Women's Rights and Reproductive Health $2,000,000
United States
A. Improving Reproductive Health and Rights
Alan Guttmacher
Institute: $50,000
For general support of this organization, which conducts research, policy
analysis and public education activities 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.
Boston
Women's Health Book Collective: $5,000
For support of its move to the Boston University School of Public Health,
which will provide a stable place for it to continue its mission of empowering
women with information about health, sexuality and reproduction.
Catholics
for a Free Choice: $35,000
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.
NARAL Foundation:
$40,000
For its Proactive Reproductive Health Policy Institute, 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. (Second installment of a two-year $80,000 grant.)
National Abortion
Federation: $45,000
For its Quality Assessment and 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.
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:
$40,000
For general support of this organization, which seeks to ensure universal
access to voluntary, comprehensive and culturally sensitive family planning
and reproductive health services. (First installment of a two-year $80,000
grant.)
National Health
Law Program, Inc.: $30,000
For its Initiative to Promote Reproductive Health Care, which provides
legal and other tools to grassroots leaders to enable them to access reproductive
services for low-income women, and assists policy makers in countering
barriers to effective care.
National Network
of Abortion Funds: $30,000
For its Campaign for Access and Reproductive Equity (CARE), a collaborative,
multi-issue, grassroots, education and advocacy campaign to expand access
to abortion and other basic reproductive health care services.
National
Partnership for Women and Families: $35,000
For its reproductive health program, which seeks to improve public and
private sector policies in order to expand women's access to high quality
comprehensive reproductive health services. (Second installment of a two-year
$70,000 grant.)
National
Women's Health Network: $30,000
For its project to inform and improve debate on emerging contraceptive
technology issues. (First installment of a two-year $60,000 grant.)
National Women's
Law Center: $20,000 For its program to advance
and protect women's reproductive rights and health. (Second installment
of a two-year $40,000 grant.)
NOW Legal Defense
and Education Fund: $30,000
For its Immigrant Women's Program, which seeks to expand and protect the
legal rights of immigrant women by monitoring and analyzing policies and
practices at the intersection of immigration, welfare reform, reproductive
health, domestic violence and economic development. (First installment
of a two-year $60,000 grant.)
Planned
Parenthood Federation of America: $200,000
For its Emergency Campaign for Choice: A Joint Effort to Protect Family
Planning and Reproductive Freedom, which aims to maximize and build upon
ongoing efforts to preserve and advance reproductive freedom.
Religious Coalition
for Reproductive Choice Educational Fund:
$35,000
For its efforts to strengthen the religious pro-choice movement by expanding
faith-based pro-choice organizing in local communities of color.
Reproductive Health
Technologies Project: $25,000
For its Emerging Genetic and Reproductive Technologies Project, which
aims to create a strategy for the reproductive rights community to meaningfully
participate in ongoing debates around human cloning, genetic engineering,
and other emerging reproductive technologies.
Third
Wave Direct Action, Inc.: $25,000
For general support of this national philanthropic organization, which
engages in reproductive rights grantmaking, public education, and networking
programs for young women activists between the ages of 15 and 30.
Trustees of Columbia University/Center for Population and Family
Health: $25,000
For its Finding
Common Ground in the Era of Welfare Reform and Managed Care project,
which seeks to complete and disseminate research on the impact of welfare
reform on women and children's health. (First installment of a two-year
$50,000 grant.)
B. 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 sexually
transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS in the US and the developing
world.
Ms. Foundation
for Women: $50,000
For its Collaborative Fund for Healthy Girls and Healthy Women, a $4 million
collaborative grantmaking fund to support innovative programs that identify
and document how girls become active agents of change in their communities,
and strengthen girl-only and mixed-gender programs that foster social
activism in girls. (First installment of a three-year $150,000 grant.)
National Youth
Advocacy Coalition: $35,000
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 ensure their
physical and emotional well being.
Rutgers University
Foundation/Network for Family Life Education:
$25,000
For its 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. (Second installment of a two-year $50,000 grant.)
Sexuality Information
and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS): $40,000
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.
International
C. Improving International Population and Reproductive
Health Policies and Practice
Global and Regional Programs
Center
for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE): $50,000
For general support of this organization, 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.
Funders Concerned
About AIDS: $5,000
For general support of this organization, which seeks to mobilize philanthropic
leadership and resources, domestically and internationally, to eradicate
the HIV/AIDS pandemic and to address its social and economic consequences.
The 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.
International Women's
Health Coalition: $50,000
For general support of this organization, which seeks to promote and protect
the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls in southern
countries.
JSI Research
& Training Institute: $35,000
For its Empowerment of Women Research Program, which documents the impact
of the Cairo agenda from women's and communities' perspectives, in Bangladesh,
Vietnam, and Peru. (Second installment of a two-year $75,000 grant.)
Program for Appropriate
Technology in Health (PATH): $30,000
For its research and action on gender-based violence, which aims to raise
awareness among international policy makers, particularly within the health
sector, regarding the impact of gender-based violence on women's sexual
and reproductive health.
