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As part of its longtime fight to help end domestic violence, Mary Kay Inc. has teamed up with Amanda Bynes and non-profit partner Break the Cycle to raise awareness and end teen dating violence
Amanda Bynes, Mary Kay Inc. and Break the Cycle visited Oscar De La Hoya Animo Charter High School in Los Angeles to talk with students about ways to create healthy relationships and prevent and end teen dating violence
Amanda Bynes helped Mary Kay Inc. and Break the Cycle launch a national online campaign - www.enddatingviolence.com - petitioning lawmakers nationwide to make domestic violence prevention awareness mandatory in schools
Currently only Texas and Rhode Island require domestic violence prevention as part of public school curriculum
Bynes to lead online effort as first to sign petition
Mary Kay Inc. encourages individuals to log on to www.enddatingviolence.com and support teen dating violence prevention and awareness programs in schools nationwide
One in four eighth and ninth grade students have been victims of domestic violence according to the Family Violence Prevention Fund
Department of justice consistently finds that girls between the ages of 16 and 24 experience the highest rate of intimate partner violence
As many as one in three teenagers will deal with physical, sexual, verbal or emotional abuse in a relationship and two-thirds of them will never report it to anyone (Teen Dating Abuse Survey, TRU 2005)
Ending Violence DVD
Mary Kay Inc. has sponsored Break the Cycle's groundbreaking, interactive DVD, which puts Break the Cycle's teen dating violence prevention program into a multi-media format and expands the organization's ability to inform teens about how to build and sustain healthier and happier relationships
The Ending Violence interactive DVD will be available to schools nationwide in January 2009
Interested youth, parents and educators may visit www.breakthecycle.org for more information
Mary Kay Inc. - Global Commitment to Bettering Lives
As part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative, Pink Changing Lives(SM), Mary Kay Inc. and its subsidiaries have a long history of philanthropic commitments at the local and national levels, including:
The Beauty That Counts(TM) campaign: Mary Kay Inc. will donate more than $1.5 million from the 2008 worldwide sale of Beauty that Counts(TM) Mary Kay(R) Creme Lipstick in Apple Berry to causes that change the lives of women and children around the world - As part of this effort, amounts raised in the U.S. will, in part, go to Break the Cycle, to be used in their work to address domestic violence -The promotion continues through December 31, 2008
Since 2000, the Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation has awarded more than $18 million to domestic violence prevention programs and $15 million of that has gone to women's shelters across the country - the Foundation awarded $20,000 grants, totaling $3 million, to 150 shelters in all 50 states each year from 2005 to 2008
Mary Kay Inc. and the Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation underwrote two groundbreaking documentaries on domestic violence: "Breaking the Silence" and "Breaking the Silence: Children's Stories"
Mary Kay actively lobbied Congress in favor of the Violence Against Women Act in 1995, for its reauthorization in 2005 and subsequent appropriations
As part of its partnership with the Country Music Association Awards in 2007 and 2008, Mary Kay Inc. sponsored "A Kiss for Country," a kissable campaign dedicated to ending domestic violence through the powerful puckers of celebrities
Since 1997, the Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation, with support from Mary Kay Inc., has funded nearly $6 million toward research grants to fight cancers affecting women
Together, Mary Kay Russia and the independent sales force raised funds to support Operation Smile, a nonprofit organization known for lending highly qualified surgical assistance to children who are born with facial deformities - Mary Kay Russia also supports KidSave, an organization that works with communities worldwide to get older, overlooked children out of orphanages and foster care and into permanent, loving families
Mary Kay Inc. has made extensive financial contributions toward Hurricanes Katrina and Rita relief, including $5 million in cash donations, in-kind and product donations
The Company joined forces with Habitat for Humanity(R) to sponsor six houses to help families become first-time homeowners
Since 2001, Mary Kay Mexico has helped create, construct and operate numerous domestic violence shelters for women throughout the country - In May 2007, Mary Kay Mexico donated 1 million pesos to this cause - So far, the resources donated through the DAR Program (Give Love and Hope) have created seven of the 40 shelters that exist in Mexico - In these shelters, more than 1,200 families and more than 10,000 women have received legal and psychological assistance
Employees at Mary Kay Germany raised funds for the German Cancer Foundation, SOS Kinderdorf (Help for Children in Need) and distributed information packets to cancer patients at more than 60 clinics around the country
The primary focus of Mary Kay Kazakhstan's charitable activities is to provide aid to orphans and sick children - For the past seven years, Mary Kay Kazakhstan has been a supporter of local orphanages, providing equipment and much-needed supplies - Recently, the independent sales force joined Mary Kay Kazakhstan in a project to raise money for children with infantile cerebral paralysis and provide surgeries for children with limited auditory abilities
Mary Kay China established the Mary Kay Women's Small Business Fund in 2001, which offers a zero-interest, one-year loan designed to help unemployed and underprivileged women establish their own small businesses
In cooperation with the All-China Women's Federation, Mary Kay China and the independent sales force supported the Spring Bud Project to provide access to school for female children living in poverty - and funded scholarships at Peking and Zhejiang universities for female students from impoverished families
For more information on Mary Kay Inc., please visit www.marykay.com.
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