Women's Rights and Reproductive Health $1,580,000

United States

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

American Social Health Association: $20,000 For its HPV Prevention Project, which seeks to address policy and education issues surrounding the new Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccines.

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.

The Guttmacher Institute: $30,000 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.

Legal Momentum: $25,000 For its Immigrant Women’s Program, an initiative to protect and expand 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): $25,000 For its project to activating NAF members to reduce barriers to abortion access.

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. (NHeLP): $30,000 For its Initiative to Promote Reproductive Health Care, which seeks to protect and expand low-income women’s access to reproductive health services. First installment of a two-year $60,000 grant.

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 reproductive rights while developing innovative strategies to improve access to reproductive health care for all. Second 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 influence policy and support informed consumer decision-making. Second installment of a two-year $60,000 grant.

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. Second installment of a two-year $60,000 grant.
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Reproductive Health Technologies Project (RHTP): $25,000 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.

Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program (WLPPFP): $25,000 For a women’s reproductive health and rights advocate, who will work with the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF) on the reproductive rights and health needs of low-income Asian/Pacific Islander-American women.

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.

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. First installment of a two-year $60,000 grant.

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

Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice Educational Fund (RCRC): $30,000 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. First installment of a two-year $60,000 grant.

SisterLove, Inc.: $25,000 For support of the SisterSong Women of Color Collective, which seeks to build a strong and unified national women of color reproductive health movement in the United States.

Third Wave Direct Action, Inc.: $20,000 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.

Tides Center: $50,000 a) For its Pro-Choice Public Education Project (PEP), which seeks to educate young women ages 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), a Tides project 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)

Center for Adolescent Health and Law: $25,000 For its Preserving Adolescents’ Access to Confidential Health Care project, which seeks to help states develop policies that protect adolescents from sexual abuse while ensuring access to confidential family planning services.

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

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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. Second 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 U.S. international policies and programs promote sexual and reproductive rights and health and gender equity through effective, evidence-based policies and through increased funding for critical programs.

Center of Concern: $15,000 For its project, Gender, Trade and Development for Economic and Social Justice in the Americas, which aims to analyze trade policy and press for structural change by documenting the impacts of trade liberalization on women and producing materials on alternatives that can be used by policy organizations.

Funders Concerned About AIDS: $1,000 For general support of this organization, which reaches out to reproductive health funders to deepen the connection between reproductive health and HIV/AIDS programs.

Global Aids Alliance (GAA): $30,000 For general support of this organization, which seeks to galvanize the political will and finanial resources needed to slow, and ultimately stop, the global AIDS crisis, and to reduce its impact on poor countries that have been hardest hit by the pandemic.

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. Second installment of a two-year $80,000 grant.

International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC): $30,000 For general support of this organization, which works to generate international and national health and population policies, programs and funding that promote and protect the rights and health of girls and women worldwide, primarily in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH): $60,000 a) 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 ($30,000); and b) for the Gender, Violence and Human 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).

Women’s EDGE Coalition: $40,000 For general support of this organization, which advocates for international economic and human rights policies that support women worldwide in ending poverty in their lives, communities and nations. First installment of a two-year $80,000 grant.

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 women’s rights around the world.

Global Rights: Partners for Justice: $30,000 For its Amplifying Youth Voices program, which seeks to train and mentor young activists from marginalized communities in the Global South to advocate effectively at the international level and to incorporate international advocacy into their domestic efforts.

Human Rights Watch (HRW): $45,000 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 $90,000 grant.

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.

Physicians for Human Rights (PHR): $25,000 For its campaign to address gender discrimination and HIV/AIDS vulnerability among women in Botswana and Swaziland.

Rutgers University Foundation: $20,000 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 is dedicated to the protection of women and girls fleeing human rights abuses through legal advocacy designed to transform policies, develop regulations, and set precedent so that systemic change will ensure the long-term protection of women and girls from violence. First installment of a two-year $60,000 grant.

University of California Hastings College of Law: $20,000 For its Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, which works 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): $24,000 For general support of this organization, which promotes the human rights of women and girls through rapid response grantmaking; research and publications about women in conflict; and collaborative programs that promote women's participation and perspectives in conflict prevention and resolution, peace building, and post-conflict reconstruction.

World Organization for Human Rights: $30,000 For its Gender-Based Refugee and Asylum Assistance Program, which seeks to prevent the deportation of women and children facing gender-based abuse back to situations of torture, and to expand and strengthen the protections and remedies available to women and children under the Convention Against Torture (CAT).

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

American Jewish World Service (AJWS): $35,000 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 ($15,000); and b) recommended for Minga-Peru, which produces educational radio programs and trains a network of community promoters to provide culturally appropriate health services and natural resource management education in communities in the Peruvian Amazon. ($20,000)

Fundacion Puntos de Encuentro para la Transformacion de la Vida Cotidiana: $25,000 For its Central America Women's Fund project, which mobilizes new sources of funding from individual donors both inside the region and among Central Americans residing in the U.S., and distributes these funds to support grassroots women’s groups and initiatives, especially those of young women, to promote and defend women’s human rights in Central America.

Hesperian Foundation: $20,000 For the development of its manual, A Health Guide for Workers in Export Processing Zones, designed to help maquila workers protect their health, defend their rights, and address community problems resulting from unsafe working conditions. Second installment of a two-year $50,000 grant.

Midwives for Midwives and Women’s Health International: $30,000 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, to build leadership and facilitate exchange among the midwives at the national level, and to promote the midwifery model of care within the public health system.

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); CASA trains peer promoters and develops young leaders, operates the first nationally accredited midwifery college in Mexico, and provides reproductive health services and education for both the rural and urban populations of Guanajuato, Mexico. Second installment of a two-year $100,000 grant.

Sociedad Mexicana Pro Derechos de la Mujer (Semillas): $15,000 For its Strategic Funding Plan Initiative, designed to assess, plan and launch a $3 million endowment campaign to ensure the long-term sustainability of Semillas and of its program of support for women’s rights NGOs and grassroots groups in Mexico.

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.

Tides Foundation: $45,000 Recommended for support of Centro Mujeres, a community health organization in Baja California Sur, Mexico, dedicated to fostering the empowerment and well-being of women and adolescents by mentoring young women community leaders, advocating for policy change, providing training on health rights to service providers and government representatives, and disseminating documentation and policy analysis on reproductive and sexual rights.