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Project
Safe
This coordinated, campus-wide effort provides education, prevention
and response services for Vanderbilt students, faculty and staff
affected by violence against women.
Project
Safe also provides advocacy, crisis intervention, support groups
and volunteer opportunities.
For more information, visit the
website or call 322-1333 or 322-3774.
Race For the Cure
Each year, the Women's Center sponsors a team that participates in
the Susan G. Komen Foundation "Race for the Cure," to promote
awareness and raise funds for breast cancer research and services.
To sign up for the Vanderbilt Team sponsored by
the Women’s Center and the Vanderbilt Feminists, please contact
stacy.nunnally@vanderbilt.edu
For more information about the event please visit www.komen-nashville.org
Take
Back the Night
An annual "night of healing" that brings the community
together to support survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence
and to promote a safer community for all. For more information,
please contact Vicky.Basra@vanderbilt.edu
or call 615-322-1333.
Vanderbilt Feminists
This student-led organization meets at the Center and is open to both
women and men. It offers weekly meetings, discussions, speakers, community
service projects, and a wide variety of events and activism aimed
at raising awareness of women’s issues. A special focus is placed
on issues pertinent to Vanderbilt women.
Women’s Faculty Organization
Open to faculty women at all levels, this group sponsors topical brown-bag
lunch meetings and pot-luck dinners to connect women faculty with
one another. The WFO is also active in recruiting and mentoring women
faculty, and in advocating for all women at Vanderbilt University.
For more information, please contact Linda.Manning@vanderbilt.edu
or Gay at G.Welch@vanderbilt.edu.
To find out how you can get involved or for more information
on current programming or special events, call the Margaret Cuninggim
Women’s Center at 322-4843.
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