June 21, 2014: Nicole Baran’s Stanford Daily Op-Ed

Center Executive Director & Founder Nicole Baran examines the university’s failures in its responses to sexual assault on campus and calls for holding perpetrators accountable. Read her op-ed, “Stanford Drops the Ball on Sexual Assault Case,” here.

July 24, 2012: Executive Director on KZSU’s “Culture Lens”

Nicole Baran, Center Executive Director and Founder, discussed relationship abuse, including current trends and its connection to feminism, on Stanford Radio KZSU’s “Culture Lens” show. To listen to the entire interview, click here.

Seneca International Interview with Executive Director

Executive Director, Nicole Baran, interviewed by Seneca International about best practices at Universities.
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Maestro Market Interview with Executive Director

Executive Director, Nicole Baran, featured on Maestro Market.

Eileen Fisher Grant Awarded

We are honored to be among EILEEN FISHER’s 2012 Activating Leadership: Leading for Impact Grantees! With their generous support of our Next Generation Program, they are investing in the future leaders of the movement to end violence against women. As a socially conscious company, EILEEN FISHER is dedicated to supporting women through clothing that create confidence and through initiatives that address well-being. The company is a leader in both human rights and sustainability. For more information on EILEEN FISHER’s Supporting Women: Activating Leadership Grant Program, click here.

Verizon Foundation Grant

The Verizon Foundation has generously donated $120,000 to the Center over 4 years! The Verizon Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Verizon Communications, supports the advancement of literacy and K-12 education through its free educational website, Thinkfinity.org, and fosters awareness and prevention of domestic violence. In 2009, the Verizon Foundation awarded more than $67.5 million in grants to nonprofit agencies in the U.S. and abroad. It also matched the charitable donations of Verizon employees and retirees, resulting in an additional $26.1 million in combined contributions to nonprofits. Through Verizon Volunteers, one of the nation’s largest employee volunteer programs, Verizon employees and retirees have volunteered more than 5 million hours of community service since 2000. For more information on the foundation, visit www.verizonfoundation.org.

Empowering Agency Award

The Center for Relationship Abuse Awareness has won the “Empowering Agency” award from the Annual Advocates for Women Awards, sponsored by IMPACT Bay Area! The Empowering Agency Award honors a Bay Area organization that works to “make the world a safer place for women and girls.”

League of Women Voters

Executive Director, Nicole Baran, was honored as Rising Star at the League of Women Voter’s Centennial Celebration on February 10th, 2011 in San Francisco, CA.
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InMenlo, January 12, 2012: Nicole Baran: Raising Awareness About Domestic Violence Through Education

Involved with the issue of domestic violence for a decade, Nicole Baran cites statistics that get your attention: Results of a recent survey supported by the U.S. Department of Justice found that one in four women had been beaten by an intimate partner, one in five had been raped or experienced an attempted rape, and one in six had been stalked.

The issue first came to her attention when she was teaching creative writing to teenage girls and was surprised at the high number who had experienced rape or physical abuse. She began to educate herself, and was surprised, again, by the degree of victim blaming, along with lack of perpetrator accountability from professionals.

(Read full article: click here)

The Stanford Daily, May 11, 2010: Putting Relationship Abuse Front and Center

According to Nicole Baran, founder and director of the Center for Relationship Abuse Awareness — commonly known as “the Center” — approximately 28 percent of college women will suffer from violence related to dating and relationships, and Stanford is not immune to such incidents. In an effort to increase awareness and get that number down, Stanford has scheduled numerous informational events to get women and men to join the fight to end violence and abuse.

(Read the full article: click here).

The Stanford Daily, February 8, 2007: Org. Fights Violence Against Women

Class, interns aim to promote awareness

Stanford’s Community Partnership to End Violence Against Women — which received a $200,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice last fall — has been working closely with the non-profit Center for Relationship Abuse Awareness to offer a three-unit pilot course entitled “Violence Against Women,” as well as supervising and training seven interns.

“We are very excited about the energy and enthusiasm of the student interns and their commitment to ending violence against women on campus,” Baran said.

Cingular Spotlight April 2, 2007

This Week’s Cingular Spotlight Winner: Nicole Baran
This Week’s Cingular Spotlight Charity: The Center for Relationship Abuse Awareness

Here is what they wrote: “Energy 92.7 and Cingular salute those of you who raise the bar in the Bay Area by helping to make it a better place to live. This week in the Cingular Spotlight, we pay tribute to Nicole Baran…a Bay Area hero in our midst…. Nicole is committed to stopping violence against women. She founded The Center for Relationship Abuse Awareness, a non-profit focused on providing education and training so that communities and institutions respond effectively to women experiencing relationship abuse.