The Milligan Foundation

This organization started out as everything else does, as an idea. The idea started in 1998 when the founder, a domestic violence survivor herself, arrived at her forth shelter after spending two years running. She heard many stories while sitting in group sessions with other survivors. Dozens of stories about sleeping on the street, hitchhiking for rides, asking bus drives to ride for free, and many days spent walking. All of these things done usually with small children in tow. All of these things done in an effort to leave violence and get to a shelter. But she also heard some of the frustration from the shelters who wanted to help get these women and children off the street. Cases where the only help a shelter or county program could give was $3 in bus fare for a family of 4 trying to go 50 miles away, not enough gas for the shelter minivan to go more than 10 miles to pick someone up, or no resources at all to help someone trying to get to them. She learned that the long walk from violence to freedom could be literal.

The Milligan Foundation provides a nationwide transportation resource for people who are in immediate need of relocation and housing, due to life threatening danger from domestic violence. We accomplish our mission by providing bus, train, and air tickets, and personal point to point escort with trained security professionals. Our goal is to be able to facilitate a move of location to a safe place anywhere within the United States. Our services are called upon by shelters, police departments, county social services, and hospitals. Our motto is we will move anyone, anywhere, anytime.