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  • Theresa’s Fund Adds New President/CEO

    posted April 09, 2018

    Theresa’s Fund, Inc., which operates DomesticShelters.org the fastest growing website in North America on the topic of domestic violence, announced today that it has brought on Paul Denial, M.S.W., as its Pr...

  • Leading Domestic Violence Events in One Place, One Calender

    posted October 01, 2017

    To kick off Domestic Violence Awareness Month this October, leading domestic violence website DomesticShelters.org has launched the most comprehensive calendar of domestic violence events in North America. T...

  • DomesticShelters.org Launches New Home Page

    posted August 15, 2017

    Based on data gathered from millions of visitors since DomesticShelters.org launched in 2014, the website recently reorganized its home page to cater to the most popular types of content sought by people exp...

  • Video Learning Added to DomesticShelters.org

    posted June 01, 2017

    With countless studies showing that people learn best in different ways, DomesticShelters.org has begun to supplement its substantial database of textual learning tools -- like articles on the many aspects ...

  • DomesticShelters.org Starts Helping Shelters Fulfill Wish Lists

    posted November 16, 2016

    DomesticShelters.org has extended its track record of employing technology to help domestic violence survivors and the programs that serve them with the roll out today of a new fundraising platform that make...

  • Report Looks at National Impact of DomesticShelters.org

    posted August 08, 2016

    Theresa’s Fund issued the first-ever impact report on its online service DomesticShelters.org, shedding new light on the effect and role that the dynamic and ambitious project is having within its two primar...

  • Experts Join Rapidly Growing Domestic Violence Website

    posted July 11, 2016

    A group comprised of authors, academics, researchers, program operators and nationally-recognized domestic violence experts has joined DomesticShelters.org, as the online service continues to expand its reac...

  • DomesticShelters.org Experiences 1,000,000th Visitor

    posted April 07, 2016

    DomesticShelters.org was launched in late August, 2014 to fulfill a missing and needed resource for domestic violence survivors: making it faster and easier to get help online and on mobile devices. Now...

  • Weekly Domestic Violence Surveys Go Live

    posted November 22, 2015

    What happened when you obtained a protection order? How long after experiencing and escaping abuse did you begin dating again? Which area of legislation do you think is most important? These questions and ma...

  • Most Popular Articles on DomesticShelters.org

    posted October 18, 2015

    Among the benefits the fastest growing website in the domestic violence space has brought to the marketplace are insights into what topics victims of domestic violence and people focused on the topic are mos...

  • DomesticShelters.org Assists 400,000+ People in Year One

    posted August 16, 2015

    What began as an idea that finding help for domestic violence could be made faster and easier, one year later has become the fastest growing website in the domestic violence space. DomesticShelters.org celeb...

  • Best Domestic Violence Books

    posted August 12, 2015

    When someone wants to learn more about domestic violence, they typically do one of a few things: go online, talk to friends and family, call a hotline, join a group or read books. That’s why DomesticShelters...

  • What's In a Name?

    posted July 19, 2015

    We’ve all seen lists of the most common given names and last names for people, or trending baby names. But, you’ve probably never seen a list identifying the most common words used in the given name for dom...

  • New Widgets Allow Anyone to Add Content to a Website

    posted May 07, 2015

    If you’re someone who runs or influences a website, and you care about ending domestic violence and helping victims and survivors, the new widgets powered by domesticshelters.org offer a super easy way to ad...

  • Website Provides Domestic Violence Help in Canada

    posted March 09, 2015

    With such positive outcomes during the six months since domesticshelters.org first launched, the organizers of the first-ever online and mobile searchable database of domestic violence programs in the U.S. ...

  • Domestic Violence Services Now Tracked in All 50 States

    posted January 16, 2015

    Most people know domesticshelters.org for its ability to help people experiencing domestic violence find help faster and easier than ever before. Since the site was launched 4 months ago it has helped more t...

  • What Services Do Domestic Violence Programs Provide?

    posted January 13, 2015

    The website domesticshelters.org has collected data on 15 different legal and financial services provided by domestic violence programs in the U.S. and found that the most commonly provided service is court ...

  • Site Revealing Insights into Domestic Violence Services

    posted November 05, 2014

    Of the ten most commonly provided services by domestic violence programs in the U.S., half fall within the category of emergency services, according to data compiled by and powering DomesticShetlers.org, th...

  • Site Launches, Millions of Abuse Victims Find Help Easier

    posted August 26, 2014

    Online you’ll find plenty of information about domestic violence. That’s not a problem. What is a challenge is trying to find the right help quickly and easily. Search results often reveal disparate shelter ...

  • First Online Database of Domestic Violence Programs Launches

    posted July 24, 2014

    The Arizona-based non-profit Theresa's Fund has announced plans to launch domesticshelters.org, a new website that will provide abuse victims, their friends and family, and agencies, with the most comprehens...