Grantees
2009 Tides Foundation Reproductive Justice Fund Grantees
 Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT) |
 Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice (ACRJ) |
 California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative |
 California Latinas for Reproductive Justice (CLRJ) |
 Choice USA |
 Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights (COLOR) |
 Faith Aloud |
Generations Ahead |
 Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health (ICAH) |
 Legal Services for Prisoners with Children (LSPC) |
 Migrant Health Promotion |
 National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW) |
 National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum (NAPAWF) |
 National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health |
 Native American Community Board (NACB) |
 Rebecca Project for Human Rights (RPHR) |
 SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health |
 SPARK Reproductive Justice Now |
 Western States Center |
 West Virginia Focus: Reproductive Education and Equality (WV Free) |
 Young Women United |
2008 Tides Foundation Reproductive Justice Fund Grantees
- Alaska Community Action - $50,000
- Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice - $330,000*
- CA Healthy Nail Salons Collaborative - $20,000
- CA Latinas for Reproductive Justice - $50,000
- Choice USA - $230,000*
- Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights - $30,000
- Different Avenues - $20,000
- Faith Aloud - $20,000
- Generations Ahead - $40,000
- Idaho Women's Network - $40,000
- Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health - $25,000
- Legal Services for Prisoners with Children - $30,000
- MetroTeenAIDS - $30,000
- Migrant Health Promotion - $30,000
- National Advocates for Pregnant Women - $50,000
- National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum - $25,000
- National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health - $35,000
- Native American Community Board - $40,000
- Rebecca Project for Human Rights - $70,000
- SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective - $290,000*
- SPARK Reproductive Justice Now (formerly Georgians for Choice ) - $55,000
- Western States Center - $35,000
- West Virginia Focus: Reproductive Education and Equality (WV Free) - $40,000
- Women's Voices for the Earth - $30,000
- Young Women United - $35,000
* Grants to Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice, ChoiceUSA and SisterSong were done in partnership with Tides Reproductive Justice Fund donors and the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
2007 Tides Foundation Reproductive Justice Fund Grantees
| Geographic Focus | Organization Name Organization Description |
Grant Amount |
| Alaska | Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT) Led by Native American women, ACAT’s Alaska Environmental Reproductive Justice Project (AERJP) works through public education, grassroots organizing and advocacy to change public policy regarding environmental contaminants that are linked to involuntary infertility, premature births and infant health — the major reproductive justice concerns of the Indigenous people of the state. ACAT has blocked pesticide use by Alaska railroads, stopped the timber industry from spraying herbicides on areas farmed by the Haida Nation and organized tribal participation in the Stockholm Convention, a global treaty which banned 12 persistent organic pollutants. After convening a diversity of social justice organizations to build a common analysis in 2007, in 2008, ACAT will organize the state’s first Reproductive Justice Forum at which key reproductive issues will be discussed and campaign strategies formulated. |
$35,000 |
| California | Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice (ACRJ) ACRJ’s work includes two components: local and state-level community organizing and national movement building. Locally, ACRJ develops the leadership of low-income, young Asian women (ages 14-21) from immigrant families through an intensive organizer training program and through youth and worker-led campaigns that address the reproductive health impacts of chemical exposure — particularly in the rapidly growing, and almost entirely Vietnamese, nail salon industry. At the state level ACRJ was critical to the defeat of Prop 85, a parental notification initiative. Nationally, ACRJ is a trusted leader, and recently partnered with several leading RJ organizations to launch EMERJ — a movement building initiative to grow and strengthen the U.S. RJ movement. |
$70,000 |
| California | California Latinas for Reproductive Justice (CLRJ) CLRJ is a Latina-led statewide policy and advocacy organization working to advance California Latinas’ reproductive health and rights within a social justice and human rights framework. CLRJ accomplishes this through targeted, culturally-based policy advocacy, coalition-building, community education and strategic communications strategies. CLRJ’s outreach to the Latino community in the fight to defeat Proposition 85, was critical to the margin of victory in this campaign. CLRJ is also a leading force for comprehensive sexuality education in California schools and a key resource for training and support for Latinas organizing in the central, more rural areas of the state. |
$50,000 |
| National | Center for Genetics and Society (CGS) The Gender, Justice and Human Genetics Program (the Program) of CGS is building a broad base of support for socially just uses of reproductive and genetic technologies to avoid eugenic outcomes and the commercialization of human life. It partners with diverse social justice movements (including movements for reproductive health, rights, and justice; human rights; disability rights; LGBT rights; and racial justice) to frame and develop an intersectional, multi-movement approach to reproductive and genetic technologies and to expand each movement’s capacity to participate in the debate. The Program provides tools for social justice groups to weigh in on policy debates that have been dominated by those who advocate for new commercial eugenics, and by corporations looking to develop and market species-altering technologies to those who can afford them. |
$40,000 |
| National | Choice USA (CUSA) Choice USA is a national, youth-led, pro-choice organization working to mobilize and sustain the involvement and leadership of young people in the reproductive rights movement. Dedicated to “the right of each person to decide if and when they will have sex, become pregnant and have a child,” Choice USA works through 40 college and high school campus affiliates in 18 states to support student-led campaigns for accurate reproductive information and safe, accessible reproductive health services. Choice USA has a base of 625 young organizers and leaders who represent another 10,000 young people across the country. It engages its affiliates through trainings and on-site technical assistance, and links campus-based campaigns to a national policy agenda. This agenda is focused on addressing the rise of Crisis Pregnancy Centers and the targeting of students for egg donation. |
$30,000 |
| Colorado | Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity (COLOR) COLOR is a grassroots organization that is building a base of young Latina advocates for reproductive justice. As the only reproductive rights organization in Colorado led by and for Latinas, COLOR sits at an important intersection among Colorado’s pro-choice, immigrant rights, and “progressive” sectors. Working to build common values and stronger alliances around racial and gender justice. COLOR takes a values-based, multi-issue approach to reproductive health and justice to address the root causes of health disparities, lack of life choices, and obstacles to self-determination. COLOR trains young Latinas through after school programs and supports their involvement in policy campaigns and in state-level civic engagement around key RJ-related initiatives. |
$30,000 |
