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.

Two new reports track a recent decline in Boston Public Schools students heading to college, and show that transition coaching programs like Success Boston could be a powerful tool to ensure that more BPS grads achieve postsecondary success.

This investment brings the BEF investment in growing Black and Brown-owned businesses to over $6 million since the Fund's founding. Urban Grape is the 18th business to benefit from patient capital from BEF.

The new round of grantees receive multilayered support for their work, including rehearsal space, consulting and other supports and join a diverse roster of past and present receipients.

James Vaznis with The Boston Globe provides an overview of findings in two newly released reports highlighting the persistent challenges facing efforts to increase the percentage of Boston Public Schools graduates enrolling in and completing postsecondary education – and the power of Success Boston coaching supports to shift the dynamic.

Accompanying the release of two new reports by Success Boston, in this Boston Globe op-ed our President and CEO Lee Pelton and Bunker Hill Community College President Pam Eddinger are advocating for investing in higher education to benefit students and the state.

WBUR shares findings from a new report by TBF and the Boston Private Industry Council, with data depicting the drop in college enrollment and completion rates for Boston Public Schools graduates, and related report by Success Boston and Abt Associates which highlights the positive impact on these figures for students who received Success Boston coaching.

Aixa Beauchamp, co-chair of the Latino Equity Fund co-authors an op-ed for Boston Business Journal delving into the disproportionate impact of MA's affordable housing shortage on the health and economic stability of the state's Latino and Latino immigrant communities.

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.

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.

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.

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.