NoVo Foundation Selects CSVANW Executive Director
for National Cohort Move to End Violence
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - January 19, 2018 - The NoVo Foundation has selected Deleana OtherBull, Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women (CSVANW) Executive Director,
as one of 21 phenomenal leaders across the nation to participate in the cohort Move to End Violence, a 10-year capacity-building program designed to support those who are strengthening the efforts to end violence against girls and women. OtherBull is the only person selected from New Mexico in this cohort.
Created in 2010, the Move to End Violence grew out of the NoVo Foundation's core commitment to social justice, and its vision in which all girls and all women can live free from violence and discrimination, act as change agents on their own behalf, and lead to a better world.
Recipients will receive a $130,000 grant for the two-year program to support general operating expenses, capacity-building of the organization, and
collaborating or conducting learning exchanges with other movement leaders, travel costs for attending conferences or developing a local project. OtherBull will also work with a professional business coach to continue strengthening leadership and organizational direction. Through workshops, skills training, coaching and a community of fellow Movement Makers and allied leaders, participants in the fourth cohort will have a unique and transformational opportunity to powerfully contribute to a movement for social change.
"Though I am humbled by such a prestigious honor, it is the collective work of the Coalition, its staff, members, board and partners, that have taken the work in the movement to end violence against Native women and children to the next level in our region. This program and funding will help us to collectively push this work forward and evolve the Coalition into the most powerful version of itself," OtherBull said.
The cohort will unite leaders working across many of the most powerful movements to end violence against girls and women in domestic violence, commercial sexual exploitation, sexual assault and environmental injustice. Bridging leaders working in organizing, advocacy, research and direct service in 13 states, the cohort will also aid in advancing gender and racial equity, and address oppression to advance deep-seated, long-lasting change.
The first national cohort meeting will take place in Santa Ana Pueblo at the Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort and Spa from January 22 to January 26, 2018, bringing in all of the cohort members and faculty across the nation to New Mexico.
OtherBull (Crow and Northern Cheyenne), who became Coalition executive director in November 2014, has more than doubled staffing and programming under her leadership. The CSVAWN team now consists of eight employees and four consultants, including a youth coordinator, a sexual violence coordinator and a sex trafficking coordinator, who assist advocates, social workers and law enforcement in providing supportive services to Native victims of trafficking. Under OtherBull, CSVANW also has been asked to help create national training and engagement models for service providers working with Native youth. The organization is also leveraging its partnerships to help tribal providers coordinate the first statewide, grassroots tribal taskforce on human trafficking.
Funding sources have also significantly increased under OtherBull, with the annual organizational budget topping at $700,000 from $240,000 just in the past two years, including six
diverse funding sources from national foundations,
as well as individual donors.
Increased organizational membership now includes both Native and non-Native American organizations working with tribal members in New Mexico, Northern Arizona, Southern Colorado, Southwest Texas and Southern Utah.
The NoVo Foundation
seeks to foster a transformation in global society from a culture of domination and exploitation to one of equality and partnership. Founded in 2006 by Jennifer and Peter Buffett, it supports the development of capacities in people -- individually and collectively -- to help create a caring and balanced world that operates on the principles of mutual respect, collaboration and civic participation.
For more information about the Coalition, go to www.csvanw.org. For more information about the NoVo Foundation's Move to End Violence or the foundation, click here!