| Washington D.C. | Different Avenues (DA) DA is a Washington D.C.-based service and organizing collective that promotes harm reduction and supports formal and informal sex workers to organize for their rights. Its direct services encompass violence prevention services and support groups offered at its drop in center, and outreach conducted at indoor sex work venues such as exotic dance clubs and trick houses and online. Its organizing work supports sex workers to oppose and dismantle local laws that criminalize sex work and to participate in national and international coalitions working to transform more far reaching laws and regulations. DA’s constituency is 85 percent African American, and 10 percent Latino, and includes equal numbers of trans male and female persons. DA was instrumental in moving the D.C. government to add “gender-identity and expression” to the DC Human Rights Act, which serves as the local non-discrimination code. |
$20,000 |
| Georgia | Georgians for Choice (GfC) GFC is a statewide coalition committed to attaining and protecting reproductive freedom. GfC builds the collective strength of an RJ movement in Georgia and the South by engaging its 46 member organizations and 1600 individual members in networking, direct action protest, lobbying and educational activities. It is an information clearinghouse for its members and provides technical assistance on organizational development, fundraising, campaign strategy, and access to meeting space and office equipment. GfC’s impressive track record includes a key role in the passage of the 1999 Prescriptive Equity Act requiring birth control to be treated like other prescription medication, and recent victories to make Emergency Contraception available at Georgia public heath clinics, and at Kroger drug stores (one of the nation's largest grocery and pharmaceutical retailers) which had previously refused to fill EC prescription requests. |
$60,000 |
| Idaho | Idaho Women’s Network Education Fund (IWN) With 33 organizational members and 400 individual members, IWN is Idaho’s oldest and largest women-led human rights organization. Through grassroots organizing, advocacy, education, and policy work, IWN takes a multi-issue approach to social change that links the rights of women, low-income people, immigrants, and the LGBT community. IWN turned back efforts to create a “new crime”: a felony offense of being pregnant and ingesting a controlled substance; and helped ensure that federal Medicaid funds cover 90 percent of family planning services to eligible women and men. IWN is currently leading campaigns to support access to emergency contraception, comprehensive sex education and community-based drug abuse treatment for pregnant women. It will also work to pass a statewide Mercury Reduction Act (to reduce negative reproductive health outcomes of mercury exposure), to improve childcare safety regulations, and to oppose a constitutional ban on same sex marriage. |
$30,000 |
| Chicago | Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health (ICAH) ICAH promotes a positive approach to adolescent sexual health, through youth leadership development, youth and adult training programs, and policy analysis, development and advocacy. It’s advocacy is bolstered by a core of youth that help to shape and lead campaigns. Last year, ICAH, in partnership with Planned Parenthood and other allies, scored a tremendous victory, winning comprehensive sexuality education in all Chicago Public Schools. ICAH is now leading the remaining work of the campaign, including teacher training and school organizing. In this capacity, over the next two years, ICAH is poised to contribute to the field of sex education through crafting a national model of a comprehensive, sustainable and diverse delivery system that promotes responsible approaches to sex education both inside and outside school systems. |
$25,000 |
| Long Beach, CA | Khmer Girls In Action (KGA) Led by young, low-income, Southeast Asian women, KGA uses leadership development, community organizing, and cultural expression to empower the Cambodian and Southeast Asian community of Long Beach, California, to challenge systems and institutions that are not accountable to immigrant/refugee needs. Long Beach is home to 60,000 Cambodians, the largest population outside of Cambodia. Last year, KGA mobilized its membership and their peers to provide a youth-of-color voice to the statewide campaign to defeat Proposition 85. In the coming year, its youth members (ages 14-21) will carry out participatory action research to inform campaign development. Of particular interest is the intersection between immigrant and reproductive rights, particularly how deportation policies and practices effect the community’s access to health care and undermine the ability to raise intact families. |
$20,000 |
| California | Legal Services for Prisoners with Children (LSPC) Led by formerly incarcerated persons, LSPCV organizes and advocates for the human rights and empowerment of incarcerated parents, children, family members and people at risk for incarceration. LSPC believes that our country’s growing dependence on incarceration as a solution to social problems has resulted in a critical health crisis in the communities most affected by this trend: low-income communities of color. LSPC defines RJ for incarcerated women as the right to determine if and when they will have children and under what circumstances, the right to a healthy outcome to a pregnancy (including, but not limited to, the right to end an unwanted pregnancy), and the right to a continuing relationship with their children. Tides RJ Fund support for the Mothering from Behind the Wall (MBW) project will support efforts to improve the conditions of women and children in California’s Community Prisoner Mother Program, a limited program that enables incarcerated mothers to live with their young children in small, community facilities LSPC launched. MBW in 2007 after receiving numerous complaints from mothers inside these facilities about inadequate food, supplies and health care for themselves and their children. |
$20,000 |
| Washington D.C. | Metro TeenAIDS (MTA) MTA is a local community health organization created to support young people—primarily low-income (approximately 87 percent African American, 10 percent Latino, seven percent Asian and three percent White) youth in underserved communities—in the fight against HIV/AIDS and for comprehensive sexual education. In the Washington D.C. area, where youth HIV rates are rising more rapidly than any others, MTA is the only organization focusing on HIV/AIDS prevention and reproductive health advocacy among youth. MTA’s public policy efforts, focus on reforming an outdated sexual health curriculum and current HIV/AIDS policies within D.C. public schools. Youth engagement and leadership development are the hallmarks of MTA’s approach, and include peer education, direct service provision, coalition advocacy, and grassroots organizing. By mobilizing a broad base of youth of color, their parents, communities, and allies, MTA has won comprehensive sex ed for D.C. public schools and convinced the D.C. Board of Education to establish an Ad-Hoc Committee on HIV/AIDS. |
$30,000 |
| Missouri | Missouri Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (MORCRC) MORCRC invokes the moral power of religious communities to guarantee reproductive choice through education and advocacy. It gives voice to the reproductive issues of people of color, those living in poverty, and other underserved populations through training congregations to provide comprehensive and culturally appropriate sex education; training young people to advocate for themselves in their schools and legislature; offering all-options choice and reproductive loss counseling; and providing young people with opportunities to develop leadership, grass roots organizing and advocacy skills. Missouri removed comprehensive sex ed from its public schools throughout the state in 2007 and conservative legislators now want to limit teens’ access to contraceptives and information. As of August 28, 2007, only one abortion provider remains in Missouri and anyone who helps a teen travel to another state to obtain an abortion can be prosecuted. Tides RJ Fund will support the Spiritual Youth for Reproductive Freedom program in youth-led work with students and young adults to fight for greater access to contraception. |
