Support Survivors of Sexual Violence with SAVA

Why Did I Put This Page Up?

Well, put simply, because I care about the impacts of sexual assault. I care about them because I have personally been impacted by it. I have loved ones who have been victims of sexual assault. As a relationship and sex therapist, I sit with people every day who deal with the impacts that sexual assault and abuse have had on them, their relationships, and their loved ones. 

I've been on the board of directors for SAVA now for about four and a half years but I donated to SAVA before that. 

How did I end up becoming a donor?

A friend asked me to donate. That's all it took for me to become a donor. 

And I'm hoping that that is all it will take for you to become a donor as well. 

And I'm asking because...

SAVA needs help. 
Your help. 
Right now.

I'm not going to sugarcoat it: services for survivors of sexual assault are under attack right now. SAVA's dealing with over $500,000 in grant funding being cut from our organization next year (and the story is the same at every sexual assault services organization). That is over a third of SAVA's entire budget!

That's budget we use to provide trauma focused play therapy to little kids who have been sexually abused. 

That's the budget we use to sit with survivors in court as they face their rapists and abusers. 

That's the budget we use to help spouses know how to show up for their wife or husband who was assaulted. 

That's the budget we use to provide prevention education and outreach to stop this from happening to more people. 

And that budget is being gutted.

So, the long and short of it is that SAVA needs your help. We need donations. 

"Yeah, but Ethan, I don't have a spare half million dollars. I don't even have a spare $1,000." 

I hear you. Most of us don't have that kind of money sitting around to donate. 

But I'm not asking you for $1,000 for SAVA (although I won't turn it down).

I'm just asking you to donate. That's it. 

I honestly don't even care how much you donate (that's why the goal is for donors, not dollars).

What I care about is that you donate (and ask others to as well). 

If you can, I'm hoping you'll join me in becoming a monthly, recurring donor to SAVA. Maybe that recurring donation is just $5 or $10 a month. Great! That's exactly the kind of donation we need. Your monthly recurring donation will be matched, dollar for dollar, up to $100. 

If you'd rather make a one time donation, go for it! Every contribution counts. That's exactly the kind of donation we need too. 

The truth is that right now, the kind of donation we need is simply your donation, whatever that is. 

I started donating because a friend asked me to. 

And here I am, asking you: Will you please make a donation? 

It would mean a lot to me. 

It will mean the world to the survivors we help.