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Learn more about a specific project or search across a specific category. RALIANCE has created this online, searchable platform to uplift the lessons learned and bold ideas our grantees have put into action. Use the more than one search option to examine how projects are making an impact in different ways.
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Sexual Harassment Prevention & Response Program in Restaurants
Coalition for Restaurant Safety & Health Visit Website R4 2019-2020 ($40,000)Read MoreCoalition for Restaurant Safety & Health in Philadelphia, PA focuses on the service industry to prevent and respond to sexual harassment in Philadelphia restaurants through training,...
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Reducing Harassment in Sporting Institutions by Testing and Scaling Bystander Intervention
Hollaback! Visit Website R4 2019-2020 ($50,000 )Read MoreHollaback! in Brooklyn, NY will create, deliver, and evaluate bystander intervention trainings within New York City sporting organizations and workforces.
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Promotoras Rompiendo Cadenas
YWCA of Southern Arizona Visit Website R4 2019-2020 ($50,000)Read MoreYWCA of Southern Arizona in Tucson, AZ will expand its “Promotoras Rompiendo Cadenas” Program, a year-long- bilingual- community-based awareness and prevention program that helps remove barriers...
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Building Leaders to Keep Children Safe in Communities of Color Using Indigenous Circle process
Visioning BEAR Circle Intertribal Coalition Visit Website R4 2019-2020 ($50,000)Read MoreVisioning BEAR Circle Intertribal Coalition in Greenfield, MA will expand prevention work to keep children safe using indigenous circle process in both Tribal and Housing and Urban Development...
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Victim to Victimizer: Using trauma-informed understanding of Adverse Childhood Experiences to Prevent Sexually Abusive Behavior in Adulthood
Catholic University Visit Website R4 2019-2020 ($50,000)Read MoreThe Catholic University of America in Washington, DC will listen to the voices and experiences of individuals who commit sexual offenses along with treatment providers describe how they believe...
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POWER Up!
Prairie View A&M Foundation / Prairie View A&M University Visit Website R4 2019-2020 ($50,000)Read MorePrairie View A&M University in Prairie View, TX will enhance their existing campus relationship and sexual violence prevention programming (RSVP) with the POWER UP! (Panthers Offer Women...
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Parents for Prevention: Raising the Generation that Will End Sexual Violence
Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault Visit Website R4 2019-2020 ($40,000)Read MoreIowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault in Des Moines, IA will evaluate their Parents for Prevention programming through a series of train-the-trainer sessions for parent and caregiver educators in...
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Healthy Relationships Initiative
The Arab-American Family Support Center Visit Website R4 2019-2020 ($50,000)Read MoreThe Arab-American Family Support Center in New York, NY will expand their healthy relationships and violence prevention curriculum for young people within Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South...
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Ensuring Safe Housing and Healing Spaces for Women and Girls of Color
National Organization of Sisters of Color Ending Sexual Assault (SCESA) Visit Website R4 2019-2020 ($50,000)Read MoreNational Organization of Sisters of Color Ending Sexual Assault (SCESA) in Windsor, CT will lead a national project on safe housing and culturally specific healing spaces for women and girls of...
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Centering Services for Transgender Women of Color
The Center for Hope and Healing, Inc Visit Website R4 2019-2020 ($40,000)Read MoreThe Center for Hope and Healing in Lowell, MA will examine and improve organizational policies, practices, and outreach strategies in order to better serve transgender women of color survivors in...
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Secrets Revealed: Addressing Child Sexual Abuse in the U.S. Virgin Islands
Women’s Coalition of St. Croix Visit Website R3 2018-2019 ($50,000)Read MoreIncrease awareness of and education about child sexual abuse in the Virgin Islands by producing an innovative weekly radio and podcast series as a strategy to prevent future abuse and increase...
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Be a Man: Masculinity and Gender-Based Violence
Monsoon United Asian Women of Iowa Visit Website R3 2018-2019 ($50,000)Read MoreDevelop and implement a culturally-specific, workshop-style curriculum in Central Iowa for middle school boys in sports programs in order to increase recognition of gender-based violence, decrease...
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Partners in Prevention
Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault Visit Website R3 2018-2019 ($50,000)Read MoreHelp a network of 30,000 soccer coaches across the United States better understand sexual violence prevention and enhance access to resources on sexual violence prevention.
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Creating Different Conditions
Men As Peacemakers / Men and Masculine Folks Network Visit Website R3 2018-2019 ($50,000)Read MoreProject will create, launch, and distribute community and statewide a series of nine culturally specific sexual violence prevention videos for each of our target racial/ethnic communities in...
