Organizations founded by Violent Crime Survivors
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Crime Type(s):
Founded by
Nancy Venable Raine a rape survivor.
Website:
Service goals:
Support
Active?
YES
Year_Founded
2003
Crime Type(s):
Founded by
Wende Levitas after the passing of her daughter Erin in 2016 from a rare cancer. It was Erin's personal experience with rape years prior that inspired her family to ensure others wouldn't endure the same pain and horrors.
Website:
Service goals:
Awareness, Prevention
Active?
YES
Year_Founded
2018
Crime Type(s):
Founded by
Jennifer Thompson a crime survivor of rape whose case resulted in the DNA-based exoneration a decade after the original trial and convicetion.
Website:
Service goals:
Awareness, Advocacy, Support
Active?
YES
Year_Founded
2015
Crime Type(s):
Founded by
Holly K. Dunn Pendleton is the only known survivor of the Railroad Serial Killer, Angel Maturino Resendiz. She was raped, beaten, stabbed and left for dead. Her boyfriend, Chris Maier, with her at the time, was murdered.
Website:
Service goals:
Awareness, Advocacy, Support, Prevention
Active?
YES
Crime Type(s):
Founded by
Andrea Constand who is a surivor of sexual assault at the hands of Bill Cosby.
Website:
Service goals:
Advocacy, Support
Active?
NO
Year_Founded
2018
Crime Type(s):
Founded by
Susan and Alexander Prout and their daughter Chessy Prout who is a high school sexual assault survivor
Website:
Service goals:
Awareness, Advocacy, Support, Prevention
Active?
YES
Year_Founded
2019
Crime Type(s):
Founded by
Shannon Lambert who was raped by a school acquaintance at age 15, and didn't tell a soul. At age 19, she told the world.
Website:
Service goals:
Awareness, Support
Active?
YES
Year_Founded
1999
Crime Type(s):
Founded by
Tracy Matheson, whose daughter Molly Jane was raped and murdered in 2017 at the age of 22 by a perpetrator who was an already known rapist to law enforcement.
Website:
Service goals:
Awareness, Advocacy, Support, Prevention
Active?
YES
Year_Founded
2017
Crime Type(s):
Founded by
Amanda Ngyun a sexual assault survivor.
Website:
Service goals:
Awareness, Advocacy, Support, Prevention
Active?
YES
Year_Founded
2014
Crime Type(s):
Founded by
Florida DeVaul-Dudley who at 7 was molested by a family member, in her early 20's was date raped, and in her first marriage experienced both sexual assault and domestic violence by her ex-husband. Florida's current husband is a co-founder.
Service goals:
Awareness, Support, Prevention
Active?
YES
Year_Founded
2014