[9] NNEDV participated in the Office on Violence Against Women conferral process, sharing information about VAWA's impact on the field, gaps in the federal response, and challenges and successes of implementation.

As part of this advocacy, NNEDV coordinates and implements a strategic action plan that combines national level work with grasstops and grassroots mobilization around the federal budget.

The National Network to End Domestic Violence has emerged as one of the leading organizations for commonsense firearms legislation, specifically, an improved and expanded background check system.

NNEDV's amicus curiae brief in the case, which outlined the importance of upholding this protection through a common-sense interpretation of the law, was referenced by the Supreme Court.

[16] In February 2013, the National Network to End Domestic Violence signed onto an amicus curiae brief filed in the case Commonwealth v. Claybrook.

The advocates' amicus brief argued that the Superior Court's decision was based on misconceptions and myths about sexual assault, including the victim's supposed insufficient resistance, which was long ago removed as a requirement in Pennsylvania.

[18] The case of Cromartie v. RCM involved a woman who was fired for allegedly allowing her abusive partner to enter the work site in violation of workplace rules.

The advocates amicus brief argues that her allowing her partner onto the worksite was not truly voluntary but was rather a product of the pattern of coercion and power exerted by her abuser and characteristic of domestic violence.

This census takes into account the dangerous nature of domestic violence by using a survey designed to protect the confidentiality and safety of victims.

[20] The tenth annual census report conducted on September 16, 2015, had a 93% participation rate among identified local domestic violence in the United States and territories.

In 2013, NNEDV was able to present its curriculum to the President’s Working Group on the Intersection of HIV/AIDS, Violence against Women and Girls, and Gender-Related Health Disparities.

[25] In 2015 the Positively Safe project launched a toolkit for domestic violence and HIV/AIDS service providers, with resources on safety planning, linkage to retention in care, conversation guides, and more.

WomensLaw was founded in February 2000 by a group of lawyers, teachers, advocates and web designers interested in using the Internet to educate survivors of domestic violence about their legal rights and ways to get help.

[27] On February 8, 2006, the National Network to End Domestic Violence's staff member Cindy Southworth testified before the Senate Consumer Affairs, Product Safety, and Insurance subcommittee.

"[28] On June 4, 2014, Southworth, representing both the National Network to End Domestic Violence and the Minnesota Council for Battered Women, testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law.

In one picture, under the section advertising the importance of catching cheating spouses, a man stands holding a woman's arm tightly while her face shows clear abrasions.

[31] Past presidents of the National Network to End Domestic Violence include Kim Gandy (former vice president of the Feminist Majority Foundation in Virginia),[32] Congresswoman Donna Edwards,[33] Sue Else[34] (current CEO of Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia[35]), and Lynn Rosenthal (former White House Advisor on Violence Against Women).

[36] Cindy Southworth served as Executive Vice President until joining Facebook as Women’s Safety Policy Manager in July 2020.