Hear from staff and partners about aspirations, accomplishments, and lessons learned along the way.
Erin Long via Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts
What Are My Options for Boston Schools?
New website profiles every school in Boston, giving parents easy access to the information they care about most.
Barr Foundation Announces Creative Commonwealth Initiative
In partnership with five community foundations, Barr launches new $3 million initiative to strengthen arts and creativity across Massachusetts.
In a Funding Portfolio, Diversity Drives Impact
Five lessons from a partnership between the Barr Foundation and Community Labor United.
Barr’s New Climate Resilience Strategies
Climate Program Co-Directors Mariella Puerto and Mary Skelton Roberts outline the rationale, priorities, and early steps of the Foundation’s newly-expanded focus on resilience.
From Planning to Action: Preparing Boston for a Changing Climate
Mia Mansfield, program manager for the City of Boston’s Climate Ready Boston initiative, talks about the findings, next steps, and key lessons from Boston’s most recent climate resilience report.
Time for Aspiration for Mobility in Massachusetts
Reflections on the urgency, and possibility of dramatic change in Massachusetts’ transportation system in 2018 and beyond.
Barr Foundation Expands Climate Program
With an initial $5 million commitment for 2018, Barr Foundation adds climate resilience as a third priority of its Climate program.
Barr Awards $23.8 Million in New Grants
Including support for creative placemaking partnerships, student-centered high school models, clean energy technology projects, and the creation of a great public realm throughout Boston’s waterfront.
Riding the Bus Is About to Get Better for 30,000 Commuters
Arlington, Everett, and Cambridge in partnership with Watertown, receive $100,000 grants to demonstrate BRT’s potential.
Because We All Love our Children
They entered the room as adversaries. They left as partners, committed, for their children’s sake, to solve a pressing climate challenge.