About 99% of domestic violence survivors experience financial abuse, according to experts.
Over the course of the pandemic, abusers pocketed stimulus checks and might direct much-needed child tax credits to their own accounts.
For almost a year, Democratic and Republican lawmakers have been calling on the IRS to make it easier for domestic violence survivors to collect stimulus checks and tax returns.
Experts say almost all domestic violence survivors experience some form of financial or economic abuse, and lawmakers and IRS representatives continue to hold conversations about ways to prevent it.
But the two parties seem to be at odds. So far, the IRS has not sufficiently delivered on pleas to streamline filing processes, lawmakers and survivors of domestic violence said in interviews and emails with Insider.
John Langdon
Cassandra Agredo has grown the soup kitchen at St. Francis Xavier church into the multi-service agency that is Xavier Mission. As the organization’s executive director, Agredo and her team provide an array of services and opportunities to New Yorkers in need. They prefer to be called a “for-impact” instead of a “nonprofit” organization, focusing on things they can change instead of those they can’t.
Direct service work has always been a part of Agredo’s life. When she was growing up in Rhode Island, her father worked at the Department of Human Services, and once the first soup kitchen opened, her parents would bring Agredo along while they volunteered. She continued on this path and obtained a bachelor’s and master’s degree in social work from Fordham University. Since then, her passion to enact positive change has shone both through her work at Xavier Mission and Hunger Free America, a national organization set to end domestic hunger, where she’s a
Event Description
Hear inspiring stories from their mentors as top leaders in nonprofit come together to talk about their paths to success in this sector. This roundtable group of people each have winners on their team who will be the future generation of nonprofit leaders. They will discuss what has been working and what will need to change over the next few years. How has their role changed since the pandemic and what are the best tools needed to lead their teams through a crisis. Help us help this roundtable celebrate the Nonprofit 40 Under 40 Class of 2021. Speakers
CEO, Safe Horizon
March 3, 2021
Nathaniel Fields, CEO of the Urban Resource Institute, discusses the factors behind an increase in domestic violence incidents during the coronavirus pandemic.
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