Management & Sustainability Content Topic Results

This paper outlines risk and liability issues related to Internet use by domestic violence organizations, suggests risk-management guidelines to protect them from liability, and includes recommendations to further understanding re: online services.

This document examines the effectiveness of batterer intervention programs in holding batterers accountable, increasing victim safety, and changing behavior and attitudes. The authors address the inherent complications in evaluating these outcomes.

This report represents the culmination of CALCASA's year-long strategic visioning process, which seeks to foster better understanding of the impact of sexual violence and encourage further collaboration to end sexual assault in California.

The paper examines the complex issue of women's use of non-lethal violence against their male partners including a review of existing research, an examination of the motivations and context, and a critical analysis to inform policy and practice.

In an easy-to-read format with examples and exercises, this guidebook is intended to lay the groundwork for thinking about how to gauge progress, with an emphasis on how to conceptualize evaluation of a community development initiative.

This report contributes to the growing national conversation about how to help nonprofits become stronger, more sustainable, and better able to serve their communities. Offers insights and examples of how nonprofits have pursued building up their "organizational muscle."

This page, an excerpt from Dismantling Racism: A Workbook for Social Change Groups, lists characteristic of white supremacy culture that show up in our organizations, including perfectionism, sense of urgency, defensiveness, quantity over quality, and more. The page explains why these characteristics are harmful and offers antidotes to help dismantle white supremacy culture.

This document provides an overview of how to conceptualize and carry out program evaluation in domestic violence organizations. The authors include a discussion of how to design appropriate outcomes and collect data.

This comprehensive report describes different cultural issues that may affect how different populations can and do use domestic violence services.

Describes the process of Wisconsin domestic violence advocates to assess how well their programs and procedures were meeting the needs of battered women and their children. A Building Comprehensive Solutions to Domestic Violence project publication.

This paper uses examples from the child welfare system to raise questions about the limitations of current DV advocacy strategies for low-income women. The paper challenges the U.S. traditional battered women's movement to expand its solutions.

Members and volunteers produced this manual in an effort to provide a reference and resource document for agencies planning, developing, implementing and improving domestic violence victim service programs.