Washington, DC, Feb. 27, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Raliance, a national collaborative committed to ending sexual violence in one generation, announced today the eleven recipients of grants totaling more than $515,000 that will fund promising efforts across the country to prevent sexual assault. This is the third round of an ongoing grant program seeking to advance projects, strategies or policies that improve responses to victims, reduce the likelihood of perpetration of sexual violence and strengthen communities’ capacity to create safe environments. This diverse group of exceptional grant recipients joins 41 additional projects Raliance has invested in through one-year grants since 2016 totaling over $2.3 million.
“We are proud to support the concrete solutions and prevention activities being accomplished each day in communities as determined as we are to end sexual violence,” said Karen Baker, Raliance managing partner and director of NSVRC. “Prevention is possible and it’s happening.”
Comprised of the National Alliance to End Sexual Violence (NAESV), the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) and California Coalition Against Sexual Assault (CALCASA)–PreventConnect, Raliance was founded in 2015 through a multimillion dollar seed investment by the National Football League.
In November, Raliance launched the Sport + Prevention Center, a one-stop-shop with online tools to create a sport culture that values every individual, reinforces healthy relationships and is free of sexual and domestic violence. Raliance is also actively supporting a cohort of diverse individuals to attend The Op Ed Project’s Write to Change the World seminar in cities across the country as it aims to uplift voices that often go unheard in mainstream media about sexual violence, its root causes, impacts and how to prevent it.
The eleven grantees each fall into one of Raliance’s three focus areas and received awards of up to $50,000. The grantees are:
Category 1: Services or advocacy for people who have been sexually victimized
Category 2: Strategies for reducing the likelihood of people to sexually offend
Category 3: Organizational, systemic or community-level prevention strategies
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ABOUT RALIANCE
Raliance is a national collaborative committed to ending sexual violence in one generation. Comprised of the National Alliance to End Sexual Violence (NAESV), the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) and California Coalition Against Sexual Assault (CALCASA)–PreventConnect, Raliance was founded in 2015 through a multimillion dollar seed investment by the National Football League, Raliance was founded in 2015 through a multimillion dollar seed investment by the National Football League, Raliance was founded in 2015 through a multimillion dollar seed investment by the National Football League. We are making prevention possible by awarding grants, advancing research, policymaking and more. Join the movement at Raliance.org.
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