V-Day’s Annual Reports and Financials

2023 Annual Report

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2023 marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of V-Day, our global activist movement to end violence against women, gender expansive people and the Earth. It was a year filled with new art, reckoning and RISING celebrating the vast grassroots, anti-violence work on college campuses and in communities that has been survivor-led and focused—and looking ahead, charting new ways to use art and activism to change culture and systems. We looked back at our hard won victories as we took major steps forward with a renewed sense of commitment to ending violence in all its forms, all while reflecting on two and a half decades of path breaking work, movement building and art led by survivors, artists and activists around the world.

The 25th anniversary came at a critical moment in the gender justice movement. With the gutting of Roe v. Wade, millions of women living in the United States joined millions more around the world who lack access to basic reproductive health care and abortion. At the same time, women around the world stood up for their basic human rights as massive protests took place in support of women’s rights in Iran. Abortion is now decriminalized in Mexico. Indigenous women leaders in Brazil have won a historic election to Congress where they are working to uphold Indigenous rights and Brazil’s environmental governance. V-Day activists are running and being elected to political offices such as Agnes Pareyio, Member of Kenyan Parliament, Rada Boric, Member of Croatian Parliament, and Lindsey Horvath, Los Angeles County Supervisor. One Billion Rising activists are leading the charge for LGBTQ+ rights and representation, as well as climate initiatives around the globe. Women worldwide are recognizing the power of grassroots organizing to make their voices heard and create change.

Amidst the global pandemic of setbacks and conflict, V-Day and One Billion Rising activists showed up for each other around the world, shattering traditions and creating spaces for art, dialogue and change. They rose for bodily autonomy, gender, climate, economic and racial justice, and against a wave of war, right-wing nationalism, white supremacy, colorism, fascism, xenophobia, misogyny, femicide, homophobia, transphobia, corporate greed and climate destruction, centering their voices and experiences of the most marginalized.

These pages are a reflection of the past year in our movement. Our global movement – fueled by the loyal, determined activists who RISE with One Billion Rising, turn pain to power at the City of Joy, and continue to support and uplift V-Day through a multitude of creative resistances– is stronger than ever after 25 years. Our gratitude for your partnership and collaboration. It truly means the world to us.

2022 Annual Report

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ON THE PRECIPICE OF OUR 25TH ANNIVERSARY, through another pandemic year that rocked the world and illuminated intractable systems of inequity, and despite conflicts and upheaval that ranged from Ukraine to Afghanistan to Ethiopia, V-Day and One Billion Rising activists once again shattered traditions and created spaces for grassroots dialogue, with art and activism always at the forefront. They rose for gender, climate, economic and racial justice and against a wave of war, right-wing nationalism, white supremacy, colorism, fascism, xenophobia, corporate greed and climate destruction, centering their voices and experiences of the most marginalized.

ONE BILLION RISING GLOBAL COORDINATORS and teams worldwide ushered in the 2022 #1BillionRising season with OVER 70 COUNTRIES rising via hundreds of creative resistance events on the ground and online making the connection between how we treat the bodies of women and how we treat the earth.

With the takeover of Kabul by the Taliban, City of Knowledge was shut, but activists came together and rose online and in the streets with and for the WOMEN OF AFGHANISTAN in September, showing solidarity with our Afghan sisters until the violence stops. AT CITY OF JOY IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO, our 21st class graduated, turning their pain into power that is fueling change across a nation. 1734 survivors have graduated to date. They are change makers, celebrating their victory over trauma, thriving women who are determined to heal. V-DAY SAFE HOUSE FOR THE GIRLS IN NAROK COUNTY, KENYA, is celebrating its 20th year as girls unabashedly broke taboos, rejecting Female Genital Mutilation and Early Childhood Marriage, redirecting their lives and those of their communities’ through education and change.

V-Day’s newest project, VOICES, is emerging, centering Black women’s voices from across the Diaspora and reflecting an incredible selection from over 900 submissions received.

THE FOLLOWING PAGES WILL TAKE YOU THROUGH THE PAST YEAR IN OUR MOVEMENT, a year filled with new art and profound change. Our global movement– fueled by the loyal, determined activists who RISE with One Billion Rising, turn pain to power at the City of Joy, and continue to support and uplift V-Day through a multitude of creative resistances– is stronger than ever after 25 years. Our gratitude for your partnership and collaboration. It truly means the world to us.

