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About Move to End
Violence
MEV was a capacity-building and leadership development program for U.S. leaders working to end gender-based violence. During its duration of 10 years, we provided funding, resources, coaching, and other forms of support for cohorts of leaders and convened them to build relationships across communities, to access the spaciousness required for strategic thinking, and to build stronger movements.
Our vision
A world where all girls and women, including cis and trans women and those who are gender non-conforming, are safe and respected so everyone can reach their full potential.
Why we existed
Violence against girls and women is fueled by white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, capitalism, and colonialism. Solutions to end gender-based violence must address how these oppressions manifest in our lives, systems, and structures.
Leaders everywhere agree that mainstream solutions have not gotten us free but instead have further perpetuated violence by excluding the wisdom and experiences of BIPOC and queer and trans leaders, ignoring the harms of state violence, further investing in criminalization, and by relying on traditional leadership strategies that enact trauma, disempower survivors, and prioritize institution building over people.
Move to End Violence was designed to address leaders’ desires to create sustainable, intersectional movements for social change. Along the way, we integrated racial justice, gender justice, healing justice, language justice, disability justice, and intersectional care and logistics as integral layers of anti-violence that bring us closer to collective liberation.
The Program
Move To End Violence was a 10-year program designed in response to a listening tour of over 350 leaders at the forefront of anti-violence movements in the United States. As a capacity-building program of the NoVo Foundation and operating out of The Raben Group, Move To End Violence worked with groups of 15-20 leaders in two-year cycles, with the ultimate goal of supporting five cohorts and 100 leaders.
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Impact Reports
We are pleased to make publicly available the full set of evaluation reports from the past decade for our collective learning. (All reports are available in English only.)
Resource
Library
Explore our library of resources with strategies and tools for the movement to end gender-based violence.
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Our program's
core elements
Movement
Building
We can’t achieve true social change without working collaboratively to leverage our collective power. We worked with Movement Makers, their organizations and allies to develop a shared vision of the world we are trying to create and foster a deep sense of inter-connectedness.
Organizational
Development
We worked with Movement Makers and their organizations to help identify their strengths and their most powerful contribution within the context of a movement ecosystem and to set a path for increasing their organization’s capacity to effectively engage in social change work.
Transformative
Leadership
Building movements for social change requires powerful leaders who are purpose-centered, adaptive, and able to hold complexity across systems. Through training and leadership coaching, we helped Movement Makers articulate and connect with their leadership purpose and core strengths.
Gender
Justice
Gender-based violence is a manifestation of patriarchy, misogyny, transphobia, and homophobia. It is interpersonal, institutional, and systemic. Our commitment to gender justice is to disrupt both the gender hierarchy and the gender binary, and to lift up intersections with racial justice, economic justice, and disability justice.
Healing
Justice
As said by Cara Page, “Healing Justice is a framework that identifies how we can holistically response to and intervene on intergenerational trauma and violence and to bring collective practices that can impact and transform the consequences of oppression on our collective bodies, hearts, and minds.”
Disability
Justice
Empowering the people most impacted by ableism requires ongoing and intentional reflection on our practices and language to ensure that they are accessible, are trauma informed, and centered on healing justice. For us, this looks like proactively asking what people need to fully participate, prioritizing wellness and safety, and disrupting supremacist ideas of normativity and productivity.
Language
Justice
Language justice calls us to disrupt colonization, to challenge Western dominance, and to break down the ways injustice silences, erases, and dehumanizes us. It calls us to create spaces where all people are welcomed to communicate in the languages and accents that they feel most comfortable and whole.
Racial
Justice
The practice of deepening our historical understanding of our own identities and how they are related to other people’s identities in the context of gender-based violence is deemed a liberatory practice. This exercise centers us as the authors of our narratives, allows for multiple truths to exist, and acknowledges our intersecting identities and experiences.
Organizations we love
MEV is no longer active, but here are some great organizations you can connect with
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Creating real social change to end gender-based violence requires new ways of thinking and being.
A collection of our collective hopes, dreams, and ambitions.
An anthology created by the MEV community, both an archive of where we’ve been as well as pointing us to where we're going.
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Ten years. Five cohorts. One goal to collectively end gender-based violence.
Explore our featured materials to learn more about what each cohort was learning and generating.
Connect with our Beloved Community of movement leaders and social justice practitioners.
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