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Myanmar State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, government officials and businesspeople attend the Invest Myanmar Summit 2019 in Naypyitaw in January. / Invest Myanmar Summit

By Nan Lwin 24 October 2019

YANGONMyanmar moved up six places to 165th on the World Banks 2020 ease of doing business ranking in the banks latest report, which cites several reforms including creating an easier environment for starting a business and greater protections for minority investors.

On Thursday, the World Banks latest report on ease of doing business ranked documented regulatory changes in 12 areas of business activity in 190 economies that encourage efficiency and support the freedom to do business.

The World Bank said Myanmar introduced substantial improvements in five areas of doing businessstarting a business, dealing with construction permits, registering property, protecting minority investors and enforcing contracts.

Myanmars ambitious reform program allowed the country to rise out of the bottom 20 to a ranking of 165, the World Bank said.

In the 2019 ease of doing business index, Myanmar retained the No. 171 spot it held in 2018, making it the least favorable ASEAN member in which to conduct business.

The World Bank said Myanmar made starting a business easier by introducing an online platform for company registration and by reducing incorporation fees. Moreover, the country strengthened construction quality control by imposing stricter qualification requirements for architects and engineers and making building permit requirements available online.

Likewise, Myanmar has improved its water and sanitation infrastructure and made the process of obtaining building permits more efficient by introducing service quality standards. The country also made property registration faster by streamlining deed registration and appraisal. Additionally, the quality of Myanmars land administration system has improved thanks to the publication of a fee schedule, official service standards, and statistics on property transfers for the previous calendar year.

The bank said Myanmar strengthened minority investor protections by requiring greater disclosure of transactions with interested parties, increasing director liability and requiring greater corporate transparency.

Moreover, Myanmar made enforcing contracts easier by publishing performance measurement reports, according to the World Bank.

The World Bank monitors 12 areas of business regulation. Ten of these areasstarting a business, dealing with construction permits, accessing electricity, registering property, accessing credit, protecting minority investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, and resolving insolvencyare included in the ease of doing business score and ease of doing business ranking.

Recently, a World Bank report listed Myanmar among the top 20 improvers in its Doing Business 2020 report, alongside China, Bangladesh and India. The country was also included in a list of countries that have made it easier to do business in three or more of 10 areas.

Last year, after Myanmar failed to improve on the World Bank index, Myanmars Ministry of Investment and Foreign Economic Relations formed a taskforce to find ways to improve its performance.

The Myanmar government set the ambitious goal of reaching the top 100 of the index for 2020.

Since taking office in 2016, the National League for Democracy has implemented numerous economic reforms, including amending investment laws and introducing a Myanmar Companies Law to boost confidence among foreign investors. It has created a new ministry and drawn up the Myanmar Sustainable Development Plan (MSDP), a road map to promote equal development in social and economic sectors.

The government has also set up an online registration system for domestic and foreign companies to remove red tape. Additionally, it introduced the Myanmar Investment Promotion Plan (MIPP), which aims to attract more than US$200 billion (305.7 trillion kyats) in investment from businesses over the next 20 years.

MIPP projects are expected to receive US$8.5 billion between 2021 and 2026, US$12.3 billion from 2026 to 2031 and US$17.6 billion from 2031 to 2036.

Myanmar also introduced a project bank that aims to create a centralized and publicly accessible database to enable the government to coordinate with ministries and departments and prioritize proposals that are in line with the MSDP.

On Monday, at the Myanmar Investment Conference in Tokyo, State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi said her government has been both aggressive and strategic in liberalizing various key economic sectorsciting the recent reform of the insurance sector allowing 100-percent foreign-owned life insurance companies to operate in Myanmar.

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi said the government is planning to introduce a new Land and Property Bank that will expedite processes that involve the lease of state-owned land and properties through centralized electronic means.

Myanmar is in the process of transforming an opaque, non-competitive, connections-based economy into a larger, more transparent, more competitive, rules-based economy, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi added.

Government-approved foreign direct investment so far this fiscal year totals US$4.1 billion, nearly a 70-per-cent increase from the same period last year but short of the US$5.8 billion target.

