Hear from staff and partners about aspirations, accomplishments, and lessons learned along the way.
Erin Long via Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts
Announcing the 2024 Transformative Leaders of Massachusetts Fellows
The call for transformative leadership went out, educators from across the state answered.
Barr Awards $34.5 Million in Third Quarter of 2024
New grants will support community-based organizations advancing transportation and climate justice efforts across Massachusetts, literacy and youth leadership development programming for students, and art and cultural spaces that nurture community and connection.
Strong Relationships with Grantees Are Essential to Effective Philanthropy
What we learned from candid feedback from Barr’s grantees.
Our Last Stop on the Boston BRT: The Right Time to Step Away
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How we pivoted when the original vision wasn’t working. We thought we had a perfect plan to modernize Boston’s bus system — until it faced unanticipated roadblocks.
Exploring Arts Vibrancy in Massachusetts: Strengths and Opportunities
A new report and map produced by SMU DataArts for the Barr Foundation documents high levels of arts vibrancy across the state of Massachusetts and prompts an important conversation about who is included in arts datasets.
Paying Arts Workers Equitably Improves Life for Everyone
Paying arts workers equitably improves life for everyone. It’s not only the right thing to do for art workers, but also the right thing to do for communities and art itself.
Three Questions with Kathryn Wright, Senior Program Officer for Clean Energy at the Barr Foundation, and Jay Campbell, Partner at Hart Research
Interview: Sam Schacht of Clean Energy States Alliance speaks with Kathryn Wright, Senior Program Officer for Clean Energy at the Barr Foundation, and Jay Campbell, Partner at Hart Research about what we can learn from the findings from their offshore wind survey.
Announcing the 2024 Live Arts Boston Grantees
Seeding futures for the performing arts—over $1 million in new grants to 30 individual artists in Greater Boston
Five Questions with Natasha Ushomirsky, Program Officer, Education
Natasha Ushomirsky, program officer for the Build Public Will portfolio, shares what inspires her commitment to community building for equity in education and how her life experiences inform her work.
Six Questions with Lisette Le, Director, Racial Wealth Equity Initiative
Lisette Le shares her perspective on possibility creation and opportunities for advancing racial wealth equity in Massachusetts.