Hear from staff and partners about aspirations, accomplishments, and lessons learned along the way.
Erin Long via Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts
Boston Green and Healthy Building Network
The Boston Green & Healthy Building Network provides a platform for collaboration to promote green and healthy buildings for representatives from about ten Boston-area non-profit organizations and the City of Boston. This case study summarizes learnings and maps the evolution of the network's composition and dynamics since it was launched in 2005 at the initiative of the Barr Foundation.
Immigrant Engagement in Public Open Space
The first immigrants to arrive in Massachusetts brought with them a clear mental image of what public open space should look like and how it should be used.
Lawrence Community Works
The problem that Lawrence, Massachusetts faces is familiar: how to restore a dying industrial city. But the answer is far from what community and economic developers are accustomed to trying. In quite unconventional ways, it builds heavily upon the social connections of individuals throughout the city to develop new leadership, vision, and change.
Moving Cooler: An Analysis of Transportation Strategies
Moving Cooler examines over 50 strategies for transportation reform.
Barr Foundation 2007 Grantee Perception Report
Barr engaged The Center for Effective Philanthropy to conduct our second Grantee Perception Report.
Building the Field of Dreams
A new report on Social Networks as a Source of Sector-Level Capacity in the After-School World.
The Departing: Exiting Nonprofit Leaders as Resources for Social Change
A new report from Grantmakers for Effective Organizations.
The Climate Gap: Inequalities in How Climate Change Hurts Americans & How to Close the Gap
The Climate Gap focuses its sites on California to determine how vulnerable citizens across the United States will cope as the environment responds to climate change.
Barr Foundation Racial Justice Analysis
In 2007, Barr engaged the Applied Research Center and the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity to assess our work to address inequities, especially those related to race.
Understanding Cultural Competency in Experiential Environmental Education Programs
This report contains results from the assessments, recommendations for the environmental education field and a section on cultural competency metrics.