Why I Choose to Be Her First Step: Tamara Boozell
I was raised in a volunteering home. As a child, my mother would take us every Saturday to help at a pop-up free health clinic set up by a family friend, Dr. Alice. We were also raised taking half our birthday gifts over to a local children’s home and spending the day playing with the…
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3 Steps to Get Involved with a Nonprofit for National Volunteer Week
Next week, April 15 – 21, 2018, is National Volunteer Week, and there’s still time to get involved! At Genesis, we love and appreciate our volunteers every day. Especially during National Volunteer Week, we celebrate the impact of volunteer service and the power of change-makers to come together to tackle domestic violence. Genesis is so…
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Genesis Annual Luncheon: 25 Years in the Making
In just six weeks, Genesis will welcome Academy Award-winning actress Hilary Swank to Dallas for the 25th Annual Genesis Women’s Shelter & Support Luncheon. What started as a 100-person lunch and fashion show more than two decades ago has grown into a signature event of the Dallas luncheon scene, with nearly 1700 corporations, philanthropists, donors…
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The Conference on Crimes Against Women
The 13th Annual Conference on Crimes Against Women (CCAW) is quickly approaching, and with it comes a variety of new workshops, case studies, and computer labs to prevent and respond to all crimes against women. Created in partnership between Genesis Women’s Shelter and the Dallas Police Department, the mission of the Conference is to provide…
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Recognizing National Single Parent Day
We have all heard of Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and even Grandparent’s Day, but there is another day that doesn’t get the recognition that it should: National Single Parent Day, which falls on March 21st every year. This day is meant to celebrate the 14 million single men and women who are raising children in…
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Gun Surrender – We Can Do More
Just a few weeks ago, the mayor of Dallas held a press conference at Genesis Women’s Shelter. His message was loud and clear: “we are not doing enough.” Mayor Rawlings’ comments were made in response to the Parkland shooting on February 14 in Florida that left 17 people, most of them high school students, dead.…
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Four Ways to Make a Difference on International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day is Thursday, March 8, 2018 – a day to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievement of women. Thanks to the Suffragettes’ tireless efforts toward gender equality, International Women’s Day was established in 1911. After more than 100 years, a single mindset remains the same: recognizing, honoring and celebrating the accomplishments…
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Teen Dating Violence – A Parent’s Perspective
Being a teenager today is complicated, but being the parent or guardian of a teenager? Whew! That job is definitely not for the faint of heart, but it’s the most important job we will ever have. As such, there are so many things that we try to educate our children about to protect them –…
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Four Ways to Help End Domestic Violence in Corporate America
At Genesis, we know that domestic violence is not a private matter that unfolds behind closed doors. In fact, many women who are in abusive relationships are also working women. Domestic violence currently affects one in every three women with over 96 percent of victims experiencing issues at work. Furthermore, domestic violence is costing corporate…
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Teen Dating Violence: A Teenager’s Take
One in ten high school students will experience some form of dating violence. But the problem does not lie only in high school: one out of three girls in the U.S. will experience dating violence, and between the ages of 16 to 24, the number of women who will experience it is three times the…
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