About the SFDVC

• Organization
• Structure
• Diversity Statement
• Leadership
• Our Values
• Our Mission

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Organization

Partners Ending Domestic Abuse, founded in 1992 by Roselyne C. Swig, provides fundraising, public awareness and public policy advocacy in support of the San Francisco Domestic Violence Consortium. The goal of Partners is to involve San Francisco's most influential communities, philanthropists, corporations, city officials, in supporting the agencies that provide domestic violence prevention services and advocacy.

The San Francisco Domestic Violence Consortium, founded in 1982, is a network of eighteen domestic violence service agencies that come together with the goal of providing high quality, coordinated, and comprehensive services to San Francisco's victims of domestic abuse. The services of the individual agencies include emergency shelter, transitional housing, crisis lines, counseling, prevention programs, education and legal assistance. Services are available in the many different languages of San Francisco's diverse populations. One of the main activities of the San Francisco Domestic Violence Consortium (SFDVC) is networking. SFDVC agencies share information, learn about issues that impact their work and coordinate their services and activities with a particular focus on public funding, specifically coordinating grant proposals and doing advocacy/lobbying of government departments as to the importance of funding domestic violence services.

Structure

The SFDVC is an affiliation and not a formal non-profit organization. The SFDVC is led by it's co-chairs and committees. Both the SFDVC & PEDA meet regularly and work in a cooperative model for coordinating the public, private and corporate resources with service providers in response to this issue in the community. The liaison between SFDVC & PEDA is the executive director.

The following is a summary of the groups that meet regularly.

• Steering Committee - meets on the 1st Thursday of every month. The role of this group is to set the agenda for the next week's Regular SFDVC Meeting; to advise the ED; to take up topics relevant to the SFDVC in a smaller group. This group is open to any of the members of the SFDVC.
• Funding Committee - meets on the 1st Thursday of every month. The role to this group is to coordinate the SFDVC around public funding issues. There is a chair and it is open to all members of the SFDVC.
• Regular DVC Meeting - meets on the 2nd Thursday of every month. The role to this group is to educate each other about each others services and share information. There are co-chairs that facilitate this meeting. All members of the SF community are welcome to attend. Co-chair: Terry Person-Harris for CUAV
• Finance Committee - meets quarterly by arrangement. The role of this group is to review the organizations finances with the ED and set the yearly budget. Current Members: Beverly Upton-Executive Director, Jennifer Grant (Riley Center), Larry Shotwell (Partners)
• Partners Meetings - meets monthly, generally on 2nd Tuesday of the month. The role of this group is to involve San Francisco's most influential communities, philanthropists, corporations, city officials, in supporting the agencies that provide domestic violence prevention services and advocacy.

Diversity Statement

The SFDVC recognizes that San Francisco is a diverse city and domestic violence is a problem in all communities regardless of ethnicity, race, class, physical ability, religion, age, immigration and economic status, sexual orientation and gender identity. Therefore, the SFDVC reaches out to all communities in order to insure a broad representation in its membership. To provide accessible services for all individuals and communities, the SFDVC strives to eliminate social, institutional, language and physical barriers to its agencies' services.

Leadership

The Executive Director coordinates the implementation of the SFDVC's long-range plan and the Partners' fundraising plan. The Executive Director is supervised by the SFDVC co-chairs and legally is a staff member of The Tides Center. Position duties of the Executive Director are:

• Coordinates the implementation of the SFDVC's long-range plan, including: convenes, attends, documents SFDVC monthly and committee meetings; follows-up with relevant people on action steps developed at the meetings; executes special projects like member surveys, City funding talking points and documents policies, updates written material.
• Hires and manages other staff and consultants.
• Provides leadership and support for Partners fundraising activities, specifically around the following: administrative support for the Partners' yearly gala, Domestic Violence Awareness Month activity and year-end appeal; maintains database of contributions, mailing lists, contacts; convenes, attends, documents meetings; provides prompt donor acknowledgment; writes and manages grants for the SFDVC/Partners operating budget.
• Develops and monitors SFDVC/Partners' operating budget, secures funding for the SFDVC/Partner's operating budget, reports quarterly to the Finance Committee, maintains financial records.
• Assists in public relations activities, including representing the SFDVC and Partners as a spokesperson in the community as appropriate. Produces SFDVC brochures and other collateral material. This may include overseeing graphic designers and printers.

Our Values

Violence is used to maintain power and control over those who are perceived as less powerful in domestic relationships. Therefore, we focus primarily on battered women from all socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds and their children. We also include domestic violence victims in gay/lesbian relationships.

Children are severely impacted by violence in the home. Violence is a learned behavior and is not an acceptable way to achieve power and control. Therefore, one way to prevent violence is through working with children to learn healthy ways to be powerful.

Although, batterers must be held personally accountable for their actions, society is responsible for the existence, continuation and elimination of domestic violence. In accepting this responsibility, society, including all individuals and institutions must also work to eliminate other forms of power imbalance, including racism, sexism, homophobia and economic injustice. In order to equalize power imbalances which perpetuate domestic violence, we must change institutions which benefit from and promote those imbalances.

Both Partners and the Consortium dedicate themselves to eliminating domestic violence and ensuring the basic rights of safety, self-determination and well-being to victims and survivors of domestic violence and their children. The alliance between Partners and the Consortium is a model for coordinating the public, private and corporate communities with the major domestic violence service providers, thus bringing together the diverse resources of the City in response to this tragic issue.

The work of Partners and the Consortium is critical to meet the increasing need in San Francisco for direct services and to continue to increase the involvement of San Francisco's diverse communities to end domestic abuse.

Our Mission

Emerging from the movement to end violence against women, the Consortium and Partners dedicate themselves to eliminating domestic violence and ensuring the basic rights of safety, self-determination and well-being to victims and survivors of domestic violence and their children.