Women's Rights and Reproductive Health $1,810,000

United States

A. Promoting 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.

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. (First installment of a two-year $70,000 grant.)

The Funders Network on Population, Reproductive Health and Rights: $5,000
For support of its Women of Color Working Group, a group of funders committed to strengthening the role and leadership of women of color within the reproductive health and rights movement in the United States.

NARAL Foundation:$35,000
For NARAL's 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.

National Abortion Federation: $35,000
For support of its Quality Assessment and Improvement (QAI) 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 to speak to and for Asian American women on reproductive health issues and policies.

National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA): $40,000
For general support of NFPRHA, which seeks to ensure universal access to voluntary, comprehensive and culturally sensitive family planning and reproductive health services. (Second installment of a two-year $80,000 grant.)

National Health Law Program, Inc.: $30,000
For support of 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 women of color, and assists policy makers in countering barriers to effective care.

National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health: $20,000
For general support of this organization, whose goal is to enhance the quality of life and reproductive health of Latinas nationwide through public education, coalition building, and public policy advocacy.

National Partnership for Women and Families: $40,000
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, including abortion services.

National Women's Health Network: $30,000
For its project to inform and improve debate on emerging contraceptive technology issues. (Second installment of a two-year $60,000 grant.)

National Women's Law Center: $30,000
For support of its Protecting and Advancing Reproductive Rights and Health program, which aims to advance the law and public policy so that the reproductive rights of women are both strengthened and broadened. (First installment of a two-year $60,000 grant.)

NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund: $30,000
For its Immigrant Women's Program, an initiative 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. (Second installment of a two-year $60,000 grant.)

Planned Parenthood Federation of America(PPFA) $30,000
For its First Timers' Online Training Project, which aims to transform the way PPFA trains and orients new public policy staff through the use of its Intranet site, toolsforchoice.org. (First installment of a two-year $60,000 grant.)

Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice: $35,000
a) For its Organizing for Diversity at the Religious Pro-Choice Grassroots Project, which seeks to strengthen the religious pro-choice movement by expanding faith-based pro-choice organizing in local communities of color and b) for La Iniciativa Latina program, which serves as the voice of Latino communities on important issues of reproductive health.

Reproductive Health Technologies Project: $30,000
For general support of this organization, which aims to build a consensus in support of an agenda for the advancement of women's full reproductive freedoms, with access to the safest, most effective, appropriate and acceptable technologies for ensuring women's health and controlling their fertility.

Third Wave Foundation: $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: $25,000
For Finding Common Ground in the Era of Welfare Reform and Managed Care, a project which seeks to conduct and disseminate research on the impact of welfare reform on women and children's health. (Second 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 (STDs), including HIV/AIDS in the US and the developing world.

Ms. Foundation for Women: $50,000
To support the Foundation's Collaborative Fund for Youth-Led Social Change, a $4 million 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. (Second installment of a three-year $150,000 grant.)

National Organization on Adolescent Pregnancy, Parenting and Prevention: $25,000
For support of its project to build the capacity of state coalitions to advocate effectively for comprehensive sexuality education programs, access to reproductive health care services for adolescents, and policies on confidentiality and minor privacy rights.

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, transgender, and questioning 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 National Teen-to-Teen Sexuality Education Project, which includes the SEX, ETC. newsletter written by and for teens; a discussion guide that accompanies each newsletter; a website; and student action kits. (First 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 partner with nongovernmental organizations overseas to develop international sexuality education and reproductive health programs. (First installment of a two-year $80,000 grant.)

International

C. Improving International Population and Reproductive Health Policies and Practice

Global and Regional Programs

Academy for Educational Development(www.aed.org): $30,000
For the Empowerment of Women Research Program, specifically for the completion and dissemination of its work in Bangladesh and Vietnam, which documents the impact of the Cairo Agenda from women's and communities' perspectives.

Boston Women's Health Book Collective: $7,000
To support the distribution of Nuestros Cuerpos, Nuestros Vidas to groups throughout Latin America, and to selected groups in the United States that serve Latina immigrants.

Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE): $55,000
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 health and rights, and gender equity.

Hesperian Foundation: $30,000
To support production of its international newsletter, the Women's Health Exchange (Saludos! in Spanish), whose goal is to promote effective grassroots training and organizing on women's health issues.

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: $20,000
Recommended to support Instituto Promundo's project, 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.

Population Action International: $20,000
For support of its Informing Policymakers About the Harmful Effects of the Global Gag Rule project, which aims to document the consequences of the Global Gag Rule on health and free speech in developing countries.

Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH): $65,000
For two PATH projects: a) the Global Campaign for Microbicides, a broad-based, international effort to build support among policymakers, opinion leaders, and the general public for increased investment into microbicides and other methods to prevent HIV/AIDS and other STDs ($35,000); and b) the research and advocacy components of the newly established Gender-, Violence and Rights program, 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 ($30,000).

Guatemala Programs

Midwives for Midwives & Women's Health International: $15,00
For general support of this organization, which seeks to strengthen the capacity of indigenous midwives in Guatemala to respond to the health and social needs of their communities, and to build leadership and facilitate exchange among the midwives at the national level.

Pacific Institute for Women's Health: $30,000
For support of Emergency Contraception and Reproductive Rights: A Strategy for Improving the Lives of Women and Girls in Guatemala, whose goal is to promote acceptance of emergency contraception and sexual and reproductive health as a woman's right in Guatemala.

Philanthropic Ventures Foundation: $20,000
Recommended for Centro de Investigación, Capacitación y Apoyo a la Mujer - Center for Women's Research, Training and Support (CICAM), a Guatemalan legal organization working to use the new Social Development Law to advance reproductive health and rights in Guatemala.

Population Council: $40,000
To support its project, Understanding and Advocating Against Gender-based Violence in Mayan Communities, in collaboration with Belejeb Bat’z in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala.

Other Country Programs

Fundacion Puntos de Encuentro para la Transformacion de la Vida Cotidiana: $18,000
To increase access to and the distribution of Sexto Sentido I, Puntos de Encuentro's "social soap" TV series that is the centerpiece of an ongoing integrated, multi-media youth rights promotion effort in Latin America.

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. (Second installment of a two-year $100,000 grant.)

Save the Children Federation, Inc.: $30,000
For its project to address the reproductive health needs of younger adolescents in Oruro, Bolivia, by promoting healthy attitudes, responsible sexual and reproductive health behavior, and vocational orientation through a multi-faceted program. (Second installment of a two-year $60,000 grant.)

Tides Foundation: $40,000
Recommended for support of Centro Mujeres (CM), a multi-service community organization in Baja California Sur, Mexico. CM offers leadership development and clinical, educational, and counseling services to low-income women in LaPaz, Mexico; it also works to improve state, national and international policies on reproductive rights and health.

D. Promoting Women’s Human Rights

Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL): $25,000
For support of its Defending Women's Rights in the Americas project, whose mission is to strengthen and expand CEJIL's legal work in defense of Latin American women's rights before the Inter-American System for the Protection of Human Rights.

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 support of its Women's Rights Division, which works to monitor and combat violence and sex discrimination against women committed or tolerated by governments worldwide. (Second 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: $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.

Physicians for Human Rights: $30,000
To establish a women's health and human rights program, which will carry out scientifically sound studies of the relationship between human rights and women's health, and engage in analysis that will assist policy-makers and non-governmental organizations in advocating for policies to promote women's health and human rights.

Rutgers University: $35,000
To support Rutgers’ Center for Women's Global Leadership, which works to strengthen and foster the skills of the women’s human rights movement and its leaders. (Second installment of a two-year $70,000 grant.)

Tahirih Justice Center: $25,000
For general support of this organization, which engages in legal advocacy to expand the boundaries of the law to better protect women and girls from violence.

World Organization Against Torture: $25,000
For its project to Protect Refugee Women and Children from Gender-Based Abuses.

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

American Jewish World Service: $50,000
a) For the Women and Empowerment Fund, which provides direct funding to projects improving the status of women in the developing world ($10,000); also, b) recommended for TOSTAN's gender and human rights training and community development activities in two regions in Senegal ($15,000); and c) recommended for Minga-Peru's health promotion, leadership development and sustainable agriculture in the Peruvian Amazon ($25,000).

Center of Concern: $35,000
For support of its International Gender and Trade Network Research Project for Latin America, which aims to provide an analytically sound and empirically grounded basis for the inclusion of gender issues within trade policy and trade liberalization-oriented policies and programs.

The Global Fund for Women: $20,000
Recommended for Semillas, the Global Fund's Mexican partner, which offers financial and informational support to women's groups and promotes the development of philanthropy in Mexico.

International Center for Research on Women: $40,000
a) For support of 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, security from violence, and the transformation of social relations to reduce gender-related inequities ($10,000). (Second installment of a two-year $80,000 grant.)

Research, Action & Information Network for Bodily Integrity of Women (RAINBO): $30,000
For support of RAINBO's 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.

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. (Second installment of a two-year $60,000 grant.)

Women's Edge - The Coalition for Women's Economic Development and Global Equality, Inc.: $35,000
For general support of this organization, which seeks to increase United States support for the poorest women around the world, and to ensure that complex international trade agreements are beneficial, not harmful, to women living in developing countries. (First installment of a two-year $70,000 grant.)