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Nonprofitshoppingmall.com Highlights Sexual Abuse Issues Making Rainn.org Its Default Beneficiary Throughout May

(CSRwire) ANAHEIM, CA - April 30, 2008 - Ecommerce fundraising site nonprofitshoppingmall.com takes on a charged, emotional and difficult topic this month -- rape, sexual abuse and incest. In its interview with actress Christina Ricci, national spokesperson for RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) – the nation’s leading anti-sexual assault organization, nonprofitshoppingmall.com offers an introduction to the staggering numbers associated with these crimes, their ongoing psychological effects and where public policy issues currently stand with respect to reporting, prosecuting and DNA testing.

The timing is especially crucial with schools letting out soon for summer and with graduation holidays just around the corner. According to Scott Berkowitz, president & founder of RAINN, somewhere in America, someone is being sexually assaulted at the alarming rate of every two minutes. Almost half of these victims are under 18 and 80% are under 30. RAINN is the go-to site for first-time freshman going away to college, anyone planning to move out on their own or those getting that first job away from home.

On April 14, 2008, RAINN launched its newest outreach program, a safe, secure, anonymous place for victims to get help online. Using an instant-messaging style format, the National Sexual Assault Online Hotline allows sexual assault victims to communicate directly with trained crisis support volunteers available online 24/7. Together with its tele-based National Sexual Assault Hotline (800.656.HOPE), the organization will be able to provide a lifeline to victims trapped in situations where their only safe and secure link to the outside world may be through the Internet.

Nonprofitshoppingmall.com allows consumers to shop online for the things they would normally buy, from the brands they would normally choose, at the prices they would normally pay. The added benefit is that when a consumer purchases items through nonprofitshoppingmall.com they also make a contribution to RAINN through the month of May.

Nonprofitshoppingmall.com site visitors can choose from over 225 brand-name retailers featuring clothing and accessories, home and garden decor, travel deals, health and beauty products, pet supplies, action sports gear and more.  Retailers include Target, Amazon, Macys, Urban Outfitters, Aeropostale, Staples, PetCo and many others, including a wide range of green and eco-friendly merchants.

In addition to providing support to victims of sexual assault, RAINN.org and their new National Sexual Assault Online Hotline provides information about recovery, medical issues, the criminal justice process, and local resources for family and friends of victims -- help support their goal by shopping through nonprofitshoppingmall.com while turning everyday shopping into everyday giving – everyday.

About nonprofitshoppingmall.com
Nonprofitshoppingmall.com (www.nonprofitshoppingmall.com) allows consumers to shop online for the things they would normally buy, from the brands they would normally choose, at the prices they would normally pay. Shoppers make a donation to charitable organizations with just one click, giving rise to a powerful yet subtle fundraising tool. Nonprofitshoppingmall.com, an E-commerce site where shopping is good for you and everyone else.

About RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network)
RAINN (www.rainn.org) is the nation's largest anti-sexual assault organization and was named one of "America's 100 Best Charities" by Worth magazine. RAINN carries out programs to prevent sexual assault, help victims and ensure that rapists are brought to justice.

For more information please contact:

Corine Couwenberg
Nonprofitshoppingmall.com
(714) 272-4900
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lou vitti    2008-05-06 19:08:01

New York Philharmonic Orchestra –How some members sexually abuse young college girls? The most traumatic experience in my life turned out to how some of the musicians of the NY Philharmonic Orchestra manipulated my wife. They Are: 1.Before we married, the flute player, Musician #1,used emotional/sexual abuse, fear and rape on my wife. I remember sitting in the audience during a master class and suddenly, I was just watching, the police came and escorted me out of the building. He saw me and was looking for sexual conquest, another notch on his belt for getting my wife. During private lessons, he would teach breathing lessons and sexual touch my wife to arouse her. He made her drive 2 hours to New Jersey to his house one night. I was playing a musical show and did not know. I found out many of these events way after they happened. He arrived late and yelled at her for waiting in the car in the street. Inside, he got what he wanted. Another time, he made her drive to Hartford, CT since he was a teacher at Yale University. He was always yelling and angry with her. He used the techniques of emotional abuse, sexual abuse, fear, anger and rape for a promise with a job with the orchestra. What did I get-gonorrhea. He did not recognize. He always told my wife that she was using him to make me jealous, a common technique using blame to abuse. He went in and came out of mental institutions his entire career. When he had sex with my wife, he would get mad and make her leave the house late at night. He was evil. The last time he came out of a mental institution, on the same day, he hung himself on the shower rod. For some reason, I felt a sense of closure and in a weird way was happy. I know many girls from the 70's while I was a music student. They see a psychologist, suffer from PTSD, are depressed and afraid to tell their husbands who do not know since they have children and a marriage. But since that time, he destroyed many girls’ lives and made them go into denial of being raped. It is natural for women to go into this state and try to forget since some are submissive. It is natural for women to go into this pre-PTSD state. 2. Musician #2- During lessons he would try to undress my wife by unbuttoning her shirt to cop a feel and get oral sex. He never succeeded but his wife was in the house. In addition, he came over our house and acted as a friend of mind while behind my back he was trying. My wife was in a state of fear and afraid to tell me. Well, he was an alcoholic and drank himself to death. He was into collecting guns and rifles and I wonder if this had an affect on creating fear. 3. Musician #3- He would invite my wife to NY Philharmonic rehearsals and give her the impression of a job. Then ask my wife to lunch and have a lesson in his Manhattan studio. In his home in Brewster, NY, he would try in his studio the common abuse methods by impressing his students with his playing but he was not a good teacher since he did not know how to teach the methods to achieve these goals in playing. Meanwhile, while he tried, I was waiting in the car outside and his wife was in the house a real low life bas.......d. Today there is one person left. (3 out of 4 have died). What a relief. Anger has left and I wait for God's justice. I contacted many offices and executives of the NY Philharmonic and no one has replied. I consider myself an advocate for this form of rape. Recently, a clarinetist was revealed for doing these pervert actions. The Philharmonic spoke to him; imagine. He should have been taken out with handcuffs during a concert for all to see and for him, be revealed for his actions for the last 30 years. Most people have this pristine look at orchestras and never hear about some of the things mentioned above that go on. If they only knew, I could imagine what they and the press would think. It really is worse than what Elliot Spitzer, ex-Governor of NY did and that was really bad.

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