title: ALLY Foundation
text: # ALLY Foundation
  
  The ALLY Foundation is an American 501(c)(3), not-for-profit organization based in Boston, Massachusetts, concerned with sexual violence.
  
  The ALLY Foundation was founded in December 2002 by Andrea Casanova and Steven Stiles in memory of their murdered daughter and step daughter, Alexandra Zapp ("Ally"). Ally was murdered on July 18, 2002, by convicted sex offender Paul Leahy in a Burger King restroom on her drive home to Newport, Rhode Island.
  
  