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2021 Annual Report

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In the face of the Covid-19 global pandemic that ripped through the world and shed light on inequity across all cultures, grassroots V-Day and One Billion Rising activists pushed boundaries and engaged in dialogue, with art and activism always at the forefront. They rose against a wave of right-wing nationalism, white supremacy, colorism, fascism, xenophobia, misogyny, femicide, homophobia, transphobia, corporate greed and climate destruction. As they rose, they centered the voices and experiences of the most marginalized. They met the moment by escalating the urgency with which they fought for gender, climate, economic and racial justice.

V-Day’s new VOICES project had our vast global network buzzing with excitement to see and hear the new artistic piece that will emerge in 2022, centering Black women’s voices from across the Diaspora at this critical time in our history as a planet.

One Billion Rising Global Coordinators and activists worldwide staged RISING GARDENS events – online and in real life – that were a defiant creative call for revival, restoration and transformation, making the connection between the destruction and eradication of Mother Earth and the ongoing and escalating gender-based violence. The work centered the needs of communities throughout the Covid pandemic.

At City of Joy in the Democratic Republic of Congo, our 19th class graduated, turning their pain into power that is fueling change across a nation over 1650 graduates strong. In Kabul at the City of Knowledge, women continued to attend classes despite the recent spikes in violence targeting educational institutions and the turmoil with the US pulling out its troops. At the Tasaru V-Day Safe House for the Girls in Narok County, Kenya, girls broke taboos rejecting Female Genital Mutilation and redirecting their lives and those of their communities’ through education.

The following pages will take you through the past year in our movement, an unprecedented year marked by a global pandemic and by the RISING of activists globally to meet the moment via V-Day and One Billion Rising movements, and on the ground in the Democratic Republic of Congo, at the City of Joy.

Your support of our movement is the wind at our backs. It truly means the world to us.

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2018: V20 – 20 YEARS OF THE GLOBAL ACTIVIST MOVEMENT TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS

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Twenty years ago, V’s (formerly Eve Ensler) play The Vagina Monologues gave birth to V-Day, a global activist movement to end violence against all women and girls (cisgender, transgender, and gender non-conforming).

Since 1998, The Vagina Monologues and other works have been performed across the world by local V-Day activists, raising over $100 million dollars for grassroots anti-violence groups, rape crisis centers, domestic violence shelters, and safe houses in places like Kenya and Afghanistan. V-Day supports and launched the City of Joy, a revolutionary center for women survivors of gender violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has graduated over 1000 women leaders.

Activists look at the intersection of class, race, gender, environmental destruction, imperialism, militarism, patriarchy, poverty, and war, as women face abuse and exploitation across layers of systematic and societal oppression, with the most marginalized and excluded often facing increased levels of violence.

In 2013, V-Day gave birth to One Billion Rising – the largest mass action to demand an end to violence against women in history. V-Day and One Billion Rising are a crucial part of the global fight to stop gender-based violence through attacking the silence — public and private — that allows violence against women to continue.

With ingenuity and determination, V-Day activists around the world are tirelessly working to end harassment, rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation and sex slavery.

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2017: RISE FOR WOMEN WORKERS SOLIDARITY AGAINST THE EXPLOITATION OF WOMEN

2017 was beyond comparison in our 19 years of work. The assent of a known sexual predator to the US Presidency alongside the emergence of other anti-women, anti-people leaders and governments around the world not only crystallized everything our movement has been working towards since 1998, but also galvanized our activists in an unprecedented way as they took to the stage and the streets in the face of policies and actions that sought to strip their basic rights and call into question their experiences.

With sharper focus on the rising and resistance against the systems that cause other forms of violence – imperialism, neo-facism, racism, capitalism and neo-liberalism – activists in our College and Community campaigns and One Billion Rising’s Solidarity Against the Exploitation of Women campaign took up their struggle against sexual and physical violence, expanding their frame to focus on interconnected issues facing the most vulnerable: workers rights, immigration, poverty, racial violence, corruption, environmental plunder, state sponsored wars, militarization, displacement, and violence created by greed and lack of access to healthcare and education. At the City of Joy and in places like Afghanistan, women sowed seeds of inner and societal revolution.

You will see in the following pages expanded coverage of the work taking place through the V-Day and One Billion Rising movements, and on the ground in the Democratic Republic of Congo, at the City of Joy.

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2016: ONE BILLION RISING: RISE FOR REVOLUTION