$20,000 |
| National | National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW) NAPW is a national intermediary organization working for the civil rights, health and welfare of pregnant and parenting women. It is the only national organization whose mission is to build bridges between the pro-choice movement and the growing maternity/birth with dignity movement. Focusing primarily on low-income women, women of color, and drug-using women, NAPW uses legal advocacy, local and national engagement with organizations and individuals, strategic communications, and policy development to ensure that: women do not lose their constitutional and human rights as a result of pregnancy; addiction is addressed as a health issue, not a crime; pregnant and parenting women have access to a full range of reproductive health services and non-punitive drug treatment services; and families are not needlessly separated. In 2007, NAPW’s National Summit was one of the most diverse gatherings ever to address issues concerning reproductive health, rights, and justice, the summit drew over 300 maternal, birthing, and reproductive rights/justice activists along with social justice activists, legal and policy experts, and healthcare providers from 60 organizations and 37 states, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Canada. It succeeded in detoxifying the divisive abortion debate; and creating a larger, broader, more inclusive, and more easily activated RJ movement. NAPW will now work to forge working alliances among these partners, for policy change. |
$50,000 |
| National | National Asian Pacific Women’s Forum (NAPWF) NAPAWF is the only national, multi-issue advocacy organization dedicated to advancing social and reproductive justice for API women and girls. NAPAWF has nine chapters in Seattle, Los Angeles, Sacramento, the Bay Area, St. Cloud, MN, New York City, Washington, DC, Chicago and Yale University and is active on six college campuses in California. With a local presence and a voice with Congress in D.C. NAPWF injects an API perspective on reproductive justice into local and national health policy debates. NAPAWF has prioritized the need to fully engage its members in local and state reproductive justice advocacy campaigns. To do so, NAPAWF has developed a new Members’ Capacity Building Initiative (MCBI), which, over the next two years, will develop and launch a new organizing and advocacy skill-building training for its chapters. |
$20,000 |
| National | National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (NLIRH) NLIRH works to ensure the fundamental human right to reproductive health for Latinas, their families and their communities through public education, policy advocacy, and community mobilization. Latinas have had very limited access to the institutions and officials responsible for setting and implementing polices that directly affect them. For this reason, NLIRH is committed to serving as an advocacy engine or vehicle through which Latinas can voice their concerns and demands. A bottom-up, grass tops organization, NLIRH build the capacity of many local and state-based Latina-led reproductive justice organizations and helps link their work to a national strategy that amplifies their core priorities with Congress and in the national policy arena. NLIRH is currently involved in three campaigns: Basta! 30 Years is Enough: Repeal Hyde; Immigration Reform: A Matter of Reproductive Justice, and Contraceptive Equity. |
$20,000 |
| National | National Radio Project (NRP) NRP offers public affairs and news programs to non-commercial radio stations without charge, via satellite, DVD and Internet, as well as to educational institutions and community organizations. NRP’s Women’s Desk seeks support to produce two new RJ-focused documentaries for its weekly program Making Contact, that would engage five grassroots RJ organizations in framing the issues, telling their stories, and distributing and evaluating the documentaries. Across 38 states, 200 stations broadcast NRP’s weekly program Making Contact (12 Native-American-owned, 34 National Public Radio, 86 Pacifica, and 66 college stations) to 65,000 listeners. NRP’s website gets 381,809 hits per month, 15,711 of them unique hits, along with 6,856 MP3 downloads of its latest show. Additionally, 15,400 podcast subscribers get each week’s show delivered directly to their computers. NRP would boost distribution of these shows beyond its weekly Making Contact stations, to broadcast on Public Radio Exchange, the NPR Content Depot system and Pacifica Network’s satellite, as well as through many podcast clearinghouses. A permanent webpage will be created for each documentary, including photos and links to the groups featured, along with those who provided pre-production input. |
$20,000 |
| South Dakota & National | Native American Community Board (NACB) Formed in 1985 by Native Americans living on or near the Yankton Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota, NACB addresses health issues pertinent to Native communities through cultural preservation, education, coalition building, and environmental and natural resource protection, while working toward a safe community for women and children at the local, national and international levels. NACB’s Indigenous Women’s Reproductive Justice Program has laid the groundwork for a strong campaign to change Indian Health Services (IHS) policies and practices. Its documentation of IHS abuses were recently highlighted in an Amnesty International study and its organizing has formed a coalition of more than 20 organizations, including the ACLU, National Abortion Federation, National Congress of American Indians, and the American Indian Law Alliance, that will expand in the coming year to include urban Native health and environmental organizations, along with tribes and organizations in the Midwest, Southwest and Eastern United States. In the coming year, this coalition will work to compel IHS to provide women with legal access to abortion, adopt standardized emergency room policies and protocols for survivors of sexual assault, and modify its approval process to allow hospital personnel to appear in court in a timely manner. |
$40,000 |
| New Mexico | New Mexico Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (NMRCRC) NMRCRC works to ensure reproductive choice through the moral power of religious communities. New Mexico has the third highest teen-pregnancy rate in the nation. While Latinas make up 44 percent of the state’s female population, they account for 61 percent of all teen births. NMRCRC seeks to transform this scenario with a comprehensive sexuality education program carried out in partnership with the New Mexico Teen Pregnancy Coalition (NMTPC). NMRCRC will implement a comprehensive, faith-based, medically accurate sexuality education curriculum within four predominantly Latino congregations of 50-100 people each: two in Albuquerque and two in Dona Ana county. It will increase the diversity of its staff and board to reflect this new constituency and connect its program to statewide advocacy efforts for comprehensive sex ed. |
$15,000 |
| National | Rebecca Project for Human Rights (RPHR) The Rebecca Project for Human Rights (RPHR) is a national legal and policy organization that advocates for the human and reproductive rights of women and families in recovery. RPHR challenges the aggressive sentencing of mothers who commit non-violent crimes while suffering from addiction, and advocates for treatment instead of prison time so that mothers may remain with their children and heal together as a family. Led by mothers in recovery in ten state chapters, RPHR strives to create opportunities for their agency and leadership on the local, state and national level to change child welfare, criminal justice, reproductive health and substance abuse policies. RPHR’s victories include ending the practice of shackling pregnant women during labor in all federal and state prisons nationwide; amending Arkansas’ Garret’s Law to halt the automatic placement of a mother on the child maltreatment registry if she or her infant tested positive for illegal drugs at the time of delivery; and passage of The Child and Family Improvement Services Act of 2006, which secured $145 million over five years in mandated child welfare funding for family treatment services for low-income substance abusing parents who come to the attention of child welfare services. |
