The Boston Opportunity works as a series of overlapping partnerships including not only its core partners but more than a hundred funders, investors, education and community partners, and institutions of higher education.
The public/private partnership is entering its eleventh year and is governed by the CEOs of each core partner organization. Together they identify strategic issues facing our education pipeline in whole or in part, formulate the Boston Opportunity Agenda priorities and strategies, and provide a call to action for community stakeholders.
These generous investors have made the Boston Opportunity Agenda’s accomplishments possible:
Angell Foundation
Annie E. Casey Foundation
Paul & Edith Babson Foundation
The Beal Companies, LLP
Blue Cross Blue Shield
Boston Children’s Hospital
Boston Public Health Commission
Boston Rising
Margaret A. Bush
Deloitte LLP
Eastern Charitable Foundation
Jessie B. Cox Charitable Trust
Ford Foundation
Frieze Family Foundation
Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation
John Hancock Financial Services
The Hayden Foundation
Hildreth Stewart Fund
Nancy R. Karp
Klarman Family Foundation
W. K. Kellogg Foundation
Robert & Myra Kraft Family Foundation
Marjorie L. and James M. Lober Fund
Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care
Herman & Frieda L. Miller Foundation
The National Summer Learning Association
Partners HealthCare
Harold Whitworth Pierce Charitable Trust
Charles S. and Zena A. Scimeca Charitable Fund
W. Clement and Jessie V. Stone Foundation
Matthew J. & Gilda F. Strazzula Foundation
Sunrise Fund
Sally Suttenfield Webb Fund
Verizon Foundation
The Wallace Foundation
Charles A. Walsh, III
M. Lee Pelton, The Boston Foundation, Chair
Bob Giannino, United Way of Massachusetts Bay, Vice Chair
Reverend Ray Hammond, Chair Emeritus
Kevin MacKenzie, Catholic Charities
Mayor Michelle Wu/Tiffany Chu, City of Boston
Angel Roberson Daniels, Angell Foundation
Thomas Carroll, Archdiocese of Boston
Dr. Shari Nethersole, Boston Children's Hospital
Kate Scott, Executive Director, Neighborhood House Charter School
Pam Eddinger, Bunker Hill Community College
Superintendent Mary Skipper, Boston Public Schools
Rabbi Marc Baker, Combined Jewish Philanthropies
Marinelle Roumaniere, EdVestors
Delia Arellano-Weddleton, Nellie Mae Education Foundation
Julie Asher, New Profit Inc.
Lynne Dobbin, Richard and Susan Smith Family Foundation
Joseph B. Berger, University of Massachusetts Boston
The Boston Opportunity agenda works with a variety of community partners in each of its four priority initiatives:
| BELL Boston Plan for Excellence Boston Partners in Education Boston Public Library Boston Public Schools City Year Boston Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative |
Education Development Corporation EdVestors Family Nurturing Center Foundation for Children’s Books Friends of the Library Generations Incorporated Greater Boston Jewish Coalition for Literacy Hill for Literacy |
Inquillinos Boricuas en Acción Jump-Start for Young Children Raising a Reader Reach Out and Read ReadBoston Wheelock College YMCA of Greater Boston |
| Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL) Boston Area Health Education Center Boston Family Boat Builders Boston Private Industry Council Boston University Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Brigham & Women’s Hospital Camp Harbor View Community Music Center of Boston Crossroads for Kids |
Courageous Sailing Dorchester House Freedom House Hale Reservation Horizons at Dedham Country Day School Hyde Square Task Force Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción (IBA) Joseph M. Tierney Learning Center MathPower MIT Office of Engineering |
Phillips Brooks House Association Piers Park Sailing Center Sociedad Latina Sportsmen’s Tennis & Enrichment Center Steppingstone Foundation Tenacity Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center UMass Boston USS Constitution Museum YMCA of Greater Boston |
| ABCD Ostiguy High School Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD) Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation American Student Assistance (ASA) Asian American Civic Association Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology Bird Street Community Center Black Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston Boston Asian Youth Essential Service Boston Centers for Youth & Families / City of Boston Boston Day & Evening Academy Boston Local Initiatives Support Corporation Boston STRIVE Boston Youth Service Network (BYSN) B-PEACE for Jorge Bridge Over Troubled Waters Brigham & Women’s Hospital Bunker Hill Community College Center for Teen Empowerment Data Sharing Project Charlestown High School Diploma Plus City of Boston College & Career Readiness Massachusetts College Bound Dorchester Committee for Public Counsel Services |
Commonwealth Corporation Community Work Services Department of Youth Services (DYS) Diamond Educators Mentoring Inc. Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation Dorchester Youth Collaborative Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) ESAC Boston Executive Office of Health and Human Services Freedom House Health Resources in Action Higher Ground-Boston Hull Lifesaving Museum Hyde Square Task Force InnerCity Weightlifting Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción (IBA) Jewish Vocational Service (JVS) JFYNetWorks Justice Resource Institute (JRI) Massachusetts Communities Action Network (MCAN) Mayor’s Office of Intergovernmental Relations Mayor’s Office of Jobs and Community Services (City of Boston) Mayor’s Youth Council Boston Youth Fund–Youth Employment Program More than Words Multicultural Dropout Outreach Collaborative |
New England Center for Arts and Technology (NECAT) New Profit, Inc. Partnerships Advancing Communities Together (PACT) Promise Neighborhoods US Department of Education Richard and Susan Smith Family Foundation Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action Corps Roca, Inc. Root Cause Roxbury Community College Roxbury Youthworks, Inc. SkillWorks Sociedad Latina State Street Corp. Trinity Boston Foundation Urban College of Boston X-Cel Education Year Up Boston YouthBuild Boston YouthBuild Just-a-Star Youth on Board Youth Options Unlimited Boston (YOU Boston) Youth Voice Project Youth Violence Prevention Funder Learning Collaborative |
| Babson College Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology (Benjamin Franklin) Bentley College Berklee College Boston Architectural College (BAC) Boston College (BC) Boston University (BU) Brandeis University Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC) Emerson College Emmanuel College Framingham State University (FSU) |
Harvard University Laboure College Lasell College Lesley University Massachusetts Bay Community College (MBCC) Massachusetts College of Art and Design Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (MCPHS) Mount Ida College New England Conservatory Newbury College Northeastern University Pine Manor College |
Regis College Roxbury Community College (RCC) Salem State University (SSU) Simmons College Suffolk University Tufts University University of Massachusetts Amherst University of Massachusetts Boston University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Urban College of Boston Wentworth Institute of Technology Wheelock College |