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The Foundation’s domestic violence work began with a $60,000 grant in 1974 to Women’s Advocates to support crisis housing for abused women and their children. Women’s Advocates was the first battered women’s shelter in the country.
Starting in the late 1970s, the Bush Foundation worked closely with the Program for Battered Women in the Minnesota Department of Corrections as it created a statewide network of domestic violence service providers. Humphrey Doermann, then president of the Foundation, supported this work, as did the Board.
Summary of Giving
From 1974 through 2008, the Foundation made 220 grants totaling $15.9 million for domestic violence programs and services (see full list). The programs supported by these grants were varied and included:
- Emergency shelters
- Legal advocacy
- Domestic violence units in government agencies
- Educational programs for children affected by domestic violence
- Coordinating system responses to domestic violence
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Background
Grants Overview and List
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The Duluth Model – One of the most innovative domestic violence programs supported by the Bush Foundation was the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project (DAIP) created by Minnesota Program Development in Duluth, Minnesota. A 1981 grant helped fund their development of the first coordinated community response program in the country. Eleven agencies formed the initial collaborative initiative, including the police, criminal and civil court benches, the local battered women’s shelter, mental health agencies and Minnesota Program Development, the coordinating organization. Today, this approach, known as The Duluth Model, has evolved into the most replicated abuse intervention approach in the country.
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