:: About Us - Who We Are - Partners and Funders A-Z

about

Since 1999, Silence Speaks has been committed to fostering individual and collective healing and justice by nurturing the production of personal media narratives and bringing these narratives into carefully-considered public spheres. Through intensive, hands-on participatory media workshops, we support people in creating digital stories, photographs, radio pieces, and more. Rather than focusing on media creation alone or contributing to the increasing commodification of story, we work with our partners to develop and implement meaningful approaches to distribution. We believe that with skillful presentation and strategic thinking about audience, first-person voices can bring attention to the systemic causes of chronic poverty, ill health, and violence in ways that demand accountability and prompt change at community, institutional, and government levels.

Close collaboration with partner organizations results in the design of projects that attend to emotions and offer a safe and meaningful workshop experience. Where appropriate, we include teaching about specific health and human rights issues, leadership development training, and photography and hands on art-making activities as part of the process. Outputs can include web-ready stories, DVDs, radio productions, discussion guides, print publications or posters, training curricula, and web sites. The guiding vision is to listen deeply and challenge legacies of voyeurism and media exploitation by ensuring that storytellers, not producers, have primary control over what is shared and how events and people are portrayed.

Since our beginnings in 1999, we have coordinated more than 40 projects in locations across the United States and in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Congo-Brazzaville, Guatemala, Nepal, South Africa, and Uganda.

:: who we are - partners

Asian-Pacific Islander Domestic Violence Resource Project, Washington, DC
Asian Women’s Shelter, San Francisco, CA
Attira Women’s Resources, Vancouver, Canada
Australian Center for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia
Australian White Ribbon Campaign, Melbourne, Australia
Center for Educational Technology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Colorado Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Denver, CO
Community Violence Solutions, Richmond, CA
DC Rape Crisis Center, Washington, DC
Domestic Abuse Project, Minneapolis, MN
EngenderHealth, New York, NY
Exhale!, Oakland, CA
Family Violence Prevention Fund, San Francisco, CA
generationFIVE, San Francisco, CA; New York, NY
GOJoven Program, Public Health Institute, Oakland, CA
International Organization for Migration, Pretoria, South Africa
Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, Cape Town, South Africa
Instituto Promundo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Kitovu Mission Hospital, Masaka, Uganda
Manhattan Neighborhood Network
Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa
Men As Partners Network, Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa
Minnesota Communities Against Violence, Minneapolis, MN
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Denver, CO
Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa
Peace Over Violence (formerly L.A. Coalition on Assaults Against Women), Los Angeles, CA
Pennsylvania College of Technology
Rape Crisis Cape Town Trust, Cape Town, South Africa
Regional Psychosocial Support Initiative, Cape Town, South Africa
Restitution Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa
SAATHI Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal
San Francisco Women Against Rape, San Francisco, CA
SHARe the Word Coalition, Santa Barbara, CA
Sheila Wellstone Institute, Minneapolis, MN
Sonke Gender Justice Network, Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa
STAND! Against Domestic Violence, Concord, CA
TechSoup Global (formerly CompuMentor), San Francisco, CA
Texas Association Against Sexual Assault, Austin, TX
Transcultural Psychosocial Organization, Kampala, Uganda
Tuba City for Family Harmony, Tuba City, AZ
United Nations Development Program, Geneva, Switzerland
YWCA of North-Central Pennsylvania, Williamsport, PN
Women’sNet, Johannesburg, South Africa
Zero Tolerance for Domestic Violence Initiative, Martinez, CA

funders
Beyond Our Borders Special Interest Fund of the Women’s Foundation of Colorado
California Department of Health Services, Domestic Violence Section
California Wellness Foundation
ChildHope
Contra Costa Children & Families Commission
David B. Gold Foundation
David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Department for International Development, United Kingdom
Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fund
Ford Foundation
Global Fund for Women
Hope Education Trust
International Organization for Migration
International Women’s Health Coalition
John M. Lloyd Foundation
Johns Hopkins Health Education South Africa
Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa
San Francisco Arts Commission
South African Commission for Gender Equality
Summit Foundation
Swedish International Development Association
Target Foundation
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Bureau for Conflict Prevention and Resolution
United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Indian Health Service
U.S. Department of Justice: Office for Victims of Crime
U.S. Department of Justice: Office on Violence Against Women
Verizon Foundation
Women’s Foundation of California

Last Updated on Tuesday, 22 November 2011 19:02