Women's Rights and Reporductive Health $1,780,000

United States

Improving Reproductive Health and Rights

Alan Guttmacher Institute: $50,000
For general support of this organization, which seeks to promote public policies that will enable individuals everywhere to have access to the information and services they need to exercise their rights and responsibilities concerning sexual activity, reproduction and family formation. (This is the second installment of a two-year $100,000 grant.)

Catholics for a Free Choice: $30,000
For general support of this organization, which seeks to shape and advance sexual and reproductive ethics that are based on justice, reflect a commitment to women's well-being, and affirm the moral capacity of women and men to make responsible decisions.

Columbia University’s Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health/Center for Population and Family Health: $25,000
For Finding Common Ground in the Era of Welfare Reform and Managed Care, a project, dedicated to developing a public health agenda that integrates the needs and rights of women with the needs and rights of children. (This is the second installment of a two-year $50,000 grant.)

Funders Network on Population, Reproductive Health and Rights: $5,000
For general support of this organization, which seeks to enhance the effectiveness of grantmakers addressing issues of population, reproductive health and reproductive rights, both domestically and internationally.

Ms. Foundation for Women: $30,000
For its Reproductive Rights Coalition and Organizing Fund, which provides small grants and technical assistance to strengthen and diversify state and local organizations and coalitions working on reproductive rights and health issues.

NARAL Foundation: $40,000
For its Proactive Reproductive Health Policy Program, which seeks to educate state advocates and policymakers about policy initiatives to ensure that women have the freedom and the means to make responsible, deliberate decisions about sexuality, contraception, pregnancy, childbearing and abortion. (This is the first installment of a two-year $80,000 grant.)

National Abortion Federation: $40,000 For the Quality Assessment Improvement project, which monitors and assists abortion providers to maintain the highest quality of patient care.

National Asian Women's Health Organization: $30,000
For general support of this organization, which seeks to improve the health status of Asian American women and families and speak to and for Asian American women on reproductive health issues and policies. (This is the second installment of a two-year $60,000 grant.)

National Black Women's Health Project: $30,000
For general support of this organization, which seeks to improve the health of all Black women, especially low-income women, through wellness education and services, self-help group development and health information and advocacy.

National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association: $30,000
For general support of this organization, which seeks to ensure universal access to voluntary, comprehensive and culturally sensitive family planning and reproductive health services.

National Partnership for Women and Families: $35,000
For its Health Care Program, which seeks to improve public and private-sector policies in order to expand women's access to high quality, comprehensive reproductive health services. (This is the first installment of a two-year $70,000 grant.)

National Women's Health Network: $25,000
For support of its efforts to inform and improve debate on emerging contraceptive technology issues.

National Women's Law Center: $20,000
For its program to Advance and Protect Women's Reproductive Rights and Health. (This is the first installment of a two-year $40,000 grant.)

National Organization for Women/Legal Defense and Education Fund: $40,000
For its Immigrant Women's Program, which seeks to expand and protect the legal rights of immigrant women by monitoring and analyzing policies and practice at the intersection of immigration, welfare reform, reproductive health, domestic violence and economic development. (This is the second installment of a two-year $80,000 grant.)

Planned Parenthood Federation of America: $50,000
For continued support of its Leadership Institute, which provides leadership development programs to Planned Parenthood affiliate executive directors, volunteer board members, and senior managers.

Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice Educational Fund (RCRC): $25,000
To strengthen the religious pro-choice movement by expanding faith-based pro-choice organizing in local communities of color.

Fostering Healthy Sexuality and Development Among American Adolescents and Girls

Advocates for Youth: $50,000
For general support of this organization, which seeks to promote adolescent health and prevent teenage pregnancy, too-early childbearing, and STDs, including AIDS, in the US and the developing world. (This is the second installment of a two-year $100,000 grant.)

Ms. Foundation for Women: $30,000
For the development and dissemination of products from the Learning and Inquiry Phase of the Collaborative for Healthy Girls/Healthy Women, and to design the second round of the Collaborative. The Collaborative, a project of the Ms. Foundation, is an innovative national partnership of grantmakers, grantee partners, and researchers addressing the overall health, safety and development of girls.

National Youth Advocacy Coalition: $30,000
For general support of this organization, which seeks to advocate for and with young people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender in an effort to end discrimination against these youth and to ensure their physical and emotional well-being.

Rutgers University Foundation/Network for Family Life Education: $25,000
For the Teen-to-Teen Sexuality Education Project, which includes Sex, etc., a national
sexuality/health newsletter written by and for teens; a discussion guide that accompanies each newsletter; a website; and student action kits. (This is the first installment of a two-year $50,000 grant.)

Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States: $25,000
For general support of this organization, which seeks to promote comprehensive sexuality education, develop and disseminate information about sexuality to the public and policymakers, and advocate for the right of individuals to make responsible sexual choices. (This is the second installment of a two-year $50,000 grant.)

International

Improving International Population and Reproductive Health Policies and Practice

Global and Regional Programs

International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region: $50,000
For Phase Two of the South-North Partnership on Adolescent Sexuality and Reproductive Health Project, which seeks to strengthen collaboration between Latin American, Caribbean and U.S. reproductive health programs serving adolescents; specifically, to support the partnership between Profamilia in Colombia and HiTOPS in New Jersey.

International Rescue Committee (IRC): $35,000
For the work of IRC’s Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children, in its efforts to increase services and protection to war-affected adolescents, especially girls. (This is the first installment of a two-year $70,000 grant.)

