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We just sent out our 2010 Summer News Digest. If you aren’t a subscriber, you can find links to all the articles here!
Alumni Success Stories
Melissa Amaral graduated from Brown University with a double major in Anthropology and Archaeology in 2008. She currently is employed as a College Advisor for the Phipps Community Education Center in [...]

Michele Cinquegrano of Verizon Foundation visited a classroom of Ways to A’s students today and presented us with a check for $5,000! The grant goes to support our Adventures in Literacy program during the school year.
Before posing with College Crusade CEO Todd Flaherty for a photo, Ms. Cinquegrano spoke with the sixth graders. “The Verizon [...]

Warwick business owner Leonard Martin presented The College Crusade with a $5,000 check on August 4! The grant is from the Million Dollar Round Table Foundation, an organization for financial services professionals that gives grants to charities all over the world. Mr. Martin, who owns Leonard Martin & Associates, Inc., is a member of MDRT [...]

Over 100 Crusaders flocked to the RI State House on June 2 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of The College Crusade and to thank education leaders and policymakers for their support. They gathered on the Rotunda with College Crusade staff and board members for greetings and congratulations from a terrific collection of guest speakers, including [...]

The College Crusade was grateful to receive a generous grant this year from the TG Public Benefit Grant Program. On May 27, TG came all the way from Texas to visit us! Our staff, board, alumni, and students were delighted to welcome Kristin Boyer, who is director of public benefit grants for TG. During her [...]

The Latino American Club at Johnson & Wales University is holding a benefit talent show for The College Crusade this month! The event is called Chaotic Talento and is scheduled for April 30 from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. at Xavier Auditorium on the JWU Downtown campus. There will be cash prizes for winning performances and [...]

We are excited and grateful to be the recipient of a community grant from Cox Charities of New England this year. To receive the award, College Crusade staff members attended a celebratory breakfast on March 16 at Cox Communications in West Warwick. Pictured from left to right are Paul Cronin, senior vice president and general [...]

Three students from Providence College organized a fundraising event for The College Crusade as a project for their Organizational Theory class this term! Project team members (left to right) were junior Ben Farrer of Calgary, Alberta, Canada; junior Ben Cerroni of Dublin, N.H.; and senior Andrew Kelley of Wakefield, R.I. They chose a fun venue [...]

Deb Donovan, director of maintenance for Amgen Inc., visited Cru Club on December 6 to talk with Crusaders about how she became a chemical engineer. She spoke to both middle school and high school groups, describing her path to college and explaining how education prepared her for a good career. Thanks to Deb for sharing [...]

On July 17, The Amgen Foundation visited our Ways to A’s study-skills program to present a check for $20,000 to a classroom of Crusaders! During the visit, company representatives Larry Bernard, Thomas Spooner, and Erin Tetreault talked with the group of 9th graders about careers with Amgen and described how their own college experiences prepared [...]