New Executive Director Named

posted November 12, 2021

The Board of Directors of Theresa's Fund, which operates DomesticShelters.org, has promoted Ashley Rumschlag from Vice President of Digital Services to President/CEO and Executive Director of Theresa's Fun...

Pop Star Patrick Barnett Partners with Theresa’s Fund

posted October 29, 2021

Rising Pop Star Patrick Barnett has released nationally the new single Shine Through as part of his debut album, and through a partnership arranged by Nashville-based Round Room Productions, hoping to raise ...

Two Members Added to Theresa’s Fund Board of Directors

posted September 24, 2021

Twenty-five-year veteran of the domestic violence field and former CEO/Executive Director of a domestic violence program and shelter, Jenny Davidson, and award-winning entertainer Angela Shelton have been na...

NO MORE and DomesticShelters.org Partner on Global Directory

posted September 16, 2021

The NO MORE Foundation launched a directory of global resources for victims of domestic violence this past March and partnered with the leader in providing similar resources in the U.S. and Canada, DomesticS...

Recipients of $30,000 Grant Revealed at Purple Ribbon Awards

posted September 15, 2021

A broad cross-section of inspiring stories from six outstanding domestic violence programs were shared during the 2021 Purple Ribbon Awards Celebration held on September 15th. These programs were named by th...

Purple Ribbon Award Winners Announced

posted August 12, 2021

Theresa’s Fund announced the winners of the 2021 Purple Ribbon Awards across 28 categories, as judged by a national panel of respected professionals from the domestic violence field. The Purple Ribbon Awards...

Experts Partner to Raise Awareness for Pet-Friendly Shelters

posted February 04, 2021

DomesticShelters.org and RedRover have formed a data-sharing partnership to help domestic violence victims and advocates more easily find domestic violence shelters and programs in the U.S. and Canada that a...

DomesticShelters.org Leader Earns Lifetime Achievement Award

posted December 12, 2020

This evening as part of its annual Chords of Hope 2020 fundraiser, The Michael Bolton Charities selected Rita Smith, VP/External Relations for DomesticShelters.org, as the recipient of its annual Lifetime Ac...

First Comprehensive Awards Program for DV Movement

posted September 29, 2020

Theresa’s Fund through its popular website DomesticShelters.org announced today that it is launching the new, annual Purple Ribbon Awards, the first comprehensive awards program honoring the countless heroes...

Theresa’s Fund Founder Creates New Scholarship at Ohio State

posted August 10, 2020

Preston V. McMurry Jr., the founder of Theresa’s Fund which operates the vital and popular resource DomesticShelters.org, has established the Theresa and Preston V McMurry Jr. Scholarship Fund at his alma ma...

DomesticShelters.org Helps 10 Millionth Visitor

posted January 07, 2020

After being launched about 5 years ago in late 2014, DomesticShelters.org helped its 10,000,000th visitor on January 8, 2020. During that same period, more than 23.5 million pages on the website have been vi...

DomesticShelters.org Turns Five Years Old

posted December 19, 2019

Five years ago the team at non-profit Theresa’s Fund had an idea. After 20-plus years of successfully building domestic violence shelter capacity in Arizona through grantmaking and fundraising, why not devel...

Wish List Donations Top $50,000

posted February 15, 2019

DomesticShelters.org announced that the online giving platform it launched 25 months ago has resulted in more than $50,000 in donations of wish list items to participating domestic violence programs. The wis...

DomesticShelters.org Traffic Continues Rapid Growth

posted August 02, 2018

During the last 12 months, 2,347,520 people representing every country in the world have visited DomesticShelters.org, making it one of the most visited websites anywhere on the topic of domestic violence. ...

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 just...

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...