Meeting the Moment:
Saving Victim Services
Advocacy Works: Standing Together. Supporting What Matters.
The mission of Advocacy Works is to connect private and public sector leaders with nonprofit victim service agencies, providing pro bono strategic guidance and management expertise to help sustain and strengthen life-saving services for survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, child abuse, homicide, and other violent crimes.
Introducing the 2026 Leadership Lab
NOVA and the Independent Justice Consultants Network are partnering to offer a series of free, interactive webinars designed to support and sustain victim assistance nonprofits.
Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026
Making a Great Pitch: Effectively Pitching Your Nonprofit
Holly Morrow, Hakluyt & Susie Banikarim, Journalist
1:00pm-2:00pm EST
Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026
Demystifying Philanthropy: How Foundations Operate
Caroline Roan, Former President of Pfizer Foundation & Elaine Gast Fawcett, PhilanthroComm
1:00pm-2:00pm EST
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Crisis Communications & Effective Advocacy
Shari Silberstein & Amy Fettig, Independent Justice Consultants Network
1:00pm-2:00pm EST
Registration Coming Soon >
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Resilient Futures: Trauma-Informed Contingency Planning
Terri Easter, T.H. Easter Consulting
1:00pm-2:00pm EST
Wednesday, May 27, 2026
Preparing for the Unexpected: Scenario-Based Financial Planning
1:00pm-2:00pm EST
Registration Coming Soon >
Sustain and strengthen life-saving services for survivors.
About Advocacy Works
- Nonprofits serving crime victims are in crisis. On April 22, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice abruptly terminated $811 Million in federal grants for victim service programs and more federal funding cuts are forecasted.
- The impact of this crisis on American’s safety and survivors’ lives is clear. Programs providing life-saving services to survivors are shutting down or scaling back—including 24/7 victim hotlines, domestic violence shelters and rape crisis centers, among others, with rural and culturally-specific victim service programs most impacted by this funding crisis.
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