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This report summarizes the main findings and crosscutting themes and outlines findings from the National Resource Center for Reaching Victims' needs assessment, offering strategies to support the crime victims field’s goal of reaching more people and closing service gaps. 

Honesty is the quality most often cited around the world as the #1 most important characteristic for leadership. This page from the National Council of Nonprofits offers practice pointers to help nonprofit organizations to demonstrate ethical leadership.

This paper examines board functioning in relation to both legal and broader conceptions of accountability and offers approaches to improving boards, including regulation, self-regulation, policy-oriented, and management-oriented strategies.

This white paper explains how and why LGBTQ children and youth experience disproportionate rates of violence and trauma, and how those experiences tend to lead to even more violence and trauma down the road. Most importantly, it explains how this trajectory can be disrupted, even by neighbors and other bystanders. 

In 2010, the Women of Color Network engaged in a nation-wide survey on the experiences of WOC executives in the domestic violence and sexual assault movements, which identified real issues and patterns to that must be addressed in order to promote leadership of WOC in the anti-violence movement. This report outlines survey findings and action steps.