Material Listing

This page offers a listing of databases/portals that provide free and easy access to United States Federal government funding information and information on United States Federal, state, and local government transactions, resources, and services. 

Listed here are United States Federal grant-making agencies, the web site addresses of each agency, and the types of grant(s) which may be utilized by organizations working to end domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

This paper provides a summary of the research on the connections between poverty, public assistance, employment, and violence against women. Implications for working with battered women who receive TANF are discussed in detail.

Using survey research in two California counties, this study documents high rates of domestic violence among welfare recipients, and its impact, along with mental health and substance abuse issues, on women's ability to find work.

This issue of the BCS newsletter features the strengths-based, community engagement approach of Casa de Esperanza, of St. Paul, MN. The main article describes their work of mobilizing Latinas and Latino communities to end domestic violence.