Program for Appropriate
Technology in Health (PATH): $50,000
For its Global
Campaign for Microbicides, specifically to support an international
consultation on ethical issues related to the clinical testing of topical
microbicides.
Public Health Institute:
$30,000
For support of its Global
Action Network, an online community designed to connect, educate,
and empower young people working in the global population and reproductive
health field.
Country-Specific Programs
Center for Health
and Social Policy: $40,000
Recommended for Unidad de Orientacion y Asistencia Materna (Orientame),
to conduct research on adolescent reproductive decision-making to improve
reproductive health services for teens and young adults in Colombia.
EngenderHealth:
$45,000
To promote male involvement in reproductive health and improve post-abortion
care in Guatemala and Honduras.
Marie
Stopes International (MSI): $30,000 For outreach services
for returnees in Guatemala, which seeks to provide family planning information
and supplies, education and communication services to Guatemalans who
have returned home from refuge in Mexico after the civil war. (Second
installment of a two-year $60,000 grant.)
Population
Council: $50,000
For its research to understand successful condom use in Northern Mexico,
which will identify "successful" condom users, learn the conditions
that facilitate their success, and explore how these could be shared with
others in order to increase condom use.
San Miguel - CASA, Inc.: $50,000
For general support of San Miguel - CASA, Inc., which raises funds for
Centro para los Adolescentes de San Miguel de Allende (CASA) to train
peer promoters and midwives, develop young leaders, and provide reproductive
health services and education in rural areas of Guanajuato, Mexico. (First
installment of a two-year $100,000 grant.)
Save
the Children Federation, Inc.: $30,000
For its project in Oruro, Bolivia to address the reproductive health needs
of younger adolescents by promoting healthy attitudes, responsible sexual
and reproductive health behavior, and vocational orientation through a
multi-faceted program. (First installment of a two-year $60,000 grant.)
Tides Foundation:
$40,000
Recommended for support of Centro
Mujeres, a multi-service community organization which offers leadership
development and clinical, educational, and counseling services to low-income
women in La Paz, Mexico.
University of Kansas: $25,000
Recommended for support of the Amazonian
People's Resource Initiative/Minga-Peru, which develops reproductive
health leadership and community participation programs in rural indigenous
communities in the Peruvian Amazon.
D. Promoting Women’s Human Rights
American Jewish
World Service: $25,000
Recommended for support of 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. (First installment of a two-year $100,000 grant.)
International
Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission:
$20,000
For general support of this organization, which works to protect and advance
the human rights of all people and communities subjected to discrimination
or abuse on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, or HIV status.
International
Human Rights Law Group: $40,000
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. (Second
installment of a two-year $75,000 grant.)
Research, Action
& Information Network for Bodily Integrity of Women
(RAINBO): $30,000
For its International and African Immigrant Programs, which focus on stopping
female genital mutilation (FGM), as well as promoting the overall sexual
and reproductive health of African women and girls.
Rutgers University Foundation: $35,000
For its Center for
Women's Global Leadership, which seeks to strengthen and foster the
skills of the women's human rights movement and its leaders. (First installment
of a two-year $70,000 grant.)
World Organization
Against Torture: $25,000
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.
E. Supporting Other Efforts to Enhance and Expand Women’s
Rights Overseas
The
Global Fund for Women: $50,000
a) For general support of this organization, which makes grants to seed,
support, and strengthen women's rights groups working to address human
rights outside the United States ($25,000); and b) recommended for Sociedad
Mexicana Pro Derechos de la Mujer(Semillas), which offers financial
and informational support to women’s groups and promotes the development
of philanthropy in Mexico ($25,000).
Hesperian
Foundation: $50,000
For its Health and Safety Manual for Workers in Export Processing Zones,
which will go beyond traditional occupational health materials to address
gender-related abuses. (Second installment of a two-year $100,000 grant.)
International Center
for Research on Women: $40,000
a) For its Working Reserve Fund ($30,000); and (b) for the development
of its Social Conflict and Transformation program, which will explore
women's rights and empowerment, their security from violence, and the
transformation of social relations to reduce gender-related inequities
($10,000). (First installment of a two-year $80,000 grant.)
International
Rescue Committee: $35,000
For its Women's
Commission for Refugee Women and Children, specifically for its Campaign
for Adolescents Affected by Armed Conflict, which seeks to increase services
and protection for war-affected adolescents, especially girls. (Second
installment of a two-year $70,000 grant.)
Tides Center:
$30,000
For Raising Voices,
a Tides project which works in partnership with community-based non-profit
organizations in East Africa to develop, implement and strengthen sustainable
programs to prevent violence against women and children. (First installment
of a two-year $60,000 grant.)
Women's Edge
- The Coalition for Women's Economic Development and Global Equality,
Inc.: $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. (Second installment of a two-year $40,000 grant.)
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