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The latest results from Oregons Smarter Balanced exams show just 52 percent of students in grades 38 tested proficient to grade level in English language arts (ELA), while only 40 percent did so in mathematics. These are the worst results in the tests five-year history.

Looking further into the data, only 30 percent of black students tested proficient in ELA, and just 17 percent in math. For Hispanic students, 35 percent tested proficient in ELA and 24 percent in math. For low-income students, 39 percent were proficient in ELA and 28 percent in math. Only 58 percent of students in Portland Public Schools, the states largest district, tested proficient in ELA and just 45 percent in math.

The results of these tests show Oregon public schools are failing to educate to grade level roughly half of the studentsin their charge in ELA and math. These mediocreresults from Oregon public schools are unacceptable and highlights the need for a stark and immediate change from the status quo.

Oregon public schools need more competition. Moreover, Oregon families need more education options. These goals could be achieved by establishing more private school choice options such as an education savings account (ESA) program.

With ESA, state education funds allocated for a child are placed in a parent-controlled savings account. Under the proposed program, parents could use a state-provided, restricted-use debit card to access education funds to pay for resources for their childs unique educational program. ESA funds could be used to pay for tuition and fees at private and parochial schools,textbooks and curriculum materials, online courses, tutoring services, educational therapies, computer hardware, or transportation costs. They could also be used to cover the fees required to take national standardized achievement tests, such as the SAT or ACT,as well as tuition, fees, and textbooks at postsecondary institutions.

Copious empirical researchcovering ESAs and other school choice programs shows they offer families improved access to high-quality schools that meet their childrens unique needs and circumstances. Moreover, these programs improve access to schools that deliver quality educationinexpensively. Additionally, these programsbenefit public school studentsand taxpayers by increasing competition,decreasing segregation,andimproving civic values and practices.

Students at private schools are alsoless likelythan their public school peers to experience problems such as alcohol abuse, bullying, drug use, fighting, gang activity, racial tension, theft, vandalism, and weapon-based threats.There is also astrong causal linksuggesting private school choice programs improve the mental health of participating students.

It is probably for these reasons that choice programs are more popular with parents than ever before. The results of EdChoices sixth annualSchooling in Americasurvey, released in December 2018, found 74 percent of respondents favor ESAs, up 3 percentage points from 2017. According to the survey, support for ESAs is 76 percent among millennials, 72 percent for those with incomes less than $40,000 a year, 79 percent for blacks, 70 percent for Hispanics, 72 percent among self-identified Democrats, and 77 percent among independents. Another 64 percent support voucher programs and 66 percent support tax-credit scholarships.

Supporters of parental freedom in education hope Oregon lawmakers will take a closer look at the popularity and efficacy of school choice programs in 2020. It is time to reform Oregons mediocre public education system. Beaver State families are ready for education choice. Public schools should not hold a monopoly on education. By implementing an ESA program, legislators can ensure more Oregon children have the opportunity to attend a quality school.

The following documents can provide more information about ESAs and parental choice in education.

The 123s of School Choicehttps://www.edchoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/123s-of-School-Choice.pdfThis report from EdChoice is an in-depth review of the available research on private school choice programs in America. Areas of study include: private school choice program participant test scores, program participant attainment, parent satisfaction, public school students test scores, civic values and practices, racial/ethnic integration and fiscal effects.

A Win-Win Solution: The Empirical Evidence on School Choice (Fourth Edition)http://www.edchoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/A-Win-Win-Solution-The-Empirical-Evidence-on-School-Choice.pdfThis paper by EdChoice details how a vast body of research shows educational choice programs improve academic outcomes for students and schools, saves taxpayers money, reduces segregation in schools, and improves students civic values. This edition brings together a total of 100 empirical studies examining these essential questions in one comprehensive report.

Protecting Students with Child Safety Accountshttps://www.heartland.org/publications-resources/publications/protecting-students-with-child-safety-accountsIn thisHeartland Policy Brief, Vicki Alger, senior fellow at the Independent Womens Forum and research fellow at the Independent Institute, and Heartland Policy Analyst Tim Benson detail the prevalence of bullying, harassment, and assault taking place in Americas public schools and the difficulties for parents in having their child moved from a school that is unsafe for them. Alger and Benson propose a Child Safety Account program, which would allow parents to immediately have their child moved to a safe school private, parochial, or public as soon as parents feel the public school their child is currently attending is too dangerous to their childs physical or emotional health.

