Giving Compass' Take:

· After encouragement from actress and activist Alyssa Milano, Global Citizen explains that hundreds of sexual assault survivors are breaking the silence around their attack by using the #WhyIDidntReport hashtag on social media platforms.

· How does this movement give sexual assault survivors the outlet they need to move on? How can funders help to support survivors? 

· Read more about the #MeToo movement and what's to come next.

After the New York Times and New Yorker published shocking reports of decades of sexual harassment allegations against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein last October, actress and activist Alyssa Milano shared a simple hashtag, #MeToo, on Twitter.

Inspired by #MeToo founder Tarana Burke, Milano asked women to share their encounters with sexual harassment in the workplace and to speak out against such abuses and the response was overwhelming.

Recently, Milano did it again, this time sharing that she had been sexually assaulted twice in the past, but never filed a police report and waited 30 years to tell her parents. She invited others to share their reasons for choosing not to report sexual assault and harassment with the hashtag #WhyIDidntReport.

In the few hours since the actress invited sexual assault survivors to break their silence, hundreds of people — both women and men — have already responded.

Read the full article about breaking the silence by Daniele Selby at Global Citizen.