Women's Rights and Reproductive Health $1,630,000

United States

A. Promoting Reproductive Health and Rights

Alan Guttmacher Institute : $45,000 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. (Second installment of a two-year $70,000 grant.)

Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF): $25,000 For its project to implement a national education campaign in the Latino community to bring greater awareness about the judicial nomination process, the role the federal courts play in society, and the types of issues judges decide that directly affect the Latino population.

NARAL Foundation : $30,000 For NARAL's Proactive Reproductive Health Policy Institute, which seeks to educate state advocates and policymakers about effective proactive 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 its project to expand access to abortion for low-income women by improving state Medicaid reimbursement practices.

National Center for Human Rights Education: $10,000 For the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health and Sexual Rights National Conference, which brought together activists, direct service providers, policymakers and allies to discuss and develop strategies to improve the reproductive health of women of color in the United States.

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.

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 health services for low-income women, and which assists policy makers in countering barriers to effective care.

National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health : $25,000 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 general support of this organization, which seeks to improve the health of all women by developing and promoting a critical analysis of health issues in order to affect policy and support informed consumer decision-making.

National Women’s Law Center: $30,000 For 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. (Second 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.

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

RAINBO: $10,000 For an evaluation of its African Immigrant Program, which focuses on stopping female genital mutilation (FGM), as well as promoting the overall sexual and reproductive health of African immigrant women and girls.

Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice Educational Fund: $35,000 For general support of this organization, which aims to reach out to diverse groups of faith-based organizations and individuals of color to introduce the pro-choice and reproductive health movement to their neighborhoods and their denominational communities.

Reproductive Health Technologies Project : $30,000 For general support of this organization, which seeks to advance the ability of every woman to achieve full reproductive freedom, with access to the safest, most effective, appropriate and acceptable technologies for ensuring her own health and controlling her own fertility.

Third Wave Foundation : $45,000 a) 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 ($30,000); and b) for a special initiative to mobilize and engage young women in the April 2003 Pro-Choice March for Women Lives ($15,000)

B. Fostering Healthy Sexuality and Development Among American Adolescents

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 For its Collaborative Fund for Youth-Led Social Change, which brought together a group of grantmakers to support innovative programs that identify and document how girls become active agents of change in their communities, and strengthen girls-only and mixed-gender programs that foster social activism in girls. (Third installment of a three-year $150,000 grant.)

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, transgender and questioning in an effort to end discrimination against these youth and to ensure their physical and emotional well being.

Rutgers University Foundation : $25,000 For the national Teen-to-Teen Sexuality Education Project, which includes SEX, Etc., a 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 partner with nongovernmental organizations overseas to develop international sexuality education and reproductive health programs. (Second installment of a two-year $80,000 grant.)

International

Global and Regional Programs

C. Improving International Population and Reproductive Health Policies and Practice

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 health and rights and gender equity.

Hesperian Foundation: $25,000 To support the revision of HIV Health and Your Community: A Guide for Action, a comprehensive guide to HIV/AIDS designed for low-literacy community health care workers and lay people in developing countries.

International Center for Research on Women: $40,000 For general support of this organization, which works to improve the lives of women in poverty, advance women’s equality and human rights, and contribute to broader economic and social well-being, through research, technical assistace, capacity building, and policy communications.

International Women’s Health Coalition: $45,000 For general support of this organization, which works to generate health and population policies, programs and funding that promote and protect the rights and health of women and girls worldwide, particularly in Africa, Asia, Latin America and countries in post-socialist transition.

JSI Research & Training Institute: $30,000 Recommended to support Instituto Promundo , a Brazilian organization working to bring greater attention to the needs of adolescent males in reproductive and sexual health.

Program for Appropriate Technology in Health : $75,000 a) For its 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 ($35,000); and b) For 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 ($40,000).

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

Guatemala Programs

Midwives for Midwives & Women’s Health International: $20,000 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 its Strengthening Reproductive Rights in Guatemala project, which seeks to improve the sexual and reproductive health of women and adolescents in underserved communities of Guatemala’s Petén region, by increasing understanding about sexual and reproductive health as a women’s right among educators and health advocates.

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 For its Responding to Domestic Violence against Mayan Women: Community-based Strategies Project, which will work with a Mayan women's organization and other local groups in Quetzaltenango to test community-based intervention strategies to prevent and respond to gender-based violence in indigenous communities.

Other Country Programs

American Jewish World Service : $40,000 a) For the Women's Empowerment Fund, which provides direct funding to projects improving the status of women in the developing world ($15,000); b) Recommended for Minga-Peru's reproductive health promotion, leadership development and sustainable agriculture in the Peruvian Amazon ($15,000); and c) Recommended for TOSTAN's gender and human rights training in Senegal ($10,000).

San Miguel - CASA, Inc. : $50,000 For general support of this organization, which raises funds for Centro para los Adolescentes de San Miguel de Allende (CASA) to train peer promoters and develop young leaders, operate the first nationally accredited midwifery college, and provide reproductive health services and education for both the rural and urban populations of Guanajuato, Mexico.

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 La Paz, 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 : $25,000 For support of its Defending Women's Rights in the Americas project, whose mission is to strengthen and expand 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 works for the protection and promotion of the human rights of women around the world.

Global Fund for Women : $35,000 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 ($20,000); and b) For its project to support the development of women's funds in Central America ($15,000).

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.

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 For its 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 Foundation : $30,000 For its Center for Women's Global Leadership, which works to strengthen and foster the skills of the women's human rights movement and its leaders.

Semillas : $20,000 For its Communications Project, which aims to ensure the sustainability of this women's rights fund and promote social change philanthropy in Mexico through targeted outreach to potential women donors and broader public education in Mexico City.

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 immigrant and refugee women and girls from violence.

Tides Foundation: $20,000 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.

Urgent Action Fund : $20,000 For general support of this organization, which promotes the human rights of women and girls through a program of rapid response grantmaking, and by encouraging or creating collaborative programs that promote women's participation and the inclusion of women's perspectives in conflict prevention and resolution, peace building, and post-conflict reconstruction.

World Organization Against Torture, U.S.A. : $25,000 For its project to Protect Refugee Women and Children from Gender-Based Abuses, which seeks to protect women and children refugees facing female genital mutilation and other forms of gender-based and sexual abuse as a result of deportation from the United States.