$40,000 |
| National | Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC) RCRC brings the moral power of religious communities to the struggle of protecting reproductive choice. The coalition now includes 41 national religious organizations from 15 denominations and faith traditions; 28 RCRC affiliates; and nearly 16,000 individual members. It plays a key role in countering messages from the religious right, which has successfully used religion and faith to gain support for laws and policies restricting women’s reproductive rights. La Iniciativa Latina (LIL), an initiative for Latino clergy, laity and youth, assists Latino communities in addressing human sexuality from a faith-informed perspective. With support from the Tides RJ Fund, LIL advances this goal through education, training, and open forums on a range of subjects including comprehensive sexuality education and HIV/AIDS, from a religious perspective that reflects an understanding of Latino culture. It will educate immigrant women (without regard to legal status) about reproductive health issues thereby helping to reduce health disparities and improve healthcare access; and build the civic participation of its constituency. |
$30,000 |
| Regional (10 Western States) | Western States Center (WSC) WSC works to build a progressive movement for social, economic, racial, and environmental justice in the eight western states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada and Alaska. WSC works on three levels: strengthening grassroots organizing and community-based leadership; building long-term, strategic alliances among community, environmental, labor, social justice and other public interest organizations; and developing the capacity of informed communities to participate in the public policy process and in elections. The Family, Community, and Sexuality Project (FCS) was launched to counter the Right’s systematic and concerted use of these “hot button” issues, as a tool to push a conservative policy agenda with negative consequences for women, people of color, low-income people, young people, and queer people. FSC is supporting three organizations to implement a year-long political education program with their constituencies to strengthen their ability to educate and mobilize their base around critical reproductive justice policy fights in the coming year. |
$40,000 |
| West Virginia | WV Focus: Reproductive Education and Equality (WVF) WVF is West Virginia’s only nonprofit advocacy organization committed solely to defending and securing reproductive freedom at the state and national levels. It is also one of the few organizations working for reproductive freedom in the rural region of Appalachia. A statewide membership organization with 3,000 at-large members, WVF’s recent victories include: a 2005 contraceptive equity law to expand insurance coverage of prescription birth control; the defeat, for the fourth consecutive year, of a parental notification initiative and an unconstitutional bill that would have stripped West Virginia’s poorest women of the right to access abortion care by cutting off Medicaid funding; and securing $1.4 million for West Virginia’s Department of Health and Human Resources Family Planning Program. Taking the offensive, WV FREE will explore possible legislation to mandate state funding for family planning education. It will also form local chapters to deepen its base in rural areas and forge cross-issue alliances as part of a new coalition, West Virginians United, comprised of 30 progressive organizations, including labor, faith, environmental and economic justice groups. |
$40,000 |
| Montana and National | Women’s Voices for the Earth (WVE) WVE is a national, women-centered environmental health advocacy organization focused on twin goals of reducing or eliminating environmental pollutants affecting women’s lives and creating opportunities for all women to influence environmental decision-making in light of the impact of toxic chemicals on a woman’s reproductive system. Over the past decade, WVE’s organizing has lead to the closure or scaling back of emissions from incinerators and power plants in MT and ID. Most recently, WVE compelled all Albertson’s grocery stores in Montana to post mercury warning signs at all of its fish counters and worked with ally organizations to move OPI, the largest supplier of toxic polish, to reformulate its polish to remove harmful toxins. Other companies have since followed suit. WVE will continue work on campaigns for safe cosmetics, and household cleaning projects. |
$30,000 |
| New Orleans | Women’s Health and Justice Initiative (WHJI) Formed in 2006, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the Women’s Health & Justice Initiative (WHJI) is a community-based organizing project centered on improving the access of low-income, uninsured, women of color to quality, affordable health care services. WHJI’s strength is its grassroots leadership, most of whom are low income and strongly connected to their communities. In the coming year, WHJI will build an organizing base of 50 low-income women and girls of color and, through community-based participatory research, forums on sexual health literacy and gender-based violence, political education, and organizing training, prepare them to launch its first campaign in 2009. |
$20,000 |
| New Mexico | Young Women United (YWU) YWU is a statewide intergenerational organization created by and for young women of color to: support each other; educate and organize themselves; take action to reduce violence; and to improve the health of and build power for their communities. YWU uses a youth organizing model in which youth are at the center of every decision made, research project conducted, and action taken. With one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the nation, the abstinence only curriculum in New Mexico’s public schools was a clear failure and something that teens wanted to change. Through mobilizing youth to provide testimony and to pressure decision makers, YWU successfully moved the state of New Mexico to revise its application for federal abstinence only funding, to request that those dollars be used for grades six and below only, as opposed to all grades. This meant that comprehensive, science-based sexuality education could be provided for seventh grade and above. YWU currently working to ensure the implementation of comprehensive sexuality education. |
$30,000 |
2006 Tides Foundation Reproductive Justice Fund Grantees
| Geographic Focus | Organization Name Organization Description |
Grant Amount |
Alaska |
Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT) Led by Native American women, ACAT’s Alaska Environmental Reproductive Justice Project (AERJP) works through public education, grassroots organizing and advocacy to change public policy regarding environmental contaminants that are linked to involuntary infertility, premature births and infant health — the major reproductive justice concerns of the Indigenous people of the state. ACAT has blocked pesticide use by Alaska railroads, stopped the timber industry from spraying herbicides on areas farmed by the Haida Nation and organized tribal participation in the Stockholm Convention, a global treaty which banned 12 persistent organic pollutants. |
$20,000 |
California |
Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice (ACRJ) ACRJ works for self-determination for low-income Asian women and girls from immigrant and refugee families. Making the link between environmental toxins and reproductive health outcomes, ACRJ shut down a toxic medical waste incinerator in East Oakland and is organizing nail salon workers to win policies for a safer work environment. ACRJ played a central role in the defeat of two parental notification initiatives that would have eroded abortion rights and put young women at risk. ACRJs staff and board are 100 percent women of color, 75 percent multilingual, 70 percent immigrant or refugee, 40 percent queer, 20 percent under 25 years old. |
