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06-01-11 CWU will lead charge at pivotal hearing on the for-profit college controversy on June 8
05-16-11 Crittenton Women's Union receives $600K Smith Family Foundation award
05-09-11 Key hearing on Education Rewards Grant program set for May 11
03-23-11 Crittenton Women’s Union board welcomes PwC executive Bernadette Crehan
01-06-11 Workers' Pathways to Education & Jobs Coalition State House briefing
09-30-10 Crittenton Women’s Union and Cambridge Housing Authority team up to launch “Career Family Opportunity Cambridge”
03-24-10 Crittenton Women's Union board welcomes BNY Mellon Executive Foley
03-08-10 MA cost of living for single parent with two children hit $61,618 a year
09-01-09 Low-wage workers earning $8/hour can be better off than that at twice the pay
06-24-09 Healthy Families Program graduates 16 moms and 1 dad
04-13-09 Lappen Auto Supply CEO and Harvard Vanguard Physician
01-14-09 Crittenton Women's Union is named finalist for $250,000 non-profit collaboration prize
04-11-08 Suze Orman pledges $50,000 to Crittenton Women's Union
03-12-08 The Working Poor Families Project
11-30-07 Crittenton Women's Union to honor Suze Orman
02-01-07 FESS report release
03-09-06 Crittenton Women's Union Merger
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June 01, 2011

CWU will lead charge at pivotal hearing on the for-profit college controversy on June 8

CWU, its partner organizations, consumer and education experts, and former for-profit college students drowning in debt will offer testimony on the for-profit college controversy—a national issue now hitting home—at a key hearing of the Massachusetts Legislature’s Joint Committee on Higher Education on Wednesday, June 8, 2011.

May 31, 2011

Chris Lovett interviews Ruthie Liberman about the Education Rewards Grant program

BOSTON - Neighborhood Network News - Host Chris Lovett interviewed Crittenton Women's Union Vice President of Public Policy, Ruthie Liberman, regarding new Education Rewards Grant legislation, which is currently wending its way through the Massachusetts legislative process. This program aired May 12, 2011.

May 16, 2011

Crittenton Women's Union receives $600K Smith Family Foundation award

BOSTON—Crittenton Women’s Union (CWU), a nonprofit innovator dedicated to developing expanded pathways to economic self-sufficiency for low-income women, has received a capacity-building grant of $600,000 over three years from the Richard and Susan Smith Family Foundation, the organization announced today.


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