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"What We Needed": What impacted communities need to end child-on-child sexual harm (a California pilot)
Impact Justice Visit Website R3 2018-2019 ($50,000)Read MoreDevelop a pilot program in California called What we Needed to help us better understand the uniqueness of child-on-child sexual harm, including its roots and solutions to prevent it from...
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Preventing Sexual Abuse in Disability-Specific Sports Organizations
IMPACT Visit Website R3 2018-2019 ($50,000)Read MoreDevelop sexual abuse prevention programming and model policies for adaptive sports organizations that addresses the unique realities of athletic organizations for people with disabilities.
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Why Faith Matters: A Resource for Advocates and Allies to Recognize the Spiritual and Religious Needs of Victims/Survivors of Sexual Assault and Abuse
FaithTrust Institute Visit Website R3 2018-2019 ($35,720)Read MoreCreate an educational resource for sexual assault advocates and allies to better understand the significance of faith beliefs and religious culture in the lives of many sexual assault survivors....
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DC Rape Crisis Center & Black Latinidad
DC Rape Crisis Center Visit Website R3 2018-2019 ($50,000)Read MoreCollaborate with Black Latinidad to conduct a needs assessment of adult survivors of child sexual abuse in Black Diasporic Communities, provide training and assistance, and hold a Black Diasporic...
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"Jangueo con Sentido" Hanging out with sense, hanging out with consent
Coordinadora Paz para la Mujer Visit Website R3 2018-2019 ($50,000)Read MoreThe Jangueo con Sentido project (or Hanging-out with Sense, Hanging-out with Consent) will advance the efforts to create respectful and healthy college environments on campuses as well as in...
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Emerging Sons: National Black Male Leadership Initiative
Black Women's Blueprint Visit Website R3 2018-2019 ($50,000)Read MoreExpanding its Emerging Sons Project to develop and implement programming and innovative tools that reduces the likelihood of people to offend using culturally-specific education and messaging to...
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Product Definitions
Artwork
Original design by project participants such as film, photography display, narrative piece, etc
Curriculum
Includes materials for train the trainers or other training element. This may include illustrative artwork to be used within curriculums or in conjunction with trainings.
Language access
Resources in languages other than English
Presentation
PowerPoints or recorded webinar
PSA/Promotional video
A video creating public awareness about an organization’s expertise, resources or a program
Research
Reports including literature reviews, IRBs, white papers, and guidelines
Resource
Includes hard-copy printable brochures, flyers or other short resource information such as one-pagers or handouts, fact sheets, posters or items seen in a ‘toolkit’ such as templates.
Strategy Definitions
Strengthen Policies
This includes policies within organizations that address the organizational culture and practices to prevent SV/DV by both reducing risks and uplifting protective factors. It may also include strengthening policies within organizations, suggesting changes to public policy, offering public policy recommendations.
Enhance Partnerships
Formal or information partnerships to collaborate to align messages, activism, education, and policies and practices as a means to raise community awareness and strengthen the collective impact of SV/DV prevention. Through partnerships, develop a ‘coordinated community response’ that engages multi-layered action, cooperation, and solidarity around a shared goal or purpose. This may include coordinating and enhancing existing partnerships.
Learning Circles
Also called Communities of Practice, engaging in collective learning through convening or joining meetings, committees, conferences, etc. at national, state or regional, or local levels, and explore shared resources (ex. money, programming, messaging) and strategies to leverage SV/DV prevention efforts.
Build Champions
Intentional support and development of individuals and leaders in the community who model and advocate for SV/DV prevention.
Provide Resources
Providing materials (ex. handouts, posters), services (ex. academic advisors, hotline numbers), financial support (ex. money set aside for SV/DV prevention work), time (ex. setting specific times throughout the year to directly talk about SV/DV and how to prevent it), or other assets (ex. connect to other community SV/DV prevention efforts) that address and prevent SV/DV.
Educate & Train
Formal educational programs and trainings (e.g., webinars, keynote speeches, in person trainings) and informal education (ex. team meetings, off the field mentoring) that focus on two components: 1) responding to SV/DV and 2) prevention SV/DV.
Measure Impact
Formal evaluation (ex. surveys) of the outcomes of SV/DV prevention strategies (policies, resources, programs) to provide data that shows evidence of change. This also includes informal evaluation (ex. participant feedback, focus groups) of the outcomes of SV/DV prevention strategies.
Raise Awareness
Specific planned campaigns, pledges, print/posters or multi-media, and social media share graphics that aim to raise awareness about SV/DV and/or how to prevent it in order to mobilize for a purpose/action; may also include engaging national/state media platforms effectively to increase awareness/empower a wider-audience to action.
