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Winter 1975: Activist and community leader Ellen Spangler spots an old house for sale in Springfield while on a bike ride with friends.

February 1976: The Jacksonville Women’s Movement (JWM) purchases a house on Hubbard Street to serve as a shelter for abused women.

November 1976: The shelter, now called Hubbard House, opens its doors.

April 1978: Hubbard House purchases a second house on Duval Street to provide additional shelter for victims and their families.

1979: The children’s program is introduced, providing therapeutic child care for shelter residents.

July 1981: Hubbard House launches the First Step Program, one of the first intervention programs in the country for batterers.

1985: Hubbard House opens its first thrift store on Edgewood Ave.

1988: In partnership with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office and the State Attorney’s Office, Hubbard House inaugurates the Domestic Violence Intervention Project (DVIP), which improves the criminal justice response to better protect victims and hold abusers accountable.

1991: The auxiliary organization, Friends of Hubbard House, is formed to increase community awareness of domestic violence and to raise funds for Hubbard House services.

1992: Hubbard House in partnership with ADT Security Systems and the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office begins Abused Women’s Active Response Emergency (AWARE). This program provides abused women with emergency necklace pendants that signaled silent alarms for immediate police assistance.

1995: Hubbard House’s annual breakfast is named The Barbara Ann Campbell Memorial Breakfast in memory of Jacksonville’s former Mayor Jake Godbold’s sister-in-law, who was killed by her husband earlier that year.

1997: Hubbard House opens its new state-of-the-art facility built by the Jacksonville community through a $4.6 million capital campaign.

1999: The Men Against Violence Against Women (MAVAW) initiative is launched to help create social change by talking to men about ending all forms of violence toward women.

2000: In a partnership with the city of Jacksonville and the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, Hubbard House initiates Intimate Violence Enhanced Services Team (INVEST) to help reduce domestic violence homicides and to hold perpetrators accountable. By 2002, intimate homicide had dropped by 63 percent.

2005: The Super Bowl XXXIX Host Committee selects Hubbard House as the official charity of record for the annual Legends for Charity luncheon and auction. The event raises more than $ 200,000 for the shelter.

2006: Michael and Terry Ward make the largest single private gift in Hubbard House history when they donate $2.5 million helping pave the way with other longtime supporters for the creation of The Hubbard House Foundation.

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