2018 Schooling in America Survey: Public Opinion on K12 Education, Parent and Teacher Experiences, Accountability, and School Choicehttps://www.edchoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/2018-12-Schooling-In-America-by-Paul-DiPerna-and-Michael-Shaw.pdfThis annual survey from EdChoice, conducted in partnership with Braun Research, Inc., measures public opinion and awareness on a range of K12 education topics, including parents schooling preferences, educational choice policies, and the federal governments role in education. The survey also records response levels, differences, and intensities for citizens located across the country and in a variety of demographic groups.

The Public Benefit of Private Schooling: Test Scores Rise When There Is More of Ithttps://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa830.pdfThisPolicy Analysisfrom the Cato Institute examines the effect increased access to private schooling has had on international student test scores in 52 countries. The Cato researchers found that a 1 percentage point increase in the share of private school enrollment would lead to moderate increases in students math, reading, and science achievement.

The Effects of School Choice on Mental Healthhttps://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3272550This study from Corey DeAngelis at the Cato Institute and Angela K. Dills of Western Carolina University empirically examines the relationship between school choice and mental health. It finds that states adopting broad-based voucher programs and charter schools witness declines in adolescent suicides and suggests that private schooling reduces the number of times individuals are seen for mental health issues.

Competition: For the Childrenhttps://www.heartland.org/publications-resources/publications/competition-for-the-childrenThis study from the Texas Public Policy Foundation claims universal school choice results in higher test scoresfor students remaining in traditional public schoolsand improved high school graduation rates.

Nothing in thisResearch & Commentaryis intended to influence the passage of legislation, and it does not necessarily represent the views of The Heartland Institute. For further information on this subject, visitSchool Reform News, The Heartland Instituteswebsite, andPolicyBot, Heartlands free online research database.

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Boston The Boston Foundation is pleased to announce its quarterly discretionary grants after a meeting of the Foundations Board of Directors last week. The Board approved $2,637,000 in single and multi-year discretionary grants to 29 organizations, and also acknowledged another $3,242,134 paid out between cycles through other discretionary programs of the Foundation.

This quarters grants provide a continuation in our support of workforce development through SkillWorks and new investments in entrepreneurship through our support of EforAlls Roxbury expansion, said Paul S. Grogan, President and CEO of the Boston Foundation. In addition, we are excited to target a series of grants toward strengthening programs and services designed to help lower-income Boston residents build their assets and find affordable, sustainable housing.

The $350,000, one-year grant toSkillWorks, the largest in the docket, demonstrates the Boston Foundations continuing support to a program it co-founded over a decade ago. The initiative seeks to close skill gaps and provide employment opportunities by supporting training and engaging employers in industries such as health care, information technology and hospitality.

In addition, the Foundation is making a $100,000, one-year general operating support grant toEntrepreneurship for All (EforAll), as it seeks to bring the documented success of its system of supports to entrepreneurs to Bostons Roxbury neighborhood.

In neighborhoods and housing, the Foundation is providing $200,000 over the next two years toHousing Navigator Massachusetts, Inc., to support the development of a new tool to make it easier for low- and middle-income households to find housing and housing supports that best suit their needs. The new Housing Navigator software seeks to bring together information about programs and services for homeowners and renters, improving the odds for residents to find appropriate, affordable, sustainable housing for themselves and their families.

The Foundation continued its support of colleges and universities taking part in theSuccess Bostoncollege completion initiative with four grants totaling $200,000 to Boston-based colleges to support Success Boston liaisons, individuals based on each campus who can provide needed assistance to Success Boston students and their coaches and maximize the overall impact of the programs on campus.

Other grants of note include a grant of $250,000 over two years to theSomerville Public Schoolsto support its Equity in Action initiative. This grant seeks to enhance the districts open-source student data tool, Student Insights, to better capture student-centered analytics and performance insights through an equity lens as students move through the district.

