Help Impact Bay Area Achieve Our Goals
Give Local on #GivingTuesday

Hi Everyone!

As 2014 draws to a close, the students, volunteers, and instructors at Impact Bay Area are sharing our powerful stories in a Giving Tuesday campaign in order to continue our mission to teach effective boundary setting, personal safety, and physical self-defense skills throughout the bay area. Our goal? To raise $20,000 this holiday season.

As you may have heard, last weekend a woman was attacked in the Mission District of San Francisco. She sent an email describing the incident to neighborhood groups and made a police report. She fought her way out of the situation using her strength and courage, and used techniques that are available to all of us. Here are some of the things she did:

My name is Dani, and this is a video taken during the Public Celebration of my first class with Impact. The community that was built up of shared experiences, courage, and raised voices exalting our right to defend ourselves will remain with me for the rest of my life.

I took Basics in 1998, when I was 19 years old. A few years later, I used my Impact skills to defend myself against a man armed with a knife and a dog on an isolated back-country trailhead in Hawaii.

JANE is a narrative feature film slated to begin shooting in Monterey and Carmel next summer. JANE follows an exceptional 15- year-old girl on a healing journey after a high profile sexual assault. JANE gives its audience a chance to root for a young girl who goes through an unfortunately common traumatic event and finds her way back to "standing even."

Alena Schaim is the Executive Director and Instructor with the Santa Fe, New Mexico chapter of Impact Personal Safety. In a recent newsletter, she offered her thoughts on violence and the value of Impact. You can check out Alena's chapter by clicking here. 

I am the mother of two daughters and each of them participated in training with IMPACT Bay Area before they went to college.

Through this class I gained more than just a belief in my ability to protect myself and the knowledge and capability to do it.  I regained the self confidence and sense of freedom I lost that beautiful Southern California evening 20+ years ago -  I got back the ability to joyfully, freely and enthusiastically experience the fun and adventure the world has to offer. In short,  I got back my life.

I’d been meaning to go to IMPACT for years before I actually went. When I looked at the classes online though, something always came up to prevent me from signing up. I’d find out about a local class right after it passed, it was too much money, my ankle was acting up, I didn’t want to do it alone, I was out of shape.