Photo Credit: Change Leaders, Oxfam America
The Local-to-Global Connection
New England is educating the next generation of world leaders.
With over 500 exceptional institutions of higher learning, many with renowned graduate programs, New England is a key training ground for the world's upcoming leaders and practitioners of global and local development.
Photo credit: Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Boston is a hub for international development.
Drawing from a climate of concern and an exceptional pool of intellectual talent, international development organizations are striving to create solutions and resources to level the vast inequities between societies. Over 175 such organizations are based in Greater Boston alone.
Photo credit: Oxfam America, Boston and Afghanistan
Massachusetts is a center for innovation with global applications.
Known for its civic imagination, Massachusetts ranks #1 in innovations. With more patents than any other state, Massachusetts incubates pioneering social, medical, technological and scientific innovations for use the world over.
Photo credit: Acción, Boston and Ecuador
Think globally.
Give locally - and abroad.
Supporting international organizations based in New England fuels the region's knowledge economy and stimulates its cosmopolitan culture, while solving critical global problems through partnerships abroad.
Photo Credit: Partners in Health, Boston and Haiti