$55,000 |
California |
California Black Women's Health Project (CABWHP) CABWHP focuses on empowering Black women to take personal responsibility for their own health and to advocate for changes in policies that adversely affect Black women's health status. Tides funding supported CABWHP’s outreach and education efforts in the Black community, including in Black churches, to defeat Proposition 85, a statewide parental notification that would have eroded abortion rights and put young women at risk. |
$15,000 |
California |
California Latinas for Reproductive Justice (CLRJ) CLRJ is a Latina-led statewide policy and advocacy organization working to advance California Latinas’ reproductive health and rights within a social justice and human rights framework. CLRJ accomplishes this through targeted, culturally-based policy advocacy, coalition-building, community education and strategic communications strategies. CLRJ’s outreach to the Latino community in the fight to defeat Proposition 85, was critical to the margin of victory in this campaign. CLRJ is also a leading force for comprehensive sexuality education in California schools and a key resource for Latinas organizing in the central, more rural areas of the state. |
$60,000 |
Georgia |
Georgians for Choice (GFC) GFC is a statewide coalition of 50 organizations and 1,800 individuals committed to attaining and protecting reproductive freedom. Each member organization occupies its own niche in the larger Georgia social justice movement, but shares a commitment to women’s health as a fundamental human right and to the right of all Georgians to exercise a full range of reproductive health options. GFC provides member organizations with technical assistance on organizational development, fundraising, and campaign strategy. GFC mobilized 800 members to the March for Women’s Lives in 2004 and its member presence at statewide lobby days and actions in other neighbor states, have helped to defeat many attacks on women’s reproductive rights in Georgia and other southern states. |
$60,000 |
Idaho |
Idaho Women’s Network (IWN) With 27 organizational members and 1,000 individual members, IWN is Idaho’s oldest and largest women-led human rights organization. Through grassroots organizing, advocacy, education, and policy work, IWN takes a multi-issue approach to social change that links the rights of women, low-income people, immigrants, and the LGBT community. IWN turned back efforts to create a “new crime”: a felony offense of being pregnant and ingesting a controlled substance; and helped ensure that federal Medicaid funds cover 90 percent of family planning services to eligible women and men. IWN is currently leading campaigns to make emergency contraception (EC) widely available in Idaho, where today several localities have banned any form of EC, and to implement comprehensive sex education programs in public schools, many of which are using outdated, incorrect or religiously-based abstinence-only programs. |
$53,00 |
Chicago |
Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health (ICAH) ICAH promotes a positive approach to adolescent sexual health, through youth leadership development, youth and adult training programs, and policy analysis, development and advocacy. It’s advocacy is bolstered by a core of youth that help to shape and lead campaigns. ICAH works to increase the availability of condoms in schools, improve access to birth control, Emergency Contraception, HPV and quality health care services (including teen-friendly clinics), support for young parents; and to ensure access to abortion services by opposing parental notification/consent laws. ICAH has developed a legislative proposal for mandatory comprehensive sex-ed in Illinois public schools and a state funding source for implementation. In partnership with Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area ICAH is mobilizing nearly 100 other organizations to move this proposal through the state legislature. |
$25,000 |
Long Beach, CA |
Khmer Girls In Action (KGA) Led by young, low-income, Southeast Asian women, KGA uses leadership development, community organizing, and cultural expression to empower the Cambodian and Southeast Asian community of Long Beach, California, to challenge systems and institutions that are not accountable to immigrant/refugee needs. Long Beach is home to 60,000 Cambodians, the largest population outside of Cambodia. This year, KGA will provide a youth-of-color voice to the statewide campaign to defeat Proposition 85. |
$20,000 |
Washington D.C. |
Metro TeenAIDS (MTA) MTA is a local community health organization created to support young people—primarily low-income (approximately 87 percent African American, 10 percent Latino, seven percent Asian and three percent White) youth in underserved communities—in the fight against HIV/AIDS and for comprehensive sexual education. In the Washington D.C. area, where youth HIV rates are rising more rapidly than any others, MTA is the only organization focusing on HIV/AIDS prevention and reproductive health advocacy among youth. MTA’s public policy efforts, focus on reforming an outdated sexual health curriculum and current HIV/AIDS policies within D.C. public schools. Youth engagement and leadership development are the hallmarks of MTA’s approach, and include peer education, direct service provision, coalition advocacy, and grassroots organizing. MTA also mobilizes a broad base of youth of color, their parents, communities, and allies. |
$30,000 |
Missouri |
Missouri Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (MORCRC) MORCRC invokes the moral power of religious communities to guarantee reproductive choice through education and advocacy. It gives voice to the reproductive issues of people of color, those living in poverty, and other underserved populations through training congregations to provide comprehensive and culturally appropriate sex education; training young people to advocate for themselves in their schools and legislature; offering all-options choice and reproductive loss counseling; and providing young people with opportunities to develop leadership, grass roots organizing and advocacy skills. Tides RJ Fund will support the Spiritual Youth for Reproductive Freedom program in youth-led work with students and young adults on three Missouri college campuses to increase education about and access to contraception. |
$20,000 |
National |
National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW) NAPW is a national intermediary organization working for the civil rights, health and welfare of pregnant and parenting women. It is the only national organization whose mission is to build bridges between the pro-choice movement and the growing maternity/birth with dignity movement. Focusing primarily on low-income women, women of color, and drug-using women, NAPW uses legal advocacy, local and national engagement with organizations and individuals, strategic communications, and policy development to ensure that: women do not lose their constitutional and human rights as a result of pregnancy; addiction is addressed as a health issue, not a crime; pregnant and parenting women have access to a full range of reproductive health services and non-punitive drug treatment services; and families are not needlessly separated. NAPW is planning a 2007 National Summit to Ensure the Health and Humanity of Pregnant and Birthing Women, which will launch a major effort to connect social justice movements, including the pro-choice and birth with dignity movements and to produce model legislation and programs, talking points and messaging materials, as well as strategies for expanding reproductive justice. |
$80,000 |
National |
