Crime Victims First Receives Grant from Texas Bar Foundation for Step Up Now! Learn Your Rights Campaign
Increasing Crime Victims' Rights Awareness and Accountability

AUSTIN, TX, December 10, 2011 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Crime Victims First (www.crimevictimsfirst.org) received a grant from the Texas Bar Foundation for $3,000 to support the Step Up Now! Learn Your Rights Campaign. The Step Up Now! Learn Your Rights Campaign is a new initiative to increase awareness about crime victims' rights, services, programs, and accountability. Another goal is to raise funds to support the nonprofit through sustaining memberships. The grant funds will be used to create the infrastructure necessary to launch and maintain the Step Up Now! Learn Your Rights Campaign and to increase outreach efforts to educate the community about crime victims' rights, services, and programs.

In June 1999, Crime Victims First (CV1) was created. In 2007, CV1 became an official 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit after years of research and development. In 2009, CV1 emerged into a Crime Victims' Rights Resource Center with the first enforcement program in Texas. In 2010, CV1 created Jam 4 Justice. An outreach concert held each year during National Crime Victims' Rights Week. In 2011, CV1 participated in Vision 21, attended the National Crime Victims' Law Institute's 10th Annual Conference, and joined the National Alliance of Victims' Rights Attorneys. CV1 with the support of the Stewart Law Firm and the University of Texas Law School is also proud to launch the first Crime Victims' Rights Legal Clinic in Texas. CV1 is working to develop Pro Bono Legal Services for Crime Victims' Rights Enforcement. Today, with the support of the Texas Bar Foundation, CV1 launches the Step Up Now! Learn Your Rights Campaign for increasing crime victims' rights awareness and accountability. Finally, CV1 continues to rely exclusively on volunteers and interns to accomplish our mission, and upon securing resources to do so will hire staff to help lead the way into the future.

Since its inception in 1965, the Texas Bar Foundation has awarded more than $9 million in grants to law-related education programs. Supported bythe State Bar of Texas, the Texas Bar Foundation is the nation's largest charitably funded bar foundation.

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