  TTP article index>> ABOUT V-DAY V-Day is a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. V-Day is a palpable energy, a fierce catalyst that promotes creative events to increase awareness, raise money, and revitalize the spirit of existing anti-violence organizations. V-Day helps these organizations to continue and to expand their core work, while we generate broader attention for the fight to stop worldwide violence against women and girls. The V-Day College Campaign: Much like the Worldwide Campaign, the College Campaign will bring benefit productions of “The Vagina Monologues” to colleges and universities around the world in an effort to raise awareness and money for local anti-violence groups and empower young people - the leaders and activists of the future. Student organizers create the theatrical production from start to finish including casting, location scouting, ticket sales, publicity, and more. Since 1998, hundreds of colleges and universities around the world have presented benefit productions of “The Vagina Monologues” to raise awareness and money for local community organizations that are working to stop sexual violence. To date, the College Campaign has raised more than $1 million in local communities, and exposed more than 10 million people to V-Day. In addition, new this year is the 2002 U.S. College Stop Rape Contest which is open to full- or part-time students, both women and men, at all colleges and universities in the U.S. Nearly 550 college productions are projected for 2002. For the listing of participating schools to date, go to http://www.vday.org/college. United States - College-related Statistics: • Every 21 hours on each college campus in the U.S. there is a rape. (Campus Outreach Services) • From 1993-1998, women ages 16 to 24 experienced the highest per capita rates of intimate violence (19.6 per 1,000 women). (“Intimate Partner Violence,” Bureau of Justice Statistics, May 2000) • A woman is most likely to experience an assault during her first two months of college. (Campus Outreach Services) • Nearly 3% of college women experienced a completed or attempted rape during the college year. (“The Sexual Victimization of College Women,” National Institute of Justice and Bureau of Justice Statistics, January 26, 2001) • For completed and attempted rapes, nearly 90% of the victims knew the offender, who was usually a classmate, friend, ex-boyfriend or acquaintance. (“The Sexual Victimization of College Women,” National Institute of Justice and Bureau of Justice Statistics, January 26, 2001) V-Day, a non-profit corporation, distributes funds to grassroots national, and international organizations and programs that work to stop violence against women and girls. In just five years, V-Day has raised over $7 million and was recently named one of Worth Magazine’s “100 Best Charities”. http://www.vday.org/ TTP article index>>
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