And the Foundation extended two long-standing commitments to organizations for whom we were There at the Beginning, with a $100,000, one-year grants to theMassachusetts Department of Public Healthfor its Mass in Motion health policy initiative, and a $200,000 grant over two years to theInstitute for Nonprofit Practice, which provides training to expand the skills and resources of promising nonprofit leaders. INP is also receiving a $150,000 grant over three years in collaboration withTSNE MissionWorks, to create a training program for consultants who can work with nonprofit organizations and leaders who are seeking to advance and implement diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

A full list of quarterly discretionary grants is below, separated by strategy area.

DISCRETIONARY GRANTS:

Arts and Culture

Arts and Business Council of Greater Boston, Inc.:A$35,000one-year general operating support grant to the Arts and Business Council, one of Boston and Greater Bostons largest Arts Service Organizations (ASOs) providing a full suite of services to the arts community, including legal aid, fiscal sponsorship and professional development programs.

The Dance Complex, Inc.:A$25,000one-year general operating support grant to the Dance Complex to continue its work as a hub for performing artists and the local community, providing easy, affordable access to classes, rehearsal and venue space, and vibrant community programming.

MASSCreative, Inc.:A$50,000one-year general operating support grant to MASSCreative, an organization that works to engage and build the political strength of Massachusetts arts and cultural sector, for its efforts to organize a broad-based action network that will advocate for increased investment in arts and cultural activities by federal, state and local leaders.

The Record Company:A$50,000one-year general operating support grant to the Record Company, Bostons only arts service organization serving musicians with space and professional development, to continue its organizational development and growth into a new space and to support its increased programming which helps Boston musicians take their art to market.

The Yard, Inc.:A$10,000project support grant to the Yard, Inc., an organization that supports contemporary dance makers and related artists through paid research residency, public performance, and long-term education, in support of the 2019 Bessie Schonberg Creative Mentorship Residency Boston Artists Pilot.

Education: Early Childhood

Urban College:A$52,000one-year program support grant to the Urban College of Boston, an agency whose mission is to provide opportunity to every student seeking a college degree or professional advancement, for its program Strengthening Supports for English Language Learner (ELL) Educators to strengthen and support the English language acquisition of non-native English-speaking professionals enrolled in their early childhood courses.

Education: College Completion

Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology:A$50,000one-year project support grant to Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology for their Success Boston Liaison, which provides support for Success Boston coaches and students at Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology, aiming to increase college persistence and completion for graduates of the Boston Public Schools.

Bunker Hill Community College:A$50,000one-year project support grant to Bunker Hill Community College for their Success Boston Liaison, which provides support for Success Boston coaches and students at Bunker Hill Community College, aiming to increase college persistence and completion for graduates of the Boston Public Schools.

College Bound Dorchester:A$75,000one-year project support grant to College Bound Dorchester for their Boston Uncornered work, which provides education access for gang-involved youth and aims to increase college enrollment and completion among low-income young people of color from Boston.

Freedom House, Inc.:A$75,000one-year general operating support grant to Freedom House, an organization that works to remove barriers to education by providing first-generation college-going and lower-income students of color with college-level learning opportunities, intensive summer college preparation programs, and ongoing coaching throughout college.

NextGen Talent:A$65,000one-year project support grant to NextGen Talent, an organization working to boost the career success of low-income and first-generation college students in Greater Boston, to support a strategic assessment of trends, factors, and strategies associated with Boston students transitions from college into the labor market. The grant is payable to Friends of Excel Academy, Inc. as fiscal sponsor.

Roxbury Community College:A$50,000one-year project support grant to Roxbury Community College for their Success Boston Liaison, which provides support for Success Boston coaches and students at Roxbury Community College, aiming to increase college persistence and completion for graduates of the Boston Public Schools.

University of Massachusetts Foundation, Inc.:A$50,000one-year project support grant to support the Success Boston Liaison at UMass Boston, which provides support for Success Boston coaches and students at UMass Boston, aiming to increase college persistence and completion for graduates of the Boston Public Schools.

