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700+ gather for 19th annual Judd Sondreal Memorial Rise & Shine for Peace Breakfast
For 19 years, CVIC has hosted an annual breakfast fundraiser geared towards area businesses and professionals, as well as existing donors and their guests to raise money for the support and services our organization provides in Grand Forks County. This year, more than 700 attendees gathered at Alerus Center on May 1 for the 2024… Read more »
Chuck Hiles earns 2024 Jim Vigness Peacemaker Award
Chuck Hiles is one of the Community Violence Intervention Center’s many invaluable care and service partners. Chuck earned the 2024 Jim Vigness Peacemaker Award for helping to maintain clean, comfortable and safe facilities, including the agency’s 36-bed emergency shelter: Mary’s Place. Hiles is the owner of C&B Home Improvement in Grand Forks and has managed… Read more »
Dove Talks video series featured in Grand Forks Herald
On April 18, 2024, the Grand Forks Herald published a front-page feature dedicated to CVIC’s Dove Talks video series. The newspaper interviewed CVIC President and CEO Coiya Tompkins Inman about ways in which the YouTube channel has become a ‘robust tool’ for our organization’s mission-driven work and programs to eliminate violence. To read the full… Read more »
2024 Spring Newsletter
2024 Spring Newsletter We reflect on 2023 and begin 2024 in the seventh year of our Safer Tomorrows Road Map journey. Gearing up for another progressive year on behalf of neighbors impacted by domestic violence and sexual assault, we contemplate both challenges and opportunities impacting our bold vision to end interpersonal violence in two generations…
CVIC restorative therapy program completes first year
As part of its mission to end violence in two generations in the Grand Forks area, CVIC began a journey one year ago to provide restorative therapy services to those who have caused harm in their intimate partner relationships. Restorative therapy services are an optional service available to those who are participating in CVIC New… Read more »
Donors raise $101,000 for CVIC on Giving Hearts Day 2024
By Coiya Tompkins Inman, CVIC President and CEO In many ways, Giving Hearts Day has become an additional holiday for CVIC and its cherished donors, volunteers, partners and teammates—and this year was no different. In 2024, more than 400 donors stepped up in spades, generating more than $101,000 for CVIC’s Education & Prevention team, which… Read more »