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New Name and a New Website: The Partnership for Worker Education

A New Name After 32 years, we changed our name from Labor/Management Workplace Education to The Partnership for Worker Education.  As with all of our work, we shared the idea with many of our partners; we received only positive feedback.  As we enter our fourth decade, our new name better communicates our directions and priorities: partnerships and workers. A New Website...

Building Bridges Showcase Event: 750 Attendees, 90 Staff Exhibitors

Building Bridges draws on the power of solidarity and creative expression to bring people together and create a bridge across difference.  Our second annual Building Bridges Showcase Event featured an exhibition of worker art, displays by immigrant workers, the Building Bridges Art Installation, workshops, performances and great food. We doubled the number of...

Our Southern Hilltown Program receives $87,322 grant

SHAEC obtains $87,322 grant to fund GED, adult education and more [reprint from the Westfield News] HILLTOWNS – At the Village Enterprise Center in Chester, home base for the Southern Hilltowns Adult Education Center (SHAEC), SHAEC Program Director Michele Kenney was excited. “We just learned that the Community Development Block Grant was fully funded,” Kenney said,...