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For the past two decades, TBFs Greater Boston Housing Report Card has been tracking housing policy in Massachusetts and helping to translate data into action. As we prepare to publish the 2025 edition, we just witnessed how 2024's report helped shift the conversation—and the outcomes—on housing in our region.
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TBF President and CEO Lee Pelton joined Boston Mayor Michelle Wu to highlight a new collaboration to support Greater Boston food providers in the face of Federal failure to pay for food safety net programs during the Government shutdown. These are his full prepared remarks.
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In a preview of data from the 2025 Greater Boston Housing Report Card, the Boston Indicators team explores new data that suggest Massachusetts has been creating higher levels of new housing units in recent years, but the upward trend may soon end.
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Connie Forbes is the finance and operations associate at Future Chefs, a nonprofit that provides early employment, transferable skills training, and ongoing coaching and support to adolescents and young adults in a culinary arts setting. Forbes served as a community reviewer for TBF’s Safety Net Grants special round in spring 2025. We spoke to her about her experience.
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The Boston Herald offers coverage on uncertainties surrounding the SNAP funding freeze during the continued federal shutdown, noting the newly announced partnership between the City of Boston and TBF to collect and distribute funds to support Greater Boston residents with food assistance.
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WBZ reports on local efforts to feed families amid SNAP uncertainty, shouting out food pantries that are filling gaps and a new partnership between the city and TBF to fund resources to support food access for impacted families.
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Amid deep uncertainty about SNAP funding, the City of Boston and TBF announced a newly launched collaborative effort with nearly $1.8 million already pledged to support Greater Boston residents with food assistance.
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TBF and the City of Boston announced a collaborative effort to support families in Greater Boston with food assistance reports NBC10 Boston.
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The 2025 Greater Boston Housing Report Card again explores the data at the heart of our housing challenges in Greater Boston, with a special section devoted to how communities in the region are implementing the requirements of the Commonwealth's MBTA Communities Act.
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The 24th edition in the series, the 2025 Greater Boston Housing Report Card finds that not even a burst in new housing construction has been able to cool the region's rising housing prices. And in the report's Special Topic, the Boston Univiersity initiative on Cities explores how three Boston suburbs have leaned into (or against) the spirit of the MBTA Communities Act.
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A survey of more than 500 Massachusetts nonprofit leaders and workers taken in the early months of the Trump Administration captures the extreme concern and downbeat expectations for both critical nonprofits and the communities they serve.The results helped guide TBF's plans for our Meeting the Moment effort.
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Across every community and area of need, nonprofit leaders see their work being made more difficult while demand for their services rises. Such findings inform our actions to meet this moment, some of which we cover in this edition of TBF News.
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For the past two decades, TBFs Greater Boston Housing Report Card has been tracking housing policy in Massachusetts and helping to translate data into action. As we prepare to publish the 2025 edition, we just witnessed how 2024's report helped shift the conversation—and the outcomes—on housing in our region.
Read more
TBF President and CEO Lee Pelton joined Boston Mayor Michelle Wu to highlight a new collaboration to support Greater Boston food providers in the face of Federal failure to pay for food safety net programs during the Government shutdown. These are his full prepared remarks.
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Connie Forbes is the finance and operations associate at Future Chefs, a nonprofit that provides early employment, transferable skills training, and ongoing coaching and support to adolescents and young adults in a culinary arts setting. Forbes served as a community reviewer for TBF’s Safety Net Grants special round in spring 2025. We spoke to her about her experience.
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Community leader Nickey Nesbeth, who founded the Caribbean Youth Club in 2010 and the Boston Girls Empowerment Network in 2013 and has headed the Black Refugee and Immigrant Community Coalition and Immigrant Workforce Development Initiative, was the spark that fired up the English for a Strong Economy coalition. We spoke to her about her overlapping projects shortly after she appeared on a TBF panel in June.
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As SkillWorks' Executive Director Andre Green emphasizes in an op ed for CommonWealth Beacon, with the funding in place that invests in ESOL, now is the time to build upon our advocacy wins and build out the systems to help our immigrant workforce learn English.
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In this piece published in Commonwealth Beacon, TBF President and CEO Lee Pelton highlights the Trump Administration's denial of data and calls for Boston and other cities to highlight the proven power of data-driven solutions.
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As federal changes threaten the most vulnerable across our region, TBF President and CEO Lee Pelton reflects on moral courage and leadership as TBF plans to lead a coordinated philanthropic response to mobilize resources and galvanize collective action, shared in his op ed for the BBJ.
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In her article for Nonprofit Quarterly, Candace Burton reflects on her work leading the Safety Net Grants program at TBF and the lessons we've learned about trust-based grantmaking, streamlining systems, and centering equity as we meet this moment.
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If we are to embrace our full potential as a city and region, says Keith Mahoney, we must recognize, support, and invest in the potential of our region's immigrants through English language education.
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Dwight Poler, Chair of the Boston Foundation, is the founder and CEO of AccelR8 Ventures, a fund investing in early-stage climate change mitigation technologies. A condensed and edited version of this interview appeared in the Spring 2025 Issue of TBF News.
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