Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice (ACRJ)
Oakland, CA www.reproductivejustice.org Grant: $62,500
ACRJ is a local and national leader in the RJ movement. Locally, ACRJ played a leading role to defeat three pro-life, parental notification initiatives in California; shut down an East Oakland toxic medical waste incinerator that was causing reproductive health problems for the community; and won regulatory changes at the state level to protect the reproductive health of nail salon workers. Nationally ACRJ has authored and published the seminal paper A New Vision, now the most widely used definition of reproductive justice in the U.S.; and supported over 500 national opinion leaders, policymakers, coalitions, think tanks, foundations, and universities with tools, training, and technical assistance to develop their understanding of RJ as a powerful framework for community and systemic change. More...

California Latinas for Reproductive Justice (CLRJ)
Los Angeles, CA www.clrj.org Grant: $40,000
CLRJ works for public policy that reflects the needs of Latinas, their families and communities so that all Latinas - including low-income, undocumented, LGBTQ and youth - have access to culturally and linguistically appropriate, comprehensive, accurate, and unbiased reproductive and sexuality health information and services. CLRJ was essential to the defeat of three pro-life parental notification initiatives in California and has been a leading force in mobilizing communities to demand implementation of comprehensive sexuality education in their public schools. More...

Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights (COLOR)
Denver, CO www.colorlatina.org Grant: $30,000
The only reproductive rights organization in Colorado led by and for Latinas, COLOR protects and promotes Latina reproductive health and justice by engaging young Latinas and their families in education, civic participation, leadership opportunities, and social change. COLOR played a leading role in the defeat of a statewide, pro-life, fetal personhood initiative; in mandating comprehensive sexuality education in public schools; and has been essential to moving labor unions and other social justice sectors to support reproductive justice work in Colorado. More...

Generations Ahead
Oakland, CA www.generations-ahead.org Grant: $40,000
Generations Ahead builds the capacity of organizations and leaders in social justice movements to engage in the debate on genetic technologies (such as biotechnology, cloning, eugenics, and inheritable genetic modification) to ensure an affirmative role for government in regulating technologies in order to avoid eugenic outcomes and the commercialization of human life. Generations Ahead injects a social justice perspective into the technology debate, which has until now been dominated by advocates for new commercial eugenics and corporations looking to develop and market species-altering technologies to those who can afford them. More...

Legal Services for Prisoners with Children (LSPC)
San Francisco, CA www.prisonerswithchildren.org Grant: $30,000
Led by formerly incarcerated persons and their families, LSPC believes that our country's growing dependence on incarceration as a solution to social problems has resulted in a critical health crisis in low-income communities of color. Its Mothers from Behind the Wall project spotlights and improves the conditions of women and children in California's Community Prisoner Mother Program ,which enables incarcerated mothers to live with their young children. 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 pregnancy outcome (includng but not limited to the right to end an unwanted pregnancy); and the right to a continued relationship with their children. More...

National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW)
New York, NY www.advocatesforpregnantwomen.org Grant: $40,000
NAPW is a legal advocacy intermediary organization created to ensure that women do not lose their Constitutional and human rights as a result of pregnancy; that addiction and other problems are addressed as health, rather than criminal, issues; that families are not needlessly separated based on medical misinformation; and that pregnant and parenting women have access to the full range of RH and non-punitive drug treatment services. By protecting the legal rights and human dignity of all pregnant women, with a particular focus on young, low-income, and drug-using women of color, NAPW broadens and strengthens the RJ, drug policy reform, birthing rights, and other social justice movements. More...

National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
New York, NY www.latinainstitute.org Grant: $35,000
NLIRH is the only national Latina-led RJ organization representing a diverse and growing Latina population. It is the single largest provider of bilingual resources and technical support to dozens of Latina-led RJ organizations across the U.S. and a leading RJ advocate for immigrant women. NLIRH's goal is to ensure the fundamental human right to reproductive health for Latinas, their families and communities through public education, policy advocacy, and community mobilization. It is a national leader in the fight to restore public funding for abortion. More...

Rebecca Project for Human Rights (RPHR)
Washington, DC www.rebeccaproject.org Grant: $62,500
RPHR is a national legal and policy organization that advocates for the human and reproductive rights of women and families in recovery. It challenges the aggressive sentencing of mothers who commit non-violent crimes while suffering from addiction and advocates for treatment as an alternative to incarceration. Led by mothers in recovery, RPHR creates opportunities for their agency and leadership at the local, state and national levels. Victories include winning a ban on the practice of shackling pregnant women in all federal prisons and in state prisons in NY, TX and NM; securing increased federal funding for family treatment centers, where mothers may remain with their children; and repealing state laws that track women into prison instead of treatment. More...

SPARK Reproductive Justice Now
Atlanta, GA www.sparkrj.org Grant: $25,000
SPARK is a statewide grassroots organization working to sustain a powerful RJ movement in Georgia. With a base of 1200 individuals – including a significant number of LGBT youth - and strong relationships with 20 social justice organizations, SPARK works to engage, mobilize, and build the leadership of historically marginalized people and communities to secure RJ policy change in Georgia and to support RJ efforts elsewhere in the South. Victories include defeating a statewide, pro-life personhood amendment and a law that would have barred public health clinics from distributing any information about sexual health to teens. More...

West Virginia Focus: Reproductive Education and Equality (WV Free)
Charleston, WV www.wvfree.org Grant: $40,000
WV Free is West Virginia's only advocacy organization committed solely to advancing reproductive rights within a reproductive justice framework, and is one of the few RJ organizations working in Appalachia. It works to preserve the right to abortion and increasing access to affordable reproductive health information and care including abortion, birth control and pre-natal care. WV Free defeats an average of 50 anti-choice bills annually and has prevented any anti-choice legislation from being passed in WV in the last four years. It has also secured increased state funding for family planning. More...