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Fundraising for Rape Crisis Centers
Donations as of 4/30/11: $1553 April is sexual assault awareness month. Last year, I ran a fundraiser that raised more than $1500 in donations to various rape crisis centers. I would love to see if we can break $2000 this year. Michigan law appears to prohibit raffles, so I’ll once again be using the unraffle model, giving away an advance review copy of The Snow Queen’s Shadow [Amazon | B&N | Mysterious Galaxy]. I am asking you to make a donation, either to RAINN or to your local rape crisis center. RAINN has announced that donations made at http://www.rainn.org/mickfoley during the month of April will be doubled, meaning your donation goes twice as far. Many places will also allow you to donate online. But donations are not required to enter the drawing. To enter, all you have to do is e-mail endrape@jimchines.com. If you do make a donation, please mention that in the e-mail and let me know how much you gave. I don’t care if it’s $1 or $1000, and it makes no difference to the drawing, but I’ll be tracking and posting how much we’ve raised. The winner will be drawn at random from all entries on April 30. One e-mail per person, please. For every $500 raised (up to $5000), I’ll throw in an additional drawing for other prizes.
If you’d like to spread the word, you can copy and paste the following into your blog, which will add a smaller version of the image above and a link back to the original post. Please feel free to modify as needed, and thank you. # A few statistics: The Sexual Victimization of College Women, Page 10: “Over the course of a college career — which now lasts an average of 5 years — the percentage of completed or attempted rape victimization among women in higher educational institutions might climb to between one-fifth and one-quarter.” World Health Organization report on Violence Against Women: “In a random sample of 420 women in Toronto, Canada, 40% reported at least one episode of forced sexual intercourse since the age of 16.” Prevalence, Incidence and Consequences of Violence Against Women Survey, page 3: “1 of 6 U.S. women … experienced an attempted or completed rape.” (14.8% reported completed, 2.8% reported attempted only.) 21 comments to Fundraising for Rape Crisis Centers |
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This is a great thing you’re doing, Jim. I retweeted Kat Howard’s tweet and shared a link on facebook.
Thank you, Ali!
Pimped on my blog/livejournal, which also post to Facebook.
A great cause.
Thanks, Maria!
Re-posting, with gratitude for your doing this.
Thanks, Deborah!
Hi Jim,
This is great what you’re doing, and I love the artwork above, but wanted to mention one thing. The doubling during April requires making the donation through Mick Foley’s RAINN page, as he’s the one matching the donations. Mick is a huge supporter of RAINN and a fan of Tori Amos, who founded RAINN. The link to make donations through Mick’s page is http://rainn.org/mickfoley. Mick is also offering some bonuses for larger donations, including that he will personally mow your lawn if you donate $5K or more! This is the Twitter tag for his matching offer: #10forRAINN.
Thanks again for helping out!
–Maria
D’oh! Thank you, I’ll update the post.
As one of the survivors I thank you so much for doing this.
Aynne
Boosted on my LJ.
I got it from xjenavivex on LJ.
Thank you! Much appreciated!
I’ll be boosting this signal tomorrow. I think we’re moving backwards in terms of knowledge and discussion of rape, as shown by the NY Times’ treatment of the eleven-year-old child who was gang raped in Cleveland, Texas.
Thank you.
Yeah, I saw that story. I just… ugh. Had a hard time coming up with any response beyond “Hulk smash!” you know?
Finally donated. Just sent you an email with pdf screenshot.
Received, and thank you!
Hi Jim,
I just wanted to tell you how much this means to all of us that are both the survivors and the victims of this kind of crime. most people don’t relize that the crime doesn’t end after the act but continues on even after you file the report with the police and of course if you are lucky enough to be believed and have your rapist arrested then you face a courtroom were you are victimized again. this is why at least 1/2 of the victims never report it and nevr get the help they so despertatly need. so again thank you, thank you from the bottom of this survivors heart.
Not to mention the social backlash if it does go to court, the stigma and blame heaped onto the victim, and in many cases active threats from friends and family of the accused… People don’t get how much courage it takes to speak out about being raped, let alone to press charges.
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