As a business coalition that advocates for policy reforms to improve our schools, MBAE partners with a number of complementary organizations to address issues of equity and accountability. Over the past 15 years, MBAE has developed working relationships with a number of organizations that have helped us accomplish our work more productively and reach a larger audience.



The Massachusetts Business Roundtable (MBR) is a non-profit, non-partisan, statewide public affairs organization of chief executive officers representing Massachusetts' leading industry and business enterprises. MBAE and MBR have been working together around education issues and business involvement in those issues for more than a decade. To spearhead this collaboration, MBR’s Executive Director, Alan Macdonald, is an active member of MBAE’s Board of Directors.


Associated Industries of Massachusetts (AIM) is the voice of more than 7,500 Massachusetts employers from all industries on legislative and regulatory issues in Boston and Washington, DC. AIM works on behalf of these businesses to improve the Massachusetts business economy. AIM is one of the founding members of MBAE and has maintained a board seat with the organization for more than a decade, which is currently held by Andre Mayer, AIM Sr VP - Communications & Research. MBAE has filled the role of education advisor to AIM over that period.


The Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation (MTF) is an independent, non-partisan organization focusing on state spending and tax policies as well as the Massachusetts economy. Its mission is to provide accurate, unbiased research with balanced, thoughtful recommendations that strengthen the state's finances and economy. MBAE and the MTF have cooperated on a number of education finance issues for more than a decade and the MTF has been a member of MBAE’s Board of Directors throughout that period.


The Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy The Center's mission is to develop a pubic agenda that informs and promotes significant improvement of public education in Massachusetts. Our work is motivated by a vision of an education system that creates the opportunity to educate every child to be successful in life, citizenship, employment and life-long learning. Applying nonpartisan, independent research, journalism and civic engagement, the Center is creating a civil space to foster thoughtful public discourse to inform and shape effective policy.