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CFUF Receives Funds To Launch Green Jobs Corp. 

The Center for Urban Families (CFUF) is pleased to announce that it has received funds to help launch the center’s new Green Jobs Corp.  The new funding was made available by the Obama Administration through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (The Stimulus Package) and was provided to CFUF as part of a partnership with STRIVE International.  STRIVE International is a workforce development agency based in East Harlem, New York and was awarded 4.7million dollars from the Department of Labor to support Green Jobs initiatives, like CFUF’s Green Jobs Corp., at six of its sites across the nation. 

The Strive Baltimore Program Teaches Skills for Life

                                                              
Some of the men who benefited from the Center for Urban Families' Strive Baltimore program helped build its new, North Monroe Street facility.  Their story was featured in a November Baltimore Sun article.