International Women's Health Coalition: $50,000
For its Latin America Program, which works in alliance with women's organizations, health and population professionals, and government officials to enhance women's reproductive health and strengthen leadership on behalf of sexual and reproductive rights in Latin America.

JSI Research and Training Institute: $36,000
For support of Instituto Promundo, a project of JSI whose activities include, Reconsidering Adolescent Boys: An Advocacy and Training Initiative to Promote Adolescent Boys' Involvement in Sexual and Reproductive Health in Latin America, which aims to incorporate programming for adolescent male involvement within public health sectors in the region

JSI Research and Training Institute: $40,000
For its Empowerment of Women Research Program, which includes research to document the impact of the Cairo agenda from women's and communities' perspectives in Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Peru. (This is the first installment of a two-year $75,000 grant.)

Reproductive Health Technologies Project: $200,000
For its Microbicide Development Fund, which seeks to accelerate the development of microbicides -- products that women and men could use vaginally or rectally to protect themselves and their partners from HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.

Reproductive Health Technologies Project: $30,000
For support of a two-day meeting, The Quinacrine Debate and Beyond: Assessing the Future of Female Non-Surgical Sterilization.

The Tides Center: $50,000
For the Center for Health and Gender Equity, a project of Tides, which seeks to ensure that the population and health policies of international institutions supported by the United States government actively promote women's reproductive and sexual health.

The Tides Center: $40,000
For the Women's Health Exchange, a project of Tides, which will conduct in-depth analysis of existing data to determine the impact of violence on women's health, with a special emphasis on sexual and reproductive health, and build research capacity on gender violence in Latin America, Asia and Africa.

Country-Specific Programs

Family Care International: $24,000
To strengthen reproductive health information and services for migrant women in Morelos, Mexico.

San Miguel - CASA, Inc.: $50,000
Recommended for Centro para los Adolescentes de San Miguel de Allende, which trains peer promoters and midwives, develops young leaders, and provides reproductive health services and education in rural areas of Guanajuato, Mexico.

Tides Foundation: $40,000
Recommended for Centro Mujeres, a multi-service community organization, which offers leadership development and clinical, educational, and counseling services to low-income women in LaPaz, Mexico.

University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc.: $25,000
For the Amazonian Peoples Resources Initiative, a project of the University of Kansas, which provides reproductive health leadership and community participation programs to rural indiginous communities in the Chambira Basin, Peru. (This is the second installment of a two-year $50,000 grant.)

Promoting Women’s Human Rights

American Jewish World Service: $25,000
Recommended to support TOSTAN, a Senegalese human rights organization, in its training and community development activities as part of a gender and human rights education program in the city of Thies, Senegal.

Equality Now: $25,000
For general support of this organization, which seeks to mobilize women around the world to protect and promote women’s human rights.

Human Rights Watch: $50,000
For its Women's Rights Division, which works to monitor and combat violence and sex discrimination against women committed or tolerated by governments worldwide. (This is the second installment of a two-year $100,000 grant.)

International Human Rights Law Group: $35,000
For its Women's Rights Advocacy Program, which provides intensive training to women's groups worldwide to build their capacity to use human rights principles, standards and methods as tools in their work for change. (This is the first installment of a two-year $75,000 grant.)

Program for Appropriate Technology in Health: $35,000
For its collaborative project with Maendaleo Ya Wanawake (MYWO), to eliminate the practice of female genital mutiliation in four districts of Kenya, through awareness raising and community change.

Research, Action & Information Network for Bodily Integrity of Women: $30,000
For general support of this organization, which seeks to promote programs that address female genital mutilation (FGM) within the United Nations and other multilateral and bilateral agencies, and which works to integrate anti-FGM activity into existing health and development projects. (This is the second installment of a two-year $60,000 grant.)

Rutgers University Foundation/Center for Women’s Global Leadership: $25,000
For its Women's Global Leadership Institute and related regional thematic institutes, which seek to strengthen and foster the skills of the women's human rights movement and its leaders. (This is the second installment of a two-year $50,000 grant.)

World Organization Against Torture, USA, Inc.: $20,000
To protect refugee women and children from gender-based abuses, by strengthening the application of the international Convention Against Torture in the U.S. as an additional and alternative source of protection for refugee women and children.

Supporting Other Efforts to Enhance and Expand Women’s Rights Overseas

Hesperian Foundation: $50,000
For its Health and Safety Manual for Workers in Export Processing Zones, which goes beyond traditional occupational health materials and addresses gender-related abuses. (This is the first installment of a two-year $100,000 grant.)

International Center for Research on Women (ICRW): $40,000
For its Working Reserve Fund, which will provide the organization with needed flexibility to take on cutting edge issues concerning women. ICRW conducts in-depth research, policy communications and technical assistance on women and development issues such as women's economic, agricultural and environmental roles; social status, health and nutrition; and rights and leadership.

The Coalition for Women's Economic Development and Global Equality, Inc. (Women's Edge): $20,000
For general support of this organization, which seeks to make US international assistance programs and trade policies responsive to gender dynamics and women's needs. (This is the first installment of a two-year $40,000 grant.)

The Global Fund for Women: $25,000
For its grantmaking in Latin America, which concentrates on seeding new groups, building sustainability among previous grantees, linking and networking women's groups, and reaching marginalized sectors.

The Global Fund for Women: $25,000
Recommended for Semillas, which offers financial and informational support to women's groups and promotes the development of philanthropy in Mexico.

The Tides Center: $40,000
For Raising Voices, a project of Tides, which is working in partnership with organizations in East Africa to develop and pilot community-based strategies to prevent domestic violence.

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