100% of VDay's proceeds will be donated:
Every cent of VDay's proceeds will be donated to one of the charitable causes below. VDay has chosen two local organizations, as well as donating to help the global VDay effort construct the City of Joy, as a refuge and hospital for women and families facing terror and violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Please feel free to read more about each of our beneficiary organizations below. We thank you for your support!
Beneficiary: Tubman
Promoting safe and healthy families, individuals and communities through evidence-based intervention, prevention and education.
Tubman helps women, children, and families struggling with relationship violence, substance abuse, and mental health issues.Tubman provides safe shelter, legal advocacy, and counseling services across the Twin Cities, guiding and sustaining individuals and families on the journey from chaos and fear to healing and restoration.
For more information and resources: http://www.tubman.org/tubman/
24 Hour Hotline --- 612.825.0000 (West Metro) /// 651.770.0777 (East Metro)
Tubman helps women, children, and families struggling with relationship violence, substance abuse, and mental health issues.Tubman provides safe shelter, legal advocacy, and counseling services across the Twin Cities, guiding and sustaining individuals and families on the journey from chaos and fear to healing and restoration.
For more information and resources: http://www.tubman.org/tubman/
24 Hour Hotline --- 612.825.0000 (West Metro) /// 651.770.0777 (East Metro)
Beneficiary: Women's Prison Book Project
Since 1994, the Women’s Prison Book Project (WPBP) has provided women and transgender –identified persons in prison with free reading materials covering a wide range of topics from law and education (dictionaries, GED, etc.) to fiction, politics, history, and women’s health. We are an all volunteer, grassroots organization. We seek to build connections with those behind the walls, and to educate those of us on the outside about the realities of prison and the justice system.
Of the more than two million people confined in U.S. prisons and jails, over 150,000 are women. Eighty percent of these women are there for non–violent crimes, such as shoplifting, prostitution, drug related convictions, and fraud. Of the women convicted of violent crimes, the vast majority were convicted for defending themselves or their children from abuse. More than 1/2 of all women in prison are women of color, and two–thirds of women in prison have at least one child under eighteen. Most of these mothers had primary custody of their children before going to prison.
These facts mean that women in prison have specific needs for particular kinds of information: material on families, children, women's self–help, women's health, and legal aid pertaining to women who fight back against their abusers. There are also many lesbian, bisexual, and transgender prisoners who often have trouble obtaining information that is relevant to their lives. As new prisons are built to warehouse the growing number of incarcerated people in the U.S., the meager resources previously available to prisoners are being cut or limited to only a few. WPBP is one place where women/transgender persons in prison can get information that is often unavailable from any other source. WPBP works to support prisoners; and through that solidarity work to empower prisoners themselves and build connections through prison walls.
We recognize that prisons and the entire justice system often control and suppress the lives/movements of the poor, women, and all people of color. The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and that is no accident. We urge all progressive people to include prison issues as an integral part of the struggle for sweeping social change. In keeping with this view we also acknowledge that as activists on the outside it is vital to provide whatever material support that WPBP can to women political prisoners and prisoners of war in U.S. prisons and jails.
Of the more than two million people confined in U.S. prisons and jails, over 150,000 are women. Eighty percent of these women are there for non–violent crimes, such as shoplifting, prostitution, drug related convictions, and fraud. Of the women convicted of violent crimes, the vast majority were convicted for defending themselves or their children from abuse. More than 1/2 of all women in prison are women of color, and two–thirds of women in prison have at least one child under eighteen. Most of these mothers had primary custody of their children before going to prison.
These facts mean that women in prison have specific needs for particular kinds of information: material on families, children, women's self–help, women's health, and legal aid pertaining to women who fight back against their abusers. There are also many lesbian, bisexual, and transgender prisoners who often have trouble obtaining information that is relevant to their lives. As new prisons are built to warehouse the growing number of incarcerated people in the U.S., the meager resources previously available to prisoners are being cut or limited to only a few. WPBP is one place where women/transgender persons in prison can get information that is often unavailable from any other source. WPBP works to support prisoners; and through that solidarity work to empower prisoners themselves and build connections through prison walls.
We recognize that prisons and the entire justice system often control and suppress the lives/movements of the poor, women, and all people of color. The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and that is no accident. We urge all progressive people to include prison issues as an integral part of the struggle for sweeping social change. In keeping with this view we also acknowledge that as activists on the outside it is vital to provide whatever material support that WPBP can to women political prisoners and prisoners of war in U.S. prisons and jails.
Beneficiary: The City of Joy Project, DRC
Stop Raping our Greatest Resource: Power to Women in the DRC is a new global campaign to call attention to the wide-scale atrocities committed against women and girls in Eastern DRC and demand an end to the impunity with which these crimes are committed.
By joining this campaign, you will be supporting Congolese women and men who are demanding an end to rape. You will be supporting local efforts to demand justice and accountability. You will be supporting survivors of sexual violence to heal and rebuild their lives and communities. And you will join others around the globe to demand that women and girls in DRC are safe.
The Campaign is being initiated by V-Day and UNICEF, representing UN Action Against Sexual Violence in Conflict.
For more details on this campaign, please scroll up and choose the "Spotlight on the DRC" page! Or click the link: http://vdayminneapolis.weebly.com/spotlight-on-the-drc.html
By joining this campaign, you will be supporting Congolese women and men who are demanding an end to rape. You will be supporting local efforts to demand justice and accountability. You will be supporting survivors of sexual violence to heal and rebuild their lives and communities. And you will join others around the globe to demand that women and girls in DRC are safe.
The Campaign is being initiated by V-Day and UNICEF, representing UN Action Against Sexual Violence in Conflict.
For more details on this campaign, please scroll up and choose the "Spotlight on the DRC" page! Or click the link: http://vdayminneapolis.weebly.com/spotlight-on-the-drc.html