National Asian Pacific Women’s Forum (NAPWF) NAPAWF is the only national, multi-issue advocacy organization dedicated to advancing social and reproductive justice for API women and girls. NAPAWF addresses a range of economic and social justice issues: violence against women, human trafficking, immigration and health and prioritizes reproductive justice as a central issue that determines both individual and community dignity and self-determination. It has seven established chapters in Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC, and Yale University and four new chapters in Chicago, St Cloud MN, Minneapolis MN and Stanford University. It is also active on six college campuses in California. With a local presence and a voice with Congress in D.C. NAPWF injects an API perspective on reproductive justice into local and national health policy debates. |
$15,000 |
National |
National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (NLIRH) NLIRH works to ensure the fundamental human right to reproductive health for Latinas, their families and their communities through public education, policy advocacy, and community mobilization. Latinas, have had very limited access to the institutions and officials responsible for setting and implementing polices that directly affect them. For this reason, NLIRH is committed to serving as an advocacy engine or vehicle through which Latinas can voice their concerns and demands. A bottom-up, grass tops organization, NLIRH build the capacity of many local and state-based Latina-led reproductive justice organizations and helps link their work to a national strategy that amplifies their core priorities with Congress and in the national policy arena. |
$30,000 |
South Dakota & National |
Native American Community Board (NACB) Formed in 1985 by Native Americans living on or near the Yankton Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota, NACB addresses health issues pertinent to Native communities through cultural preservation, education, coalition building, and environmental and natural resource protection, while working toward a safe community for women and children at the local, national and international levels. The Indigenous Women’s Reproductive Justice Program (the Program) works to improve the health and well being of reservation-based Native women across the country. It has been instrumental in compelling better practices by Indian Health Services by curbing aggressive marketing of high risk contraceptives to Native Women and by campaigning for legal access to abortion and for comprehensive medical care and support for women who are raped. |
$30,000 |
New Mexico |
New Mexico Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (NMRCRC) NMRCRC works to ensure reproductive choice through the moral power of religious communities. The only pro-choice interfaith coalition in the state, NMRCRC educates the public through earned and paid media strategies and involves clergy and laity in the religious pro-choice movement through its All-Options Clergy Counseling (providing unbiased information about parenting, adoption or abortion options) and Peaceful Presence (clinic escort to protect women from pro-life protestors) programs. NMRCRC is a visible faith presence for reproductive justice at the state capitol, and in coalition with other progressive organizations, has helped to defeat two parental notification bills, two “fetal rights” bills and a state constitutional amendment to define life at conception. In addition, through direct and grassroots advocacy, NMRCRC helped obtain state funding for an Emergency Contraception public education campaign; a study on reproductive health care disparities; the establishment of a state office on women, and for medical insurance to cover HPV testing. |
$10,000 |
Pomona, CA |
Organización en California de Líderes Campesinas (Lideres) Membership-driven and based, Líderes developed from a grassroots women’s farm worker (campesinas) group active for many years in California’s Coachella Valley. Líderes educates campesinas about the issues that challenge their lives and trains them to educate others — and, over time, coalesce into a strong, collective voice. Paid staff, nearly all from farm worker backgrounds and dozens of volunteers (drawn from the organization’s 500 members) carry out Líderes program work. With support from Tides RJ Fund, the Teenage Pregnancy Prevention and Empowerment Program (TPPEP) will provide a core group of 20 adolescent campesinas with the leadership and organizing skills they need to identify “real” problems in their communities, formulate solutions and organize at least 300 of their peers on issues such as teen pregnancy, date violence, date rape, sexual assault, and child labor issues including sexual harassment in the workplace. |
$40,000 |
California |
Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California (PPFA) A grant from the Tides RJ Fund supports PPFA’s work to defeat Proposition 85, a state-wide parental notification initiative that, if passed, would erode abortion rights and threaten the safety of thousands of California teens. |
$8,900 |
National |
Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC) RCRC brings the moral power of religious communities to the struggle of protecting reproductive choice. The coalition now includes 41 national religious organizations from 15 denominations and faith traditions; 28 RCRC affiliates; and nearly 16,000 individual members. RCRCEF works with underserved populations who are not usually represented in the pro-choice movement, such as people of color and people living in poverty, so they can act on reproductive health issues in culturally appropriate ways. It plays a key role in countering messages from the religious right, which has successfully used religion and faith to gain support for laws and policies restricting women’s reproductive rights. The National Black Church Initiative (BCI), for which RCRC received Tides’ RJ Fund support, has trained and implemented comprehensive faith-based sexuality education for 600 teens, 200 adults and nearly 200 churches each year for the last three years. It estimates reaching another 500 churches each year through clergy forums, word of mouth about its sexuality education tools, web site and print resources, and national and local summits. |
$30,000 |
South Dakota |
Sicangu Way of Life (SWL) Led by Lakota women, SWL works to revitalize traditional Lakota midwifery practices in South Dakota through training the next generation of midwives and educating Native communities on the benefits of traditional reproductive health and birthing care. Ultimately SWL would like to engage in advocacy to pressure Indian Health Services to partner with local practitioners in order to offer Native women access to traditional midwifery care through reservation-based clinics. |
$20,000 |
Regional (Southwest) |
Third Wave/Young Women’s Collaborative (YWC) The Young Women’s Collaborative, led by Third Wave Foundation, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, Choice USA, and National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum works with more than 40 young organizers from Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Nevada to build a reproductive justice movement in the Southwest. Through training and culturally relevant skills-building and issue-based workshops on topics ranging from fundraising, to sexual violence, to transgender and immigrant health care access, to movement building, and electoral campaigning, participants learn how to link social justice and reproductive issues to create cross-movement change. One goal is that participants, many of whom work as paid organizers in the labor, environmental justice, immigrant or LGBT rights sectors, will return to their home organizations with the skills to help these sectors centralize reproductive justice issues in their work and ultimately take a pro-active stand on reproductive justice policy fights. |
$20,000 |
Regional (10 Western States) |
