Hear from staff and partners about aspirations, accomplishments, and lessons learned along the way.
Designing Employee Leave Policies that Reflect Our Values
What we learned from reviewing our employee handbook through a lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Developing Principles for Racial Equity in Grantmaking
Barr's Vice President shares new principles to guide the Foundation's racial equity grantmaking and program strategies.
Barr and TNTP Announce New RFP for Districts to Attract and Retain Talented Educators of Color
New England school districts can apply for free landscape analyses to help understand and improve the diversity of their educator workforces.
Lessons from the Pandemic for Building Resilience
A new report calls for investing in approaches that are people focused, intersectional, institutional, and rooted in anti-racist and anti-oppressive practice.
Mark Edwards Joins Barr Board of Trustees
Expansion of Foundation’s board continues with addition of veteran nonprofit leader.
How Grantmakers and Governments Moved Quickly to Transform Public Spaces
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The COVID pandemic pushed Massachusetts cities and towns to rethink their public spaces. It also pushed us as funders to rethink how we do our work.
Why A Diverse Teacher Workforce Matters
Barr and TNTP discuss the critical role diverse educator workforces play in advancing equity and highlight a new funding opportunity for New England schools.
Barr Awards $20.7 Million in Second Quarter of 2021
Grants include support for a national investment fund for alternate economic systems in the arts, a convening series for affordable housing advocates, and sector-wide efforts to transform evaluation paradigms in philanthropy into tools for greater equity.
Ahead of the Heat Wave: Preparing for Extreme Heat in Massachusetts
Explore resources from the Metropolitan Area Planning Council's first Heat Preparedness Week.
From Commitment to Action: Barr’s Racial Equity Work
Barr’s president introduces refreshed core values, recent grant investments, and new website section focused on Barr’s commitment to racial equity.