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Special Collection
Special Collection
January 2024
Being a Man: Preventing Domestic and Sexual Violence
This Special Collection provides resources for anti-violence programs to increase their capacity to engage men and boys in their work to end domestic and sexual violence.
Special Collection
September 2023
Nonprofit Management
Nonprofit organizations play a key role in our efforts to end gender-based violence and other forms of injustice and to build safe and thriving communities. In order to ensure that nonprofits are able to be as effective and mission-driven as possible in their programmatic work, they need to have a solid infrastructure. This collection offers key information on nuts and bolts of managing a nonprofit, and resources to support organizations in their journey to dismantle structural racism and center racial equity.
Special Collection
March 2014
Open Doors: Thinking Beyond Shelter (Or Alternative Ways to Help Survivors)
Many concerned community members want to help families experiencing domestic violence. Part 2 provides suggestions and ideas for building needed resources in your community for survivors of domestic violence, in lieu of opening a shelter or safe house.
Special Collection
November 2009
Conflict Resolution Tools for Domestic Violence Shelter Staff
This collection includes selected materials and resources intended to equip advocates with a contextual framework and practical skills to better resolve conflicts that often arise within a shelter environment.
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Materials
- General Material
- NRCDV Publications
- Training Tools
March 2025
When the Work Hurts: Managing the Impacts of Moral Injury and Career Sustainability in Mission-Driven Work
Publisher(s):This webinar takes a deep dive into the key concepts of moral distress and moral injury, with a focus on what it is and how it can show up in mission-driven environments. The presenter offers strategies on how to navigate the hard, the ugly, and the painful as well as naming your personal signs that it is time to leave the work.
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- General Material
- NRCDV Publications
March 2025
As a leader in the anti-violence field, how can I build my capacity to navigate a major crisis impacting my organization, staff, and the survivors that we serve?
Publisher(s): What should leaders keep in mind as they find themselves leading an organization during a turbulent time? There are no easy and perfect answers to these questions. In this Technical Assistance Question (TAQ), NRCDV's Patty Branco offers some musings for leaders in the anti-violence field.
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- General Material
- NRCDV Publications
April 2024
ARP Series: How can anti-violence advocates and organizations best prepare and respond to disaster and emergency situations?
Publisher(s): In the context of emergencies and disasters – and beyond – as advocates, service providers and social change agents, our work is the work of dismantling systems of oppression. This Technical Assistance Question of the Month (TAQ) explores what it means to root our disaster prevention and response efforts in equity, mutual aid, and hope.
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- General Material
- NRCDV Publications
- Training Tools
September 2023
National Prevention Town Hall 2023 – Session 1 | Congreso Nacional de Prevención – Sesión 1
Publisher(s): The National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, in collaboration with partners from across the Northeast region of the United States, held our fourth virtual Prevention Town Hall on September 13 and 14, 2023.
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- General Material
- NRCDV Publications
- Training Tools
September 2023
2023 National Prevention Town Hall
Publisher(s): This National Prevention Town Hall uplifted innovative prevention approaches in the Northeast region of the United States that build solidarity across movements to disrupt systems of violence that disproportionately harm Black women and gender expansive individuals. Presenters engaged participants in conversations around critical issues impacting Black women, youth, and gender expansive individuals including reproductive justice and housing as a basic human need and right.
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- General Material
- NRCDV Publications
- Training Tools
May 2023
WEBINAR: What Will History Say About You & Your Organization?
Publisher(s): Workshop participants will walk away with increased knowledge of how oppression can manifest across the socio-ecological model and the importance of interrupting the early onset of oppression before it escalates to a macro level, historical contributions of Black early movement contributors and the values they leaned into that laid a foundation for the anti-violence work that we do today, and more.
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- General Material
- NRCDV Publications
April 2023
What are some strategies for supporting sustainability for organizations in the gender-based violence movement?
Publisher(s): As a field, we understand that power dynamics are multi-dimensional and seep into almost every aspect of our personal and professional lives. This Technical Assistance Question of the Month (TAQ), authored by staff at Futures Without Violence, offers examples of ways gender-based violence organizations have put their values into action.
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- General Material
- NRCDV Publications
February 2023
Why is the gender-based violence movement pushing away Black advocates?
Publisher(s): “Black advocates are being pushed out of the movement when it needs us most.” In this Technical Assistance Question of the Month (TAQ), Ashley Carter, Founder & CEO of ASX Consulting discusses some of the reasons why Black advocates are leaving the gender-based violence movement.