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Cohort Stories May 20, 2013

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By Nan Stoops

Just last week, I went to a New Beginnings staff meeting to talk about the Move to End Violence vision and pivots. New Beginnings is where I started my “domestic violence career” – I was hired in 1982 to be a graveyard counselor in the shelter. The organization is now large and successful, and mostly unrecognizable to those of us who remember its humble, rundown origin. Whenever I go to visit, I always tell whoever is there that, for me, it’s like going home.

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Cohort Stories May 20, 2013

Why We Need a Movement to End Violence Against Girls and Women

By Heidi Lehmann

Movement Maker Heidi Lehmann's video reflects on the need for a movement to end violence against girls and women and what it's going to take to achieve this kind of change.

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MEV Insights May 14, 2013

Ready

By Michelle Lambert

This week more than 46 leaders who were signed up to attend the Family Violence Prevention and Service Act's State Administrators and State Coalitions Meeting left their busy lives a day early to join Movement Makers Nan Stoops, Beckie Masaki, Leiana Kinnicutt, and Aimee Thompson Arevalo in a day-long workshop designed to explore some of the work of Move to End Violence.

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MEV Insights May 09, 2013

The Whole Point

By Jackie Payne

Today was one of my favorite days in Move to End Violence history. And considering that I have the privilege of working on such an audacious, exciting and transformative initiative, that is really saying something. 

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Cohort Stories May 07, 2013

The Move to End Violence Call to Action is a Call to Win

By Jodeen Olguin-Tayler

If I allow myself to believe in “fate” – I would say that there are many experiences in my life that have landed me in this Move to End Violence cohort.

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