Saving Promise

Over the past 15+ years, Saving Promise has worked to create, pilot, and expand public education and community mobilization programs to drive meaningful, sustainable intimate partner violence prevention efforts to include: 1) partnered with and facilitated numerous conferences, capitol hill briefings, and initiatives to elevate national awareness about intimate partner violence, including engaging a cohort of public health leaders and visionaries who compiled recommendations for preventing intimate partner violence; 2) delivered trainings to community agencies, healthcare professionals, workplaces, public and private schools, and universities; 3) launched a public awareness campaign some of the nation's largest cities; 4) partnered with media nationwide - with a combined reach of millions of people- to educate viewers about domestic violence and advance the friends of Promise grassroots approach to foster social change; and joined forces with one of the most recognized institutions in the world-harvard t.h. Chan school of public health to pioneer a research lab fully dedicated to ipv prevention and innovation.

For the year 2021, the organization's operational budget and resources 235,292 also included in-kind services, goods, and volunteers' support to assist in program development and implementation.

Critical to Saving Promise's vision is a partnership with the harvard t.h. Chan school of public health to create a research and development learning lab to advance, shape, inform and deploy proven strategies. This multi-disciplinary approach capitalizes on the experience of different sectors and communities, each bringing their perspectives, talent and resources to the table to promote broad and sustainable impact.

Operations & oversight: - managed day-to-day operations and logistics, including partners, staff, and volunteers, to carry out the mission of the organization. - developed strategic plans to ensure that the organization's priorities align with its mission, vision, and values. - collaborated with stakeholders and staff to develop concepts, best practices, and policies for various program initiatives. - established a mission critical program, friends of Promise and between us, to engage community based partnerships with employers, healthcare institutions, public and private schools, youth organizations, social services and faith-based organizations to develop customized e-learning, in-person and continuing education trainings and provide comprehensive education to enhance knowledge and develop skills necessary to access, intervene, and prevent domestic violence. - developed annual budgets and fundraising plans and collaborated with the board to ensure that the organization has financial means to carry out its mission. - facilitated board engagement and oversight toward achieving our strategic goals, including: setting the priorities for the organization and its mission critical programs; capacity-building; board governance and restructuring; fundraising; securing partners, stakeholders, and funders. - established a mission critical program, between us, to engage community- based partnerships with employers, healthcare institutions, public and private schools, youth organizations, social services and faith-based organizations to develop customized e-learning, in-person and continuing education trainings and provide comprehensive education to enhance knowledge and develop skills necessary to access, intervene, and prevent domestic violence. - developed and piloted a grassroots initiative to reach more people and build greater public awareness that aims tobringtogether small groups of people in a salon style gathering to learn about domestic violence and share how they might further prevention efforts in their neighborhoods, workplaces, schools, and communities and pledge their time, talents, and treasure to raise awareness and spark community engagement at the grassroots level.