October is National Arts & Humanities Month. In this blog post by Laura Reyes, Program Officer, Arts and Creativity at TBF, we're spotlighting the importance of arts in our community, celebrating and sharing several artists and organizations and contributions to the creative communities in recognition of the month.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton, there are a number of places where donors can help support the communities that are affected. This giving guide has been compiled as a resource for donors.

With the 2024 Election approaching, many donors are looking for ways to support organizations focused on voting rights and democracy. TBF has compiled a list of non-partisan organizations working to increase civic engagement and strengthen democracy in both Massachusetts and across the country.

Yesterday, at the Massachusetts State House, Gov. Maura Healey signed into law the Frances Perkins Wage Equity Act. The Boston Foundation is a proud partner, leading advocate and convenor of the Wage Equity Now coalition, which has been working for years to bring this new law to fruition.

A thread running through much of the work of the Boston Foundation is the concept of spatial justice—the equity-centered preservation of communal spaces that define and exemplify the character of Boston’s neighborhoods. Faced with the increasingly rapid loss of spaces that are welcoming and meaningful, especially to residents of color, we believe there is a critical need to proactively preserve these invaluable community assets.

"As we look through an equity lens, and with an understanding of history, we see it is no coincidence that the neighborhoods that are experiencing the first and worst impacts of climate change are the same neighborhoods that have faced the harshest impacts of other systemic inequities," - TBF enters the climate change space with a focus on health equity.

Sudan was already in the midst of a humanitarian crisis when the long-standing conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces burst into full-out war in 2023 and threw the entire country into crisis. A year later, over half of the country, 25 million people, is in desperate need of aid as they face overwhelming violence and the threat of famine with staggering rates of malnutrition.

The Latino Equity Fund pays tribute to co-founder and advisory board co-chair Aixa Beauchamp for her vision and leadership making the fund an influential and important grantmaker for Massachusetts' Latino communities.

In the first of a new series of posts from VP/Chief Program Officer Orlando Watkins, he and Candace Burton, Program Officer for our Safety Net Grants program, lay out the years of work leading up to our efforts to engage (and reward) community review processes as a part of our discretionary grantmaking process.

Vetto Casado, TBF's Director of the new Shifting Power, Advancing Justice partnership, traces a pathway that began in his mother's living room to a powerful evening with six remarkable leaders and a new effort to amplify their leadership.