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Volunteers & Community Members
Volunteers work with community members to challenge acceptance of inhibiting sterotypical gender roles, and widespread
domestic violence that often stems from such gender roles. Volunteers establish projects that are designed to discourage
family violence, support domestic violence survivors, and create networks of support for those working to eradicate
domestic abuse:
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Assist local action and relief efforts devoted to ending domestic abuse Educate about family violence and victims'
rights
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Advocate for improved law enforcement
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Train and support peer counselors
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Assist Women's Department and the Cayo Center for Development and Cooperation
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Facilitate networking of professionals and laypeople working with victims
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Develop teenage girls' groups to address women's issues.
Women-Centered Events
Volunteers work with professionals in community to coordinate and establish events that involve and benefit women and
their families. Volunteers might help to facilitate new women-centered events, or promote a greater degree of women's
involvement, visibility, and recognition in existing events, such as within cultural celebrations and parades:
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Help community groups with the annual Women's Cultural Festival (fall) to celebrate women in the arts, music, dance,
homemaking skills, entrepreneurship, etc. and with the annual Women's Week (spring) to promote awareness of women's rights
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Establish new women-centered events
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Help organize and create the September Celebrations Festival float
Publications
Cornerstone publishes the quarterly Women's World to promote the wisdom, worth, and ways of women. Advertisements and
sponsorships come from women-owned and operated businesses, and topics for articles range anywhere from healing methods
to women's rights to domestic violence:
Write and solicit articles, secure advertising, edit, design and lay out, and distribute Cornerstone's Women's World
quarterly
Fundraising
As in any nonprofit, fundraising is central to the functions and sustainability of the Cornerstone Women's Program,
ensuring that the program is financially capable of carrying out its mission. Community fundraisers provide a venue for
community involvement and awareness and promote specific causes. Volunteers also help by researching funding sources,
writing grant proposals, and by gathering funds from local sources:
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Research sources and write grant proposals
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Create activities for local fundraising
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