NewSchools Venture Fund

The Boston Foundation, Greater Boston’s community foundation, is one of the oldest and largest community founda-tions in the nation, with net assets of more than $900 million. In 2012, the Foundation and its donors made $88 million in grants to nonprofit organizations and received gifts of close to $60 million. The Foundation is a partner in philanthropy, with some 900 separate charitable funds established by donors either for the general benefit of the community or for special purposes. The Boston Foundation also serves as a major civic leader, provider of information, convener and spon-sor of special initiatives that address the region’s most pressing challenges. The Philanthropic Initiative (TPI), an operat-ing unit of the Foundation, designs and implements customized philanthropic strategies for families, foundations and corporations around the globe. Through its consulting and field-advancing efforts, TPI has influenced billions of dollars in giving worldwide. For more information about the Boston Foundation and TPI, visit www.tbf.org or call 617-338-1700. About NewSchools Venture Fund NewSchools Venture Fund finds and invests in education entrepreneurs: passionate innovators who expand the bound-aries of what can be achieved for students from low-income communities. We seek entrepreneurs with the vision and capacity to build companies that will scale to serve millions of students, teachers or schools. In addition to financial resources, we provide our entrepreneurs hands-on support by serving on governance boards, advising on strategic issues and making vital connections to partners, customers and funders. To fund our work, we raise philanthropi