N2Y2 Con: Stop Family Violence Intro Presentation

Stop Family Violence is a Featured Project at the 2nd NetSquared Conference.

Project Summary

Every year, millions of people are severely abused in the United States. Stop Family Violence (SFV) is the leading national grassroots activist organization working to organize and amplify their voices and the voices of their allies to bring them to bear on the social and political agendas affecting their lives.

Since its beginning, the strength of the violence against women movement has come from diverse people joining together, realizing their shared struggles and collective power and then raising their voices to effect social change.  Research has shown that the incidence of family violence declines when the community is made aware of the problem; when residents can find services; when there is a network of leaders within the community and when services and institutions are held accountable to community needs.

Stop Family Violence looks to utilize the many new technologies of the Web 2.0 revolution to empower local programs, enhance information sharing, help people find the services they need, promote local leadership and coordinate online and offline activism that will hold institutions accountable and keep women and children safe. 

The new SFV website will create an integrated, collaborative, service, information and action network between local, state and national programs, community activist groups, survivors and their allies. We will develop innovative community blog tools to allow our members to publish their own action alerts, build petitions and send email through our site to specified targets. Other members of the SFV community will be able to recommend (rate) the action, add comments and participate.