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Giving Tuesday – Fund the Hotline

November 29, 2021 By HKearl

Over 400 people used our National Street Harassment Hotline this past year to receive emotional support and advice. We are grateful to our partners at RAINN who run the hotline for us and to our donors who cover the costs of running the hotline.

For our Giving Tuesday campaign this year, we invite you to donate $10 or more toward the hotline. The costs of running it go up the more visitors there are, and while the minimum cost per month is $275, every month since April, the visitors and cost has been up, sometimes as high as $1000 per month. Our goal is to raise $5000 for 2022 to ensure we are ready for a continued increase user-ship. 100% of the funds raised will go directly toward running the hotline.

Thank you so much for your help and for ensuring that people in need can receive assistance and support.

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On #GivingTuesday, Fund Our Hotline

December 2, 2019 By HKearl

For #GivingTuesday, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to help fund our National Street Harassment Hotline and other programming!!
Having a knowledgeable, understanding person to talk to about street harassment can help a lot of people recover from it and heal. Your donation will ensure that our free, 24/7 hotline continues to run and offer that support to people in need!
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SSH Believes and Supports Survivors of Sexual Assault

September 19, 2018 By HKearl

We believe survivors of sexual assault.

As a national nonprofit organization working to end gender-based street harassment worldwide, we know that the public sexual harassment that we’ve documented for years doesn’t happen in a vacuum: It is part of a broader rape culture that minimizes and perpetuates sexual violence. At its core, street harassment is about exerting power over someone else, disrespecting them, and in most cases sexually objectifying a person without consent. It is on the same spectrum of behavior as sexual assault and rape.

It is this understanding that compels us to speak out about the sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Since coming forward publicly with her allegations, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford has faced questions – including from members of the U.S. Senate – about her honesty and credibility. She has faced unreasonable requests to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee prior to the FBI conducting a thorough and independent investigation. She has faced death threats and has reportedly had to move out of her home and hire private security. All for sharing her story.

And this is not unusual, this is the system survivors have come to expect, and is one of the many barriers that prevent so many from coming forward to reclaim their narrative.

Dr. Blasey Ford does not deserve this treatment. No survivor does. And we demand better.

We stand with survivors of sexual violence and call on senators to do right by them and this nation. When someone comes forward and courageously shares their story, we must listen to them – not attack their character. As this process moves forward, we’ll be watching.

–Stop Street Harassment Board of Directors

For help and resources, contact RAINN’s national sexual assault hotline at 800-656-HOPE or online here. Along with RAINN and Defend Yourself, SSH operates the national street harassment hotline. Call toll-free at 855-897-5910.

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Looking Ahead to SSH Programs in 2018

January 2, 2018 By HKearl

Municipal Office of Women of Villa Nueva Guatemala took part in Anti-SH Week 2017. Will you take part in our week in 2018?

2017 was a big year, and 2018 looks like it will be even bigger!

As we look toward 2018, we already have a few projects on the horizon:

1. Blog Correspondents Program: We are looking for applicants for our first cohort of Blog Correspondents! Apply by Jan. 7!

2. National Survey: Thanks to our generous donors, PinPoint Foundation and Raliance, we are moving forward with the survey firm GfK to conduct a nationally representative survey on sexual abuse across all the spaces it occurs. The survey draft is under review by our advisory committee right now and we hope to see the 2000-person survey conducted in mid-January. Afterward, pro bono data analyst will be conducted by Dr. Anita Raj, Director of UC San Diego’s Center on Gender Equity and Health. We hope to release the timely report in March 2018!

3. International Anti-Street Harassment Week: Our 8th annual week of awareness will take place from April 8 to 14, 2018! If your group or organization would like to co-sponsor, please be in touch with StopStreetHarassment@yahoo.com. Stay tuned for more information, including a toolkit for community action that is tied to the national survey.

4. National Hotline: We will continue to partner with RAINN to offer the only national hotline dedicated to ending street harassment. It costs about $400 per month to run both the phone and online hotline. Your tax-deductible donation can help keep the hotline running!

May 2018 will mark our 10-year anniversary, so that will also make it a big year for us.

Thank you for being part of our community, and we look forward to working with you more in 2018!

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Keep the Street Harassment Hotline “Going and Growing”

November 29, 2016 By HKearl

125-callers-to-hotlineWe would be no where without our generous supporters! Thanks to donations made last year, we were able to launch the first-ever National Street Harassment Hotline and cover the monthly costs of running it since July.

Here’s what one caller shared with us (and she said we could share it here):

“I am very excited to find this program exists. It feels a niche that has needed to be filled for a long time. I spent days searching the Internet before I found this program and it is a beautiful thought. There isn’t much support for people who experience street harassment and even friends can have a difficult time coming up with words to say. I hope the program receives enough funds to keep going and growing forever.”

In its first four months, the National Street Harassment Hotline has served more than 125 people like her, all across the country. It is offered toll-free, 24/7, in English and Spanish, by phone and IM chat.

Today, for #GivingTuesday, please donate to help us keep the hotline going and growing!

All money donated beyond the hotline fundraising goal will help fund the 2017 Safe Public Spaces Mentoring teams and allow us to hire a consultant to update the laws relevant to street harassment that are listed state-by-state in our Know Your Rights Toolkit (which we released in 2013).

Please consider making a tax-deductible donation today. Everyone who donates at least $15 will receive these stickers! Our work is possible thanks to the generosity of people like you!

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You can also make donations by check to:

Stop Street Harassment
P.O. Box 3621
Reston, VA 20195

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