The DEI Learning and Development subcommittee is leading our internal learning journey as a collective United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley staff. Each month, the committee selects a…
The purpose of BoSTEM’s Partner Spotlight series is to reveal the ways STEM Out-of-School Time (OST) programs throughout the city of Boston are rethinking education, and engaging with students. In this blog, we explore with HMS MEDscience their…
“The Hill We Climb” is one of the most essential pieces of literature that students should learn in 2021 and can be put into any classroom. Also, Amanda Gorman, a…
For many families, tax refunds are essential to financial stability. In fact, many initiatives to get money into the hands of those who need it most are baked into the…
Karen Groce-Horan is the Senior Director of Diversity Equity Inclusion Priorities at the United Way of Massachusetts Bay & Merrimack Valley I, Karen Groce-Horan, am committing to living this February…
Krissy Davis’ energy is contagious. A long-time United Way Tocqueville Donor, busy executive at Deloitte and mother of two young daughters, she speaks quickly, with the air of someone whose…
This year on Ada Lovelace’s birthday and during Computer Science Education Week BoSTEM celebrated the first published female computer scientist to encourage more women to pursue a career in computer…
Many of us spent last week giving good riddance to 2020, while expressing hope and optimism for 2021 and the promise that it held for our lives and our communities to be better. But the storming of…
The holidays are here and, for all of us, this year looks different than any before. But for many, it may mean no holidays at all as 1 million people…
Nadine moved to the U.S. 30 years ago and for the last six years, she has worked as a housekeeper at the Westin Copley. It was a steady job that…