SOAR was founded in 2021 to break down silos and unify a national movement.
Catalyzed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the shadow pandemic of gender-based violence, and the racial uprisings in 2020, SOAR was founded to address the urgent need for collaboration, unity, and innovation. Together, community-based organizations and leaders asked: how can we work together to ensure the livelihoods of survivors, staff, and organizations?
Over the next few months, SOAR’s co-founders along with organizations across the country, co-created its mission, vision, and guiding principles that became the foundation of a collective forum to convene survivors, organizations, and allies.
Within months, SOAR launched, establishing a collective, national movement for joy, healing, and justice in the South Asian diaspora. By mid-2021, SOAR had already grown from four organizations to a force of thirty organizations across America.
MISSION
Our mission is to grow survivor and collective power to transform the culture and systems that lead to violence.
Building survivor leadership
By providing survivors the tools and platform for leadership, we ensure that their voices and lived experiences are centered in solutions.
Strengthening the field
Through peer learning and training across our network of 30+ organizations, we strengthen and evolve our approaches to addressing and preventing violence.
We unify a collective voice and agenda to advocate for the intersecting and diverse needs of South Asian survivors and communities.
Shifting the narrative
VISION