Purdue Organization for Women's Equality and Rights

V-Day Purdue University 2005 raised OVER $12,000 for the Greater Lafayette YWCA's Domestic Violence Intervention and Prevention Program!!!!

V-Day Purdue University 2004 raised $8,615.80 for the Greater Lafayette YWCA's Domestic Violence Intervention and Prevention Program!!!!
Click HERE to read the letter from the YWCA.

V-Day Purdue University 2003 raised $6,872.48 for the Greater Lafayette YWCA's Domestic Violence Intervention and Prevention Program!!!!
Click HERE to read the letter from the YWCA.

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 generates broader attention for the fight to stop worldwide violence against women and girls including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM), and sexual slavery. V-Day provides funding to create and nurture innovative programs to stop the violence.

Through V-Day campaigns, local volunteers and college students produce annual benefit performances of "The Vagina Monologues" to raise awareness and funds for anti-violence groups within their own communities. V-Day itself stages large-scale benefits and promotes innovative gatherings and programs (The Afghan Women's Summit, The Stop Rape Contest, Indian Country Project, and more) to change social attitudes towards violence against women. In 2002, more than 800 V-Day benefit events were presented by local volunteer activists around the world, educating millions of people about the reality of violence against women and girls.

The V-Day movement is growing at a rapid pace throughout the world. 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. V-Day was named one of Worth Magazine's "100 Best Charities" in 2001. In its first five years, the V-Day movement has raised over $14 million, with over $7 million raised in 2002 alone. The 'V' in V-Day stands for Victory, Valentine and Vagina.