Cradle to Career Program Manager and Isaiah Francisco, the Healthy Masculinity Coordinator at Goodwill METRO REC both represented Youth on the Rise at the Aspen Opportunity Youth Forum Spring Convening from May 22-24th in Austin, Texas. The Aspen Opportunity Youth...

The Cradle to Career Partnership concluded another successful year of Leaders in Literacy program with three partner school districts: Marana Unified, Tucson Unified, and Sahuarita Unified. Early school and participant data shows the huge impact that the expansion of...

On May 8th the Cradle to Career Partnership welcomed educators from the Marana Unified School District (MUSD) to celebrate the end of the school year and the achievements of these early grade reading teachers. Thirty educators were in attendance for the event and were...

On April 28th, the Cradle to Career Partnership and United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona joined our partners from Goodwill of Southern Arizona to celebrate the opening of a new Re-Engagement Center on Tucson's East Side. At the event, United Way's President and...

United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona announced today that it will donate $200,000 to Goodwill Metro of Southern Arizona over the next two years for the expansion of their Youth Reengagement Centers (RECs) with two new sites in Tucson.  Currently, Goodwill offers...

Cradle to Career’s Caroline Lewis attended the National Youth Employment Coalition’s 2023 Annual Forum in Indianapolis, Indiana, taking place from April 4-7. The forum brings together youth leaders, practitioners, and policymakers from across the United States who are...

As the anchor organization for Cradle to Career, United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona supports our work in a number of ways. Whether they are helping community members and organizations learn more about C2C, showcasing the success of our partnership at events, or...

Our partnership tracks data that shows where our children and young people are on eight community-wide indicators, and we provided up to date access to this data on our Data Dashboard. This data is important to track not because it shows that our children are failing...

The definition of United as written in the Oxford English Dictionary is as follows,   /yo͞oˈnīdəd/ adjective joined together politically, for a common purpose, or by common feelings.   It’s a concept most if not all of us understand. From moving heavy...

United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona, the anchor organization for the Cradle to Career Partnership, and Women United honored community Literacy Champions at the 18th Annual Business Leaders for Early Education Breakfast on February 16th. Three area educators were...