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V-Day is a global movement to end violence against women and girls that raises funds and awareness through benefit productions of Playwright/Founder Eve Ensler’s award winning play The Vagina Monologues and other artistic works.

In 2008, more than 3400 V-Day events took place in the U.S. and around the world. To date, the V-Day movement has raised over $60 million and educated millions about the issue of violence against women and the efforts to end it, crafted international educational, media and PSA campaigns, launched the Karama program in the Middle East, reopened shelters, and funded over 5000 community-based anti- violence programs as well as safe houses in Kenya, South Dakota, Egypt and Iraq. In June 2006, V-Day launched the V-DAY: UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS festival in NYC which invited thousands of New Yorkers to stand up and join V-Day in making New York City the safest place on earth for women and girls. In 2008, V-Day celebrated its 10th Anniversary in New Orleans with over 30,000 activists attending V TO THE TENTH.

The V-Day movement is growing at a rapid pace throughout the world, in 120 countries from Europe to

Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, and all of North America. V-Day, a non-profit corporation, distributes funds to grassroots, national and international organizations and programs that work to stop violence against women and girls. In 2001, V-Day was named one of Worth Magazine's "100 Best Charities" and in 2006 one of Marie Claire Magazine’s Top Ten Charities. The 'V' in V-Day stands for Victory, Valentine and Vagina. http://www.vday.org

About V-Day

ALL ABOUT EVE

EVE ENSLER is a playwright, performer and activist. She is the award-winning author of The Vagina Monologues, which has been published in 45 languages and performed in over 120 countries. She is also the founder/artistic director of V-Day, the global movement to end violence against women and girls, which has raised nearly 60 million dollars and recently celebrated its tenth anniversary at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans in April 2008. Eve’s plays include Necessary Targets, Conviction, Lemonade, The Depot, Floating Rhoda and the Glue Man, Extraordinary Measures and The Good Body, which she performed on Broadway, followed by a national tour. Both The Good Body and The Vagina Monologues are now being performed throughout the world and have been published by Random House.

In September 2006, Eve’s play, The Treatment, premiered at the Culture Project in New York City. O.P.C., her newest work, will debut this summer at NY Stage and Film at Vassar College. In 2006, Eve released her first nonfiction book, Insecure At Last: A Political Memoir, and co-edited A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and a Prayer, an anthology of writings about violence against women. Both were published by Random House. Eve’s film credits include an HBO film version of The Vagina Monologues. She also produced the film What I Want My Words to Do To You, a documentary about her work with women in prison, which won the Freedom of Expression Award at Sundance and was shown on PBS.

Eve has written numerous articles for Glamour Magazine, Marie Claire, Huffington Post, Utne Reader, as well as a regular column in O Magazine. She has won many awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship in Playwriting and an Obie in addition to a number of honorary degrees. Eve is currently working on a film version of her play Necessary Targets and a new book of monologues, I Am an Emotional Creature, to be published by Random House in 2010.

V-Day 2010 Charlotte is a community affair! The V-Day Charlotte Neighborhood Hop will be hosting events all around the city to raise awareness about and money to fight violence against women. This year our beneficiaries are: