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We are pleased to announce that effective September 30, 2011, the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law (Shriver Center) and Center for Legal Aid Education (CLAE) are officially operating as one organization. Our combination unites two organizations that are leaders in the national effort to promote justice and opportunity for low-income people and communities. 

The Shriver Center’s current advocacy and communication programs develop and advance laws and policies that create a more just and equitable society, while also serving as a communications hub and thought leader for the national equal justice community. With the acquisition of CLAE, the Shriver Center is expanding its capacity to provide the full range of training and leadership development programs to legal aid attorneys and advocates around the country to help them obtain justice for their clients.  The combined organization will continue to operate as the Shriver Center and remain headquartered in Chicago, with a second office in Boston as home to the new training programs.