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At the end of October, the National Domestic Violence Hotline held its annual Vital Links Awards in New York to honor individuals and organizations which have significantly contributed to building awareness of family violence prevention services. Honorees have courageously spoken out against domestic violence and in support of survivors and their families.

Fox News Channel Fox & Friends Co-Anchor Gretchen Carlson was the Master of Ceremonies for the event.

Sponsors for the event included Platinum sponsors Verizon, FedEx and CTIA The Wireless Foundation, Gold sponsors Liz Claiborne, Red Media Group, and the General Federation of Women's Clubs with all of its contributing organizations, and Silver sponsors Kaiser Permanente, Lifetime Networks and Burson Marsteller.  Other contributors included New Jersey State Federation of Women's Clubs of GFWC, GFWC Federation Guild Association, Wilkinson, Brimmer, Katcher, Gap, Inc. and Richard Pizutto Events Management.

Awards and recipients included:
Voices for Change Award to S. Epatha Merkerson, best known as Lieutenant Anita Van Buren of NBC's award-winning series Law and Order.

Vital Link Award to the Verizon Foundation for its generosity and support on a local and national level for domestic violence education, prevention and victim empowerment programs.

Special Tribute for Lifetime Achievement to Linda Fairstein, best-selling author of crime novels and one of the country's leading legal experts on crimes of violence, having served for 25 years as the Bureau Chief of the Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit of the New York Country District Attorney's Office. We have been told that her unit was the inspiration behind the Law and Order Special Victims Unit series on NBC.

Special Tribute for Advocacy and Social Change to Victor Rivas Rivers, who speaks out on the effects of domestic violence on behalf of the National Domestic Violence Hotline, and is the author of a personal memoir, a Private Family Matter. In his book, Victor writes bravely and honestly about what it is like to grow up in a home dominated by domestic violence.  In addition to his national speaking engagements, Victor is a regular in the NBC hit series Life.

Media for Change Award to Seventeen Magazine for leading the national conversation about healthy dating and dating abuse, and for its support of Loveisrespect.org, the National Teen Dating Abuse Helpline.

Media for Change Award to MySpace for its partnership with Loveisrespect.org, National Teen Dating Abuse Helpline which provided advertising to promote the Helpline to teens.

Volunteers for Change to Jacquelyn Pierce and Nannette White of the General Federation of Women's Clubs (GFWC) which took on Domestic Violence awareness and prevention as it special  project for 2006-2008. Under the leadership of then-International President Jacquelyn Pierce and Chair Nannette White, the GFWC contributed more than $15.9 million to domestic violence awareness and prevention projects throughout the United States.
37 GFWC Members from 13 States Attend Vital Link Awards

When the National Domestic Violence Hotline hosted its annual Vital Links Awards in New York, 37 members of the General Federation of Women's Clubs were in attendance. These 37 club members, wearing  shades of purple,  were from 13 states, including Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York and Washington. Don't Forget the Hotline
Many donors make charitable gifts at the end of the year. If that is your giving practice, please remember to make a gift to the National Domestic Violence Hotline. With demand for services up and private funding down, we need your gifts more than ever. Click here to donate

 
The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, as part of the recent $700 billion bailout plan restored certain important provisions relating to charitable giving, similar to those in the Pension Protection Act of 2006. The bill provided for a two-year extension of the IRA Rollover provision.

If you are 70-1/2 or older and are required to take minimum distributions from your IRAs (unfortunately this does not include 401(k)s or other qualified plans), the law permits you to instruct your IRA custodian or trustee to distribute up to $100,000 in each of 2008 and 2009 directly to the National Domestic Violence Hotline.  As long as the distributions come directly from your IRA (they cannot be distributed to you first), you will not have to report the distribution as income for federal tax purposes.  This charitable distribution will also count toward your required minimum distribution for the year. 
If this donation opportunity is of interest to you, please contact Ann Dowdy at National Domestic Violence Hotline, 512-685-6301 or adowdy@ndvh.org.