Visitors from Amgen Foundation dropped in to see Mayor Marc Saldarriaga and the rest of his City Hall staff at Exchange City this week! Pictured here from Amgen, along with the mayor’s excellent judicial and law enforcement personnel, are Kathy Demarest, Executive Director, Quality Analytical Labs; Christina Evon, Associate, Corporate Communications & Philanthropy; and John [...]

The College Crusade honored two local individuals as Partners in Philanthropy at the 2010 National Philanthropy Day breakfast event on November 23. They are Denise Jenkins, grant program officer for the Rhode Island Foundation, and Dr. Irving Schneider, president of Johnson & Wales University and a College Crusade board member. We are very grateful for [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“I believe that Peace and Respect must first exist within myself and it is then my personal responsibility to help create a school and community safe from abuse and oppression.” (The Peace Pledge) This spring a team of Crusaders from Feinstein High School and Jorge Alvarez High School joined together to lead workshops on nonviolence. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]