BOSTON, Massachusetts, June 7 -- The Boston Foundation issued the following news release on June 6, 2024: The Equality Fund at the Boston Foundation today announced $372,500 in grants to 31 LGBTQ-led or -serving organizations in Massachusetts. The nonprofits were chosen from among 89 applicants, also a new record for the Fund, demonstrating both the fund's growth and the continued needs in the community. "This year, our nonprofit partners represent the wide-ranging needs of LGBTQ+ people of al  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, June 8 -- GBH, a multiplatform creator for public media, issued the following news release on June 7, 2024: The World from GBH and PRX, public radio's longest-running daily global news program, today announced Lethal Dissent, a nine-part podcast produced in partnership with On Spec and hosted by journalist Fariba Nawa. The limited series, produced in collaboration with the documentary journalism podcast On Spec, investigates the price and peril that Iranian dissidents fa  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, June 7 -- The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston issued the following news release on June 6, 2024: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has announced a new series of annual commissions that invites artists to create site-specific artworks for the Huntington Avenue Entrance. For the inaugural project the Museum has selected internationally recognized artist Alan Michelson, a Mohawk member of Six Nations of the Grand River who was raised in Boston and attended the School of t  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, June 7 -- The Jed Foundation issued the following news release on June 6, 2024: Austin, Texas & New York City -- The Jed Foundation (JED), in partnership with the College Student Mental Wellness Advocacy Coalition and Hi, How Are You Project (HHAYP), today released "Responding to a Suicide: Postvention Guidance for Student Housing Managers." The new emergency preparedness guidebook provides best practices to off-campus student housing managers on how to handle the sudden   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, June 7 (TNSres) -- The Union of Concerned Scientists issued the following news release: A new report by the Union of Concerned Scientists found that at the halfway point of implementing the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the historic federal investments flowing into California are not yet meeting federal environmental justice goals. The analysis of non-transportation funding designated for California by the infrastructure law found that less than a quarter of the mone  more