You matter…and not just in theory, but in practice.
Survivors deserve more than being included.
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Our Mission
Tending the Garden is a nonprofit organization creating opportunities for education, healing, connection, and community for survivors of sexual assault, with particular attention to those too often overlooked.
There is no one way to experience survivorship and no universal timeline for healing. Our work is about offering spaces, resources, and opportunities for survivors to explore what they need on their own terms.
Tending the Garden is a survivor-centered nonprofit focused specifically on survivors of sexual assault and sexual trauma, particularly communities consistently overlooked or marginalized in survivor-support spaces.
Our six intentionally centered populations are:
Women of Color
Cisgender Men
Transgender and Nonbinary Survivors
Sex Workers
Disabled Survivors
College-Aged Adults (18–25)
Our work is grounded in social justice, equity, compassionate care, sexual autonomy, sex positivity, and survivor-centered healing.
Black Women
For every Black woman who reports rape, at least 15 Black women do not report.¹
Experience Long-term trauma
Approximately 70% of rape or sexual assault victims experience moderate to severe distress, a larger percentage than for any other violent crime.²
Transgender adults in the US
1 in 2 transgender people experience sexual violence.³
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What started as an idea for a retreat has grown into years of education, conversations, creative experiences, and community-building.
Tending the Garden's work has taken different forms over the years, but our focus remains the same: making room for sexual assault survivors whose experiences are too often overlooked.
Our history matters because this work did not begin with an app. The Garden is another way we're continuing it.
Education & Workshops
Summits & Conversations
Community & Connection
Creative & Awareness Programming
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Join the cause
We want Tending the Garden to be a space for survivors to heal from their trauma and find community of support and respect. Ultimately, everything we offer would function free of cost for attendees and operate entirely off of donations and grants. All people have a right to access care and support, money should not be a barrier to healing. At this time we are not fully funded but we do our best to offer sliding scale pricing and sponsored spots whenever possible for our workshops and events.
It is our mission to provide everything free of cost as we believe that financial situation and socio-economic status should not be a barrier to attending these retreats. A great way to help is by making a donation to get us closer to this mission.