Western States Center (WSC) WSC works to build a progressive movement for social, economic, racial, and environmental justice in the eight western states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada and Alaska. WSC works on three levels: strengthening grassroots organizing and community-based leadership; building long-term, strategic alliances among community, environmental, labor, social justice and other public interest organizations; and developing the capacity of informed communities to participate in the public policy process and in elections. The Family, Community, and Sexuality Project (FCS) was launched to counter the Right’s systematic and concerted use of these “hot button” issues, as a tool to push a conservative policy agenda with negative consequences for women, people of color, low-income people, young people, and queer people. Through this innovative project, WSC is pulling the issue of reproductive justice from the margins to the center of the larger progressive movement. FSC will work with six to eight social justice organizations through a year-long political education program to strengthen their ability to educate and mobilize their base around critical reproductive justice policy fights. |
$60,000 |
West Virginia |
WV Focus: Reproductive Education and Equality (WVF) WVF is West Virginia’s only nonprofit advocacy organization committed solely to defending and securing reproductive freedom at the state and national levels. It is also one of the few organizations working for reproductive freedom in the rural region of Appalachia. A statewide membership organization with 3,000 at-large members, WVF’s recent victories include: a 2005 contraceptive equity law to expand insurance coverage of prescription birth control; the defeat of over 70 anti-choice bills in this year’s legislative session; and collaborating with WV’s Foundation for Rape and Information Services and the ACLU of WV to increase access to EC for rape victim survivors in hospital emergency rooms. In recognition of its breakthrough work, WVF’s Executive Director was recently honored by the Ms. Foundation as one of three national recipients of the Gloria Steinem Women of Vision award. WVF is now forming local chapters to advance its mission to protect the reproductive rights of all WV women—especially teens and low-income women—including: the right to an abortion; access to affordable birth control and prenatal care; and comprehensive education on reproductive health and service choices. WVF works through grassroots organizing, policy advocacy, media training; and coalition building. |
$40,000 |
Montana and National |
Women’s Voices for the Earth (WVE) WVE is a national, women-centered environmental health advocacy organization focused on twin goals of reducing or eliminating environmental pollutants affecting women’s lives and creating opportunities for all women to influence environmental decision-making in light of the impact of toxic chemicals on a woman’s reproductive system. Over the past decade, WVE’s organizing has lead to the closure or scaling back of emissions from incinerators and power plants in MT and ID. In a national coalition effort WVE moved OPI, the largest supplier of toxic polish, to reformulate its polish to remove harmful toxins. Other companies have since followed suit. WVE will continue work on campaigns for safe cosmetics while also working for a ban on the sale, use, and disposal of mercury products in MT and for local controls of dental use/disposal of mercury. |
$30,000 |
New Mexico |
Young Women United (YWU) YWU is a statewide intergenerational organization created by and for young women of color to: support each other; educate and organize themselves; take action to reduce violence; and to improve the health of and build power for their communities. YWU uses a youth organizing model in which youth are at the center of every decision made, research project conducted, and action taken. With the third highest teen pregnancy rates in the nation, the abstinence only curriculum in New Mexico’s public schools was a clear failure and something that teens wanted to change. Through mobilizing youth to provide testimony and to pressure decision makers, YWU successfully moved the state of New Mexico to revise its application for federal abstinence only funding, to request that those dollars be used for grades six and below only, as opposed to all grades. This meant that comprehensive, science-based sexuality education could be provided for seventh grade and above. YWU will monitor the response of the federal government and work to ensure implementation of comprehensive sexuality education. |
$30,000 |
2005 Tides Foundation Reproductive Justice Fund Grantees
| Organization Name | Organization Description | Grant Amount |
| Choice USA | Choice USA, founded in 1992, mobilizes and provides ongoing support to the diverse upcoming generation of leaders who promote and protect reproductive choice both now and in the future. The organization is dedicated to the right of each person worldwide to decide when and if they will have sex, when and if they will be pregnant, and when and if they will have a child. Choice USA promotes the universal availability of accurate information and safe, legal reproductive services. Through unique, inclusive and creative programming, Choice USA reaches young people across the US, educating them about reproductive health issues; mobilizing them to enforce and defend reproductive rights; and developing the next generation of pro-choice leaders. |
$30,000 |
| EngenderHealth | EngenderHealth works worldwide to improve the lives of individuals by making reproductive health services safe, available, and sustainable. We provide technical assistance, training, and information, with a focus on practical solutions that improve services where resources are scarce. EngenderHealth improves access to a comprehensive range of essential clinic and community-based health services, including family planning, reproductive health, maternal and child health, and HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment. |
$100,000 |
| Ibis Reproductive Health | Ibis aims to improve women’s reproductive autonomy, choices, and health worldwide. The work of the organization includes conducting original clinical and social science research, analyzing policies and protocols that limit reproductive choice, and disseminating research findings that can help shape law, policies and practices. Offices and staff are located in Massachusetts, California, and South Africa. |
$30,000 |
| Idaho Women’s Network | IWN unites the voices and interests of Idaho women, families, and communities. Through community organizing, advocacy and education, IWN strives to strengthen democracy and promote human rights. IWN challenges laws, institutions and traditions that marginalize women, gays and lesbians, people of color and low-income people. |
$30,000 |
| Medical Students for Choice (MSFC) | MSFC advocates for medical schools to include abortion and family planning as part of the standard reproductive health curriculum, provides direct opportunities for reproductive health training outside of the curriculum through the Reproductive Health Externship (RHE) program, and creates new leaders in reproductive health medicine through organizing and advocacy. |
$21,000 |
| National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW) | NAPW is actively involved in ongoing court challenges to reproductive health and punitive drug policies and provides litigation support in cases across the country. NAPW engages in local and national organizing and public education efforts among the diverse communities that are stakeholders in these issues, including the women and families directly affected by punitive policies, as well as the public health and policy leaders who can ensure that the problems of pregnancy and drug use are dealt with through the public health system rather than the criminal justice system. |
$40,000 |
| National Network of Abortion Funds (NNAF) | NNAF is a national organization dedicated to increasing access to abortion and full reproductive health care for low-income and vulnerable women and girls across the US. |
$30,000 |
| Northwest Women’s Law Center (NWLC) | NWLC is a nonprofit public interest legal organization dedicated to improving the status of women, sexual minorities and families in the Northwest. Through its RFN, it strengthens legal, legislative and grassroots advocacy to protect and advance reproductive freedom and broaden the reproductive rights movement in the Pacific Northwest. |
