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DartHeart is in desperate need of a new website. We've got 5 days left on our new website campaign, and I'm asking you to please consider donating $25 to $50. http://www.indiegogo.com/dartheart-new-website

With a new website, we'll reach more survivors, have an easier time bringing together survivors and supporters, and get more violence prevention projects going to really make an impact.

I'll be donating this week and am hoping you'll all consider contributing since we have so much good work we can do to support survivors of violence and stop violence from happening again.

Our good work starts with a new website so please share your holiday joy with this gift to DartHeart!

Thanks!!

Jess

As survivors, we may spend a lot of time thinking about our circumstances and the violence we have lived to talk about.

But now is an especially good time to remember those who did not live to see the next day. Please take a moment to reflect on the lives our fallen soldiers.

We not only owe them a day of honor, but we owe them our choice to live better after violence. Take another sec to think about all the things going right in your life, celebrate that you have a life to celebrate, and live it to the fullest.

Do you have a recovery story, tips on living after violence, or other helpful hints on how to reach recovery? Send them to us at [email protected].

Each year, DartHeart compiles all of your awesome submissions into a hardcopy recovery tool. The DartHeart Team and our partner organizations distribute these tools for free to reach even more youth survivors like you!

Want to see what we're talking about?

read our 2011 compilation here:

To our volunteers, community partners, and friends:

  We wanted to take this time to send a special thank you for all of your support! It is through your ongoing commitment to our work that we are able to reach more and more survivors each year and help them recover from trauma!

  GLOBAL VISION

Over the last year and a half, DartHeart has expanded its focus from the Dartmouth campus to become an organization with global outreach. We are now operating from a virtual platform with connections throughout the nation and in many English speaking countries. We believe that our mission to connect survivors, share information about recovery, and offer opportunities for trauma survivors to make a difference in their local communities is best served by this new platform.

  NEW PROJECTS

Since the launch of our new blog (http://dartheartinc.tumblr.com/), we have been able to connect with survivors from England to Australia who share our vision of creating a global youth network. These young men and women from around the globe have been excited about DartHeart and have already shared many of their survival stories, book reviews, and recovery ideas for the benefit of all survivors in DartHeart's network.

  This fall, we also completed the first issue of how to live happily ever after trauma. It's a pocket size compilation of recovery tips and positive stories by survivors for survivors. We offer a free downloadable pdf on our website (http://dartheart.org/content/tips). Our goal this spring is to distribute 100 hard copies to emergency rooms, safe houses, and schools.

  Each year, survivors across the country join the DartHeart network. In the past six months alone, we've had survivors join from Michigan, Iowa, Nebraska, and Indiana to name a few. We always want to be sure our forums offer the right mix of privacy and freedom to connect with other survivors so this spring we'll be rolling out a website update that will optimize our network and encourage more survivors to join!

  GET INVOLVED

One of the many benefits to our new virtual platform is not only that we're one of the greenest companies around, but our overhead is also very, very low. Thanks to the dedication of volunteers, over 95% of our donations go directly to survivors. We think this is an awesome way to run our business and we hope you do too!

  Give us 5! To help us reach our goal of handing out 100 copies of how to live happily ever after trauma, please consider donating just $5. A $5 donation covers the cost of printing, and our volunteers do the rest to get these booklets into the community and into the hands of survivors.

Thanks to a recent generous donation, we're already half-way to our goal! We just need 50 more generous people to give $5!!

Click here to donate

  Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeve! We have comfy t-shirts and totes that are fun to wear. A portion of the proceeds from each sale goes directly to DartHeart!

Check out our shop at Skreened.com/dartheart

  Last minute tax deduction :) DartHeart is a federally recognized 501c3 tax-exempt non-profit organization. (Wow, try saying that ten times fast!) If you need to unload some cash by the end of the year, we'd be happy to receive your charitable contribution!

$50 pays our phone bill

$100 keeps our website up and running

Click here to donate

  We're excited about our new projects for 2012. And we hope you're excited too! If we all keep doing what we've been doing- telling survivors about our network, sending survivors our info, learning more about trauma recovery, and sharing positive tips- then together, we can make a positive global impact with our youth network for post traumatic stress recovery!!

   Happy New Year!

The DartHeart Team