Community Organizing / Mobilization / Engagement Content Topic Results

Hmong women working in domestic violence programs organized a series of meetings to understand the trends and issues in international marriages and to explore possible actions to address abusive international marriages. Their documentation of the problem and its impact, analysis, survivors’ stories, and strategies are captured in Abusive International Marriages: Hmong Advocates Organizing in Wisconsin.

This chapter of the online toolbox provides an overview of strategic planning, developing vision and mission statements, creating objectives, developing successful strategies and an action plan, gathering feedback, and identifying action steps to bring about community and system change.

This handbook outlines the international and regional legal and policy framework which mandates States to adopt and implement National Action Plans to address VAW, including a model framework for adoption.

This presentation from Venable LLP outlines tax rules for lobbying, special restrictions for organizations receiving federal funds, definitions of lobbying terms, and ethics. It also addresses some basic “dos” “don’ts” for 501(c)(3) organizations that wish to participate in lobbying activities.

The guidebook gives tips on how to design safe economic programs and livelihood activities to help prevent gender-based violence.

This document provides a summary of the participants, discussion themes, shared resources, and feedback related to the Twitter Town Hall on the use of language and generational accessibility in dating violence prevention efforts.

These wheels, based on the Duluth Abuse Intervention Project (DAIP) model, provide a framework for explaining men’s abuse of power and control in work to address gendered violence. The author offers a model for accountable men’s work within anti-violence movements.

The Doorways program is a series of manuals targeting three key audiences: teachers, students and community members. These three groups can create a critical mass in schools that will bring about transformative, lasting change.

This session focuses on effective use of social media to engage your constituents and get your message of anti-violence out to the community.

This toolkit provides ideas for youth activists across the state to educate others about teen dating violence and to take action in their communities and schools. Contents include: You Can Make a Difference Knowledge Is Power Gain Support Spread The Word Hold A Club Meeting Club Activities Contact Your Local Domestic Violence Center

This document represents the text of a one-day workshop presented by Dr Michael Flood. Hosted by the women’s organization Soroptimist International, the workshop took place in Mt Gambier, South Australia, on July 15th 2011. The workshop took up the second day of the two-day conference United Against Domestic Violence – Engaging All Men in Prevention.

This report from the UK calls for long-term and targeted action to prevent violence against women and girls. In particular, it asks schools and other educational institutions to play their part.