Education: Structural Reform

Somerville Public Schools:A$250,000two-year project grant to Somerville Public Schools to support its Equity in Action initiative, primarily through enhancing and transforming its open-source student data tool, Student Insights, into a broader equity-focused dashboard that drives action through more strategic use of analytics and supports addressing student challenges through an equity lens.

Health and Wellness

Massachusetts Department of Public Health:A$100,000one-year project support grant to Massachusetts Department of Public Health for Mass in Motion, an initiative designed to build capacity at the municipal level to create a sustained approach for healthy eating and active living, specifically in Dorchester, Roxbury and Malden.

Jobs and Economic Development

Entrepreneurship for All:A$100,000one-year general operating support grant to Entrepreneurship for All, an agency that works to create an inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem that helps early state entrepreneurs efficiently launch and grow businesses that are capable of generating wealth, jobs, and transforming the local economy.

Institute for a Competitive Inner City, Inc.:A$25,000one-year program support grant to Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, an agency that works to drive economic prosperity in under-resourced communities around the country through private sector investment to create jobs, income and wealth for local residents, for its Inner City Capital Connections-Boston program.

SkillWorks/The Boston Foundation:A$350,000one-year general operating support grant to SkillWorks/The Boston Foundation, an initiative that targets the Boston regions skill gaps and systemic challenges by expanding employer engagement in healthcare, information technology/technology, and hospitality in order to aggregate better labor market intelligence to inform training programs in the region.

Neighborhoods and Housing

Action for Equity:A$45,000one-year project support grant to Action for Equity, a coalition of 13 community-led organizations dedicated to creating and implementing policies to address the issues of race and class inequities, for its Creating Fairmount Corridor Special Protection Zones project, which will develop a new zoning overlay district for residents in the Fairmount Corridor to protect residents from displacement. The grant is payable to Four Corners Action Coalition, Inc. as fiscal sponsor for the coalition.

Alliance for Business Leadership:A$30,000one-year project support grant to the Alliance for Business Leadership, a coalition of progressive business leaders united in the belief that social responsibility and sustainable economic growth go hand in hand, to support the continuation of the Business Leaders Learning Project: Mobilizing the Business Community on Workforce Housing.

Asian Community Development Corporation:A$50,000one-year project support grant to Asian Community Development Corporation, an organization that works in underserved and immigrant Asian American communities in the Greater Boston region to create and preserve affordable, sustainable, and healthy neighborhoods, for the Innovation and Gentrification Initiative, a collaboration with the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce.

BSA Foundation:A$30,000two-year project support grant to the BSA Foundation, an organization dedicated to building a better Boston by engaging the public in the importance of design, inspiring vibrant neighborhoods and a more resilient and equitable city, and provoking positive change through collaborative efforts, for its Housing Innovation Design Fellow program, which will also be supported by the City of Bostons Housing Innovation Design Lab.

Compass Working Capital:A$100,000two-year project support grant to Compass Working Capital, an organization that supports families with low incomes to build assets and financial capabilities as a pathway to greater economic opportunity and out of poverty for its Expanding the Scope and Impact of the Compass FSS Program in Boston, which will allow any family in federally-subsidized housing the opportunity to build assets as a pathway to economic opportunity.

Housing Navigator Massachusetts, Inc.:A$200,000two-year project support grant to the Kuehn Charitable Foundation on behalf of Housing Navigator Massachusetts, Inc. to support the development of the Housing Navigator software which will provide information to low- and moderate-income households so they can make the best choice possible for their housing needs. The two-year grant will be paid in equal annual installments to Citizens Housing and Planning Association as fiscal sponsor.

Local Initiatives Support Corporation:A$120,000one-year general operating support grant to LISC Boston, an intermediary organization that does capacity building and lending to CDCs, and community change work.

Nonprofit Effectiveness

Institute for Nonprofit Practice:A$200,000two-year general operating support grant to Institute for Nonprofit Practice, an organization that seeks to transform communities by equipping the most promising nonprofit leaders with the skills, confidence, and resources they need to make their organizations effective, innovative, and sustainable.

