To push forward its mission, If She Cry Out is currently working on the following projects:

• If She Cry Out Group Blog: an on-line publication/cooperative blog containing thought pieces, social commentary, and research summaries by survivors and those who love or work closely with them. At present, 2-3 new articles are posted each week. We are actively looking for contributors. At the discretion of the author, articles may be published using either a real name or pseudonym. We also welcome cross-posts. If you would like to know more about contributing, please see our editorial policy.
• The Survivors’ Ink Project: The Survivors’ Ink Project is assembling a gallery of the tattoos survivors of abuse and violence have gotten to celebrate their lives. So often people assume that violence and terror can only mean sadness or loss, but these tattoos illustrate otherwise. The project showcases survivors as masters of transformation: turning the darkest of human experiences into lessons of hope, beauty, and power. This project is part of If She Cry Out’s goal of promoting a more celebratory understanding of survivors.
• Circles of Influence: this research project traces the impact loved ones of murder victims and survivors of terror attacks and violent crimes (rape, kidnapping, mass shootings, bombings) have on those around them and the world at large. As part of this project we are building a directory of projects categorized by their founder’s influence. We will also be interviewing survivors and founders to better understand how the face to face encounter with evil leads to social change.
• Golden Eggs: This project examines the organizational development needs of projects initiated by survivors and those inspired by them. Survivorship inspires social innovation but few survivors are professional managers at the time of the attack. Often, when they seek out further education post attack, survivors are drawn to content area degrees (law, social work, conflict management, medicine, psychology, philosophy, theology/ministry) rather than MBAs. The lack of formal management training makes it difficult to negotiate the complex grant process of large foundations. Projects are run on a shoe string and have limited funds to hire highly skilled management consultants. We are working on identifying resources for survivor-innovators and developing mentoring programs that successful survivor-innovators can pass their experience on to the next generation of survivor start-up projects.
• After the Holocaust: This project looks at how we can use the lessons of the Holocaust, Holocaust education and the experience of survivors of violent crimes and terror attacks to keep the moral and psychological lessons of the Holocaust alive. Although the Holocaust is moving further and further into the domain of history, the human choices that lead to that atrocity are sadly still with us and acted out in every incidence of genocide, terror, or one-on-one violent crime. Evil is ultimately personal. Though institutions were responsible for setting policy during the Holocaust, that policy was enthusiastically carried out by individuals who chose over and over again to violate the dignity of their fellow human beings.

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