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Why we're here
A few years ago an abuse survivor was searching on the web for help. There were lots of sites for survivors of abuse, but only one that had the kind of in depth, powerful, insightful discussion he was looking for. After a few weeks on their discussion boards he made an amazing connection -- he found someone who had more in common with him than anyone he had ever met. They exchanged several long, meaningful posts. Healing was happening.

Then the site went down. Their correspondence was lost. The webmaster left a note up saying he had been hostily forced to delete everything. The site never came back up.

The abuse survivor was also a professional web designer. He decided to create a well-rounded, professionally-designed site to help other abuse survivors heal. The idea for isurvive.org was born.

The organization
isurvive.org is an incorporated 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. This status allows us to offer more protection to participants than a site run by an individual. Thanks to our non-profit status, individuals who do not support our potentially incendiary, controversial discussion topics will have a much tougher time silencing our exchange.

isurvive.org is a volunteer-driven organization. The founding team is composed of approximately 25 volunteers in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City and Los Angeles. Today, as isurvive.org has grown, our volunteer team is now composed of people from various places around the United States.

Contact information
Our snail mail address is:
isurvive.org
PO Box 78191
San Francisco, CA 94107
Phone 1-800-875-2071

For For general information contact info@isurvive.org. Questions regarding a specific discussion, chat room or the stories archive, go to the corresponding page and contact the appropriate moderator, or email the site moderator at moderator@isurvive.org.

Volunteering
isurvive.org is an entirely volunteer-driven organization. From time to time we form volunteer programs for everything from fundraising to online outreach, to grassroots marketing and awareness raising.

If you're interested in hearing more about volunteering your time, email volunteer@isurvive.org or check out some of our current volunteer opportunities on VolunteerMatch.

Link to us
Our goal is to help heal abuse survivors everywhere, but before they can get here they need to find out about us. You can help by posting one of the buttons or banners below on your site. Just copy and paste the pre-written code inside the text box into your html.

Comments or questions? Submit them below. Sorry, isurvive.org staff cannot respond to individual's abuse issues or concerns. Please post anything personal to the discussion boards or talk about it in the chat room.

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