Institute for Nonprofit Practice/TSNE MissionWorks:A$150,000three-year project support grant payable to Institute for Nonprofit Practice (INP) to support INP and TSNE MissionWorks to create a training program to build consultants capacity to support nonprofit organizations and leaders to implement policies and practices that advance diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Other/Unaligned Grants

Latino Legacy Fund:A$150,000three-year grant to the Boston Foundation for the Latino Legacy Fund grant-making program, which was established in 2013 with the goal of contributing to our regions civic vitality by supporting organizations that help Latinos realize their full potential, with a specific focus on improving the educational experiences of Latinos in Greater Boston from early childhood through post-secondary education.

The Equality Fund:A$100,000two-year grant to the Boston Foundation for the Equality Fund grant-making program, which was established in 2011 with two primary goals: making high-impact grants to the most innovative nonprofits serving the diverse members of the LGBTQ community; and building a permanent endowment that will benefit the LGBTQ community of Greater Boston in perpetuity.

Selected other grants:

Boston Foundation Grassroots Fund

A small grants program that supports program activities that might include, but are not limited to, community events and celebrations, pilot or demonstration projects, conferences and convenings, and small programs that mirror those funded by discretionary grants, but which lack sufficient scale to be eligible or competitive. Grants released in the past quarter totaled $54,705. Selected grants over $3,000 included:

First Teacher$10,000:For general operating support

Massachusetts Voter Education$7,500:For the Let Me Lead Conference and Hustlex2 Career & Entrepreneurship Conference

Multicultural AIDS Coalition, Inc.$4,500:For the Other and Belonging Conference

Union Capital Boston, Inc.$5,000:For general operating support for the Collier Connection

Other between-cycles and special fund grants acknowledged by the Board included:

BAMS Fest, Inc.$10,000:For general operating supportBaraka Community Wellness$10,000:For the Healthy Moms, Healthy Kids Food Cares program

Boston Educational Development Foundation$4,250: For the BPS Valedictorian Luncheon

Boston Landmarks Orchestra$60,000: For the 2019 Summer Concert Series free concerts at the Hatch Shell

Boston Public Library$50,000: For the Fund for the Boston Public Library

CONEXION, Inc.$10,000:For Leadership Development Programming

Enterprise Community Partners$40,000: For support ofUndesign the Red Line

Environmental League of Massachusetts$25,000: For the Civic Action Project

Haley House, Inc.$25,000:For Haley House Bakery Caf Re-Envisioning and Relaunch consultant support

Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers$50,000: To develop a shared services model for its membership and to provide job placement and training for people with disabilities

Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (METCO), Inc.$5,000:For Multicultural Youth Tour of Whats Now (MYTOWN)

Silver Lining Mentoring$25,000: For the Thought Leadership Institute

Urban Guild, Inc.$5,000:For general operating support

Grants previously shared publicly in Boston Foundation-sponsored announcements:

The Board of Directors also acknowledged several grants paid out during the quarter that were previously announced by the Foundation in other grant announcements, including:

The Equality Fund: $173,300

Health Starts at Home Fund: $260,000

Live Arts Boston grants: $629,363

My Summer in the City Fund: $67,500

Pozen Prize for Innovative Schools: $90,000

Social Innovation Fund grants: $414,615

Success Boston-related grants: $629,455

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The Boston Foundation, Greater Bostons community foundation, is one of the largest community foundations in the nation, with net assets of over $1.2 billion. In FY2018, the Foundation and its donors paid nearly $130 million in grants to nonprofit organizations and received gifts of more than $200 million. The Foundation is a close partner in philanthropy with its donors, with more than 1,100 separate charitable funds established either for the general benefit of the community or for special purposes. Since its founding, the Boston Foundation and its donors have given more than $2 billion to nonprofits, including over $1 billion in the past decade.

The foundation also serves as a major civic leader, think tank and advocacy organization, commissioning research into the most critical issues of our time and helping to shape public policy designed to advance opportunity for everyone in Greater Boston.The Philanthropic Initiative (TPI), the consulting arm of the Foundation, designs and implements customized philanthropic strategies for families, foundations and corporations around the globe. For more information about the Boston Foundation and TPI, visittbf.orgor call 617-338-1700.

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