The year is almost over, and we made it through with your help and support! Thank you! Our CPAF colleagues made pandemic work-life more bearable too, through the Breakfast Club and other spaces. (Here's one of our favorite activities from this year to try if you’re planning a virtual game night for your New Year’s Eve.) 

Many of us want to let go of things from 2020 (worry, grief, and anxiety among them), and look forward to new connections, commitments, and hugs (maybe eventually?) in 2021. What are you letting go of from 2020, and inviting in for 2021? Here are just a few of the things that we will be sharing with you next year: 

• In January, learn more about our prevention programs, including the Rooted Leadership Project. We asked 10 Youth Advocates United Against Violence—what does violence look like in your community? Be inspired by their community projects to address violence, and find out how you can help end violence in your own community.   

• Teen Domestic Violence Awareness Month kicks off in February. If you’re an adult ally, you have a role to play too! What could Adult You say to Teen You, if Teen You needed an adult ally?  

• Throughout the year, we will be taking a closer look at survivor leadership, and how all of us can support survivors in their healing journeys. CPAF’s core values include Commitment to Non-Violence, Self-Empowerment, Continuous Learning, and Collaboration. What are ways in which CPAF can align its values and actions, and intentionally create space for people with lived experience as survivors to guide us in this work?   

• With more to come in 2021, sign up for our newsletter to keep learning, or visit our website at www.nurturingchange.org. 

Thank you to all of you who have made a year-end donation! And if you haven’t done so yet in 2020, and would like to contribute to CPAF’s work, please make a tax-deductible contribution by December 31. Please contact us at development@cpaf.info if you have any questions about donating. 

The recently-passed COVID stimulus bill includes incentives to make charitable contributions to eligible organizations like CPAF. The new bill extends to tax year 2021 the current provision that allows everyone, including taxpayers who do not itemize, to take deductions for cash contributions of up to $300. The bill also provides a one year extension of the previous stimulus law’s increased limits on deductible charitable contributions for those taxpayers who do itemize.