Comments on: Wednesday Q&A: How Can I Honor DV Awareness Month? http://violenceunsilenced.com/wednesday-qa-how-can-i-honor-dv-awareness-month/ Violence UnSilenced: Shedding light on domestic violence and sexual abuse/assault by giving survivors a voice. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:42:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Lillian http://violenceunsilenced.com/wednesday-qa-how-can-i-honor-dv-awareness-month/#comment-6586 Lillian Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:34:55 +0000 http://violenceunsilenced.com/?p=750#comment-6586 Thank you for this post. Lots of great suggestions. :-) Thank you for this post. Lots of great suggestions. :-)

]]> By: Mojo http://violenceunsilenced.com/wednesday-qa-how-can-i-honor-dv-awareness-month/#comment-6549 Mojo Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:05:40 +0000 http://violenceunsilenced.com/?p=750#comment-6549 Thank you for this question and the answer. I was trying to put together something to send to our HR department (who co-ordinates all of the campaigns like this for our agency) and you just saved me a <i>lot</i> of work. I'm just gonna forward this link. Thank you for this question and the answer. I was trying to put together something to send to our HR department (who co-ordinates all of the campaigns like this for our agency) and you just saved me a lot of work. I’m just gonna forward this link.

]]> By: Sam http://violenceunsilenced.com/wednesday-qa-how-can-i-honor-dv-awareness-month/#comment-6548 Sam Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:24:11 +0000 http://violenceunsilenced.com/?p=750#comment-6548 I'm not sure that my community actually does much except the odd book sale or donation drive, a few random fundraisers, but we do that all the time. We only have a single small women's shelter (a converted house with maybe 6 bedrooms) in our city which has a total population of close to 170k with a metro pop of around 68k, we should have a lot more in my opinion.. I know we have donation boxes in several locations year round and we're given little purple ribbons to show our support. I always donate heavily throughout the year when I can (and since I'm pretty poor that's obviously not a lot) and I wear my purple ribbons as a badge to show support and a symbol of what I've gone through as well. I'd like to suggest (even if you have no money to donate) any old clothes, toys, bed linens and such should be donated to your local shelters and if you have a garage full of old furniture you don't need/want perhaps it may be just what your local shelter needs to help the next survivor get set up and on their own feet again... Also, much like food banks, there's never really enough. I know my local shelter never says no to a bag of canned goods and the like, if you're worried about "non profit" charity groups and you'd still like to make a contribution to your community--the local shelter is certainly a good way to help out.. I’m not sure that my community actually does much except the odd book sale or donation drive, a few random fundraisers, but we do that all the time. We only have a single small women’s shelter (a converted house with maybe 6 bedrooms) in our city which has a total population of close to 170k with a metro pop of around 68k, we should have a lot more in my opinion..

I know we have donation boxes in several locations year round and we’re given little purple ribbons to show our support. I always donate heavily throughout the year when I can (and since I’m pretty poor that’s obviously not a lot) and I wear my purple ribbons as a badge to show support and a symbol of what I’ve gone through as well.

I’d like to suggest (even if you have no money to donate) any old clothes, toys, bed linens and such should be donated to your local shelters and if you have a garage full of old furniture you don’t need/want perhaps it may be just what your local shelter needs to help the next survivor get set up and on their own feet again…

Also, much like food banks, there’s never really enough. I know my local shelter never says no to a bag of canned goods and the like, if you’re worried about “non profit” charity groups and you’d still like to make a contribution to your community–the local shelter is certainly a good way to help out..

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