Pandora's Project is 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides support to survivors of sexual assault

Sexual assault

Sexual assault is an assault of a sexual nature on another person, or any sexual act committed without consent. Although sexual assaults most frequently are by a man on a woman, it may involve any combination of two or more men, women and children....

. It provides a lending library,support forum, healing retreats, and other resources to survivors and their supporters and is entirely volunteer run. The support forum, Pandora's Aquarium, has 20,000 registered members. Shannon Lambert, Pandora's Project founder, has been recognized for her work on the project as a 2009 L'Oreal

L'Oréal

The L'Oréal Group is the world's largest cosmetics and beauty company. With its registered office in Paris and head office in the Paris suburb of Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France, it has developed activities in the field of cosmetics...

 Women of Worth honoree, earning a $25,000 grant for the nonprofit . She was also recognized as a Daily Point of Light Award recipient through the Points of Light Institute

Points of Light Institute

The Points of Light Institute is a national nonprofit, nonpartisan organization in the United States of America dedicated to engaging more people and resources in solving serious social problems...

 and featured alongside Tori Amos

Tori Amos

Tori Amos is an American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer. She was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument...

on the American news magazine show [20/20].

External Links

http://www.pandorasproject.org

http://www.pandys.org/forums

http://www.sexualassaultlibrary.org/