The Transportation First Series offers a platform to discuss the challenges faced by our region, with the input of experts and changemakers.
06/12/2025
2:45pm - 4:30pm
Hybrid | Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce
Hear from Senator Edward J. Markey, a consumer champion and leader on energy, environmental protection, and telecommunications policy.
06/16/2025
9:45am - 11:00am
Boston Marriott Long Wharf
This Women's Network event will offer an insightful conversation with Dr. Melissa Gilliam, the 11th President of Boston University and both the first woman and the first Black woman to lead the institution since its founding in 1869.
06/18/2025
11:30am - 1:00pm
Fairmont Copley Plaza
This program is in redevelopment. Click this page for DEI resources.
Our Women’s Leadership Program enables you to take your leadership to the next level by arming you with the most in-demand leadership toolkit.
Our Boston’s Future Leaders (BFL) program provides emerging leaders with a socially conscious and civically engaged leadership toolkit, as well as the opportunity to apply their knowledge through experiential assignments.
Join us on June 12 for a highly interactive virtual workshop with Strategic Career & Leadership Coach Carole-Ann Penney.
City Awake empowers young professionals in a variety of ways that encourages these rising leaders to stay invested in the region’s future success.
We are developing an ecosystem of corporations and partners with the influence and buying power to transform economic inclusion for minority business enterprises (MBEs).
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For over 30 years, the Chamber’s Women’s Network has connected female professionals of all background and career levels. Today, our Women’s Network is the largest in New England, strengthening the professional networks of women each year.
The Massachusetts Apprentice Network convenes employers, training providers, and talent sources interested in developing and implementing apprenticeship programs in occupations across industries and statewide in fields such as tech, advanced manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, and more.
Explore our mission and values to better understand how we are leading the business community forward.
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In a recent survey conducted by the Chamber Foundation, 46% of young Greater Boston residents reported that they are prioritizing maintaining or improving their mental health, revealing the importance of mental health resources being readily available. Overall, prioritizing mental health has become more prevalent, with an increase in children, teens, and young adults experiencing mental health challenges leading to adversity in their personal and professional lives.
The Chamber is proud to spotlight three of our member organizations who are making headway in an incredibly complex crisis and working to help those struggling with mental health. Alongside young residents, these non-profits are prioritizing mental health, ensuring there is sufficient access, education, and treatment to set the bar high for quality of life in Greater Boston.
The Italian Home for Children’s mission is to empower children, adults, and families with mental health and educational struggles through therapeutic, collaborative, and transformative programming.
Through their work, they provide key resources to youth struggling with mental health, including mental health services, various in-home therapies, therapeutic mentoring, an afterschool program, vacation and summer camps, a therapeutic day school, intensive group homes, acute residential treatment services, and a spiritual enrichment program. Not only serving children of all ages, IHC programming also helps their families.
Sited in their annual report from 2022, Italian Home:
Italian Home for Children emphasizes their services are needed now more than ever. The statistics reveal:
If you are interested in supporting the work of Italian Home for Children, there are many ways to get involved.
Franciscan Children’s is a leading provider of complex medical, rehabilitation, and pediatric behavioral health services in Boston. It is the only dedicated rehabilitation hospital for kids in New England and operates the largest inpatient child and adolescent behavioral health program in Boston. As a sister hospital to Boston Children’s Hospital, Franciscan Children’s is committed to providing high-quality, family-centric, and compassionate care.
Their distinguished behavioral health program is comprised of a broad continuum of inpatient, outpatient, and school-based clinical services:
If you’re interested in learning more about Franciscan Children’s and our programs, click here.
Each day, thousands of people in Massachusetts struggle with loneliness, depression, and suicidal feelings. Samaritans offers critical resources to support these individuals, with a 24/7 Helpline, suicide prevention workshops, and peer support for suicide loss survivors.
With free, confidential, and nonjudgmental services, Samaritans volunteers answer more than 90,000 calls, texts, and chats on their Helpline each year.
Beyond their programs, Samaritans has compiled additional resources specific to varying identities and circumstances, helping those seeking support find the most relevant information to their unique needs.
If you’d like to take part in preventing suicide and supporting those affected by it, Samaritans welcomes you to attend their annual Breakfast for Hope to celebrate their 50-year legacy of human connection on May 17th from 7:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
By supporting Samaritans as a volunteer or donor, you can give those who are struggling with the caring, compassionate support they need.
As Italian Home for Children, Franciscan Children’s, and Samaritans continue to make mental health a top priority, let us take the same initiative within our communities by spreading awareness on the work they and others are doing to serve those struggling with mental health, as well as the resources available to better address the mental health crisis.
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