Blog

  • Your Weekly Guide to Exciting Events in Greater Boston 

    Each week we will share events being hosted by our past Innovators and Entrepreneurs!

  • New program offers condensed version of Social Innovator Accelerator to eight groups

    SIF is partnering with the Schrafft Charitable Trust to pilot a Boot Camp for innovative nonprofits working in environmental sustainability.

  • Eight nonprofit leaders pitched their solutions to greater Boston’s toughest social issues

    On May 18 more than 300 philanthropists, business leaders, and others gathered at the MIT Media Lab for the 13th annual Innovator Showcase

  • Advocacy & Civic Engagement
    Reflections from the March 2016 Social Issue Talk Series

    Phil Hall shares what he learned about Asian immigration to America and the specific challenges facing Cambodian immigrants in Lowell

  • Impact Entrepreneur Mitch Rosenberg of KinderLab Robotics offers the inside scoop on what he's learned about impact investing through SIF.

  • Six entrepreneurs pitched to an audience of 130 potential investors at SIF’s 4th annual Impact Investing Showcase on April 7.

  • Health
    Reflections from the March 2016 Social Issue Talk Series

    Guest blogger Paula McLaughlin shares what she learned at our “Utilizing Open Spaces to Enhance Education for All” Social Issue Talk.

  • Insights into Impact Investing

    On March 29th, the SIF team hosted Deval Patrick, former Governor of Massachusetts, to discuss the evolving sector of Impact Investing

  • Women & Girls
    Workforce & Economic Development
    Reflections from the March 2016 Social Issue Talk Series

    Guest blogger Hannah Blaisdell discusses the March 17 "Promoting Economic Self-Sufficiency for Women" Social Issue Talk.

  • Health
    Reflections from the March 2016 Social Issue Talk Series

    Guest blogger Julia Satti Cosentino discusses the "Finding Community-Based Solutions to Food Insecurity" Social Issue Talk held on March 15.