“History Will Judge Us Harshly If We Remain Complacent”
Supporting Young Children
“History will judge us harshly—not if we are too bold and ambitious, but rather, if we remain complacent or think too small… We have a unique window – and an…
Delta Sigma Theta and United Way Join Forces to Support New and Expectant Mothers
Supporting Young Children
Pregnancy can be a joyful experience for expectant mothers and their families. Unfortunately for some women, significant disparities persist in the healthcare available to them. These disparities often run along…
United Way Convening New Boston Commission to End Family Homelessness
Ending Homelessness
Innovative solutions are needed to provide a coordinated response to the crisis of family homelessness across the Commonwealth, and in 2020, United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley was…
Unprecedented State Investment Creates Once-In-A-Lifetime Opportunity to End Homelessness in Massachusetts
Ending Homelessness
The passage of over $150 million in funds to create more supportive housing through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) is an historic moment for the movement to end homelessness…
Special Series: Childcare Workforce Crisis Threatens an Equitable Recovery
Preparing Youth to Succeed, Supporting Young Children
The workforce that powers our economy is in crisis. Early education is essential infrastructure for a healthy economy. Yet over the past decade, a childcare crisis has arisen, with the…
Special Series: COVID-19 and the Workforce Crisis
Disaster Relief, Moving Families Out of Poverty
This post is part of a special series about the workforce challenges our region faces and how we’re partnering to address them. Last week’s employment data from the Massachusetts Executive Office of…
Our Vision for an Equitable Recovery
Disaster Relief, Ending Homelessness, Moving Families Out of Poverty, Supporting Young Children
As our region recovers, thousands of children and families are at risk of being left behind. Here are three urgent issues we can address, now. Covid-19 is a once-in-a-generation crisis…
Massachusetts infused $7M into summer learning programs. See how it will impact young learners.
Supporting Young Children
Over the past 18 months, remote learning brought a whole new set of challenges for children and families, particularly those in communities that were disproportionately hit by Covid-19. Enrollments dropped…
3 Steps to Achieve Housing Justice For All
Ending Homelessness
Turning this point in time into a moment in time when we achieve housing justice for all COVID-19 has pushed an already under-resourced and overstretched shelter system to the brink.…
A Catalyst for Opportunity
DEI
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…