$30,000 |
| Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California | The mission of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California is to ensure reproductive rights through advocacy and political action. More than 30 years ago, Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California (PPAC) was formed as a statewide office to service the California Planned Parenthood affiliates. With nine affiliates in California, managing 100 health centers offering both primary and reproductive health services, PPAC provides statewide leadership for reproductive health care policy. |
$10,000 |
| Planned Parenthood of Greater Cleveland | For 75 years, Planned Parenthood of Greater Cleveland (PPGC) has encouraged women to take control of their health. PPGC provides women of all ages and means with a broad range of quality health services in a safe and supportive environment and promotes the prevention of disease and unintended pregnancies. PPGC wants women to have access to the facts about their bodies and their health, and supports women and men in making smart choices that result in healthier lifestyles. PPGC acts to protect the right of every woman to exercise control over her health and keeps the public informed on the policy decisions that affect their health. |
100,000 |
| Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice Educational Fund (RCRC) | RCRC is America’s only interfaith alliance dedicated to preserving reproductive choice, and has worked nationally to bring the moral power of religious communities to ensure reproductive choice through education and advocacy. |
$30,000 |
| National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF) | NAPAWF is a national, multi-issue advocacy organization dedicated to advancing social justice and addressing the concerns and increasing the rights of APA women and girls. |
$30,000 |
2004 Tides Foundation Reproductive Justice Fund Grantees
| Organization Name | Organization Description | Grant Amount |
| Asian Pacific Islanders for Reproductive Health (APIRH) | Since 1989, APIRH has cultivated a rich history of developing API women and young girls to be reproductive rights leaders in their own communities. Utilizing a strategic, long-term vision, they will participate in joint activities with other women of color and youth groups at the march, in addition to conducting legislative visits. Pre- and post-march activities focus on increasing the leadership development of their constituency, recruiting new activists, and using pre- and post-march workshops and briefings as an opportunity to educate and build relationships with other API social justice organizations. |
$10,000 |
| Choice USA | Choice USA mobilizes and provides ongoing support to the diverse, upcoming generation of leaders who promote and protect reproductive choice both now and in the future. It is dedicated to the right of each person worldwide to decide when and if they will have sex, when and if they will be pregnant, and when and if they will have a child. In order to make those personal decisions, accurate information and safe, legal reproductive health services must be available to everyone. |
$20,000 |
| Georgians for Choice | Also founded in 1989, Georgians for Choice, a coalition of 37 organizations, has proved their ability to use public events to build the strength of their coalition. A 2003 march and rally at the state capitol doubled the number of membership organizations in the coalition. This organization is crucial in terms of strengthening the voice of the pro-choice majority in the challenging political climate of the South. |
$9,000 |
| Idaho Women’s Network | Using a broad, multi-issue framework, Idaho Women’s Network interweaves community organizing, policy advocacy, and education efforts. Despite the difficulties of organizing in rural communities, this organization is challenging right-wing forces in their state, and mobilizing key constituencies for the March on Washington. |
$10,000 |
| Missouri Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice | The Missouri Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice brings the moral power of religious communities to ensure reproductive choice through education and advocacy. It seeks to give clear voice to the reproductive issues of people of color, those living in poverty, and other underserved populations. |
$20,000 |
| Montana National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) | Founded in 1984, Montana NARAL is also challenging the aggressive anti-choice factions in their rural communities. With a key focus on outreach events at tribal colleges, this organization will use the March on Washington as an important base-building opportunity. |
$3,500 |
| National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum | The National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum (NAPAWF) is dedicated to forging a grassroots progressive movement for social and economic justice and the political empowerment of Asian Pacific American women and girls. NAPAWF unites its diverse communities through organizing, education, and advocacy. |
$5,000 |
| National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health | The National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (NLIRH), founded in 1994, is the only national Latina reproductive health and rights organization in the United States. Launched as a project of Catholics for Free Choice in 1989, NLIRH's mission is to enhance the quality of life and reproductive health for Latinas nationwide. NLIRH believes that in order to improve the reproductive health of Latinas we must place reproductive health and rights issues within a broader social justice framework that seeks to bring an end to poverty and discrimination and affirms human dignity and the right to self-determination. |
$20,000 |
| National Network of Abortion Funds | The National Network of Abortion Funds (NNAF) is a national organization dedicated to increasing access to abortion and full reproductive health care for low-income and vulnerable women and girls across the US. |
$20,000 |
| New Mexico Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC) | With a solid track record of sustaining a vibrant pro-choice, faith-based voice statewide, New Mexico RCRC skillfully combines direct services, education, and advocacy efforts. Its solid commitment to empowering underserved communities and developing the leadership of the clients who have received their services, together with a strong relationship with the national office of RCRC, will demonstrate the steadfast support of diverse faith communities for pro-choice efforts on April 25th. |
$7,500 |
| SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective | Not only has SisterSong organized an overwhelmingly successful women of color reproductive health conference with 600 participants in November 2003, they have also created new political spaces for women of color to participate in the April March. Through their “New Voices for Reproductive Freedom” project, they will increase the number of women of color delegations to the march from both first-tier primary targeted cities, and_from a second tier of targeted cities. |
$10,000 |
| Third Wave Foundation | Founded in 1996, Third Wave Foundation is the first national, feminist foundation focused on supporting the vision and voices of young women 15 to 30. Connected to the worlds of philanthropy, youth organizing, and the women's movement, Third Wave is uniquely positioned to amplify the voices of young women to decision makers, the philanthropic community, media, and other young people. |
$30,000 |
| Utah Progressive Network | Utah Progressive Network (UPNET) is a coalition of diverse organizations which work to build a common progressive voice for Utah citizens. Its programs are: Government Accountability- tracking money in Utah politics; Economic Justice- developing a Living Wage Coalition and working for Pay Equity; and Coalition Capacity- building the capacity and effectiveness of progressives through training and technical assistance. |
$5,000 |
