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In 1926, Amelia Earhart came to The Women's Union for employment assistance and was placed as a social worker in a Boston immigrant settlement house. At the same time she continued to pursue her interest in flying, and in 1928, this former Union client became the first woman to cross the Atlantic in an airplane.
The Amelia Earhart Award was established in 1982 to recognize a woman who continues the pioneering spirit of Amelia Earhart. Each year, the award honors a woman who has significantly contributed to the expansion of opportunities for women.
CWU Annual Meeting & Major Policy Release
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Crittenton Women's Union
Annual Meeting
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Release of policy brief
"Fits and Starts: The Difficult Path for Single Working Parents"
A Joint Project of Crittenton Women’s Union and
The Center for Social Policy, University of Massachusetts Boston
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
9 a.m.–9:45 a.m. — Annual Meeting
10 a.m.–11 a.m. — Presentation of Findings
Nurses Hall, The State House, Boston |
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RSVP for both events by November 7
Contact Lucy Seagraves,
617.259.2921 or
lseagraves@liveworkthrive.org |
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24th Amelia Earhart Award Luncheon
Suze Orman makes on-the-spot pledge of $50,000 to Crittenton Women’s Union
Financial guru moved by stories of CWU program participants
After listening to the speeches of two Crittenton Women’s Union program graduates, Suze Orman spontaneously pledged $50,000 to Crittenton Women’s Union.
Orman was honored Friday, April 11th, as the recipient of the organization’s 24th Amelia Earhart Award. Her pledge brought the total raised to more than $400,000 at the fundraising luncheon, which drew more than 850 guests to the Grand Ballroom of the Boston Marriott Copley Place.
Moved by the organization’s mission and by the speeches given by two Crittenton Women’s Union (CWU) program participants, Maria Slater-Qettelle and Toni Haskins, who recounted their successful journeys to economic self-sufficiency, Orman wowed the crowd by announcing her unplanned pledge during her acceptance speech. She will donate $10,000 a year to the organization for the next five years.
“It is our job today to lift ourselves up,” Orman said. “As I sat in my chair, I have to tell you I’m so very, very sad these days because, while we heard there needs to be a road out of poverty, the truth of the matter is, as I see it, what’s happening today with the economy is there’s actually a highway into poverty.
[T]here will be many, women in particular, that find themselves thankful for organizations like this.”
Now in its 24th year, the Amelia Earhart Award recognizes a woman who embodies Earhart’s pioneering spirit and who has significantly contributed to the expansion of opportunities for women. CWU paid tribute to Orman and her message of financial empowerment for women.
Ms. Orman is a two-time Emmy Award winning television host, six-time New York Times bestselling author, magazine and online columnist, writer/producer, and the number one female motivational speaker in the United States. Suze hosts the national CNBC-TV program, “The Suze Orman Show” and appears regularly on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King Live, The View and the Today Show. Ms. Orman has been called “a force in the world of personal finance” and a “one-woman financial advice powerhouse” by USA Today.
Event Sponsors
Presenting Sponsor
Champion Sponsor
Champion Sponsor
Fidelity Investments
Patron
State Street Corporation
Patron
Sponsors:
Bank of America
Bessemer Trust
Bingham McCutchen LLP
Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Brown Publishing Network
Cambridge College
Citizens Bank Foundation
CVS / Caremark
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Drug Information Association
Fiduciary Trust Company
Humboldt Storage and Moving Company
Linda McGoldrick
Georgia Murray and Mark Maloney
Pamela A. Murray
The Parthenon Group
Partners HealthCare
RENTACRATE
Barbara M. Russell
Shields Health Care Group
Tofias PC
Wellesley College
Judi Pearlstein, Ellen and Peter Zane
Past Honorees:
2006 - Anna Quindlen
2005 - Susan Hockfield
2004 - Doris Kearns Goodwin
2003 - Marian Wright Edelman
2002 - Ruth Simmons
2001 - Liz Walker
2000 - Gwen Ifill
1999 - Julia Child
1998 - Evelyn Murphy
1997 - Eileen Moran Brown
1996 - Judge Joyce London Alexander
1995 - Elizabeth K. Levin
1993 - Deborah Jackson
1992 - Dr. Jane Schaller
1990 - Jovita Fontanez
1989 - Caroline Chang
1988 - Dr. Diane Balser
1987 - Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith
1986 - Juliet Brudney
1985 - Dr. Margaret Hennig and Dr. Anne Jardim
1984 - Jan Verhage
1983 - Dr. Brunetta Wolfman
1982 - Sharyn Bahn
Annual Meeting & Public Forum 2007
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Crittenton Women's Union
invites you to join us for our
first annual meeting and public forum
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The View from the Inside
Clients and staff of CWU
will share their lessons learned
along the pathway to economic independence
Moderated by Renée Loth,
Editorial Page Editor, The Boston Globe |
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Thursday, November 29, 2007
8:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m.
Continental breakfast will be served
UMass Boston/Campus Center
100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston
RSVP extended through November 28 |
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Registration is now closed.
617.259.2921 for more information. |
This event is free and open to the public.
The Gallery @ South End Realty Group Event
Painting by Kathryn Sanfilippo
from her Spring Collection
On April 1, 2007 The Gallery @ SERG presented Kathryn Sanfilippo's
Spring Collection and raffle of a painting and jewelry,
benefiting Crittenton Women's Union.
Location:
476 Columbus Ave.
Boston, MA 02118
617.267.2666
www.southendrealty.com
2006 Amelia Earhart Award Luncheon
Held on November 17, 2006, the event honored Anna Quindlen, a best-selling author, journalist and opinion columnist whose New York Times column, "Public and Private," won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992.
Quindlen began her journalism career in 1974 as a reporter with The New York Post. Between 1977 and 1994 she held several positions at the New York Times.
In 1990, she became only the third woman in the paper's history to
write a regular column for its influential Op-Ed page when she began
the nationally-syndicated "Public and Private." She became a full-time
novelist in 1995, and currently writes a column for Newsweek, often commenting on the fast-paced nature of modern American life.
Quindlen's latest novel, Rise and Shine has recently been published in addition to her four previous best-selling novels (Blessings, Black and Blue, One True Thing, and Object Lessons) and four nonfiction books (A Short Guide to a Happy Life, Living Out Loud, Thinking Out Loud, and How Reading Changed My Life). She has also written two children's books (The Tree That Came to Stay and Happily Ever After).
She is the recipient of many awards, including a Clarion Award for Best
Regular Opinion Column in a magazine. She holds honorary doctorates
from Dartmouth College, Denison University, Moravian College, Mount
Holyoke College, Smith College and Stevens Institute of Technology and
was awarded the University Medal of Excellence by Columbia University.
She was a Poynter Fellow in Journalism at Yale, a Victoria Fellow in
Contemporary Issues at Rutgers, and was elected a Fellow of the Academy
of Arts & Sciences. She is a graduate of Barnard College in New
York City, and has served as a Barnard trustee since 1983.
Crittenton Women's Union would like to thank everyone for participating in the 25th Anniversary Crittenton Women’s Union Amelia Earhart Award Luncheon. You helped make this one of our most exciting and successful events ever!
