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| 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 |
