Boston – announced today that for the first time in its 99-year history it had net assets totaling more than $1 billion, and that the Foundation and its donors shattered Foundation records for grantmaking with $112 million in grants paid out in the 2014 fiscal year, which ended June 30. “This is truly a remarkable milestone in the long and illustrious history of this foundation,” said Paul S. Grogan, President and CEO of the Boston Foundation. “But the billion-dollar milestone would be meaningless if it weren't generating millions of dollars in grants to organizations that extend Continue reading >>>

Supt. of Everett Schools Frederick Foresteire said the GBL-NEC Jamboree Friday night was the first step in a renewal of the Greater Boston League’s bid to create a merger with the Northeastern Conference. Currently there are four GBL schools (Everett, Malden, Medford, and Somerville) and 12 NEC schools (Saugus is returning to the NEC from the Cape Ann League in 2015). Foresteire rolled out the red carpet for the visiting NEC schools, their administrators, and their students. EHS student ambassadors welcomed fans at the stadium’s gates while  students in the culinary arts catered a meal that Continue reading >>>

BOSTON (Sept. 5, 2014) — Goodyear will be among companies presenting at the upcoming Northeast L.E.A.N. Conference, Oct. 1 and 2 at the Mass Mutual Center in Springfield, Mass.Hosting the 10th annual L.E.A.N. Conference is the Greater Boston Manufacturing Partnership (GBMP Inc.), a not-for-profit organization with the mission to help U.S. companies “implement the philosophies and tools of continuous improvement to enable them to compete profitably in the global economy,” according to GBMP.Billy Ray Taylor, director of Commercial Continue reading >>>

The following is a list of questions The Republican/MassLive.com sent to each candidate running to be the next state treasurer this election season, with their responses, verbatim, as submitted. This posts and the others like it are part of the news organization's collective intention to further deliver the candidates straight to the voters to help inform their decisions on election day. The following is the response of Mike Heffernan, the founder of a mobile technology company. Springfield will be the host city for MGM’s resort casino, unless the state’s gambling law is repealed. How will Continue reading >>>

Rates of international student attendance at Boston University have significantly climbed in recent years. GRAPHIC BY EMILY ZABOSKI/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF With a record-breaking number of international students housed on Boston University’s campus for the 2014-15 academic year, the incoming freshman class includes 900 international students, amounting to about 23 percent of the Class of 2018 and representing 72 countries. International undergraduates currently enrolled at BU represent a fraction of those in the Greater Boston area, recently named the third-most popular college destination Continue reading >>>

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Art Bingo …. an album-inspired 7-course dinner … tropical floating harbor art … sand casting workshops …mask theatre for families…fashion sketching on Newbury Street…community auditions on an iconic stage ... …a creative economy how-to panel …art and yoga… free family improv lessons … outdoor jazz dance party … shipping container photo galleries …a latino harp concert … these are just a sampling of the 60+ one-of-a-kind creative experiences happening in and around the city during Fall ArtWeek Boston.The full schedule of offerings is now available here.Celebrating Continue reading >>>

The Boston Globe has uncovered public records showing that Mohegan Sun’s so-called marketing agreement with the state, in the event it winds up with a license to build a Suffolk Downs gambling resort in Revere, would allow it to promote its Connecticut casino to Greater Boston residents. Mohegan Sun has said it would not try to lure Greater Boston residents to Connecticut, where the tax rates on gaming institutions are lower, if it had a casino up here. For Massachusetts, seeing people leave the state to gamble defeats the very purpose of establishing casinos here in the first place. The Continue reading >>>

North Cambridge Around Alewife The development wave around the last stop on the Red Line started to crest in the last half of 2012, as a plethora of projects inched toward their groundbreakings, completions or approvals. These included the 227-unit Residences at Alewife; the 428-unit Atmark Cambridge (its bocce court is picture above); and the 244-unit 165 Cambridgepark Drive. All totaled, these and other developments are spilling more than 1,200 new apartments onto the Alewife area market. That's not only a lot of new tenants but a lot of Cantabrigians. Can the notoriously change-averse city Continue reading >>>