Engaging Employers to Scale Work-Based Learning and Prepare Boston's Future Work
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 Education and workforce development innovators convened at TBF to discuss different angles on the theme of equitably preparing Boston students for rewarding careers while ensuring our region’s economic future with a diverse and skilled workforce.
The Future of Creative Workforce Development and Entrepreneurship
Thursday, March 13, 2025 During a panel discussion, guests both in-person and via livestream learned from leaders as they explored the challenges, opportunities, and tactics in driving towards a more collaborative and integrative creative economy and arts sector.
Boys & Men in Greater Boston
Thursday, March 6, 2025 In a lively conversation, Boston Indicators and the American Institute for Boys and Men explored the complex challenges facing boys and men in Greater Boston, and the possibilities for support systems that strengthen and support both boys and men and the larger community.
Transit-Supportive Density in Greater Boston
Thursday, January 30, 2025 TBF hosted the release of a new report from Boston Indicators and TransitMatters on the relationship between housing density and effective transit, and the possibilities for strengthening transit hubs in Greater Boston.
B COOL: 2024 Heat Temperature Sensor Pilot Project
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 TBF hosted the release of new data from a pilot project that captured significant differences in heat across Boston neighborhoods and sparked a discussion of how neighborhood-level heat data could be used to help residents and save lives.
“To Live and Thrive” in MA: Native American Perspectives on Wealth
Tuesday, January 14, 2025 TBF hosted an online forum to release the newest report from Boston Indicators and researchers at the Institute for New England Native American Studies at UMass Boston, “To Live and Thrive” in Massachusetts: Native Perspectives on Wealth.
The Great Wealth Transfer
Tuesday, December 17, 2024 Research shows the "Great Wealth Transfer" of more than $70 trillion from Baby Boomers to their descendants has the possibility of exacerbating racial wealth gaps. In this conversation, panelists say it doesn't have to be that way.
#ShopAAPI Holiday Market 2024
Wednesday, December 11, 2024 On December 11, the Asian Community Fund, the Asian Business Empowerment Council and the Boston Foundation were proud to host the second annual #ShopAAPI forum and night market at TBF’s offices in Boston.
Pathways to Opportunity: Non-Traditional Pathways to Career Success
Tuesday, December 10, 2024 In the third installment of the series “Pathways to Opportunity,” we explored non-traditional paths from high school to careers with a panel featuring five local leaders with a breadth of perspectives as educators, administrators and funders of this important work.
Coffee & Conversation: Parents Under Pressure
Friday, December 6, 2024 This conversation reviewed the U.S. Surgeon General report, Parents Under Pressure: The Critical Link Between Parental Mental Health and Children's Long-Term Well-Being, a dicscussion of the often-overlooked struggles of parents and the impact of these challenges on their children.
The 2024 Boston Foundation Annual Meeting: Powering a Culture of Philanthropy
Thursday, November 21, 2025 TBF's 2024 Annual Report is built around stories about our donors and the inventive ways they partner with the nonprofits and causes they support. We're also pleased to highlight a new video series that captures our partnerships with nonprofit leaders and organizations across our Pathways to Equity.
Building Blocks: Status of Child Care Reform in MA and What Comes Next
Tuesday, November 19, 2024 TBF hosted the release of MTF’s follow-up report, “Building Blocks: Status of Child Care Reform in Massachusetts and What Comes Next,” accompanied by a panel discussion among sector leaders on themes and issues the report highlighted.
Minding the Gap: Personal Wealth
Friday, November 15, 2024 In the final installment of the Racial Wealth Gap Partnership's 'Minding the Gap' series, we dug into the systemic and individual-level challenges created by the racial wealth gap in personal wealth.
Pathways to Opportunity: A Conversation about High School-Based Pathways in Boston
Thursday, November 14, 2024 TBF's second Pathways to Opportunity convening, in partnership with EdVestors, highlighted opportunities to build stronger and more equitable partnerships between high schools and postsecondary institutions, to create more seamless pathways for student success.
