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| The Boston Foundation’s civic leadership is conducted through our Understanding Boston formula for positive change. With an emphasis on strengthening this region’s competitiveness in the global economy, the Foundation works with many partners to publish cutting edge research, hold public forums, and convene task forces of experts and stakeholders to create action agendas for real change. |
This is the second report researched and written by the New England Healthcare Institute for the Boston Foundation. The previous report used stunning statistics to draw attention to a growing crisis of preventable chronic disease that not only threatens the physical health of Greater Boston‘s residents but is crowding out investment in other crucial priorities. This Blueprint prescribes a number of reforms to address these issues. |
This report details the impact of the ongoing economic crisis on the region’s nonprofit organizations, identifying trends toward increased strategic alliances and mergers as financial support form all sources continues to shrink. It builds on the findings of the Foundation’s in-depth report on the sector published in June 2008. Click here to download the presentation used at the forum and here to view video clips of the entire forum. |
Informing the Debate: Comparing Boston’s Charter, Pilot and Traditional Schools
On January 6, 2009, the Boston Foundation and the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education released a groundbreaking report by a team of Harvard and MIT researchers at an Understanding Boston forum that, for the first time, effectively compares student performance at charter and pilot schools against a similar group of students attending traditional public schools in Boston. The report uses an innovative research design based on school lotteries that made possible a direct comparison of charter and pilot school students with their peers, for the first time.
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