V-DAY is a global movement to stop violence against women and girls, founded 11 years ago by activist/playwright Eve Ensler. V-Day is a catalyst that promotes creative events to increase awareness, raise money and revitalize the spirit of existing anti-violence organizations. V-Day generates broader attention to the fight to stop violence against women and girls, including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation and sexual slavery.

Through V-Day campaigns, local volunteers and college students produce annual benefit performances of The Vagina Monologues and A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayerto raise awareness and funds for anti-violence groups within their own communities. This year, the new play Any One Of Us: Words From Prison becomes the third V-Day production. In 2008, over 3000 V-Day benefit events took place produced by volunteer activists around the world, educating millions of people about the reality of violence against women and girls. Performance is just the beginning. V-Day stages large-scale benefits and produces innovative gatherings, films and campaigns to educate and change social attitudes towards violence against women, including the documentary Until the Violence Stops.

In Africa, the Middle East and Asia, V-Day commits ongoing support to build movements and anti-violence networks. Working with local organizations, V-Day provided hard-won funding that helped open the first shelters for women in Egypt and Iraq. It sponsored annual workshops and three national campaigns in Afghanistan, convened the "Confronting Violence" conference of South Asian women leaders, and donated satellite-phones to Afghan women to keep lines of communication open and action plans moving forward. Through the Karama progam based out of Cairo, V-Day works in-depth to build networks ending violence against women and girls in Egypt, Sudan, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. V-Day is now a staunch financial supporter of Panzi Hospital in the Congo, where victims of sexual violence turn be repaired both physically and psychologically.

The V-Day movement is growing at a rapid pace throughout the world, in 90 countries from Europe to Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, and all of North America. V-Day, a non-profit corporation, distributes funds to grassroots, national and international organizations and programs that work to stop violence against women and girls. In 2001, V-Day was named one of Worth Magazine's "100 Best Charities" and in 2006 one of Marie Claire Magazine’s Top Ten Charities. V-Day celebrated its 10th Anniversary in 2008. In its first decade, this grassroots organization has raised over $45 million.