Explore Grants
Learn more about a specific project or search across a specific category. RALIANCE has created this online, searchable platform to uplift the lessons learned and bold ideas our grantees have put into action. Use the more than one search option to examine how projects are making an impact in different ways.
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Promotoras Rompiendo Cadenas
YWCA of Southern Arizona Visit Website R4 2019-2020 ($50,000)YWCA of Southern Arizona in Tucson, AZ will expand its “Promotoras Rompiendo Cadenas” Program, a year-long- bilingual- community-based awareness and prevention program that helps remove barriers...
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Ensuring Safe Housing and Healing Spaces for Women and Girls of Color
National Organization of Sisters of Color Ending Sexual Assault (SCESA) Visit Website R4 2019-2020 ($50,000)National Organization of Sisters of Color Ending Sexual Assault (SCESA) in Windsor, CT will lead a national project on safe housing and culturally specific healing spaces for women and girls of...
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Centering Services for Transgender Women of Color
The Center for Hope and Healing, Inc Visit Website R4 2019-2020 ($40,000)The Center for Hope and Healing in Lowell, MA will examine and improve organizational policies, practices, and outreach strategies in order to better serve transgender women of color survivors in...
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Secrets Revealed: Addressing Child Sexual Abuse in the U.S. Virgin Islands
Women’s Coalition of St. Croix Visit Website R3 2018-2019 ($50,000)Increase awareness of and education about child sexual abuse in the Virgin Islands by producing an innovative weekly radio and podcast series as a strategy to prevent future abuse and increase...
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Creating Different Conditions
Men As Peacemakers / Men and Masculine Folks Network Visit Website R3 2018-2019 ($50,000)Project will create, launch, and distribute community and statewide a series of nine culturally specific sexual violence prevention videos for each of our target racial/ethnic communities in...
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DC Rape Crisis Center & Black Latinidad
DC Rape Crisis Center Visit Website R3 2018-2019 ($50,000)Collaborate with Black Latinidad to conduct a needs assessment of adult survivors of child sexual abuse in Black Diasporic Communities, provide training and assistance, and hold a Black Diasporic...
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"Jangueo con Sentido" Hanging out with sense, hanging out with consent
Coordinadora Paz para la Mujer Visit Website R3 2018-2019 ($50,000)The Jangueo con Sentido project (or Hanging-out with Sense, Hanging-out with Consent) will advance the efforts to create respectful and healthy college environments on campuses as well as in...
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Tewa Women United: Men for Positive Male Role Modeling in Sports
Tewa Women United Visit Website R2 2017-2018 ($50,000)Tewa Women United in Española, NM leveraged their collective intertribal women’s voice in the Tewa homelands of Northern New Mexico to initiate a project in the Espanola-Pojoaque Valley to engage...
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Grandparents: Sabiduria y Amor
New Mexico Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs Inc. Visit Website R2 2017-2018 ($45,000)New Mexico Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs Inc. in Albuquerque, NM created the Sabiduría y Amor Project, drawing upon the strengths of grandparents as advocates for vulnerable children who...
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Strengthening Services for Latinx Survivors in Colorado
Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault Visit Website R2 2017-2018 ($29,976)Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault in Denver, CO created the Colorado Latinx Leadership Network (CLLN) to enhance the professional skills of individual Latinx advocates in the anti-violence...
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Workplace Sexual Violence
ASISTA Immigrant Assistance Visit Website R2 2017-2018 ($49,750)ASISTA Immigrant Assistance in Suffield, CT piloted a statewide project in Nebraska, bringing together labor and anti-violence advocates to create on-going collaborations to eradicate sexual...
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The Life Healing Project
San Francisco Women Against Rape Visit Website R1 2016-2017 ($50,000)San Francisco Women Against Rape in San Francisco, CA, in conjunction with the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project, expanded the Life Healing Project which uses popular education and the art...
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Reaching Latinxs Survivors of Sexual Assault in Reading, PA: Los Retratos de mi Voz
Safe Berks Visit Website R1 2016-2017 ($34,631)Safe Berks in Reading, PA enhanced its capacity to provide linguistically and culturally appropriate resources to Latinxs community members through a community survey of Latinxs women’s experience...
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Promotoras
East Los Angeles Women's Center Visit Website R1 2016-2017 ($50,000)East Los Angeles Women’s Center in Los Angeles, CA expanded the community’s capacity to provide culturally and linguistically specific services for immigrant Latinas by training and empowering...
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Teen Relationship Violence Prevention Education Program
Center for Community Solutions Visit Website R1 2016-2017 ($50,000 )Center for Community Solutions in San Diego, CA enhanced their Teen Relationship Violence Education Curriculum and Program in an effort to increase awareness, challenge myths, and decrease sexual...
Product Definitions
Artwork
Original design by project participants such as film, photography display, narrative piece, etc
Curriculum
Includes materials for train the trainers or other training element. This may include illustrative artwork to be used within curriculums or in conjunction with trainings.
Language access
Resources in languages other than English
Presentation
PowerPoints or recorded webinar
PSA/Promotional video
A video creating public awareness about an organization’s expertise, resources or a program
Research
Reports including literature reviews, IRBs, white papers, and guidelines
Resource
Includes hard-copy printable brochures, flyers or other short resource information such as one-pagers or handouts, fact sheets, posters or items seen in a ‘toolkit’ such as templates.
Strategy Definitions
Strengthen Policies
This includes policies within organizations that address the organizational culture and practices to prevent SV/DV by both reducing risks and uplifting protective factors. It may also include strengthening policies within organizations, suggesting changes to public policy, offering public policy recommendations.
Enhance Partnerships
Formal or information partnerships to collaborate to align messages, activism, education, and policies and practices as a means to raise community awareness and strengthen the collective impact of SV/DV prevention. Through partnerships, develop a ‘coordinated community response’ that engages multi-layered action, cooperation, and solidarity around a shared goal or purpose. This may include coordinating and enhancing existing partnerships.
Learning Circles
Also called Communities of Practice, engaging in collective learning through convening or joining meetings, committees, conferences, etc. at national, state or regional, or local levels, and explore shared resources (ex. money, programming, messaging) and strategies to leverage SV/DV prevention efforts.
Build Champions
Intentional support and development of individuals and leaders in the community who model and advocate for SV/DV prevention.
Provide Resources
Providing materials (ex. handouts, posters), services (ex. academic advisors, hotline numbers), financial support (ex. money set aside for SV/DV prevention work), time (ex. setting specific times throughout the year to directly talk about SV/DV and how to prevent it), or other assets (ex. connect to other community SV/DV prevention efforts) that address and prevent SV/DV.
Educate & Train
Formal educational programs and trainings (e.g., webinars, keynote speeches, in person trainings) and informal education (ex. team meetings, off the field mentoring) that focus on two components: 1) responding to SV/DV and 2) prevention SV/DV.
Measure Impact
Formal evaluation (ex. surveys) of the outcomes of SV/DV prevention strategies (policies, resources, programs) to provide data that shows evidence of change. This also includes informal evaluation (ex. participant feedback, focus groups) of the outcomes of SV/DV prevention strategies.
Raise Awareness
Specific planned campaigns, pledges, print/posters or multi-media, and social media share graphics that aim to raise awareness about SV/DV and/or how to prevent it in order to mobilize for a purpose/action; may also include engaging national/state media platforms effectively to increase awareness/empower a wider-audience to action.