Hear from staff and partners about aspirations, accomplishments, and lessons learned along the way.
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.
Giving that Considers All Costs
Three principles that guide Barr's approach to its grant investments.
Eight Questions with Barr's New Director of Learning and Evaluation
A conversation about the role of learning and evaluation in philanthropy with Yvonne Belanger.
Developing a New Vision of High School Education
Dr. Stephen Zrike, Receiver/Superintendent of Holyoke Public Schools, shares lessons from the high school design process that resulted in establishing a new vision for high school education in Holyoke.
Arts, Culture and Transportation: A Creative Placemaking Field Scan
New analysis bolsters the case for collaboration between arts and transportation to generate innovative solutions to pressing mobility challenges.
Sound Lessons from Seattle
Eight lessons from Massachusetts leaders on a study tour of mobility innovations in Seattle.
