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The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network is the nation's largest anti-sexual assault organization. RAINN operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1.800.656.HOPE and the National Sexual Assault Online Hotline at rainn.org, and publicizes the hotline's free, confidential services; educates the public about sexual assault; and leads national efforts to prevent sexual assault, improve services to victims and ensure that rapists are brought to justice.

The Online Hotline provides live, secure, anonymous crisis support for victims of sexual assault, their friends, and families over RAINN's website. The Online Hotline is free of charge and is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Using a secure and anonymous instant-messaging type format, the Online Hotline allows rape and sexual assault victims to communicate directly with trained crisis support volunteers.

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— Worth Magazine

Every 2 minutes, someone in the U.S. is sexually assaulted. 1 in 6 women and 1 in 33 men will be victims of sexual assault or rape in their lifetime.

RAINN has helped over 1.4 million people affected by sexual violence through the National Sexual Assault Hotline and Online Hotline. Your support can help us help the next million.

There are many ways you can volunteer for RAINN — staff a hotline, volunteer at your local rape crisis center, raise money to support programs, and raise awareness through public education efforts like RAINN Day, our college campaign on over 1,000 campuses nationwide.

RAINN Day is RAINN's annual campaign to stop sexual assault on college campuses. In 2009, RAINN Day reached over 1,000,000 students in all 50 states, DC, Puerto Rico, and Canada with information on how to reduce their risk of sexual violence and what to do if they or a friend have been assaulted. Students and volunteers raised awareness through fundraising and educational events, volunteer drives, speakers, petitions, posters, and passing out RAINN Day cards and volunteer handouts.

A RAINNMaker is a person or group of people dedicated to spreading awareness about sexual assault and committed to raising the much needed funds for RAINN to operate and expand its programs and services. Nearly 35% of RAINN's funding comes from supporters like you.

We need your help to ensure the Online Hotline is available 24/7, to maintain the operation and expansion of our programs and services, and to continue to educate over 130 million Americans each year about sexual assault.

Have you run a search online today? Next time you do, use Goodsearch. Pick RAINN as your charity, and we get a penny for every search you do.

Just go to www.goodsearch.com and before you do a search, type RAINN into the "Who do you GoodSearch for?" section. Then click "Verify."

Your online searches can really help. Every little bit counts.

Love to shop? More than 300 retailers, including Amazon, Best Buy and Macy's, will donate a portion of your purchase to RAINN, and it won't cost you a cent.

The only thing you have to do is start your shopping at RAINN's mall. Click on any participating store and shop like you normally would. At the end of each month, the store will send between 1% and 8% of what you spend to RAINN.

It's really that simple— just one extra click and you'll be helping to fund the National Sexual Assault Hotline, without it costing you a cent.

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