Causes: Anti-Hate, Civil Rights

Mission:
Our mission is to end harassment in all its forms by transforming the culture that perpetuates hate and harassment.

We carry out this mission by building the power of everyday people to create safe and welcoming environments for all.

We envision a world where all people have the freedom to move through public space, participate in civic life, and reach their full potential.

In this world, people will never face hate or harassment as they walk down the street, go to school or work, sit in the park, attend a public protest, vote, or participate online or in media.

We all have the right to be who we are, wherever we are.

Results:
- As part of our breaking the silence initiative, over 18,000 people have shared their stories of harassment, building individual healing and fueling advocacy against harassment on a local and institutional level.

- Through our bystander intervention training program, launched in 2011, we’ve trained over 200,000+ people in the past year in how to respond to, intervene in, and heal from harassment. 1-2 hour bystander intervention trainings equip everyday people with the tools to safely de-escalate harassment in their everyday lives and create impact in the organizations, institutions, and businesses around them. Trainings address issues from anti-AAPI harassment to discrimination against learning differences, building effective strategies to reduce violence and center impacted communities.

- Our HeartMob platform intervenes against online harassment through immediate digital bystander intervention tools. We’ve provided over 8,620 supportive actions on the platform, developing open source resources on security, harassment, and identity.

Target demographics: Women, LGBTQ+ folks, Black folks, Indigenous folks, people of color, religious minorities, people with disabilities, immigrants, and all others who are treated as “less than” just for being who they are.

Geographic areas served: global

Programs:
Our goal is to change the culture that makes harassment OK.

We do that work by moving people into action:

We collect stories of harassment at ihollaback. org and on HeartMob, as well as through our free app, from all around the world. Research shows that when people tell their story on our site it helps them move from understanding harassment as a personal problem requiring personal solutions (take a different route, get a cab, etc) to a societal problem requiring societal solutions (activism, policy change). Share your story supports healing and increases your likelihood of taking action.

We train people to respond to, intervene in, and heal from harassment. We recognize that the systems and structures that create and reinforce harassment across our society are fundamentally made of people. We aim to equip everyday people with the tools to undo harassment in their everyday lives and to create impact in the organizations, institutions, and businesses around them. We teach people how to fight their own communities' experience of harassment, but also how to reach across communities and fight alongside others who may experience harassment differently.

We grow and develop leaders inside the larger movement to end harassment through our global site leader program and partnerships with organizations and businesses. Harassment will end because of the global power of movement designed to defeat it, not because of the actions of any singular organization or individuals. We seek to build the capacity of the movement as a whole and elevate the voices of those most marginalized inside of it.

Join us as we explore different ways of being together that are rooted in taking care of each other in an effort to minimize hate, harm, violence, and create a world free of harassment.