Women's Rights and Reproductive Health $1,655,000

United States

A. Strengthening Policy Analysis and Advocacy to Promote Women's Rights and Reproductive Health

Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI): $40,000 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.

Georgetown Women's Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program: $20,000 To support a Reproductive Rights Advocate at the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF); the advocate will focus on the reproductive rights and health needs of low-income Latina women.

Legal Momentum: $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.

National Abortion Federation (NAF): $30,000 For its project to expand access to abortion for low-income women by improving state Medicaid reimbursement practices.

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. (NHeLP): $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 assists policy makers in countering barriers to effective care.

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. (First installment of a two-year $80,000 grant)

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 (NWLC): $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. (First installment of a two-year $60,000 grant)

Reproductive Health Technologies Project (RHTP): $30,000 For its project on reproductive genetic technologies and their implications for reproductive rights and choice.

B. Supporting New Voices and New Leaders for Reproductive Justice

Choice USA: $25,000 For general support of this organization, which seeks to mobilize and provide ongoing support to the diverse, upcoming generation of pro-choice advocates.

Funders Network on Population, Reproductive Health and Rights: $5,000 a) For general support of this organization, which seeks to improve communication, foster collaboration, increase resources, and enhance the overall effectiveness of grantmakers in the reproductive rights and health field ($2,500); and b) 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 ($2,500).

Hampshire College: $20,000 For its Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program (CLPP), which seeks to educate and train a new generation of reproductive rights advocates, policymakers and supporters.

Ms. Foundation for Women: $25,000 For support of Public Voices, Public Policy: Enhancing the Power of Women of Color, a funding collaborative to build the sustainability and capacity of women of color-led organizations.

National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (NLIRH): $30,000 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 Network of Abortion Funds (NNAF): $25,000 For general support of this organization, which seeks to expand access to abortion for low-income women, women of color, and young women.

Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington (PPMW): $10,000 For general support of this organization, which provides comprehensive, culturally sensitive, affordable, and confidential family planning and reproductive health services to women and teens in low-income and at-risk communities in the metropolitan Washington area.

Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice Educational Fund (RCRC): $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.

SisterLove, Inc.: $25,000 For its work within the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collaborative to develop the MentorNet project, which seeks to support the development of women of color organizations, leaders and activists through technical assistance and online capacity building and support.

Third Wave Direct Action, Inc.: $25,000 For general support of this philanthropic organization, which engages in reproductive rights grantmaking, public education, and networking programs for young women activists between the ages of 15 and 30.

Tides Center: $50,000 a) For its Pro-Choice Public Education Project (PEP), which seeks to educate young women aged 16-25 about reproductive freedom and choice, as well as to cultivate pro-choice leadership among today's youth ($25,000); and b) For its National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum (NAPAWF), which seeks to strengthen the capacity of Asian American women to respond to the reproductive health and social needs of their communities, through public education, coalition building, and public policy advocacy. ($25,000)

C. Promoting Healthy Sexuality Among 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. (First installment of a two-year $100,000 grant)

Global Health Council, Inc.: $5,000 For its 31st Annual International Conference, entitled Youth and Health: Generation on the Edge.

National Youth Advocacy Coalition (NYAC): $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 ensure their physical and emotional well being.

Rutgers University Foundation: $25,000 For its 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. (First installment of a two-year $50,000 grant)

Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS): $50,000 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 here and overseas to develop better sexuality education and reproductive health policies and programs. (First installment of a two-year $100,000 grant)

International

D. Improving Population, Health and Development Policies and Practice

Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC): $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)

Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE): $60,000 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.

Center of Concern: $15,000 For support of its project, Gender, Trade and Development for Economic and Social Justice in the Americas, which aims to analyze trade policy and advocate for structural change by developing advocacy tools from a gender and development perspective.

Global Aids Alliance (GAA): $30,000 For general support of this organization, which seeks to bring attention to and accelerate the pace of the global response to AIDS.

International Center for Research on Women (ICRW): $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 assistance, capacity building, and policy communications. (First installment of a two-year $80,000 grant)

International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC): $40,000 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.

Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH): $65,000 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 ($30,000); 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. ($35,000)

Women's EDGE Coalition: $40,000 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, and not harmful, to women living in developing countries.

E. Promoting Women's Human Rights

Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL): $25,000 For its Promoting and Protecting Women's Rights in the Americas project, which defends the rights of women in Latin America by strengthening and expanding legal work before the Inter-American System for the Protection of Human Rights.

Equality Now: $20,000 For general support of this organization, which works to protect and promote the human rights of women around the world.

Global Rights: Partners for Justice: $30,000 For its Advocacy Bridge Program, specifically to include women leaders from historically underrepresented communities in a year-long international advocacy training program which culminates with their attendance at the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) in Geneva.

Hesperian Foundation: $30,000 For its Health Guide for Workers in Export Processing Zones , a manual designed to help maquila workers protect their heath, defend their rights, and address community problems resulting from unsafe working conditions. (First installment of a two-year $50,000 grant)

Human Rights Watch (HRW): $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.

International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC): $25,000 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.

Rutgers University Foundation: $25,000 For 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 worldwide.

Tahirih Justice Center: $30,000 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 Center: $25,000 For Raising Voices, a Tides project that 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.

University of California Hastings College of Law: $25,000 For its Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, which seeks to advance women's human rights by challenging an unaccountable asylum system and by advocating for gender equity in asylum processes.

Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights (UAF): $25,000 For general support of this organization, which promotes the human rights of women and girls through rapid response grantmaking, and by facilitating collaborative programs that promote women's participation and perspectives in conflict prevention and resolution, peace building, and post-conflict reconstruction.

World Organization Against Torture, USA (WOAT): $30,000 For its project to Protect Refugee Women and Children from Gender-Based Abuses, which is designed 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.

F. Fostering Women's Leadership and Reproductive Health at the Country and Community Level

American Jewish World Service (AJWS): $45,000 a) For its Women's Empowerment Fund, which supports innovative, community-based, women-run projects that address women's basic needs and promote their dignity and human rights ($20,000); and b) recommended for Minga-Peru, which produces educational radio programs and conducts trainings to support a network of locally respected women to provide culturally appropriate health services and natural resource management education in their communities in the Peruvian Amazon. ($25,000)

Fundacion Puntos de Encuentro para la Transformacion de la Vida Cotidiana: $25,000 For its Central America Women's Fund project, which aims to mobilize new sources of funding from individual donors both inside the region and among Central Americans residing in the U.S. to redistribute and support women's human rights organizations in Central America, particularly groups of young and underprivileged women.

Midwives for Midwives and Women's Health International: $25,000 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 (PIWH): $30,000 For its Promoting Human Rights and Strengthening Indigenous Leadership in the Petén 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 woman's right among educators and youth health advocates.

Philanthropic Ventures Foundation (PVF): $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 Social Development Law to advance reproductive health and rights in Guatemala.

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

Tides Center: $40,000 Recommended for support of Centro Mujeres, a multi-service community organization in Baja California Sur, Mexico, which mentors young women community leaders, provides training on health rights for service providers and government representatives, and disseminates documentation and policy analysis on reproductive and sexual rights.