Download PDF Dear Brookline Community, We achieved several big milestones at the Brookline Community Foundation (BCF) this year: We unveiled a first-ever Understanding Brookline database to help our community track and address local realities, relaunched our Executive Directors Roundtable to enable peer leadership support and collective problem-solving among the More ...
Download PDF Dear Brookline Community, Last October, I had the privilege of joining the Brookline Community Foundation (BCF) as this organization’s new Executive Director. I joined BCF precisely because it plays such a unique and important role in Brookline’s infrastructure. Here at BCF we function as both a keystone More ...
Download PDF Dear Brookline Community, When I look back on our most recently completed fiscal year, I couldn’t be more proud of the many “firsts” we helped to make happen. From facilitating a community-wide engagement process to get your input into where the Town of Brookline could invest American More ...
Download PDF Picture this: it’s year-end 2019. We’re all looking forward to a new year and a new decade. And everyone at the Brookline Community Foundation (BCF) is hard at work preparing to launch our new strategic plan in March 2020. Needless to say, things didn’t go quite as planned. More ...
Download PDF At the Brookline Community Foundation, we’re constantly inspired by the ways our community comes together to address local needs and solve complex challenges. We get to witness—and amplify—generous acts of civic involvement every day. Thanks to the commitments of many, we’re making Brookline a better community to live, More ...
Download PDF This has been a watershed year for the Brookline Community Foundation—in 2017, we secured the largest gifts in the Foundation’s history, awarded more (and larger) grants to local nonprofits than ever before and expanded our giving to address important new issues in Brookline. We’ve been preparing for this More ...
Download PDF In 2014, we set out an ambitious three year-plan for the Foundation and the town. With the Brookline Forward campaign, we committed to three areas of work: REDUCE & ALLEVIATE POVERTY with an expanded financial safety net, a strengthened support network and more pathways to economic security. EXPAND More ...
Download PDF It’s been an impressive year at the Brookline Community Foundation — we’ve increased our impact in strategic areas, strengthened foundation capacity and taken advantage of exciting opportunities to grow in new directions. Since we were founded as the Brookline Friendly Society more than a century ago, BCF has More ...
