Sexual Violence Center

Forty & Forward: Building the Next Chapter Together

For more than 40 years, we’ve stood alongside survivors and communities, creating safer spaces, stronger systems, and pathways toward healing. As we celebrate this milestone, we look forward to the next 40 years of innovation, resilience, and equity.

This Give to the Max Day, your gift ensures that our movement does not stop here. Together, we will carry the legacy forward and build a future where every voice is heard, every survivor is supported, and every community is safer.

Thank you for believing in our mission and for standing with us to empower survivors. With your generosity, we can continue to change lives, one act of giving at a time.  

Your gift today isn’t just a donation; it is part of a movement. Through our 40 Day Challenge, we are building daily momentum leading up to Give to the Max. Each day, supporters are stepping up to give, share, and spark conversations that carry us Forty & Forward.

Join us in this challenge. Whether it’s $40, $140, or your own forward motion, every act of generosity pushes us further toward the future we’re building together.

Forty years have built our foundation. Your support today carries us forward.

How Your Support Helps Survivors

Emergency Room Advocacy

Our trained advocates accompany survivors during medical examinations and evidence collection (“rape kits”). We operate independently from hospitals and law enforcement, so survivors always have someone in their corner.

Your $140 gift ensures an advocate can be present for one survivor at the ER.

24/7 Crisis Line

Survivors can reach us any time, day or night, through our confidential crisis line for immediate, anonymous support.

📞 Your $40 gift helps keep our crisis line running for one hour.

Individual Counseling

In-person or virtual, one-on-one sessions remind survivors that they are believed, it wasn’t their fault, and they are not alone.

🌱 Your $140 gift supports one counseling session for a survivor.

Group Counseling

We offer safe spaces for survivors to heal in community. Groups run year-round and include Still I Rise (for women of color), Queer Survivors, Youth Survivors, and more.

🤝 Your $400 gift underwrites an entire group counseling session.

Legal Resources & Referrals

From protective orders to court accompaniment, we educate survivors on their rights and stand beside them every step of the way.

⚖️ Your $100 gift supports legal advocacy and referrals for one survivor.

Supportive Communities

Our ongoing support groups provide a lifeline of connection, encouragement, and resilience for survivors at every stage of healing.

🌟 Your recurring monthly gift strengthens these safe and supportive communities year-round.

Forty years brought us here. Forty days will carry us forward. 

Your gift ensures the next 40 years are stronger, safer, and more inclusive.

SVC serves survivors/victims in Carver, Hennepin, and Scott Counties.