Tides Foundation Grants Over $2.5 Million for Reproductive Justice

Reproductive Justice Fund Crosses the $2.5 Million Mark With Latest Round of Grants

SAN FRANCISCO, JANUARY 11, 2007 - The Reproductive Justice Fund (RJF) at Tides Foundation is pleased to announce $435,000 in awards through its Winter 2006-2007 docket. In 2006, Tides Foundation made a total of $801,985 in grants to 24 reproductive justice organizations in 12 states and the District of Columbia. Currently in its fourth year of grantmaking, the RJF has to date awarded $2,768,875 to more than 45 organizations.

The Reproductive Justice Fund is part of the Reproductive Justice Initiative at Tides Foundation. The RJF is a funding collaborative of individual and institutional donors that supports efforts to broaden the base of the U.S. reproductive justice movement in order to increase its power to effect public policy and public opinion. The RJF funds organizations that use grassroots organizing and policy advocacy to build the power and leadership of historically underrepresented women, including women of color, low-income, young, rural, immigrant and LGBT women. The RJF prioritizes organizations that pull reproductive justice from the margins to the center of progressive political organizing by building effective cross-movement alliances between reproductive justice and labor, environmental, economic justice, criminal justice, civil rights and other social justice concerns.

Learn more about the Tides Reproductive Justice Initiative.

In 2006, Tides Foundation's RJF made grants to 24 organizations:

Alaska Community Alliance on Toxics Anchorage, AK	$20,000
Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice Oakland, CA	$55,000
CA Black Women's Health Project Los Angeles, CA	$15,000
CA Latinas for Reproductive Justice Los Angeles, CA	$60,000
Georgians for Choice Atlanta, GA	$60,000
Idaho Women's Network Boise, ID	$53,000
Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health Chicago, IL	$25,000
Khmer Girls in Action Long Beach, CA	$20,000
MetroTeenAIDS Washington, D.C.	$30,000
Missouri Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice St. Louis, MO	$20,000
National Advocates for Pregnant Women New York, NY	$80,000
National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum Washington, D.C.	$15,000
National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health New York, NY	$30,000
Native American Community Board Lake Andes, SD	$30,000
New Mexico Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice Albuquerque, NM	$10,000
Organizacion de Lideres Campesinas Pomona, CA	$40,000
Planned Parenthood Affiliates of CA No on 85 Campaign - Campaign for Teen Safety Los Angeles, CA	$8,985
Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice/ Black Church Initiative Washington, D.C.	$30,000
Sicangu Way of Life Whitewood, SD	$20,000
Third Wave Foundation / Young Women's Collaborative New York, NY	$20,000
Western States Center Portland, OR	$60,000
West Virginia Focus: Reproductive Education and Equality (WV Free) Charleston, WV	$40,000
Women's Voices for the Earth Missoula, MT	$30,000
Young Women United Albuquerque, NM	$30,000