Publicity

The Center for Relationship Abuse Awareness has won the "Empowering Agency" award from the Annual Advocates for Women Awards, sponsored by IMPACT Bay Area! The Empowering Agency Award honors a Bay Area organization that works to "make the world a safer place for women and girls."

We are very excited to announce that the Center for Relationship Abuse Awareness has partnered with Stanford University to work on the Stanford Community Partnership to End Violence Against Women, funded by the Dept. of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women.

The Stanford Daily, February 8, 2007: Org. fights violence against women

Class, interns aim to promote awareness

Stanford’s Community Partnership to End Violence Against Women — which received a $200,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice last fall — has been working closely with the non-profit Center for Relationship Abuse Awareness to offer a three-unit pilot course entitled “Violence Against Women,” as well as supervising and training seven interns.

Director and Founder Nicole Baran ‘00 and Donnovan Yisrael ‘89, the health empowerment educator at Vaden Health Center, teach the pilot course, which will also be offered during the spring quarter. The class is open to both interns and interested students.

“We are very excited about the energy and enthusiasm of the student interns and their commitment to ending violence against women on campus,” Baran said.

(Read the full article: click here).

Cingular Spotlight April 2, 2007:

This Week’s Cingular Spotlight Winner: Nicole Baran
This Week’s Cingular Spotlight Charity: The Center for Relationship Abuse Awareness

Here is what they wrote: "Energy 92.7 and Cingular salute those of you who raise the bar in the Bay Area by helping to make it a better place to live. This week in the Cingular Spotlight, we pay tribute to Nicole Baran…a Bay Area hero in our midst…. Nicole is committed to stopping violence against women. She founded The Center for Relationship Abuse Awareness, a non-profit focused on providing education and training so that communities and institutions respond effectively to women experiencing relationship abuse.

"It’s people like Nicole Baran whose tireless efforts make San Francisco, as well as the Bay Area, a better place to live, work and play in. Cingular is donating $500 to The Center for Relationship Abuse Awareness because she is this week’s Cingular Spotlight community hero. Cingular supports community based programs and organizations that address educational, cultural, and social issues affecting the quality of life in our communities. Energy 92.7 and Cingular are helping to raise the bar in our community."

Nicole accepted the award on the radio at 9:30 AM on Wed. April 4, 2007.