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Since m.powerment by mark. was launched in Fall 2008, more than $1 million has been raised to help break the cycle of dating abuse and partner violence.
Grant Recipients
In 2011, m.powerment by mark. awarded grants to 23 universities to fund and support initiatives dedicated to breaking the cycle of dating abuse and violence.
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The Administrators Of The Tulane Educational Fund
Rollover to learn moreFunds will be utilized to train and educate a core group of peer educators to provide education and programming at Tulane University. In addition, a social marketing campaign will be designed and implemented to target healthy relationship behavior.
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Albright College
Rollover to learn moreThe program will provide student outreach to create awareness about resources on campus and in the community that provide support for victims and to inform them about campus policies and laws to help combat and break the cycle of dating abuse.
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Ball State University
Rollover to learn moreThe project will enhance the existing Office of Victim Services Peer Victim Advocate Team (PVAT), who will receive training focused on relationship violence to promote awareness and provide assistance to victims.
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Barry University
Rollover to learn moreFunds will train Counseling Students, who provide preventive education on dating abuse/violence, sexual assault, harassment, stalking and the promotion of healthy relationships among college students as well as increase awareness of resources available.
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Boise State University Foundation, Inc.
Rollover to learn moreThe program will create and implement a peer education program training student leaders and student staff who have high contact with students, specifically raising awareness about healthy relationships and resources for unhealthy relationships.
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City College of San Francisco Women's Studies Department
Rollover to learn moreProject SURVIVE specially trained peer educators will give bilingual (English/Spanish and English/Chinese) classroom presentations promoting healthy relationships at City College of San Francisco™ Mission and Chinatown campuses.
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Eastern Washington University Foundation
Rollover to learn moreStudent leaders and peer educators at EWU are actively working to end violence by role-modeling bystander interventions and teaching in classrooms. Funds will help expand their efforts and provide promotional materials and training.
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Florida State University Research Foundation Inc
Rollover to learn moreFunds will allow for adaptation of the highly successful 'Men's Workshop,' to female groups on the FSU Campus at risk for sexual violence. Funds will be used to recruit, train and compensate female peer-educators to facilitate workshops.
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Georgia Institute of Technology
Rollover to learn moreTo develop and implement a comprehensive prevention program at Georgia Tech that works directly with male students on the predominantly male campus, and to host an annual teen summit in conjunction with Partnership Against Domestic Violence.
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Illinois College
Rollover to learn moreIllinois College will use the grant to expand its established Peer Health Educator Program by providing additional training and new materials for presentations to improve students' awareness of healthy relationships, dating violence and sexual assault.
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Immaculata University
Rollover to learn moreImmaculata University will utilize project funding to train peer educators and provide access to on-demand, web-based trainings and resources. Project funds also will be used for the purchase of resource materials and promotional items.
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Keuka College
Rollover to learn moreKeuka College Campus Advocate Response Team (C.A.R.T.) is being developed as a student-led sexual assault, dating abuse and domestic violence prevention and intervention program.
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Loyola Marymount University
Rollover to learn moreLMU Student Affairs and two local partners will train students to be peer educators on healthy relationships free from sexual, domestic and interpersonal violence. Project includes ongoing training, programming, educational materials and assessment.
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North Dakota State University
Rollover to learn moreThe Violence Prevention Educator Program will increase the quality and availability of awareness and prevention efforts at NDSU. Ten student educators will attend intensive, on-going training and then implement workshops and events for peers.
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The Research Foundation Of State University of New York
Rollover to learn moreFunds will be utilized to train peer educators (PEs) on sexual violence and bystander intervention. PEs will provide educational workshops. Educational materials and give-aways purchased will increase student retention.
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Tides Center
Rollover to learn moreThis grant would support a year of Love Shouldn't Hurt peer-led dating violence prevention and healthy relationships education for Jewish college students at San Francisco State University, Stanford and in the five-college Silicon Valley region.
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The University at Albany Foundation
Rollover to learn moreThis project will expand the national award-winning Middle Earth peer theater initiative and campus-based hotline service to address dating abuse and violence, sexual assault, harassment, stalking and the promotion of healthy relationships.
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UC San Diego Foundation, University of California at San Diego
Rollover to learn moreFunds will support a new UC San Diego campus program called "Cute or Creepy." This is a program which will focus on healthy relationships while also providing warning signs of dating violence and teaching students how to be an active bystander.
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University of Maine
Rollover to learn moreThe program will provide bystander intervention training for student peer groups in Maine and conduct a marketing campaign to increase awareness of how bystanders can prevent abuse, create positive norms and support victims.
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University of Massachusetts Amherst
Rollover to learn moreFunding will be used for an innovative project entitled the Greek Relationship Violence Prevention Project, which will provide outreach and education on relationship violence, sexual assault and stalking to the fraternities and sororities at UMASS.
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University Of The Pacific
Rollover to learn morePacific's Healthy Relationship Peer Education Program trains student educators to provide preventive education programs that deepen understanding about healthy dating relationships and campus and community resources for survivors of dating abuse.
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Washington & Lee University
Rollover to learn morePeer Educators will receive enhanced training on Healthy Relationships. Promotion of the proactive Green Dot program will motivate a critical mass of students to engage in active bystander intervention, causing a cultural shift to decrease sexual violence.
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Washington State University Foundation
Rollover to learn moreThe program will train student facilitators to teach other students how to recognize and intervene when observing incidences of sexual assault, intimate partner violence and stalking.
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