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Legal Legacy Fund

My abuser always told me no one would believe me, and no one would help me if I left him. It is hard to describe how I felt with an ODVN attorney by my side in court to face him. These services helped me rebuild a safer life for me and my children.

ODVN set up the Legal Legacy Fund to honor, Nancy Grigsby, when she retired in 2021 after 41 years of service to end domestic violence.

“The first day I stepped into a battered women’s shelter, my life began on a path that transformed my understanding of the world and myself,” said Nancy. That path led her to be one of the co-founders of Artemis Center in Dayton and to lead the Georgia Coalition Against Domestic Violence prior to joining ODVN in 2009.

Nancy founded our legal program to ensure that survivors have someone standing with them to provide legal representation. With a network of contract attorneys, the legal program helps an average of 800 survivors per year with protective orders, divorce, custody issues, and more. Through thousands of cases over the years, the access to legal services has given hope to survivors when they thought hope was lost.

Throughout her career, Nancy took the lead to answer the challenging needs of survivors. She led strategies to provide legal assistance to ALL survivors—people of color, LGBTQ, deaf or hard of hearing, and those incarcerated or re-entering society. She founded ODVN’s Clemency and Parole Project to give hope to survivors convicted of homicides related to their victimization.

In honor of Nancy’s tireless leadership, ODVN has launched this Legal Legacy Fund to ensure legal assistance is available to survivors in the future. We thank you for your help to sustain this work for the future.

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The purpose of Prevention Community of Practice is broad oversight of OHMAN, including but not necessarily limited to:

  • Vision
  • Infrastructure
  • Funding priorities
  • Policy discussions and agenda setting (both internal to the organization and in regard to emerging issues in the movement)
  • Strategic planning

Responsibilities of the OHMAN Steering Committee include:

  • Regularly participate in Steering Committee-related conference calls.
  • Regularly participate in OHMAN general meetings and events.
  • Work on projects and serve on committees that are needed to ensure the success of OHMAN as an efficient, community-oriented network.
  • Policy discussions and agenda setting (both internal to the organization and regarding emerging issues in the movement)
  • Assist with the development and monitoring of OHMAN goals, objectives, and strategic plan.
  • Allow your name, image, and/or likeness to appear in OHMAN publications and other media statements.
  • Participate with workgroups charged by the Steering Committee

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