The Barr Foundation, a stalwart Boston funder, is helping arts groups to take more risks and engage in stronger civic leadership. What’s its plan for making the arts more “relevant?”
Read MoreIf there's one thing that nonprofits may want from foundations even more than general operating grants, it's multi-year support. The Cummings Foundation is expanding an unusual program that offers exactly that.
Read MoreThe Nellie Mae Education Foundation, a leading K-12 funder in New England, has lately been engaged in a strategic planning process that puts race front and center. How’s it changing as a result?
Read MoreThe Rhode Island Foundation is over a century old and the largest funder of nonprofits in the state. Here's a look at this funder's LGBTQ grantmaking strategy.
Read MoreBill Cummings isn't one of the flashy mega-givers that often get attention these days. But he's been a pathbreaking philanthropist in his own way. He talks to IP about his new book and how he operates.
Read MoreRobert and Karen Hale awarded $50 million gifts to both the Boston Children’s Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital to support patient care innovations at the hospitals.
Read MoreThe Tufts Health Plan Foundation is taking a long-term and forward-thinking approach to aging issues in New England. We take a quick look.
Read MoreThe Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation gives to community groups in Boston and elsewhere in the state with a big emphasis on access.
Read MoreIn the most recent round of TBF giving, its youth grants really stood out. Here's where the money is going.
Read MoreIt's not often we see corporate funders take a collective impact approach to a tough social problem. But tapping deep ties in Boston, the Liberty Mutual Foundation is doing exactly that to help homeless youth.
Read MoreVertex Pharmaceuticals announced a 10-year, $500 million commitment to corporate giving, including creating a new foundation. At least $50 million of that will be going to STEAM education in Boston.
Read MoreThe humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico hasn't generated a very strong response from philanthropy. Which is why a funding effort in Massachusetts that's raised badly needed relief money stands out.
Read MoreThe Boston Foundation has been hammering away at workforce challenges for years and shows no signs of letting up, even though it also has a lot of other balls in the air.
Read MoreA majority of the Barr Foundation's grants go toward education, climate and the the arts. However, some grants also fall outside these categories. What does that money go?
Read MoreThe nation's top donor-advised fund, which made a staggering 849,000 grants in 2016, has crunched its data to analyze what giving looks like in different regions of the U.S. It's worth paying attention.
Read MoreThe Boston Foundation has a grant program that lets staff members vote on a deserving local nonprofit. Here's how that works and the types of groups that tend to catch the staff's attention.
Read MoreThere are a number of law firm foundations that are worth watching closely, especially in New York City and Boston. Brown Rudnick Charitable Foundation is one of them. Where do its grants go?
Read MoreLGBTQ seniors outside of cities face isolation and risk of depression due to the lack of community and resources available to them. Some local health funders are stepping up to help.
Read MoreThe Ruderman Family Foundation isn't the only Boston funder charging hard lately on disability. Steven P. Rosenthal has also been stepping things up in this niche funding area.
Read MoreThe Tufts Health Plan Foundation has stepped up to the plate for affordable housing in Boston. But it focuses on a niche demographic that's often overlooked in the shuffle: the elderly.
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